Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter; still clueless after all these years
Curt at Flopping Aces has a video of perennial dipshit Jimmy Carter on the Today Show this morning. Just when you think the branch this fruit is hanging from can’t droop any lower, down he goes; I draw your attention to this exchange; VIEIRA: Do you believe that Hamas can be trusted? CARTER: Yes, I […]
My experiences at Inauguration parades [Jonn]
I got the idea for this post from one at Ace of Spades wherein Ace reminds us that President Bush’s limo was pelted with eggs at his first Inauguration. In 2001, my first ever Inauguration parade, my wife and I had flown in the night before from my son’s basic training graduation in San Antonio […]
Iran and Jimmy Carter open up second front against Israel [Jonn]
The first thing I read this morning while perusing last night’s news on the Moronosphere BlogNetNews was a post at The Jawa Report about rockets striking Israel from Lebanon. The Washington Times confirms the attack from Lebanon; Lebanese militants fired barrages of rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, striking a nursing home and threatening to […]
ZBiggy; Long-distance analysis
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, ZBiggy to those of us who suffered through his tenure as Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, has decided that an injection of additional troops into Afghanistan puts the United States in danger of being like the Soviets in the 80s in a HuffPo interview. Keep in mind, Biggy has never set foot […]
Bush is no Jimmy Carter
Politico writes that an AP reporter asked the President if he’d instruct Americans to drive less and conserve gasoline ala Jimmy Carter. The President responded that he would certainly not; “They’re smart enough to figure out whether they’re going to drive less or not. I mean, you know, it’s interesting what the price of gasoline […]
The new “malaise” speech
In 1977, Jimmy Carter told us to get out of our energy problems, we needed to put on a cardigan and turn our heat in our houses down to 68 degrees. When that didn’t solve our problems, I remember he gave a speech in July 1979 (later to be dubbed the “Malaise Speech” by the […]
Cohen: Reagan’s problem was his success
The Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen tells us this morning that Ronald Reagan is to blame for our gas prices today. In a completely intellectually void piece, Cohen claims that all Reagan had was a smile; Those of you with keen memories may recall that the energy crisis is not new. In 1977, Jimmy Carter […]
Iran threatens oil in the Straits of Hormuz
Yesterday, Iran threatened to disrupt Persian Gulf oil shipments through the narrow Straits of Hormuz in the event that the West attacked the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapons development according to the AFP; The chief of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards warned that Iran would use its control of the Strait of Hormuz in response to an […]
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