Enough! Impeach Obama Now

Last night Barack Obama sat behind the glassy surface of the Resolute desk in the Oval Office and addressed the American people. The desk was immaculately clean, as it should be; it hasn’t seen much use of late.

For 30 days the President treated the Deepwater Horizon blowout like his destitute illegal alien aunt in Boston, while millions of gallons of sweet crude inched its way toward the beaches, marshes and wetlands of the Southern Coast.

After 10 minutes of Nobel laureate name-dropping Mr. Obama launched into another 10 minutes of displacing blame, castigating the Bush administration’s “decade of corruption” at the MMS, and promising the country that he would force BP to make full restitution, something he arguably has no authority to do.

If we weren’t absolutely certain before, we now know for sure that BP is evil.

Except none of that matters at the moment.

The gusher in the Gulf will not be plugged anytime soon. There are several submarine blowouts worldwide presently—even another one in the Gulf of Mexico—that have not been completely staunched, and the Deepwater Horizon flow is here to stay for some time.

What the American people wanted to hear last night was just how the President intends to reclaim and preserve the aforementioned beaches, marshes and wetlands while the spill continues.

New technologies exist but we did not hear about them in the President’s speech. The Dutch, Norwegians and 11 other countries want to help but we did not hear about them. Apparently even Malia and Sasha don’t have any new ideas.

Instead, last night the President proposed to spend the billions of dollars that should be going to the implementation of a massive cleanup effort to his fantasy green energy initiatives.

So what has Mr. Obama done? He has enacted a moratorium on drilling, which will cost thousands of jobs. And those losses may be virtually permanent, because oil platforms are not stationary; they are, in effect, ocean-going vessels that oil companies will redeploy elsewhere in the world.

President Obama’s on-the-job performance has reached an impeachable level. Malfeasance of duty is an impeachable offense and this president should go now.

Let’s look at some facts:

1) Arizona is in full-scale revolt over his inaction on illegal migration and drug trafficking on the border. Failure to secure the borders is an impeachable offence. And he has inflamed racial polarity.

2) The country is teetering on the verge of losing its triple-A credit rating. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been booted off the New York Stock Exchange.

3) Jobs are not rebounding and his $1 trillion stimulus has only worsened that situation. He wants more money.

4) He has all but demolished U.S. relations with our two most loyal allies: Great Britain and Israel. He hasn’t met a Muslim potentate he doesn’t love.

5) He has done nothing—zip, nada—about Iran’s race toward a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East.

6) When he should be mobilizing an armada of ships and resources in the Gulf, his EPA is failing to give the go ahead on chemicals and devises that can stave off, if not clean up the mess.

7) He has lied to the American people about the state of our natural resources; there is an abundance of shallow petroleum in the U.S. to satisfy our needs for a hundred years and beyond.

This President has mismanaged virtually everything he has touched since the day he took the oath of office and it is time for a change.

We are not faced with a political decision any longer. Virtually any president would be better than this president.

Of Miranda and Bombs and Those Silly Military Tribunals

Remember how we used to say, “a liberal is only a conservative who hasn’t been mugged yet”? That was before Dan Rather went and got himself mugged and proved us wrong.

This week Attorney General (using the term loosely) Eric Holder jumped on board Charles Krauthammer’s Miranda Public Safety Exception train just as it was chugging out of the station.

From time to time I pay homage to Krauthammer here for his stunningly timely fix on current events and his equally level-headed prescriptions for repairing broken government, but this time the good Doctor is wrong.

Miranda should not be amended; it should be trashed, thrown in the incinerator and burned, not only for terrorists, but for anyone stupid enough to put on a ski mask and stick up a convenience store. OH! Excuse me! I don’t have to admit I stuck up the convenience store?

We have a constitution; let them read it.

Which brings me to the Supreme Court and the four – soon-to-be five – learned duffers and hags that make up the New York Times wing of that august body.

What would we ever do without them?

