DESPITE THE LEFT'S PERVASIVE NEGATIVISM - AND THE CONSTANT ATTACKS FROM THE MSM - BUSH'S AGENDA IS SUCCEEDING

THE EXAMINER:

“President Bush’s leadership is achieving a steady flow of results that do not always dominate the day’s headlines on their own but that together represent real progress for the American people,” Bartlett said. ... “In today’s political climate, daily headlines and fast-moving events make it easy to lose the forest for the trees,” Bush counselor Dan Bartlett wrote in a memo this week. “But there is a clear tide of positive developments that reflect the president’s ability to get things done.”

Things are far from perfect: al Qaeda refuses to surrender in Iraq; gasoline prices remain high; the federal budget is filled with pork. Nevertheless, despite all that - and the constant negativity from the MSM - the Bush Administration's policies are advancing (see the article for some of Bush's recent successes). WHICH MEANS: be patient; be resolute; don't worry; don't overreact; keep the faith.

THE LEFT: PARANOID ABOUT BUSH AND FALWELL; IN DENIAL ABOUT GLOBAL JIHAD

LILEKS:

You're an enlightened world citizen. Your T-shirt says "9/11 was an inside job." You're pretty sure we're living in a fascist state, that President Bush taps the Dixie Chicks' phones, Christian abortion clinic bombers outnumber jihadis, and the war on "terror" is a distraction from the real threats: carbon emissions and Pat Robertson.

Then you learn that 17 people were arrested in a terrorist bomb plot. How do you process the information? Let's take it step by step.

Gosh, that's horrible, you think. But no -- that's what they WANT you to feel. Recall the prime directive: Question Authority (unless he's a college professor). The plotters must have been impoverished olive farmers radicalized by the removal of Saddam Hussein.

It would be funny if it weren't so so so so SO very VERY true. RTWT.

INCONVENIENT FACT: FLORIDA COOLEST EVER

Via DRUDGE/WUNDERGROUND:

Statement as of 8:55 am EDT on June 7, 2006
record event report
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
855 am EDT Jun 7 2006

... Record low temperature shattered at Tallahassee Florida!...

AR 6:51 am EDT this morning... the temperature at the Tallahassee
Regional Airport dropped to 54 degrees. This obliterates the old
record low of 57 degrees set in 1991.

This is one more bit of proof that man-made global warming is definitely false, and it might even prove that global warming itself might be false. I think that the whole hysterical effort to curb so called greenhouse gases is really an effort by the reactionary post modern Left - who dominate the Democrats and the MSM - to curb industrialization and global trade and to hobble and diminish the West.

POLL PROVES UNILATERALISM IS THE ONLY PRACTICAL PATH FOR ISRAEL

IBLOGA:

The poll result that will not make the mainstream media at all is the fact that only 4% of Palestinian Arabs reject terror altogether. The question is ambiguously worded, but what is entirely clear is that the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs want to see continued attacks against Jewish civilians (what is euphemistically called "resistance.")

The poll - by Bir Zeit University - also shows that 61% support Hamas in their refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist.

OBVIOUSLY, the Palistanis want war, the destruction of Israel, and genocide against Jews. This makes them unfit partners for peace. This makes them fit for nothing - except to be shunned. Unilateral separation allows them to be shunned. By Israel and the rest of the civilized world.

THE OMEN - SYRIAN VERSION: MAJOR US OIL COMPANY WITHDRAWING FROM SYRIA

MORE PROOF THINGS ARE LIKELY GOING TO GET HOTTER FOR BASGAR IN DAMASCUS REAL SOON:

YA LIBNAN:

Marathon oil company, America's largest investor in the Syrian oil and gas sectors will soon quit after selling its shares, fearing further U.S. sanctions against Damascus.

ARUTZ SHEVA:

"The decision was sparked by fears from additional sanctions that U.S. President George Bush is seeking to impose on Damascus in addition to problems between the U.S. company and the Syrian government," according to a source quoted by United Press International (UPI). "At any moment President Bush can increase sanctions on Syria to cover investments."

MIDDLE EAST ONLINE:

Industry sources said Marathon Oil, based in Houston, Texas, was seeking to sell virtually all of its interests in Syria by 2007.

Handwriting on the wall... the Brammertz Report is due in a few weeks... the clock is ticking... on Assad's murderous regime...

ONCE AGAIN, THE MSM SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS

THE BBC AND CTV REFERRED TO THE FLIGHTS WHICH TOOK SUSPECTED AL QAEDA TERRORISTS TO SECRET PRISONS AS "TERROR FLIGHTS".

GOOGLE NEWS HITS FOR "ANTI-TERROR FLIGHTS": ZERO.

THIS REVEALS, ONCE AGAIN, THAT THE LEFTIST DOMINATED MSM REGARDS ANTI-TERROR EFFORTS WITH CONTEMPT, WHILE IT IGNORES THE ATROCITIES OF THE ENEMY. OR BLAMES THEM ON THE USA.

WHICH HELPS THE ENEMY. THE MSM: A FIFTH COLUMN FOR AL QAEDA.

CHE: TOTALITARIAN AND LEFTIST ICON SUBJECT OF MUSEUM EXHIBIT IN LONDONISTAN

THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM IS HAVING A SHOW ABOUT CHE. Those who admire this murderous racist promoter of tyranny are dupes. Of course, the museum blurb conveniently leaves out the fact that he and Fidel promoted tyranny - in Cuba and abroad.

HERE IS A LINK TO MY FAVORITE PHOTO OF CHE.

What's next, a show honoring Zarqawi!?

More from Paul Berman:

Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. To get himself killed, and to get a lot of other people killed, was central to Che's imagination. In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …"— and so on. ... The present-day cult of Che—the T-shirts, the bars, the posters—has succeeded in obscuring this dreadful reality.

A real cool t-shirt here, and here.
More on CHE here. And here. And here.

