The Wrap at Ask Marion 1.05.14 Thru 1.12.14

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Quote of the Week: "If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

Election 2014 and 2016… All Sewn-Up or the Battle(s) for Americas Life

Alert: Rand Paul Sues Obama… Join Class Action Suit

• Gohmert Breaks Down The ‘War on Poverty’
• Judge Jeanine Pirro – Obamacare lies – How Many More People Will Lose Coverage?
• Sarah Palin Responds to Roger Ailes Quote Explaining Why Fox News Hired Her AND Why She Accepted
• Alfred E. Smith: Betrayal of the Democratic Party
• Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement – Benghazi IRS NSA 1-11-2014
• No Confidence
• The Lynchpins Have Been Pulled
• Rush on Jobs Report
• Website of Top House Republican Drops Opposition to Amnesty and Others Are Waffling… Get Invovled!
• Glenn Beck: Similarities Between Christie & Obama [video]
• The Well-Greased Machine… and the Plan
• The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results 01.10.14
• What really happened to the German gold housed in the United States?
• FOX News’ Roger Ailes Talks Back – Great Interview!
• ISSA Warns Sebelius That She Could Face Perjury Charges Over Obamacare Testimony – Rep Trey Gowdy
• Gates Book Puts White House in Defense Mode… And Conveniently a Christie Scandal Appears
• Rolling Stone Article Tells Millennials To Push For Communism… Gutfeld Responds
• Watcher’s Council Nominations – Global Warming Edition
• Political Researcher, Trevor Loudon is Speaking to The Clark Co. IN TEA Party Feb 7th — Be There!
• Global Warming Hits Michigan…
• Cruz will headline local GOP fundraiser
• Louie Gohmert: Let’s Blow Up All Iran Nuclear Sites
• Sean Hannity Reacts to WFB Story on Al-Qaeda Being Invited to Briefing on Drone Policy By Congressional Democrats
• Judge Jeanine Pirro – Benghazi 9/11 Whitewash – Rep Trey Gowdy Responds To NY Times Article
• The Chinese High-Tech Dynasty Wrapped in Red 
• Forum: Whom Would You Least Like To See In A Presidential Matchup In 2016? 
• Iraq…is it really over for America 
• The Season and Meaning of Epiphany – WoC 2013/14 
• NYT, Hillary & Obama’s War on a Mom 
• Los Angeles Times Skips the I-Word As California Grants Law License to Illegal Alien 
• Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement – Justice Resolutions – Obama Admin Vs Little Sisters 1-4-2014
• An American Depression: Extreme Haircut Edition
• The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watchers’ Council Results Posted 01.03.14
• The Atheist War on Christmas and Religious Freedom – WoC 2013/14
• Iraqi Army Shells Fallujah As Street Fights Rage In Ramadi
• Eleven AGs slam Obama’s healthcare fixes; Greg Abbot says Obama is acting like a king 
• The Wrap at Ask Marion 12.29.13 Thru 1.05.14

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• The GOP’s Grandfather Weapon 
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• Obamacare Is A Disaster & A Train Wreck… Sarah Palin Delivers Passionate Response
• HEALTHCARE REFORM’S FIRST BIG TEST
• If You MUST Vaccinate, Aim for This Body Part 
• Hair Of The Dog… Portraits of People Wearing Clothes Made From Their Pets’ Fur 
• Could an E-collar Help Settle Your Pet’s Stomach on Car Rides? 
• Dog found frozen to floor of doghouse during cold snap in PA 
• Dog Rescued from Trash Pile
• Iditarod Trail Race Headquarters, Palin and Alaskan Tourism

Book of the Week – Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (Kindle)

Gates Book Puts White House in Defense Mode… And Conveniently a Christie Scandal Appears

Rush Limbaugh slammed the media on Wednesday for its coverage of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, saying “The focus on the bridge controversy only serves to take former defense secretary Robert Gates’ critique of President Barack Obama “off the front page.”

From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he’d left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happy in his role as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty. Now, in this unsparing memoir, meticulously fair in its assessments, he takes us behind the scenes of his nearly five years as a secretary at war: the battles with Congress, the two presidents he served, the military itself, and the vast Pentagon bureaucracy; his efforts to help Bush turn the tide in Iraq; his role as a guiding, and often dissenting, voice for Obama; the ardent devotion to and love for American soldiers—his “heroes”—he developed on the job.

In relating his personal journey as secretary, Gates draws us into the innermost sanctums of government and military power during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, illuminating iconic figures, vital negotiations, and critical situations in revealing, intimate detail. Offering unvarnished appraisals of Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Presidents Bush and Obama among other key players, Gates exposes the full spectrum of behind-closed-doors politicking within both the Bush and Obama administrations.

