THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

Barack Obama has just nominated Elana Kagan to be the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

Despite my having never been to Europe and not being a Catholic, I am going to see if he will nominate me to be Ambassador to the Vatican.

What is it about this man that “No Experience Necessary” is a way of life?

Barack Obama got elected by being a blank slate. He was all things to all people. Think of him as Mr. Potato Head. You can unattach and reattach everything about him, because he was whatever you wanted him to be. Perhaps Plastic Man would have been a better analogy.

Now he takes a woman who has never been a judge, and decides to put her on the top court in the land.

Some will say that the confirmation process will sort out what she stands for, who she is, and what she believes.

No it won’t.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg never discussed her abortion position, so everybody thought that silence meant moderation. It didn’t. She was hard left on the issue.

(There should be no litmus tests on specific issues, but she should have stated how she felt on the issue.)

This is where liberals get )the few that are not already) condescending and take cheap shots at George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. They had experience, they were bad, blah blah blah, experience is overrated.

No, it isn’t.

I often relate politics to football because some situations are highly analogous. The 21st century Detroit Lions are an example of what happens when experience is thrown under the bus.

The owner of the team picked Matt Millen as the president and general manager. Millen had no experience in management, only as a player. Millen hired Marty Morningwheg as head coach, despite his never having been a head coach. It is one thing to give a new general manager or head coach a fresh start, but not both of them at the same time. They bumbled and stumbled, and wrecked the organization.

This is what happened at the start of the Clinton administration. They came in singing Fleetwood Mac songs and put a bunch of neophytes in key jobs. They were overwhelmed. This does not make them bad people. It just made them incompetent. On the job training is not what the White House should be.

Adults like Erskine Bowles were brought in to restore order.

The same is happening with the Obama administration. Mr. Obama had no executive experience before becoming president. Janet Napolitano had no experience at her current job either. Rahm Emanuel is supposed to be the adult, but his tirades can only do so much.

Mr. Obama is symptomatic of what is wrong in America on this issue. We prize youth and beauty over wisdom. We force older workers into mandatory retirement so that new blood and fresh ideas can come in and make matters worse.

Elana Kagan may intrinsically be a good person. I have no idea. I know nothing about her. Nobody does.

I would say that I do not understand why she was picked, but I absolutely do. Somebody with no record cannot be attacked as easily. No opinions are better than controversial opinions.

In the real world that does not work. Having no credit score is not much better than a bad score.A lack of a negative is not a positive.

Republicans have to accept some basic facts. We lost the election. He gets to pick whoever he wants. He has the votes to ram her through because the GOP is way too gutless to even think of a filibuster. If the Republicans did filibuster, the left would howl that this was “unprecedented,” even though they would absolutely do it if it benefited them. Unprecedented is irrelevant in this case.

If she tries to avoid answering basic questions, then she absolutely should be denied.

Conservatives are not going to get Robert Bork in this climate. This does not mean they have to accept another Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Republicans should absolutely consider dragging this out until it becomes an election issue. The elft will claim sexism, because that is the only ism that applies here.

Ms. Kagan absolutely should be given a fair hearing. However, if she is evasive, Mr. Obama does not get to do his famous “the discussion is closed” routine where he says “it is time to come together” in the name of conservatives shutting up and agreeing with him.

Also, if she has a “nanny problem” or some other issue that struck down prior nominees, she should not get special treatment. The practice of rules not applying to anything Mr. Obama says, does, or advances has to stop.

Does this woman believe in an evolving constitution, which is code for making things up as we go along?

Does she believe that global rulings by other courts can and should be part of he decision making process?

These are legitimate questions that deserve answers.

She deserves fairness. She does not deserve a coronation. We already had a coronation presidency (although he was democratically elected) and a coronation Supreme Court filled by a wise Latina woman who described herself accurately as mediocre.

(I wonder why this graciousness is not returned. Conservatives never get their nominees through without a hassle. It is always Republicans who have to give in, and they always do. Enough already.)

Barack Obama does not always rely on inexperienced people. He has repeatedly been given credit (rightfully so) for retaining Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense.

Yet too many times, the chameleon president selects chameleon nominees.

She may not be a hard left ideologue. Yet if she is, she and the president should just be honest about it.

The only thing I care about is whether she is qualified for the job.

When did experience become a negative?

Mr. Obama could have done much better. Time will tell if he could have done worse.

eric

Between the stock market collapsing with help from a “clerical error,” the New York terror plot, Greece going bankrupt, leftist protesters from Greece to America going bonkers, and of course JaMarcus Russell being released by the Oakland Raiders (ok, so good news does come in small doses), and the oil disaster that is soooo last week, it seems that much of the country has ignored the tragedy of the flooding in Tennessee.

