THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

Slate Magazine, that leftist bastion of intellectual emptiness, has found a pathetic liberal Jewish apologist that believes that peace in the Middle East will come when Israel is pressured.

Playing the role of Kumbaya surrender monkey is Jacob Weisberg.

http://www.slate.com/id/2220309/

I have never met this man. I do not ever care to do so.

The title of the column is as odious as it is misguided: “How to Lean on Israel.”

This self-loathing lemming truly believes that the best Presidents on Israel have been the ones that have bullied Israel into submission.

Jimmy Carter gets credit for the Israel-Egypt peace agreement of 1979. The situation between these nations is not a true peace. It is a cold peace. Egyptian promises of bilateral trade have never been fully realized. Egypt cracks down on Palestinian arms smugglers only when international pressure gets too great.

George Herbert Walker Bush is lionized for the peace agreement between Israel and Jordan. Again, this peace is not what the United States shares with Canada.

There is no peace in the Middle East. There are breaks between wars. The reason why there is no peace is because Israel is not allowed to do anything and everything necessary to defend itself. Now that George W. Bush has left the world stage, Israel is in trouble.

The notion that Israel’s closest supporters have made matters worse is idiotic. Does anybody think that Jimmy Carter created peace? Israel winning military victories is what brought temporary respite. A permanent respite will be had when complete, total, and uncompromising brute force is met on Israel’s enemies until they break.

Jacob Weisberg should be talking about forcing Palestinians to keep their own promises. Asking Palestinians to maintain integrity is like asking Lesbians to marry men. The concept of Palestinian integrity is an oxymoron. Palestinians have been 100% consistent in breaking their word.

Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush are criticized as having “encouraging Israel’s worst tendencies.”

Worst tendencies? The right to stay alive is a bad tendency?

This issue is so simplistic. Ask the Palestinians to recognize Israel’s right to exist. Wait a few seconds until they refuse this request as unreasonable. Then let Israel go in and break these savages.

Peace is impossible when one side defiantly refuses the right of the other side to live.

Israel supporters to not “build up Arab resentment.” Arab thugocrats build up Arab resentment. Israel is an excuse for them to deflect from their own failed policies. Yassir Arafat was offered a state. He chose terror instead. The Palestinians had a chance at democracy. They elected Hamas. They chose terror.

Benjamin Netanyahu is described as having a “dangerous fixation” on striking Iran.

What this liberal apologist calls a dangerous fixation is what normal human beings call a reasonable fear based on the behavior of the Iranian murderer Armageddonijad himself.

It is bad enough that Israel has to live surrounded by barbaric animals bent on wanton destruction.

We don’t need to compound the problem by offering weak and pathetic surrender advice under the guise of tough love. Liberal Jews don’t know a d@mn thing about toughness. Israel exists because soldiers defend the state. Those soldiers are not liberals, not by a long shot.

My father did not escape the Nazis so that Jacob Weisberg could help our enemies repeat the process.

Thank God Benjamin Netanyahu is Prime Minister and not Jacob Weisberg. I have hope that Israel will continue to exist, despite the fact that too many liberal Jews are the best friends that Arab enemies could ever ask for.

eric

As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I always get nervous when the Reich declares war again.

However, this Reich has nothing to do with Germany or the 1000 years of murderous glory that actually only lasted from 1933 through 1945.

This Reich entered the United States Government in 1993, and was told to permanently shut up by his boss before 1995.

Yes, Robert Reich is back, determined to do for the Democratic Party today what he did for them in 1994. As a Republican, I sure hope so.

For those who do not remember, Robert Reich was a Secretary in the Clinton administration. I thought this meant that he was an administrative assistant taking dictation, but this is not the case. So for those who sent him flowers on Secretary’s Day on April 20th, it was a bigger waste than the Clinton domestic agenda.

Robert Reich was the Secretary of Labor. He has never met a union he didn’t like, or a big business that he did. He is a socialist through and through. This is absolutely not an insult or a slur. It is his world view.