AND MUCH MORE HERE.

THE AGE OF OIL IS OVER... soon

VIA INSTAPUNDIT: G.E. HAS DISCOVERED HOW TO MAKE HYDROGEN AS CHEAPLY AS GAS:

Researchers at GE’s Global Research lab in Niskayuna, NY, have developed a system that produces hydrogen at a fraction of the cost and could be available commercially in just a few years. ...GE’s breakthrough comes from a proprietary material called Noryl, a highly chemical- and temperature-resistant plastic developed by the GE labs, that lowers the cost of hydrogen production to hundreds of dollars per kilowatt, according to Bourgeois.

...Although GE has only built a prototype in their lab, Bourgeois believes that demonstrations can come as soon as the end of next year, and commercialization will follow that. The goal of the project, according to Bourgeois, is to bring down equipment costs enough to take the cost of hydrogen from $8 per kilogram to $3 per kilogram—comparable in energy and price to a gallon of gasoline.

If it pans out, it means that OPEC and Chavez and the Mullahs are THROUGH! Good riddance.

GORE: "LYING ABOUT MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING IS OKAY"

Gore thinks lying is okay. Key graf - from DISSECTING LEFT:

"Wednesday's Washington Times ran a column on global warming by Cato's Patrick Michaels in which he quoted Al Gore as saying, "I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience." As a public service I will now translate this politically obtuse statement into English; It is alright to lie to people in order to scare them into doing something that is against their own interest.

"OVERREPRESENTATION OF FACTUAL PRESENTATIONS"?!?! Er, um... I think that this is pseudo-intellectual jargon for for "fake but accurate!" - or "getting too far out in front of the TRUTH cycle." Heh.

Gore is a Leftist and since the advent of post-modernism Leftists don't believe that objective truth exists, so OF COURSE lying is okay. (Which is why the Left is so very VERY good at lying - just observe the MSM: according to the MSM, the economy sucks, even though by all historical standards and OBJECTIVE measures it is better now than during the Clinton Era.)

DEMOCRAT DEMENTIA / LEFT-WING LUNACY

LEFTIE DEMS ARE MORE AFRAID OF GLOBAL WARMING - (WHICH HAS KILLED NO ONE - AND WHICH IS PROBABLY A NATURAL EVENT AND NOT EVEN MAN-MADE AND WHICH WE COULD NO MORE STOP THEN WE CAN STOP THE SUN FROM RISING), THEN OF GLOBAL JIHAD - WHICH HAS KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS.

They're LOONS!

More proof HERE. And HERE.

WHAT A DEMOCRAT VICTORY WILL MEAN

If you want to:

cut & run from al Qaeda in Iraq, appease the enemy, and defer to the UN;
filibuster the judicial nominees;
repeal tax cuts/raise taxes;
raise domestic spending, and cut defense spending;
and open the border -

THEN VOTE DEMOCRAT. Or stay home and don't vote: same effect.

IOW: "Go ahead, make Zarqawi happy - VOTE DEMOCRAT!"

More HERE and HERE.

SYRIAN OPPOSITION COALESCING IN ANTICIPATION OF BRAMMERTZ REPORT AND ASSAD'S IMMINENT OUSTER

alJazeera/Qatar:

The National Salvation Front, a Syrian opposition group founded in exile, has ended its inaugural congress in London saying there was no doubt that the Syrian government would fall.

In its final declaration at the close of the congress on Monday, the group called on Syrians to "break down the barriers of fear" and overturn the government of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, but not through violent means. ...

"The National Salvation Front also invites the armed forces to shoulder national and historic responsibility, to be the army of the people," the statement added. It urged the security forces, especially "officers used by the regime to inflict injustice on the citizens ... to live up to their moral and national responsibilities and refuse to obey the orders of the corrupt group that all of you know is corrupt and oppressive."

Alongside Khaddam and the Muslim brotherhood, Kurdish parties, independents and communists took part in the London meeting.

Yahoo/AP:

Key Syrian opposition figures Monday urged Syrians to work to oust President Basher Assay by using acts of civil disobedience reminiscent to the upheaval that freed nations behind the Iron Curtain. Describing Assay's regime as oppressive and corrupt, the leaders pledged to bring democracy to Syria, which has been ruled by Assay since the death of his father, Haze, in 2000. ... A representative from the Kurdish minority as well as liberal and democratic groups also attended the London meeting.The alliance has pledged that the proposed transitional government would abolish Syria's 1963 state of emergency and release all political prisoners.

Syrians deserve self government, government by consent of the governed, self-determination as much as anybody else. Soon, the Syrians will have it. Because of Bush, and the Brammertz Report, and because there is a diverse and united opposition to Assad's murderous baathist/socialist regime.

The Bush Doctrine is working and Democracy is on the advance - and democracy will bring prosperity and peace.

WW2, VIETNAM, AND IRAQ

BARONE WROTE A MASTERPIECE. RTWT. HERE'S A MONEY GRAF - COURTESY ECONOPUNDIT:

Americans are in a sour mood, a mood that may be explained by the lack of a sense of history. The military struggle in Iraq (nearly 2,500 military deaths) is spoken of in as dire terms as Vietnam (58,219), Korea (54,246) or World War II (405,399). We bemoan the cruel injustice of $3 a gallon for gas in a country where three-quarters of people classified as poor have air conditioning and microwave ovens. We complain about a tide of immigration that is, per U.S. resident, running at one-third the rate of 99 years ago.

George W. Bush has a better sense of history.

In a post below I explain why I think so many are in a sour mood - I blame the MSM's BLANKET negativity going allthe back to "Gore V. Bush."

