Hypocrisy from the left (again)

If this were fiction, nobody would believe it: a politician with very little experience gets elected President by lambasting the policies of the incumbent, and then adopts all of those policies. Close Gitmo! Pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan! Um, never mind. Instead, let’s keep Gitmo open and attack another country!

The decision to attack Libya might turn out to be the right call, it certainly saved the rebels from being wiped out, although it does appear oil considerations came into play, according to Ed Markey. My issue is with the hypocrisy of the left, to spend huge amounts of effort criticizing decisions made by President Bush, and then turning around and saying “actually, we are going to do what he did”.

And it is not just one man, Obama, who is being hypocritical. Where are the war protesters? Where is the unending drum-beat of anti-war commentary from the main stream media? President Bush got Congressional approval for Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama just made the decision and started bombing. And what of the Europeans? So adamant for the US to not interfere with an Iraqi dictator, so quick to encourage the US to interfere with a Libyan dictator, on whose oil they depend, now leading the US around by the nose. If this were a movie, nobody would believe the underlying premise that US voters would elect such a clown for their President. But they did.

President Carter’s second term indeed.

Like a Deval in the headlights

This politician is from Chicago, has no experience in the private sector, and is completely over his head in his executive job. No, we are not talking about Barack Obama, we are talking about our own Governor, Deval Patrick. Last week, while our Governor was on a 10-day junket traveling Europe, Fidelity Investments announced it was moving 1,100 of its employees to other states. From its Marlboro facility, employees will be moved to Rhode Island and New Hampshire.

The most idiotic whine from Mr. Patrick: “they did not even let us compete for those jobs!” Spoken like a true leftist-without-a-clue. Massachusetts is competing with other states for all jobs, every day. And competing poorly. The costs of healthcare, the costs of insurance, the costs of government, the cost of power, are all working against Massachusetts in its effort to attract corporations that will hire our people.

This state starts with a serious disadvantage simply due to the weather – to attract and keep the best and the brightest, it should be working harder than every other state to create a business-friendly environment. But our Governor apparently does not even realize there is a competition going on. So our best jobs and our brightest people continue to move elsewhere. I’m not sure what is more depressing – that Deval Patrick is our Governor, or that he was re-elected.