While he is often teased for being vertically challenged (I am only 5 ft 5 myself), it is the shortness of merit in his ideas that I quarrel with. He is not a mental midget (another short joke that I wish people would leave alone). He simply has a prescription for America that would destroy our healthcare system.

When the Reich last collapsed in 1994, he and Hillary were sent to the locker rooms for cold showers of reality. Newt Gingrich wanted welfare reform, and Bill Clinton was more interested in keeping his job than in actually standing and fighting for any principal that might get him fired.

Reich, to his credit, remains a true believer. The problem is, his proposed actions to enact laws based on those beliefs is still wrong.

Barack Obama is off to a good start on health care. He has dispatched Hillary Clinton to the nether regions of the Earth to sip tea with despots and diplomats. She has no real authority, and will not be able to actually do anything. With Hillary out of the way, the environment will be less poisonous.

Although Bill Clinton was famous for his triangulating “Third Way,” it is actually President Obama that is trying to find a third way between Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Hillary approach is the “My way or the highway” style that endears her to only herself and perhaps her daughter (and Bill if he is asked in front of her). The Bill Clinton approach is the “Just pass a d@mn bill so I don’t get fired. I don’t care what’s in it. Slap some words on a page and send it to me.”

Barack Obama may lack substance in the tradition of Bill, but on this issue he actually does want substance. He just does not want to be sen like Hillary.

This is where the Reich comes out of his gopher hole. Like Hillary, he would rather have ideological purity rather than accomplish something that is more modest, but actually doable.

(For those who wonder where this incrementalism came from, read about George Washington and the Founding Fathers. What we call gridlock, they call the system working perfectly.)

Robert Reich has declared that “The Healthcare War has officially begun.”

Yes, we are now at war, fighting a war even liberals could embrace. There are several consequences for this idiocy.

For one thing, Barack Obama does not want war. He is a smart student of political history, and remembers clearly what happened when Hillary Clinton flew in on her broom and starting demonizing her “enemies.” Barack Obama refers to these enemies as “opponents.” Hillary and Reich cannot grasp this. Barack Obama wants a reasonable bill.

(An interesting argument that I will posit for the first time is whether Hillary wants Obama to fail on healthcare reform since she failed. I love starting provocative discussions, and will expand on that in the coming days. Get your pundit hats on, political strategists.)

The second reason Robert Reich is causing damage to his own side is because it brings up the still valid stereotype that Democrats are a bunch of peacenik surrendering wimps. They will not acknowledge the War on Terror, or that we are at war with Radical Islamofascists. We are not even at War with what used to be called enemy combatants. Yet American businesses that produce jobs and provide goods and services, they need to be obliterated on the battlefield.

Every negative stereotype of liberals comes through. They are hostile toward the military and business. The only war they feel comfortable declaring is a War on Poverty. What was LBJ going to do, bomb poor people so that they would not exist anymore? That would have been one way to raise the standard of living. Perhaps he wanted to cure two world problems by feeding the homeless to the hungry.

Nevertheless, the war on poverty, like every liberal war on some abstract concept, was a colossal failure.

(Conservatives are often attacked for the “war on drugs,” although at least shooting drug dealers has some societal benefit. Now that liberals are in power, the war on drugs will be how to obtain them fast enough without getting caught by their parents. This is not to be confused with the “war on rugs,” which affects Joe Biden and other middle aged men.)

A war on healthcare is ludicrous because what it really implies, and quite honestly, is a war on American businesses. In the same way environmentalists and animal rights activists would allow for the mass suffering of humans to save trees and animals, the health care zealots would be happy to try and get cradle to grave benefits for every person despite the fact that there will be nobody left to provide those benefits. They want the government to do it, and we all know how well government entities outside of the military actually function. Governments can print money, but they cannot create doctors (They also can’t and won’t stop lawyers from suing doctors.).

Democrats like to use the word “war” against Republicans because it makes them sound tough. They are ready to fight to the death to protect America from conservatives. They will not declare war on the people who caused 9/11, but they sure as heck will go after a white male wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and red and blue diagonal necktie.