But I think some ADDITIONAL historical perspective is in order. Let me put it this way: JUST HOW STUPID IS THE VIETNAM-IRAQ ANALOGY THE LEFTIE DOVES USE ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME!? It's NOT just the fact that the Iraq War casualty rate is miniscule compared to Vietnam - and EVERY previous war. It's this:

When I was young and a dove and a Leftie - (and wrong about just about everything!) - I protested the Vietnam War. Let's say it was... 1970. PKAY?! Well, back in 1970 WW2 seemed like ancient history to us: no jets; no UN; no color movies, (well: not many!); no TV - you get the idea: THE WORLD HAD CHANGED ENORMOUSLY IN THE 25 YEARS between the end of WW2 and 1970.

WELL... Vietnam was MORE than 25 years ago! YUP: that means that WW2 was more temporally proximate to 1970 than Vietnam is to us today. But it's more than just the years: The world has changed more since Vietnam than between WW2 and Vietnam, and it continues to change at an evermore rapid pace, too. IOW: WW2 was more relevant to Vietnam than Vietnam could possibly be to Iraq. And WW2 wasn't very relevant to Vietnam.

WW2 and VIETNAM are ONLY RELEVANT to Iraq ON THIS LEVEL: In all THREE wars the USA defended democracy and liberty and fought against totalitarianists.

VIETNAM IS ONLY RELEVANT TO IRAQ ON ONE OTHER LEVEL: If given the chance the Dems/doves will do the same thing to the Iraqis (and perhaps the Afghanis) that they did to the South Vietnamese: ABANDON THEM TO TOTALITARIANISM.

If you support democracy and self-government for all peoples of the world, then vote GOP.

If you support Binladen, totalitarianism, appeasement and isolationism, then vote Democrat.

The choice is yours.

BUSH ECONOMY BOOMING

HERE ARE THE FACTS YOU WON'T READ IN THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED BDS-AFFLICTED IN THE BAG FOR THE DEMS/DOVES MSM.

I challenge any and all Lefties to provide ONE fact that counters any of the facts in the article I linked to, or to prove that one fact in the article is false.

ABBAS CAN'T NEGOTIATE WITH HAMAS, SO WHO CAN REASONABLY EXPECT ISRAELIS TO!?

YAHOO :

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday he will call a referendum on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel after he failed to persuade Hamas to agree to the idea.

The Islamic militant Hamas, which heads the Palestinian government, strongly opposes a referendum. "President Abbas will set a date for the referendum after the meeting Tuesday of the PLO Executive Committee and parliamentary caucuses," his office said in a statement.

Abbas had set a midnight deadline for agreement. But a participant in late-night talks with Palestinian factions said the president determined they had failed an hour before that.

... The Palestinian infighting has turned deadly in recent weeks. Sixteen people have died in clashes between Hamas and Fatah loyalists, including five killed on Sunday. Five Palestinians were wounded in two clashes in the southern city of Khan Younis on Monday, security officials said. Hamas has stuck to its tough line on Israel despite the crushing international boycott, which has left the government unable to pay the salaries of tens of thousands of civil servants for three months.

If Hamas and Fatah cannot strike a deal - but instead resort to murdering each other in the streets, then how can Israel EVER make a deal with them?! OBVIOUSLY THEY CANNOT. WHICH IS WHY A UNILATERAL ARRANGEMENT IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO FORWARD. KADIMA.

MORE HERE.

MORE PROOF OF GLOBAL JIHAD - and why Binladen is rooting for the Democrats

BREITBART/AP VIA DRUDGE:

"This investigation is not finished," Mike McDonell, deputy commissioner for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday. "Anybody that aided, facilitated or participated in this terrorist event will be arrested and prosecuted in court."

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day also predicted more arrests. Another senior government official told The Associated Press on Sunday that more warrants were being gathered and that arrests were likely, possibly this week.

Although both Canadian and U.S. officials said over the weekend there was no indication the purported terror group had targets outside Ontario, McDonnell told National Public Radio on Monday that the inquiry has expanded beyond Canada.

"We are working with and sharing our information with our allied countries," he said.

A U.S. law enforcement official said investigators were looking for connections between those detained in Canada and suspected Islamic militants held in the United States, Britain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Denmark and Sweden.

American authorities have established that two men from Georgia who were charged this year in a terrorism case had been in contact with some of the Canadian suspects via computer, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.

This is absolutely a World War - (either 3 or 4, depending on if you include the Cold War).

And the Dems/doves/appeasers of the Left are ready to turn either Afghanistan or Iraq (or both, given the chance!) into modern day Sudatenland.

I PRAY the American electorate doesn't give them the chance. But, the way the polls look right now, the electorate just MIGHT!

AND TO ME, it just doesn't figure: the enemy has attacked us and our allies with terror at home; they're more brutal and repressive than the Nazis were, (and given the chance would commit genocide on a "grander" scale!); our casualty rate is miniscule compared to Vietnam, (and yet the Vietnam War had GREATER public support TEN YEARS INTO THE CONFLICT THAN IRAQ DOES after three!).

SO WHAT GIVES?! And it ain't just the MSM - after all, the MSM is LESS concentrated now than in the late 1960's-70's. So, why are Americans less resolute, less patient now than then?

For one thing, the Democrat Party is ENTIRELY a party of Leftie dove appeasers now; there is NOT ONE HAWK among them. (In the Vietnam Era, there were some hawks in the Democrat Party.) SO, the opposition to the war is MORE PARTISAN now than then, and the Dems are more desperate for power now than then, so they unabashedly demagogue the Iraq War day in and day out. Of course, they have willing comrades in the MSM. And their spin on the news - ALL NEWS - is more partisan: they never report good economic news, or good news in the GWOT, or good social news - like the fact that drug use and crime continue to decline.

I think this COMPREHENSIVE BLACKOUT OF ANY GOOD NEWS has a powerful overall effect: the bad news from Iraq is compounded EXPONENTIALLY because people are LED TO BELIEVE that the whole world is going to pot - (AND A POT THAT WILL SOON BE BOILING BECAUSE OF MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING, TOO)!