30 people died in the torrential rainstorm, and Kentucky got belted hard as well.

At least President Obama issued moving emotional remarks while touring the ravaged area.

Oh wait…never mind.

Barack Obama had a simple message to the people of Tennessee. In the new post-partisan, post-racial Obamaworld, he offered his sentiments.

“Tough luck, cracker honky whitey.”

After all, why would Mr. Obama spend one minute helping Tennessee? Why would he want to help people who vote Republican (supporting George W. Bush over Al Gore, who claimed to be from there), watch football, love NASCAR, believe in a Christian God, and supported the South in the Civil War?

Why would he care if the Grande Old Opry shuts down? Does anybody think he loses an ounce of sleep over suffering country musicians? After all, country music is for white rednecks.

If enough people in Tennessee die, there will be fewer Republicans alive.

Mr. Obama obviously does not care about white people, and deliberately withheld any government aid to maximize the suffering.

This is where liberals start screeching their famous liberal screech.

They will start mouthing nonsense about how being president is a hard job. The president cannot be in a million places at once. While immediately going to Tennessee might be good symbolic policy, it might not be smart from a logistical standpoint.

They will say that I have every right to offer criticism that I can back up, but wild speculation about what is in his heart is totally unfair. He could very well be taking steps to minimize the pain, and we owe him the benefit of the doubt.

They would be right.

Now if only the left would stop being such a bunch of insufferable hypocrites.

How many times did we hear that George W. Bush didn’t care about black people? That he deliberately took no action during Hurricane Katrina so that black suffering would be exacerbated?

It was garbage. The only mistake George W. Bush made during that time was being far too gracious to critics not fit to lick his Texas boots.

He never got an ounce of credit for quick action that led to 30,000 people, many of them black, being airlifted to safety.

He faced a natural disaster, was in constant contact with people on the ground, and did his best.

The situation in Katrina was unprecedented. Unprecedented means exactly that.

It wasn’t his fault that liberal politicians screwed up Louisiana to begin with. Only a leftist shill could praise Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco. They did more damage than Michael Brown at FEMA ever could.

When Bush told “Brownie” that he was doing a “heckuva job,” that was to boost morale. What was he supposed to do, berate the guy on national television? That would have helped the rescue efforts, if one calls walking off the job a rescue.

President Bush was beaten like a rented mule by people who hated his guts for no other reason than that is who they are and how they behave.

Barack Obama has a tough job. He is doing the best he can. He is getting some things right and too many things wrong.

He should be criticized for his missteps, and stop being so petulant with people who refuse to see him as perfect. He needs to drop the arrogance and develop humility.

Yet I will not question his heart. I have never met the man, or broken bread with him. He may very well care about the people of Tennessee.

I know George W. Bush cared about the suffering in New Orleans. He was a devout religion who obeyed Christian teachings. Those teachings demanded that he care about the most vulnerable among us. Those who attack him for being guided by Christianity cannot pick and choose which aspects of the religion he obeyed. Most Christians I know give more to charity and do more to help combat suffering than the average person.

George W. Bush was never given the benefit of the doubt by the left…never.

If the left wants Barack Obama to be given the benefit of the doubt, they need to stop the abuse of conservatives.

I will do my part. George W. Bush will be vindicated.

Being the president is hard work. He did his best, and he did so with honor, grace, class, humility, dignity, and decency.

I know some people in Tennessee who would welcome the warmth that he and Laura Bush had for people.

There is little perceived warmth with his successor Dr. Spock. He is as cold as the rain that tormented Tennessee.

Those who suggest I be fair may wish to look in the mirror.

Mr. Obama needs to put his head down and do his job. If he does the right thing, the truth will get out.

If he doesn’t, that will get out as well, no matter how many MSNBC anchors praise their god.

Tennessee needs help. Get to work Mr. Obama. You may not gain electoral votes, but you might gain something more important.

eric

The University of Crooked Lying Arabists (UCLA) held a symposium to educate young future Islamists into how to evade anti-money laundering laws and support Islamist terrorist charities. The column is at Campus Watch.

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9533

eric

Once again, liberals are acting like themselves.

Liberals really do remind me of Islamists sometimes. Both respond to accusations of violence by committing violence. Anybody that disagrees with them is intolerant and must be treated like an infidel.

The madness has now descended upon Arizona.

I have no interest in discussing the law with the uneducated swath of leftist unwashed. Wherever one stands on the issue of illegal immigration, it is tiresome that the “tolerant” left are once again descending into mob scenes.

