Posted on Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 06:36 pm:

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Shutdown Showdown: A Theatrical Review
Excerpts From the Script, Day 10

By Mark Alexander · Oct. 10, 2013


...Taking a walk down memory lane, I vividly recall then-candidate Obama waxing long on the Republican-controlled Senate floor in March 2006 about President Bush’s request to raise the debt ceiling:

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“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies. … This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy. … Interest payments are a significant tax on all Americans – a debt tax that Washington doesn’t want to talk about. If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we would see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

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And then there was that “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic” presidential campaign speech in July of 2008:

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“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – Number 43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back – $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.”

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Fact Check: During the eight years George W. Bush was in office, our national debt increased by $4.9 trillion, due primarily to the economic consequences of 9/11 and the funding of two major warfronts in response. Yet in just five years since Obama took office, his faux “economic recovery plan” has piled $6.1 trillion onto the nation’s debt. Yes, No. 44 added $6.1 trillion “by his lonesome,” so that we now have nearly $17 trillion of debt burden – more than $54,000 for every American man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. That’s unpatriotic.

Source, and more:
http://patriotpost.us/alexander/20775

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Posted on Friday, October 11, 2013 - 03:28 pm:

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The Threat We Face
October 10, 2013 By David Horowitz

...This is perhaps the hardest feature of their progressive adversaries for conservatives to comprehend. It is difficult to imagine that people as privileged by America’s generosity as Barack Obama and his entourage of despoilers should be so alienated from their country as to feel themselves in it but not of it. And there is no more shocking example of this than Benghazi. No matter what your politics, or what solutions you propose to the problems that confront this nation, ask yourself this: Could you have done what Barack Obama did that night? Could you as commander-in-chief abandon three Americans fighting for their lives under your command? These men had served their country for more than a decade. For seven hours they cried out for help from their government, but you refused to give it.

How, as a fellow American, could Obama have just left these men to die? No one with an ounce of patriotic feeling could. But he did. Even Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet premier of a Communist dictatorship, maintained contact with his astronaut as he burned up in space. But not our president. When the attack on our embassy in Benghazi began, he hung up the phone and went to bed, and then on to a fundraiser with Beyonce and Jay-Z in Las Vegas in the morning. This, with four Americans including our ambassador dead.

Source, more: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/the-th reat-we-face-2/

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