The comprehensive blackout of all good news is essentially driven by Leftists who believe that Bush stole the election IN 2000; they have been "gunning" for Bush ever since, relentlessly slanting ALL NEWS against him. When a little good news gets out (like the fact that the unemployment rate is now 4.6%), it is spun into bad news and gets no traction.

SO WHAT DO WE DO?! (1) We have to remain committed and get out and vote GOP despite any differences some might have with Bush on immigration or spending. The War Against Global Jihad trumps everything else.

Not only will a Dem Congress abandon Iraq and Afghanistan, but they will raise taxes, cut defense spending, and block conservative judicial nominees. And try to impeach Bush.

And a Democrat Party victory will effectively VINDICATE BINLADEN. WHY?! Because ever since Clinton abandoned Somalia, Binladen has been arguing that America doesn't have what it takes to keep fighting a long war with combat deaths. Binladen's ENTIRE strategy is predicated on this; he has said so. If the American people vote the Democrats into power, then they will prove Binladen correct.

IOW: If you support Binladen then vote Democrat.

UK TO DEMAND ASSIMILATION FOR IMMIGRATION

BBC:

Immigrants coming to Britain must learn English, Gordon Brown has insisted. He argued that people entering the UK should "play by the rules" and that means learning the language in order to get work, the chancellor says. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that those who refused to learn English should be made to do so.

GOOD. My saying: NO IMMIGRATION WITHOUT ASSIMILATION.

IRAQ: NOT CIVIL WAR, BUT WAR AGAINST JIHADOTERRORISTS

There is no friggin civil war in Iraq. There is no friggin sectarian war, either. The killings and reprisals are not sectarian. It is a war between civilization and brutal barbaric jihadoterrorists.

FACT: The attacks are by carried out by - and instigated by - al Qaeda against Shias, and NOT merely Sunnis on Shias.

FACT: The Kurds are MOSTLY Sunni, and they are NOT attacking Shias.

FACT: Zarqawi has OPENLY called for Sunnis to kill Shias, but not a single Sunni cleric or Sunni politician has done the same. Not a single Sunni politician has left the Iraqi government or civil service to support Zarqawi or al Qaeda. The Iraqi nation has not split, and the Iraqi government has NOT collapsed due to sectarian differences; in fact, the Kurds and the Shias - who have the ability to retaliate and to commit genocide against the Sunnis any time they want to - have been extraordinarily patient, and have worked tirelessly for national unity despite the constant attacks BY AL QAEDA.

HEY LEFTIE SKEPTICS, STILL NOT BUYING IT?!
WELL THEN, LOOK AT IT THIS WAY:

If some KKK and Aryan Church radicals carried out a series of attacks - (burning dozens of black churches and murdering dozens and dozens of blacks in, let's say... Indiana) - it would not be right to call it a race war or a religious war - even though that's EXACTLY how the KKK and Aryan Church would want it portayed. It would properly be called a series of racist attacks by a couple of dangerously radical and fanatically extreme fringes groups bent on igniting civil war.

Well, that what's happening in Iraq: a fringe group - al Qaeda in Iraq - is carrying out extraordinarily brutal and barbaric attacks on Shias in an attempt to foment a civil war and destroy the constitutional democratic republic of Iraq and take over a chunk of it and turn it into a Taliban-like base from which to carry out global jihad.

NOTHING could more clearly PROVE that the Iraq War is the most important front in the GWOT.

Nothing could more clearly argue the case for STAYING AND HELPING THE IRAQIS DEFEAT THE ENEMY.

Now is the time to ramp up our defense of the Iraqi democracy, not talk of withdrawal.

Withdrawal is what the enemy wants. And the US Left, the doves. The Dems.

But maybe I'm being REDUNDANT: the Left and the Jihadoterrorsts are "Birds of a Feather": they are both enemies of liberty, and democracy. And both want the USA defeated.

The Left is carrying the water for Zarqawi, preaching his version of events and supporting his goals.

Which is why, to make Jihadoterrorism history we have to first make the Left history.

AND REMEMBER THIS: THIS STORY IN THE NYTIMES PROVES THAT SADDAM WAS A TERRORIST. He murdered more Iraqis on a daily basis than have been killed on average each day since liberation.

SYRIAN OPPOSITION HOLDS 2 DAY SUMMIT IN LONDON

They're getting ready for the BRAMMERTZ REPORT, and the end of Assad's murderous Baathist/socialist tyranny.(Hat tip Prairie Pundit.)

JENINGRAD REDUX? THE HADITHA MASSACRE: DID IT HAPPEN AT ALL? IF SO, WHO DID IT?

IS HADITHA A REPRISE OF JENINGRAD? MAYBE. (More on Jenin HERE and HERE. More on another MSM pro-jihado-thug propaganda hoax HERE and HERE.)

I don't know ALL the facts yet, but I believe that the al Dura Affair, Jeningrad, and Rathergate, have PROVEN that the MSM has a diathesis for anti-USA/anti-Bush/anti-Israel "news" - "news" that's "FAKE BUT TRUE" - news that false but advances their agenda.

IOW: The Left-wing dominated MSM leaps at every opportunity to broadcast unverified propaganda as long as it hurts their ideological enemies on the Right - and even if it helps the enemy. Which makes them simply traitorous.

Haditha may very well be another case of phony news.

FACT: THE BUSH ECONOMY IS BETTER THAN THE CLINTON ECONOMY

SIX MONTHS AGO FROM THE ANCHORESS (VIA DR. SANITY):

The economy has now expanded faster than 3% for 10 straight quarters. So when was the last time the economy expanded faster than 3% for 10 straight quarters? It didn’t happen during the 1990s (the longest streak was eight).

It last happened during the 13 quarters from 1Q 1983 through 1Q 1986. Not coincidentally, a president who believed in lowering taxes to stimulate economic growth was in charge the last time it happened.