The better question would be how did we do without them for 150 years before they suddenly became indispensible in rendering ridiculous leftwing opinions.

Was SCOTUS on vacation in 1865 when the government tried five of John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators by military tribunal and then executed them for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? Where were they when FDR tried, fried and imprisoned eight Nazi saboteurs (including two Americans) for attempting to bomb a munitions plants during World War II?

Here’s an idea: Let’s provide Taliban Miranda warning cards in Farsi to Marines in Kandahar Province so terrorists will know they can call Alan Dershowitz anytime they wish to stop talking.

Doctor Krauthammer rightly points out that Miranda is outdated in a 21st century America fighting ideological zealots who believe blowing themselves to bits along with a couple hundred U.S. citizens gets them a pass to lustful bliss. But he fails to see the wacky mindset that created the law in the first place.

Ernesto Arturo Miranda was a repeat kidnapper and rapist who had been in prison on multiple occasions and knew his constitutional right to remain silent better than the cops, when they arrested him in 1963, for (you guessed it) kidnapping and rape.

Now think about that for a minute. Way back in Misdemeanor school, long before one learns to kidnap and rape young women, a future felon learns that admitting a crime is probably the wrong way to stay out of jail. Yet Earl Warren and Thurgood Marshall and three other justices saw the need to reassert that right to the worst in our society.

When two fellow upstanding citizens murdered Ernesto Miranda in 1976, the Arizona police read one of them his Miranda warning. The other guy – already wishing to remain silent – fled to Mexico.

Flying airplanes into buildings and planting bombs in Times Square by guys who think burqas make a sexy fashion statement are acts of war. When we catch them in the act of attempting to do these things, we should put them in a military stockade, interrogate them until water is dripping from every pore in their body, convene a snap tribunal, and hustle them off to a firing squad.

Then advise them of their right to remain silent.

Authorities Backtrack on Qatari Shoe Bomber Story

UPDATE 2.08pm: A QATARI diplomat has caused a mid-air panic after reportedly putting a cigarette out on his sandals during a US flight.

ABC News earlier this hour reported that a Qatari diplomat attempted to ignite a shoe bomb on a United Airlines flight with 157 passengers aboard.

Authorities have identified the passenger as Mohammed al-Modadi, who has full diplomatic immunity as the third secretary and vice-consul of the Qatari embassy in Washington, according to the network.

In a story filed moments ago the network reported:

Authorities say the diplomat was wrestled to the ground and two F-16 fighter jets were dispatched to accompany the 757 on the final 40 minutes of its flight to Denver. Flight 663 originated from Washington Reagan airport.

A US security official said, “It may have been a massive misunderstanding” and the diplomat’s statement may have been a “sarcastic” comment when he was confronted by two air marshals who had been told by flight attendants that smoke was coming from the lavatory.

Massive, I guess!

Fox News Picks Up:

The suspect may have tried to light his shoes or something else in an attempt to cover up another smell, the source told Fox News, and other reports suggest the man might have been putting out a cigarette. However, authorities have come to no final conclusion yet and continue to investigate.

The Associated Press cited unnamed sources saying the FBI is investigating the incident. The Transportation Safety Administration confirmed it was “monitoring” the incident, saying initial reports described a passenger “possibly causing a disturbance.”

Smoking Break?

The San Francisco Chronicle is now reporting:

A Qatari diplomat trying to sneak a smoke in an airplane bathroom sparked a bomb scare Wednesday night on a flight from Washington to Denver, with fighter jets scrambled and law enforcement put on high alert, officials said.

DOESN’T THIS GUY KNOW CIGARETTES ARE HAZARDOUS TO HIS HEALTH?!

Barack Obama wants everyone who jumped to conclusions, rushed to judgment, made a hasty assumption, or otherwise had a bad thought about Arabs, Persians, Muslims or others who smell strongly of curry and smoke in airplane lavatories, to be ashamed of themselves.