He discusses the great controversies of his tenure—surges in both Iraq and Afghanistan,  how to deal with Iran and Syria, “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” Guantánamo Bay, WikiLeaks—as they played out behind the television cameras. He brings to life the Situation Room during the Bin Laden raid. And, searingly, he shows how congressional debate and action or inaction on everything from equipment budgeting to troop withdrawals was often motivated, to his increasing despair and anger, more by party politics and media impact than by members’ desires to protect our soldiers and ensure their success.

However embroiled he became in the trials of Washington, Gates makes clear that his heart was always in the most important theater of his tenure as secretary: the front lines. We journey with him to both war zones as he meets with active-duty troops and their commanders, awed by their courage, and also witness him greet coffin after flag-draped coffin returned to U.S. soil, heartbreakingly aware that he signed every deployment order. In frank and poignant vignettes, Gates conveys the human cost of war, and his admiration for those brave enough to undertake it when necessary.

Duty tells a powerful and deeply personal story that allows us an unprecedented look at two administrations and the wars that have defined them

Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement – Benghazi IRS NSA 1-11-2014

NYT, Hillary & Obama’s War on a Mom 

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What is Happening to the Promise of Change??

Change Is Changing - Already

A funny thing happened on his way to the White House: that old, left-wing community organizer Barack Obama has suddenly veered toward the center, and his incoming administration is looking more and more like the Daley Machine in Chicago than Hugo Chavez's administration down in Venezuela.

It seems that reality has set in, instructing the soon-to-be president-elect (he won't be that until the presidential electors gather and vote for him next month) that it's easier to promise change then it is to change the way things are traditionally done in a democracy.

Watching him announce key appointments to cabinet and sub-cabinet posts makes one think that this is Bill Clinton redux. Mr. Obama has dug deep into the 1990s and resurrected much of the Clinton cast of characters, even to naming Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state.

That appointment, some have suggested, is Obama's way of emulating Lyndon Johnson. When LBJ named an old foe to a post in his administration, he explained that it was better to have the camel inside the tent urinating out, than outside the tent urinating in.

None of this satisfies the radical left that went bonkers trying to elect the man they thought would turn the White House into a new Kremlin and name all of them commissars of the new Socialist Republic of America.

Barack Obama, ardent disciple of the late Saul Alinsky, seems to have forgotten the iron-clad left-wing dictate -- "no enemies to the left." With every Clintonite or Wall Streeter appointment he makes a new enemy on the left.

What the Alinsky/Ayers crowd doesn't seem to understand is that Barack Obama's only acquaintanceship with government in action was his close relationship with Chicago's Daley machine, where its hallmark -- aside from its rampant corruption -- was devotion to pragmatism. If it works, do it; if it doesn't, don't.

Everything Mr. Obama has done in recent weeks since winning the election has been an exercise in pragmatism -- gone is all the heated rhetoric about change and reform. Everything is now measured by only one standard -- it must above all be practical.

What his disappointed leftist allies don't grasp is that many of those who voted for him thought he had a conservative message for them. Now with his appointments such as keeping Robert Gates at the Defense Department and naming Paul Volcker as a top economic advisor, he's delivering on what the voters saw as his conservative promises.

Unlike Bill Clinton, he's moving to the center before he takes office, and not two years afterwards as Clinton did. During the campaign I prayed he was lying when he unveiled his platform and promises of what he'd do as president.

I was hoping he lied about taxes. I was hoping he lied about ending the war in Iraq in 16 months. I was hoping he lied about all of those nutty left-wing programs he was promising.

It looks as if my prayers were answered.

I expect that he'll try to mollify his now-dejected left-wing supporters by tossing them a few bones. He'll push for the horrendous "Freedom of Choice" bill that would enshrine abortion as the supreme law of the land, overturning all restrictions on the grisly procedure previously enacted by the states; and trying to gag conservative talk radio hosts, for example.

I'm sure he knows that those attempts might be empty gestures if his party falls short of the 60 votes in the Senate they need to shut off debate on such measures, thereby allowing the Republican minority to use the filibusters to kill such measures so dear to the hearts of the so-called progressives.

What's happening is Obama's discovery that there is a big difference between running for president and being president. He is now up to date, up to speed, and getting all the information George Bush is getting -- and he having to make decisions based on that information.

As a result he and George Bush are now on the same wavelength. It's amazing what a little dose of reality will do to a man who dreamt dreams before he encountered the inescapable facts of life.

Welcome to Washington, Barack Obama.

 Change is Changing

by Michael Reagan, the eldest son of Ronald Reagan, is heard daily by over 5 million listeners via his nationally syndicated talk radio program, “The Michael Reagan Show.”

Posted:  Marion's Place