So despite being at war, despite devastating storms, and despite legislative and regulatory drags on the economy like Sarbanes-Oxley, this has been most consistently growing economy in almost 20 years.

AND NOW - SOME SIX MONTHS LATER - THE ECONOMY HAS NOW ALSO WEATHERED VERY HIGH OIL PRICES, AND... YET... IT'S STILL GROWING!

AND UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES TO DECLINE.

AND HOME OWNERSHIP - WHERE MOST PEOPLE PUT THEIR SAVINGS, DERIVE THEIR WEALTH, AND FULFILL THEIR DREAMS - HAS STEADILY EXPANDED, TOO.

Yet polls show that most Americans feel the economy sucks. WHY?! The Left-wing dominated MSM refuses to report any good news, or give Bush credit for the good news they do report.

WHICH IS WHY, TO DEFEAT THE JIHADOMANIACS AND MAKE POVERTY AND TYRANNY HISTORY, WE MUST MAKE THE LEFT HISTORY.

UPDATE - 6/3/06: Instapundit chimes in with another angle which proves my point HERE.

LIKE THEIR COMRADES IN THE MSM THEY COVER, THE LEFTIES WHO RUN "EDITOR & PUBLISHER" SLANT POLL RESULTS AGAINST BUSH

EDITOR & PUBLISHER:

A new Quinnipiac Poll finds American voters selecting George W. Bush as easily the worst American president in the past 61 years, with fellow Republican Ronald Reagan picked as the best.

WRONG. THIS IS A RANK DISTORTION. The word "easily" is used to intensify the poll result, as if those who thought Bush was the worst, thought so MORE READILY than those who thought Nixon or Carter were the worst. This is false. The poll MERELY relates how many of those polled thought which president was the worst:

Bush was named by 34% of voters, followed by Richard Nixon at 17% and Bill Clinton at 16%, according to the Quinnipiac University national poll of over 1,500 voters released today. Leading the list for best President since 1945 is Ronald Reagan with 28%, and Clinton with 25%.

Twice as many polled thought Bush was the worst than thought Clinton was the worst. BUT:

While Democrats and Republicans split widely on the "worst" choice, 35% independent voters picked Bush.

Okay, this is logocal: GOP voters LIKE Bush, and Dem voters do not. And Independents don't RIGHT NOW. AND WHY IS BUSH LEADING, RIGHT NOW? SIMPLE: IRAQ:

The main reason cited by voters who disapprove of Bush is the war in Iraq -- listed by 43%. By 56% to 39% they say that that going to war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do. Nearly 6 in 10 want withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

If the MSM covered the good news from Iraq like they cover the bad news from Iraq - and if they reported ANY GOOD ECONOMIC NEWS AT ALL - then Bush's numbers would be higher.

BUT THE RSULTS ARE REALLY NOT NEWS AT ALL. WHY?! BECAUSE PRESIDENTIAL POPULARITY CHANGES WILDLY IN THE DECADES WHICH FOLLOW THE YEARS OF SERVICE: for example, at the time, Truman was wildly unpopular, and did not seek another term, stepping aside for the wonkish Leftie Dove Adlai Stevenson, (whom Ike beat easily, TWICE!). But now, Truman is correctly VERY HIGHLY REGARDED.

Here are some more FACTS:

Reagan's - [NOW REGARDED AS THE BEST PRESIDENT ACCORDING TO THE QUINNIPAC POLL CITED BY E&P] - 52% average approval rating for his entire presidency was topped by Kennedy's 70% average, Eisenhower's 66%, Roosevelt's 68%, and even by Johnson (54%), who eschewed running for reelection because of the unpopularity of his Vietnam policy.

In short, about half-- and sometimes more than half-- of the US public did not approve of Reagan's presidential performance.

His approval index was not much better than the lowest modern presidential averages: Truman's and Ford's, each at 46%; Carter's at 47%; and 48% for Nixon.

... the facts show that Reagan was definitely not the most popular post-war president, and during many comparable periods he was among the most unpopular.

This proves that public opinion on presidential perfromance changes over time, with perspective. CASE IN POINT: I hated Reagan at the time, but now agree: HE WAS A GREAT AND GOOD PRESIDENT, ONE OF OUR BEST. The same will be true of Bush: history will regard him as one of the very best presidents of ALL TIME.

Likewise, opinon of Clinton will change over time: soon, Clinton will join Carter in the DUNGHEAP of HORRIBLE PRESIDENTS. Carter gave us a HUGE MISERY INDEX - and the ethos of sweater-wearing defeatism, AND the hostage crisis, AND the fall of the Shah, AND the invasion of Afghanistan. Truly, ALL the problems we face now BEGAN ON HIS AWFUL WATCH. (And he has been WORSE since then: defending anti-American tyrants like Chavez and Arafat and Hamas and Kim Jung Il!)

Clinton - (whom I voted for TWICE, I'm ashamed to admit!) - fiddled around with Monica as the world "burned":

(1) We were attacked by jihadoterrorists OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, and BJ Clinton did BUPKUS. And (2), he allowed the economic Bubbles to grow, and burst as he left office. And (3), he allowed the CROOKED CEO's to loot Wall Street. All the crooked CEO's - who Bush is sending to jail - did their crimes on Clinton's watch. And (4), Enron, et al., ripped off California in their energy scam on his watch. And (5), Clinton entertained Arafat in the oval office more than any president. And (6), he stood by and did nothing as MILLIONS of blacks were MURDERED as victims of racist genocide in Africa - (in Rwanda and the Sudan. YUP: MILLIONS. Yet, African-Americans still love him! Go figure!) And (7), the New Orleans levees which were BREECHED were built on HIS WATCH! And (8), Assad was allowed to occupy Lebanon compleyely unchallenged. And (9), the Pakistanis were allowed to build nukes and ILLEGALLY export nuke technology. AND (10), Saddam was allowed to abuse the UN Oil for Food prgram, and bribe our supposed allies.