This leads to the third reason why declaring a war against Republicans in the form of a healthcare war is imprudent. Unlike liberals against terrorists, conservatives are not afraid of liberals. We fight back. If liberals want war, they will get one. Bill Kristol became a hero in 1993 with his daily faxes. When the entire Republican Party began to cower, only he and Phil Gramm stood up and fought Hillary. Mr. Kristol is already preparing to overload fax machines around America.

This is exactly what Barack Obama wants to avoid. He calls himself “No drama Obama.” He does not want conflict. He knows that his high approval ratings are because he has not done anything of consequence yet. Hillarycare was popular in the very beginning until she started fighting with everybody. Once she lost the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, she was done. Congresspeople, especially liberal ones, are like rats. They jump ship pretty quickly.

Barack Obama wants a reasonable bill passed. He is not going to get that if the Reich returns to try and spread more terror.

Harry Reid is in a tough reelection fight, so he may not want a fight either. A moderate bill helps him.

Playing the roll of Hillary Clinton will be the Pelosiraptor. Nancy Pelosi is not moderate about anything. Yet Hillary had one major advantage that the Pelosiraptor does not have. Hillary could not be fired. Also, nobody was allowed to criticize her. If the Speaker of the Louse gets out of line, a certain thug named Rahm Emanuel will be dispatched to handle her, with no carbon footprints being traceable to the President.

The solution is to pass a reasonable bill. To do this, once again, the Reich needs to be defeated to save civilization.

eric

Barack Obama is a mere mortal. Despite being elevated to God-like status by many on the left, he is flesh and blood like the rest of us.

This is important to understand because despite the media insistence that conservatism is dead (which they proclaim every time Democrats win the White House, an aberration in itself), it is actually the left that is in trouble.

An outstanding article by Bruce Walker of the American Thinker gets into why the left is collapsing globally. The only institution that denies this is the Jayson Blair Times, and that is only because they are collapsing even faster than the leftinistras that they worship.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/09/the_collapsing_global_left_96906.html

In America, the right is poised for a resurgence in 2010 that will make the 1994 Gingrich Revolution seem like child’s play. More importantly, the Obama magic seems to be about the man himself, but not anything beyond him.

For the last 40 years, the country has drifted rightward, with occasional blips just to slow the brakes.

Some will argue that we finally elected a true liberal President, but the fact is he got elected by running as far and as fast away from liberalism as possible. Even after the election, Rahm Emanuel put the word out that any liberals caught acting like liberals on camera would be deported. Nancy Pelosi was sent to China to shut her up.

This is important because Presidents can either shape a generation or fade away. John F. Kennedy created  a generation of Democrats, while Ronald Reagan created a generation of Republicans. Other Presidents such as Bill Clinton and George Herbert Walker Bush, did their jobs, and faded away (Clinton refuses to go away, but from a historical perspective he is peripheral.).

Ronald Reagan was so important and liked that he got his successor elected. Not even the popular Dwight Eisenhower could pull that one off.

Barack Obama will either serve four or eight years. Yet does anybody think Joe Biden will inspire aybody outside of his own family. Barack Obama is already treating him like the Court Jester in the room.

Barack Obama is a once in a generation politician, but despite the lofty and bold rhetoric, he is a cautious and timid man when it comes to advancing his beliefs. Some say Clinton wanted to “be” president moe than he wanted to “do” the work. Barack Obama may not be that callow, but he is not a Kennedy or Reagan that fights with determination.

Yes, it is early. Yet Mr. Obama seems to be famous for being famous. In this sense he is no different from Zsa Zsa Gabor or Arianna Huffington.

He does not seem to want to do the heavy lifting. He is letting Congress do the heavy lifting, so that if they screw it up (and with the Pelosiraptor in power, they will), he leaves no fingerprints.

Mr. Obama is likable, but at some point people are going to want some meat on the bones. I am amazed that he got elected without having to offer anything tangible. Times are tough, and people wanted change.

Yet at some point, and that point is rapidly approaching, people are going to say, “I like you, but are you going to get anything done?”