Worse than that, they are stupid mobs.

Back in the 1990s, Bob Dole made the mistake of wading into the dispute between Turkey and Armenia. His comments were seen as anti-Turkish. The leaders of Turkey responded by ordering a boycott of the Dole Pineapple company. Panicked Dole executives held a press conference to state that they were not Republicans or Democrats, and that they supported any American who liked pineapples.

This may seem funny, but companies have to spend money defending against this stuff. That leads to higher prices.

First the Arizona Iced Tea company was threatened with a boycott. The company quickly explained that they were a New York company based out of Long Island. If they called themselves “Long Island Iced Tea,” they would be mistaken for an alcohol company.

(I was raised on Long Island. Trust me, that is not worth bragging about.)

Now the leftist imbeciles want to boycott Arizona sports teams.

Let’s say people boycott Cardinals games. This is beyond flawed. How many people fly in from liberal havens in New York City and San Francisco to see the Cardinals? A boycott only helps the home team, which has support anyway.

Even if the boycott were to reduce ticket sales, the Cardinals would not bare the sole burden. The NFL has revenue sharing. All 32 teams split gate receipts.

Now if a person wants to boycott the entire NFL, that is a principled stand. Yet boycotting one team in a 32 member collective is asinine.

(I hope the Los Suns lose until they go back to being the Phoenix Suns. I can’t stand meaningless symbolic gestures. The owner of the Suns is not taking a principled stand. he is protecting his financial bottom line.)

Does anybody see the irony in people refusing to come to a state because they passed a law trying to get people to stop coming to the state?

Then the protesters decide to refuse to come to Arizona by showing up in Arizona and causing riots and throwing bottles.

The illegal immigrants refuse to leave, protesters claim to fail to want to visit, and then the protesters come anyway and they also refuse to leave.

Arizona’s economy should be booming because of this. After all, protesters can’t just leave the state to get dinner and come back. It is a big state.

I say we should make a trade. For every illegal immigrant in America, deport one liberal protester. Illegal immigrants can’t screw up America the way liberals can because they can’t vote. Liberals can.

(Liberals want as many illegal immigrants as possible to get citizenship so they can vote Democrat.)

What happens if a second state passes a similar law? Will liberals boycott both of those states?

Ok, perhaps yes. Yet what if all 50 states pass such a law? Will the people leave America entirely?

I sure hope so.

At some point protesters will run out of real estate.

Also, in the world of global commerce, puritans have no idea what truly belongs to Arizona.

What is an American car? Is a Ford car made in Japan shipped here American? What about a Toyota made in Michigan? Most cars have hundreds of parts from all over the world.

Now take Arizona. When you sit in San Francisco and smugly buy something on eBay, how do you know where the item truly comes from? What if you have something Fedexed to you? What if the driver goes through Arizona to get you the package?

Liberals at this point will say that “you do the best you can.” That is code for “our approach is half-@ssed, but symbolism over substance requires that we make ourselves feel good and pat ourselves on the back as we pretend that we matter.”

What about the backlash? Now conservatives will go out of their way to help Arizona. In the end it will be a wash, which is something liberal protesters rarely do.

This is not about the law itself. This is about the fact that most protesters need to have fire hoses turned on them. The police can make sure that only white protesters get hosed so there is no racism angle. Guilty white liberals fail to realize they are a tool to be used, and nobody cares about them.

Laws get passed. Yet somehow when tea party attendees get together to protest a health care bill they feel will bankrupt America, they do so peacefully.

(This angers the left further, so they invent fictional conservative violence. Then they pose as conservatives and act violent. Even Barbara Boxer can tell the difference. Leftist protesters have an unmatched level of scruffiness.)

When leftists get together to protest a law that is meant to reduce crime and increase border security, they resort to typical mob violence.

They break the law over anger at Arizona citizens wanting others to stop breaking the law.

They say the law will have unintended consequences, but so will the health care bill. Every bill has unintended consequences. That is why it is called unintended. Conservatives understand this.

I think liberals should burn all copies of the movie “Raising Arizona.”

Conservatives would be too mature to burn boxes of Rice a Roni, the San Francisco treat, which may or may not be made in San Francisco.

(As Cliff Clavin of Cheers once told us, “the Bermuda Triangle is actually a trapezoidal rhomboid.”)

The law allows police to crack down on illegal immigrants. I personally hope the police crack down even harder on liberal protesters. There is no right to free speech if it comes in the form of vandalism and wanton destruction.