I COULD GO ON, BUT I'LL STOP AT TEN - 'CAUSE I'M GETTING NAUSEOUS!

BOTTOM-LINE: This list is why Clinton should be, and soon will be, regarded as one of our worst presidents - ever.

Under Bush we are fighting back and defeating the jihadoterrorists. We've "converted" Khaddafy. We saved Georgia and Ukraine. We caught the AQKhan smuggling ring. We EXPOSED the deceitful UN-Oil-For-Food Scam, and their "sex-for-refugee status" scam. Home-ownership is at AN ALL TIME HIGH - EVEN FOR ALL MINORITIES. Unemployment is VERY VERY VERY LOW. The economy is booming. And democracy - worldwide - is ON THE MARCH.

Truly, Bush has already been a GREAT president. And soon history will judge him so. And so will the polls. But Lefties like the folks who run E&P and the MSM will never admit it.

MORE PROOF THAT POLAR SNOW AND ICE AMOUNTS HAVE VARIED FOREVER, AND ARE NOT "MAN-MADE"

6/6 UPDATE.

TCS:

Snowfall has been on the increase in parts of the United States and the world to record proportions in recent years even as summer snow and ice levels reach multi-decadal lows.

The changes relate to natural cyclical changes in the Atlantic Ocean and atmosphere that favor both more tropical activity in summer and more snowfall in winters.

Climatologists believe the current phase of the Atlantic cycle may last another decade or two. If this outlook is correct, we might expect both more big snows and hurricanes for years to come.

... As George Taylor summarized on this site in his story "Arctic Sea Ice -- Is It Disappearing?"

"A number of researchers have suggested that inflows of Atlantic water into the Arctic profoundly affect temperatures and sea ice trends in the latter ocean. Polyakov, et al (2004) are among these. The first sentence of their paper states 'Exchanges between the Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean have a profound influence on the circulation and thermodynamics of each basin.' The authors attributed most of the variability to multidecadal variations on time scales of 50-80 years, with warm periods in the 1930s-40s and in recent decades, and cool periods in the 1960s-70s and early in the twentieth century. These are associated with changes in ice extent and thickness (as well as air and sea temperature and ocean salinity). The most likely causative factor involves changes in atmospheric circulation, including but not limited to the Arctic Oscillation"

The article has charts and graphs which prove that the receding ice and increasing snow which the Arctic is currently experiencing is NOT UNUSUAL, AND HAS PROBABLY BEEN OCCURRING REGULARLY FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

Therefore, the ranting eco-nuts - like Gore and McCain - who blame HUMANITY and industrializatiuon and man-made CO2 are ALL WRONG.

NYTIMES DISTORTS "ASIAN CAR MAKER" MARKET SHARE

The NYTIMES uses one of the oldest tricks in the book (and a logical fallacy called "arguing from ambiguity") to make it seem like "American" car makers who make cars in Detroit are losing to "Asian" car makers who make cars in Asia:

Sales figures reported Thursday showed that Toyota, Honda and other Asian manufacturers claimed a record 40 percent of the American market in May, when sales of fuel-efficient vehicles like the Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic and Hyundai Sonata all rose 20 percent or more compared with May 2005.

For Detroit companies, which have continued to aggressively market their costly new sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks despite the high gas prices, market share last month dropped to 52.9 percent — their second-lowest in history.

the NYTIMES headline is the most blatant; it reads: "Asian Cars Won 40% of Market Last Month"

WHY IS THIS ANGLE BOGUS?! Because most of the so-called "Asian cars" the so-called "Asian car makers" sell here in the USA are made right here IN THE USA! They're no more "Asian cars" than a Chrsysler is a "European car." (And so-called American car makers make many of their cars - and car parts - OVERSEAS!)

This is really a story about the slowdown of the sales of BIG CARS, and the increase in sales of smaller cars, and NOT "import versus domestic cars" or "FOREIGN OWNED" makers versus "AMERICAN OWNED" makers. Especially NOT since the all car manufacturers make cars all over the world, and are ALL public companies whose stockholders are from ALL OVER THE GLOBE.

The NYTIMES is attempting to mount a sneaky, subliminal anti-free trade argument - one that has the added bonus of being anti-US business, (always a plus for anti-Americans like the NYTIMES). The NYTIMES is trying to spin it as if "AMERICAN MAKERS" were bad, and "FOREIGN MAKERS" were good. This is especially bogus when one additionally considers that much of the car design and marketing for the so-called "ASIAN car makers" is also DONE RIGHT HERE IN THE USA - BY AMERICANS!

BOTTOM-LINE: It matters NOT ONE WHIT where the cars are made - or where the corporations that make them are registered, or in what country their stock is listed - because FOREIGN TRADE IMBALANCES are also BOGUS; it's meaningless because it treats goods as if they were valueless. So called "foreign trade imbalances" are phantoms which REALLY DO NOT EXIST - (SEE MORE PROOF HERE).

When a free consumer buys the car she wants, then she is a WINNER. And the company that makes the sale WINS, TOO. Where they are and who owns them and where the car was made are IRRELEVANT. Except to anti-globalism/anti-American Lefties. Like the NYTIMES.

ADDENDUM: THE SO-CALLED "ASIAN CAR MAKERS" WHO MAKE CARS HERE HAVE BETTER LABOR CONTRACTS THAN THE OLD "BIG THREE" AND THAT'S A MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR REASON THEY MAKE MORE MONEY ON SALES OF SMALL CARS, AND HENCE MARKET THEM MORE AGGRESSIVELY/SUCCESSIVELY. THE OLD BIG THREE MAKE MORE MONEY PER UNIT ON SALES OF BIGGER CARS.