All throughout the world, leftist policies are failing. The Europe that Mr. Obama admires is collapsing. Europe knows it is one more leftist weakling away from being a Caliphate. The backlash has happened. Europeans are tired of foreigners that would rather destroy their societies rather than integrate. They are not interested in being hospitable to scum, as Nicolas Sarkozy referred to rioters in France a couple of years back.

President Obama has blamed his predecessor long enough. Problems are happening on his watch, such as North Korea kidnapping American citizens.

The only thin Barack Obama should be judged on is whether or not he can get the job done. With Nancy Pelosi on his side, he most likely cannot.

Republicans get kicked out of office for acting like Democrats. Then Democrats act like Democrats, and people turn back to the Republicans.

My only worry is that Republicans will get elected and act like Democrats again, but that is for another time.

For now, Barack Obama is well on his way to leaving behind a coalition that will last a generation. Unfortunately for him, unless Joe Biden turns into somebody else, it will be the Republicans enjoying a generation of power, only weeks after the pundits incorrectly for the billionth time declared their demise.

President Obama is one man. There is no thriving liberal movement anywhere of significance in the world today.

eric

The Israeli Knesset just voted on an explosive new resolution.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/jordan/090531/jordan-israel-palestinian-homeland

Hardliners like myself are cheering, even though I know that this is only symbolic policy that will never become law. I know that I am constantly criticizing symbolism over substance, and that saying is not doing, but at least I have a ray of hope that Israelis have had enough.

Israel has voted on a resolution to give Palestinians their own homeland…in Jordan.

53 out of 120 members of the Knesset voted for this resolution. I am sure that many would have voted against it had it actually had a chance to pass, but 53 is still a staggering number.

This has angered Jordan, as if that should actually matter.

Jordan was supposed to be part of Israel. Israel was not created out of the Holocaust. It was not even created out of the Balfour Declaration, although that is a more reasonable starting point.

Israel goes back thousands of years, before any Arabs or their defective cousins known as Palesimians ever existed.

Now Israel is uttering the phrase that finally tells me Israel has had it with these defective Arab misfits that support terrorism. Israel is pointing out that Palestinians are not a separate party like Norwegians would be. Palestinians are Arabs. The West Bank Arabs are Jordanians.

New Yorkers often flee to Florida for better weather and lower taxes. Yet they are still New Yorkers. They can call themselves Nebraskans but that would be completely false.

There is no Palestine on the map. The Palestinians are not Israelis. They are Arabs.. Therefore, they should live with their brothers. Those who object can say something as soon as Jews are allowed to live in Arab countries without being murdered for being Jewish.

There are 22 Arab states, and now they want a 23rd one. Israel owns 80% of one Jewish state, since 20% of the population are Israeli Arabs. Make no mistake that they are Arabs first.

This matters because Jordan murdered one million Palestinians. They drove them out. They should take them back. The United States should provide relocation assistance and ensure that it is not spent to buy guns and bombs.

Some say that it is wrong to drive people from where they live. Yet if somebody escapes from a looney bin and breaks into your house, you have every right to return them to the looney bin. Now that is a right of return I could embrace.

They are Jordanians. Besides, they are not being driven from anywhere they want to be. They want all of Israel. They want the Jews driven into the sea. If they wanted a homeland, they would not have attacked in 1948, 1956, 1967 (Israel technically attacked first, but the Arabs were about to), 1973 (On Yom Kippur, b@stards that they are), 1982, and pretty much every other day that ends in the letters d, a, and y.

At some point it has to be acknowledged that the Palesimians deserve the misery they face. They brought it upon themselves.

Finally the Israeli government has decided to stop responding to Palesimian terrorism by groveling and begging for more terror.

There is no political or diplomatic solution with these savages. The only solution is overwhelming brute force.

This action will not provoke world war because it will not become law.

Yet psychologically, Israelis have finally accepted that Palesimians believe in peace as much as vegetarians believe in cattle ranches.

Israelis want Palesimians to shut up and go back to where they came from.

That would be Jordan.

eric