(Not to be confused with wonton destruction, the brutal act of violently cracking open a delicious Chinese delicacy containing either meat or cheese.)

I remember the 1992 LA Riots. I was here. I watched the city burn while liberals made excuses for criminals and thugs. Cops were ordered to show restraint.

This is why California is bankrupt. It starts with moral decay.

Arizona law enforcement must crack down hard. Turn Phoenix into Tianeman Square if need be.

(Leftists and minorities were perfectly fine with military intervention in the 1960s to integrate the schools. That was also the right thing to do. The white mobs were dispersed. A mob is a mob in any color.)

I hope the police have their tear gas and rubber bullets ready.

More importantly, I hope their weapons are made in Arizona.

eric

It is now official. Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano have a view of protecting and defending our nation that is totally imbecilic.

New York was the victim of a potentially lethal terrorist attack yesterday.

By sheer dumb luck…yes, dumb luck…a bomb failed to go off.

Faisal Shahzad was eventually caught trying to flee the country. Holder and Napolitano held a press conference where they nearly broke their arms patting each other on the back. They were so pleased with themselves that they nearly snapped each other’s backsides with towels.

The fact that the guy was captured is a ridiculously small victory that the administration is eager to overstate as proof of doing a good job. They simply said they did a good job, and we are supposed to blindly accept that.

The press conference of self-praise was pathetic.

The Radical Islamist was never referred to as such. Nothing about Radical Islam was mentioned.

He was repeatedly referred to as a “Naturalized U.S. Citizen.” What the hell does that mean?

He successfully got past all law enforcement and got a bomb into Times Square.

He also successfully got past airport security and got on a plane despite being on the no fly list.

Eric Holder said he “was never in any fear or danger of losing him.”

Are you kidding me?

They kept saying that he was providing “useful information.” They just wouldn’t discuss what that information was.

The guy was given his Miranda rights.

There is only one thing to do at this point.

Can we please bring the adults back to the White House?

After 9/11, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney cracked down. Nothing even close to this happened on their watch.

In 7 years, President Bush and Vice President Cheney kept us safe.

In one year Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and Janet Napolitano have reversed successful Bush policies. The result of those reversals is getting us killed.

We had one successful terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas. People were killed. It was connected to Radical Islam. This was unmentioned.

A plane nearly blew up over Michigan. The terrorist successfully got on the plane. The bomb failed to detonate. We got lucky. This was connected to Radical Islam. This was unmentioned.

Now we have another Islamofascist bomb plot. Islamofascism was not mentioned.

No, I am not waiting for more deaths so I can celebrate the idiocy of the people running our government.

I want them to wake up right now and “get it” before the country blows up.

We have a bunch of children from the Age of Aquarius running our country. They have repeatedly proven that they are not up to the job of keeping us safe. They have repeatedly failed.

Homeland insecurity is going to continue until the people in Never Never Land running our nation admit that America is at war, and that war is with Radical Islam.

We need to use racial profiling at airports. We need to use tough interrogation techniques such as waterboarding. In extreme cases, and this qualifies, some back room behavior nearing the lines of torture might be appropriate.

If we are not willing to use torture, we should turn this guy over to the Pakistani government, and let them do whatever they want to him.

At the very least, leave Guantanamo Bay open and place him there.

Eric Holder did not even mention the death penalty for the guy. Apparently letting taxpayers cover his prison expenses is appropriate for this ACLU loving Attorney General. He should be demoted to Attorney Private.

We need to stop putting public appearances and piety over our safety. Barack Obama’s job is not to be the beloved world prince. His job is to defend America only.

We as Americans don’t need to be lectured by Holder about how we have to be vigilant. We already are vigilant. It is our government that needs to do its job.

We are on defense right now. We are being reactive. We need to capture and kill the bad guys before the bomb ever makes its way to our city.

We need to be on offense in the War on Terror.

We need George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

They kept us safe.

Obama, Holder, and Napolitano are going to get us all killed.

They just don’t get it.

eric

Some leftists can wonder how I could possibly think of other issues when an oil disaster is going to hurt the coast. I must be so insensitive.

Barack Obama went to the White House Correspondents Dinner. People have a right to live their lives. What should we do, curl up in a fetal position?

(Sounds like the Democratic Party platform to me, but that is for another day.)

(I will not be covering the WHCD. Barack Obama is great at making fun of others. As thin-skinned as ever, he did not make fun of himself.)

While a bunch of leftist screwups were busy admiring each other and breathing in their own noxious scents in medialand, the gulf was about to get belted with oil.