THE BAD DEALS THE OLD BIG THREE MADE WITH UNIONS IS THE MAJOR REASON THE OLD BIG THREE TEND TO MARKET BIG CARS.

THE OLD BIG THREE'S LABOR COSTS ARE HIGHER PER UNIT THAN "ASIAN CAR MAKERS" MANUFACTURING HERE IN THE USA.

BECAUSE THE LABOR-COST/UNIT-COST IN A BIG CAR IS SMALLER THAN THE LABOR-COST/UNIT-COST IN A SMALL CAR, THE OLD BIG THREE MAKE A BETTER RETURN ON BIGGER CARS. BECAUSE THEY MAKE MORE ON BIGGER CARS THEY MARKET THEM MORE AGGRESSIVELY AND SELL MORE - WHEN GAS IS PERCEIVED AS BEING RELATIVELY CHEAP.

THEIR DEPENDENCE ON BIG CAR SALES IS WHY THEIR CURRENT SALES ARE SUFFERING - BECAUSE GAS IS NOW BEING PERCEIVED AS RELATIVELY EXPENSIVE.

AL QAEDA DECLARES WAR ON SHIAS

NYTIMES:

The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq says in an audiotape posted on the Web Friday that Shiite militias are killing and raping the country's Sunni Arabs and urged Sunnis to confront them.

FOX:

The tape was a four-hour sermon by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi against Shiites, denouncing their top cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani as an "atheist" and saying the community had collaborated with invaders throughout Iraq's history."Oh Sunni people, wake up, pay attention and prepare to confront the poisons of the Shiite snakes who are afflicting you with all agonies since the invasion of Iraq until our day. Forget about those advocating the end of sectariansim and calling for national unity," al-Zarqawi said.

MEO:

The head of the Iraqi branch of Al-Qaeda, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, called Thursday for the disarmament of the Lebanese Shiite fundamentalist movement Hezbollah, according to an audio message posted on the Internet. Zarqawi accused Hezbollah of serving as a "shield protecting the Zionist enemy (Israel) against the strikes of the mujahedeen in Lebanon," in an apparent reference to Sunni Arab militants loyal to the Al-Qaeda network.

"Why should Hezbollah be exempt from the... Taef accords" which brought an end to fighting in Lebanon's 15-year civil war, a voice purporting to be Iraq's most wanted man asked in the lengthy audio message whose authenticity could not be verified. "Hezbollah is an independent state inside Lebanon... It puts forth lying slogans about Palestinian liberation when in fact it serves as a security wall (for Israel) and prevents Sunnis from crossing its borders."

Zarqawi is a paranoid schizophrenic serial killer, and his creed is evil and his followers vermin. Zarqawi has deliberately murdered more Muslims in Iraq and Jordan in the last three years than the IDF has killed in the last ten, and Zarqawi has killed more Iraqis than anyone EXCEPT Saddam.

The Muslims of the world should be staging massive protests against Zarqawi and Al Qaeda, and not cartoons. The fact that MOST Muslim leaders remain silent in the face of Zarqawi's genocidal rants (and Binladen's and Zawahiri's and Ahmadinejad's) proves they are largely a bunch of morally bankrupt vermin themselves.

BOTTOM-LINE: Islamofascist leaders are the ONLY people who openly call for genocide, and Muslims and Leftists are the only people in the world who ignore it - and even make it HARDER for us to defeat these racist, misogynist, genocidal, child-abusing terrorists.

MORE PROOF THAT ASSAD'S MURDEROUS TYRANNY IS IN TROUBLE

BBC:

Four gunmen and a security guard have been killed in clashes between suspected militants and security forces in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Officials said a "terrorist" attack on a building near the offices of Syrian state TV and radio had been halted.

Four militants were also arrested and were being interrogated. It was not clear why the building was a target. Several international hotels, government buildings and the city university are located in the area.

Assad's weakness is drawing out his foes, and making Assad even more repressive and defensive. I think the Brammertz Report - due in two weeks - may very well lead to his overthrow, exile, or assassination. He will go soon - either like Ceausescu or Baby Doc' or Idi Amin or Gorbachev. And the neighborhood will improve as a result: Hizballah will weaken - strengthening Lebanon's democracy and securing the borders between Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Jordan will be safer, too. As will Iraq. FASTER PLEASE!

ARMY CORPS ACCEPTS BLAME FOR NEW ORLEANS LEVEE FAILURES - BUILT UNDER CLINTON

NYTIMES - TODAY:

In a sweeping new study of the causes of the disaster in New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers acknowledged today that the levees it built in the city were an incomplete and inconsistent patchwork of protection, containing flaws in design and construction, and not built to handle a hurricane anywhere near the size of Katrina.

ASTUTE BLOGGER - 9/05:

"... from 1993-2000 the Clinton Adminstration refused to allow the Army Corps - or anyone else - to get the funding they needed to redo the levees and rebuild the marshes/bayous. ... Clinton ignored the dangers on this front as he did the dangers from jihadoterrorism.

ASTUTE BLOGGER - 10/05 (MSNBC):

"... the 1998 documents — filed as part of a legal dispute over costs — indicate the contractor complained about “weakness” of the soil and “the lack of structural integrity of the existing sheet pile around which the concrete was poured.” The ruling also referenced the “flimsiness” of the sheet piling. ... The construction company said as a result of these problems the walls were shifting and “out of tolerance,” meaning they did not meet some design specifications. Nevertheless, the Army Corps of Engineers accepted the work."

So, er um: the CANAL which broke was made badly DURING THE CLINTON ERA. Seems to me, that the Clinton Adminstration was asleep at the wheel on this - as they were on jihadoterrorism.

EUROTA - compiled a detailed list, with hyperlinks, of the Clinton Adminstration's numerous failures regarding levees construction funding.

Clinton did bupkus for the levee system, and tragedy struck on Bush's watch. And Bush is cleaning up the mess.

