Hillary’s War
Hillary’s in denial. Again.
Hillary’s War
This week she claimed we didn’t lose a single person in Libya due to her lead-from-behind intervention to take out Gadafi.
“We came, we saw, he died,” she enthused.
Pat Smith channeled her inner Madeine Albright saying, “there’s a special place in hell for Hillary.” She is the mother of Sean Smith one of the four Americans killed in Benghazi, Libya September 11, 2012.
She also insists she didn’t blame the Benghazi attack on an awful internet video we had nothing to do with. Come to think of it Obama did the same thing during his re-election campaign. Guess it works.
Republican Establishment Changes Horses
And Rubio’s dad was a bartender. Look where he ended up. Stomped.
Ed Rollins points out that Rubio “dropped like a rock” since he we was the establishment rock star four weeks ago. He says it’s between Trump and Cruz now.
Here’s Ann Coulter:
One would have to search the history books to find a party establishment so emphatically rejected by the voters as today’s Republican Party has been.
Between them, Trump and Cruz have won 77 percent of the delegates (1,067). The donor-approved, mass immigration advocates, John Kasich and the (late, lamented) Marco Rubio, have 23 percent.
Kasich does have one thing the remaining Freshman Senator and the Billionaire Blowhard don’t have – a resume. He’s a successful two term Governor of a traditional swing state and a tax cutting, budget balancing former chairman of the House Budget committee.
Trump credits Ohio’s surplus to fracking, not Kasich. And The WSJ’s Daniel Henninger say’s the 1997 federal balanced budget deal collapsed when the dot com bubble burst. Still, on this St. Paddy’s day, Henninger holds out a wee dram of hope for Kassich:
After many productive, honorable years in politics, John Kasich has made it to the national semifinals. But the GOP’s Last Governor is going to have to find another gear to win this.
Partisan Divide
President Obama said last week that he didn’t contribute to the partisan divide in the country. Here are some other things he has said:
• We’re going to punish our enemies and reward our friends.
• If they bring a knife to a fight, we bring a gun.
• If somebody wants to build a coal fired plant they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them.
• If you’ve got a business you didn’t build that, somebody else made that happen.
Holman Jenkins in the WSJ says, “he’s out of his mind.”
Republican Partisan Divide
If the president didn’t divide the country, somebody else must have made that happen. Donald Trump’s rhetoric about punishing his enemies has taken blame from the media and other Republicans.
But left wing mobs made up of the likes of MoveOn.Org and Black Live Matter took credit for shutting down free speech in Chicago Friday night.
Just like on campus.
Trump wants to “open up” libel law to make it easier for him to sue the media.
Rich Lowry says that even George Wallace would have to admire the way Trump parlayed the thuggery into “wall to wall media coverage.”
Moderate Missiles From Iran
Joe Biden had an interesting two day visit to Israel. A Palestinian terrorist stabbed and killed an American student near a beach where Mrs. Biden was dining. Meanwhile Iran tested fired two ballistic missiles.
The missiles have a range of over 1000 miles. At its nearest point, Israel is 600 miles away. The missiles were hand inscribed in Hebrew with the words “Israel must be wiped out.”
Moderate Missiles
In December Iran fired rockets near the U.S. aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman in the Strait of Hormuz. In January Iran detained U.S. sailors and humiliated them on national television.
Vox gave the the Obama nuke deal a shout-out for bringing moderates to power in Iran.
Just Say No
Here’s a good example of a cartoon gone bad.
On Monday the NYT ran a story about the heroin epidemic spreading across the cities of America.
The Times editors chose to place that story on the front page, right next to Nancy Reagan’s obituary. That would be Nancy “Just Say No to Drugs” Reagan.
Considering that prescription drug abuse is soaring and pot is sold openly in Colorado and other states, it’s pretty clear that, 30 years after Nancy’s “Just Say No” campaign, quite a few Americans are saying “yes” to drugs.
Being a sucker for irony, I drew a cartoon and rushed it off to the syndicate. Only then did I stop to look at what I had drawn. I was perplexed by my own cartoon. It was true, but it was crass. Mrs. Reagan was devoted to President Reagan and the White House. I wasn’t thinking about dumping on her the day after her death but that’s the message my image conveyed.
Fortunately, I had failed to stick Muhammad in the picture so I would live to draw another day. 
I asked the syndicate to withdraw the drug cartoon and dashed off the one above.
I guess this story is an example of the peculiar power of a picture.
Anyway, should you come across this cartoon, just say no.