An explosion involving British Petroleum has led to oil spilling everywhere. State of emergencies have been issued in Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana. The fishing industry is expected to be decimated. An ecological disaster is in the making. Comparisons to the Exxon Valdez crash are already being offered.

As for liberals, they have only one reaction…sheer and utter delight.

The left loves this. The Obama administration can barely contain their glee.

Rahm Emanuel once said that “a good crisis should never go to waste.”

This is how an economic recession can be compared to the Great Depression, allowing for a health care plan that has nothing to do with the economy to be passed. Obama sure learned from FDR.

With liberalism, success requires failure. Misery allows blame, which leads to government power grabs.

An oil explosion allows Mr. Obama to get even more pious, pompous, and insufferable than usual.

Liberals hate big oil. The left was on the defensive when gasoline prices skyrocketed. We were so close to oil drilling. After this, drilling might be dead. The Democrats can even see their poll numbers rising in their eyes.

The British Petroleum incident will be blamed on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, because after all, they are “big oil.”

Sarah Palin will be blamed because she is from Alaska, and so was Joseph Hazelwood.

Just you watch.

When somebody suggested that Mr. Obama was slow to react, he immediately distinguished why he was fantastic and his predecessor was awful.

I have no interest in beating him like a rented mule. He does that to his predecessor. Never let partisanship get in the way of decorum.

Congress will huff and puff and demand predetermined answers of malfeasance.

This may not have been like Valdez.

Valdez involved a crime. Joseph Hazelwood was drunk. He went to jail.

There is no evidence at this time that the BP explosion was anything more than a tragic accident.

This does not mean we accept that explanation. Yet we don’t invent a crime either. We let the process sort itself out.

(I seem to be a broken record the way I continue to tell people not to rush to judgment. How unreasonably reasonable of me.)

Barack Obama has been going out of his way to blame BP. The problem is that they immediately admitted fault, and acted swiftly and properly to correct the problem. What more does Obama want? Perfection?

Well, yes. He is perfect, so everybody else must be as well.

Does anybody think BP wanted this? Does anybody think they woke up and decided to sabotage their own reputation, destroy their own inventory, collapse their own profits, open themselves up to decades of lawsuits (some of which will be frivolous), and put themselves possibly out of business?

(Mr. Obama most likely wants BP out of business and will use the same tactics Vladimir Putin used against Yukos Oil. Robert Gibbs promised that Mr. Obama will have his “boot on the throat” of the company. That sounds pretty ominous to any lover of freedom.)

BP did not want this.

I understand the left’s need to blame everybody to deflect from their own lifelong failures, but the greeniacs need to put down the champagne.

America is held hostage by Arab Muslim oil. Yes, we should develop alternative sources of energy. Those are long-term solutions. In the short term, oil runs the world.

Since the left refuses to support America going in, b*tchslapping Iran, and taking their oil, then we had better develop our own.

What happened regarding BP is a disaster. Yet until we know the truth, to hurl accusations is senseless.

Those who truly hate big oil should turn off their electricity, and move to a commune somewhere. They can churn their own butter, and live off the land eating tree bark and berries.

(I should stop. Liberals are getting excited).

The maddening desire of those on the left to crucify every corporation is sickening.

BP is not an evil entity. It is a collection of human beings. The guys on the rig that exploded are not fat cats. Roughnecks do not make 8 figure salaries. They do not have private jets. They do the dirty work so we can have gasoline, heating oil, and the like.

Nobody wants to destroy the environment.

(Those attacking Republicans may wish to look at Bill Clinton and Tyson Chicken in Arkansas.)

The left did not cause this problem. British Petroleum did. It is a disaster of epic proportions, and they will pay financially, and reputation wise.

The left should simply stop trying to turn every crisis into a chance to enact miserable anti-business policies.

Republicans will most likely be too gutless to stand on principle.

I am here to remind them.

Drilling is the right thing to do.

One tragedy, no matter how awful, should not overrule sound policy.

The Space Shuttle Challenger was a tragedy in 1986. In 2010, space exploration still continues because it is the right thing to do.

Conservatives must stick to their oil guns on this one.

This is especially vital because the other side cares more about trees and animals than human beings, and has no alternative beyond crippling business and taking us back to the dark ages economically.

After all, there is no need to work on constructive solutions when one can demonize Republicans and business.

Common sense on this issue needs to be drilled into the forehead of every liberal who lets emotions cloud the bigger picture and the greater good.

We must drill for domestic oil.

eric

(Editor’s note: Former EPA head Christie Todd Whitman, a moderate as they come, agrees with me. Perhaps she read my column, because 24 hours later she echoed my sentiments.)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aieWpwm1LX3Y

eric