SOUND FAMILIAR?! It should: Clinton did bupkus against jihadoterrorism, and tragedy struck on Bush's watch. And now, Bush is cleaning up the mess.

Clinton did bupkus as unscrupulous CEO's egged on an "irrationally exuberant" market, leading to "bubbles" - "BUBBA'S BUBBLES", I call them. And again, Bush has to clean up the mess.

BOTTOM-LINE: Clinton was the second worst president in the last century - only Carter - (on whose watch the USSR invaded Afghanistan, and Khomeini took over Iran, and Saddam took over Iraq) - was worse. (And don't forget the MISERY INDEX under Carter!)

MRS. JOHN FRANCOIS KERRY-HEINZ FIRING THOUSANDS OF WORKERS

REUTERS:

Heinz said it expects to cut 2,700 jobs and exit 15 plants in 2007 to cut costs. Another five plants could be closed in 2008, it said.

The company's board of directors also approved $1 billion for share repurchases over the next two years.

Closing 20 (TWENTY!) plants in the next 2 (TWO) years while BUYING BACK THEIR OWN STOCK TO BOOST ITS PRICE.

Are these actions in keeping with Democrat Party values and policies, or... are Mr. and Mrs. Heinz-Kerry 2 (two) of the most hypocritical slimeballs on the entire Left!?

Remember, they have plenty of competition:

Gore uses private jets; Teddy Jo is a murderer; Barack Obama doesn't know the meaning of the words LOYALTY or HONOR; John Edwards made all his money LYING to juries and taking 35% of the net OUT OF THE MOUTHS of the supposed victims he was defending; and so on. They decry high gas prices and yet vote against drilling in ANWR (or pff the coast of the USA!), AND they even oppose a wind-farm off the coast of Nantucket.

What a collection of liars, hypocrites, phonies, dupes, and appeasers. The only things that keep them in power is their demagoguery and fear-mongering. And a Left-wing dominated MSM.

MORE NEWS OF INCREASED REPRESSION FROM REACTIONARY SYRIA

UPI/World Peace Herald:

A human rights activist speaking to United Press International on condition of anonymity stressed that "under present conditions," the opposition's activities are viewed as provocative to the Syrian authorities.

"There is no doubt that the opposition has moved from a tight domain limited to individual parties to a larger context that grouped all types of political parties from extreme right to extreme left, and this has alarmed and angered the authorities," the activist said. The activist was referring to the Damascus Declaration, signed by Syrian political activists representing all aspects of the opposition, including the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood Organization whose members face the death penalty under law 49.

The declaration called for ending the emergency law; ensuring public freedoms and the liberty of expression; introducing reforms allowing the creation of a multi-party system; combating corruption; and conducting a dialogue for initiating change.

People who believe in Universal Human Rights - as defined by Eleanor Roosevelt's UN Declaration of same - should be in an uproar over the situation in Syria. Especially because of this - from Khaleej Times:

A hunger strike by Syrian lawyer and rights activist Anwar Bunni, arrested in a crackdown on opposition figures seeking better ties with Lebanon, entered its third week on Thursday, his wife said. Bunni has been on “only water and some tea. He has lost several kilos (pounds) but his morale is good”, said Raghida Bunni after visiting her husband in Adra prison, near Damascus. She said he was continuing his hunger strike “in protest at being held in jail and the manner in which he was arrested” on May 18.

Assad's murderous regime is every bit as bad as Hamas and Ahmadinejad. And Assad is getting worse as his hold on power is evermore threatened. Stay tuned...

ADDENDUM: When the jihadomaniacs go on a hunger strike in GITMO the Left - and the MSM they dominate - are all over the story. But when a freedom-fighter like Anwar Bunni goes on a hunger strike, the Red Cross, and the ACLU and The Nation and the MSM are SILENT.

That's because the Left are really not "anti-war"; they're on the other side.

MORE SIGNS ASSAD REALIZES HE'S CORNERED

CHICAGO TRIB:

The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has found religion.

Green and yellow banners fluttered at every turn in this capital's ancient stone bazaar a month after they marked the Prophet Muhammad's birthday April 10. For the first time in years, Muslims were allowed to openly observe that day. Other government bans on religious life also have diminished in recent weeks: Mosques are open between prayers. Religious weddings, once deemed to be risky public assembly, no longer need state security clearance.

Mosques are urging women to join study groups that champion their role in Islam. The state military academy has invited religious authorities to speak for the first time in decades.

In the street, Syrians of every faith are adjusting to a strange political spring. The oft-brutal regime, while cracking down anew on secular reform advocates, is courting favor with Islamists to keep at bay some publicly defined devils: dissidents and the Bush administration.

... In February, state security in Damascus allowed mobs to torch the Danish Embassy to protest the portrayal of the prophet in cartoons in Danish media. ... Assad gained political points in Syria for allowing Muslims to vent, even excessively, over the prophet insult. Analysts said the regime was also sending a message to the West. "They want the international community to be afraid," said Anwar al-Bunni, a human-rights attorney. "Syrian Islamists are not radical, but they want to make them out to be a threat." (Al-Bunni made his remarks in an interview with the Chicago Tribune in April. Last week, he and five other secular human-rights activists were arrested by Syrian police.)

"The Islamist card is a very useful card for them," said Ibrahim Hamidi, a correspondent for Al Hayat newspaper.

Assad - the murderous tyrant of Syria - is an Alawite and a Baathist/socialist. His only major ally is the tyranny of Iran, with whom he has signed a mutual defense pact. The move towards from somewhat secularized Baathism to overt islamofascism is another DEFENSIVE move by the evermore beleaguered Leftist tyrant. The more pressure we put on him, the more reactionary he will get: more arrests and crackdowns, and more jihado-jingoism will certainly be evident as we get closer to the UNSC's Brammertz Report on the Hariri murder - which is suppposed to be published on June 15. Assad's days are numbered.