The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, April 12, 2007
VDH: It's the Oil Stupid
Victor Davis Hanson states the obvious; but (as an aside) unfortunately in today's loopy culture the obvious usually needs to be stated. This is why Republicans are so woeful in the communications wars lately--they assume people know what they don't know. In America people are so distracted and self-important they barely have time to comprehed the nonsense that is fed to them by the Left-nutroots Media. If we want our electorate to know the truth, they need it to be spoon fed to them: day after day after day. It sucks, but there it is....
Labels: Iran, Iraq, Media War, Middle East, Victor Davis Hanson
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
VDH: How Dems War Stance may return to Haunt them someday
Victor Davis Hanson unloads on the Democrat Coward Caucus.
Labels: Democrat Sabotage, Iraq, Victor Davis Hanson, War strategy
Thursday, February 22, 2007
George Will rips Spineless Dems
According to George Will--who lays into the Democrats for their mindless and unrelenting attacks on the President, their characterization of the North Korea deal, and their approach to "supporting" the troops while working behind the scenes to sabotage them--there is a pretty simple solution for the President should the House Dems try to adopt conditional funding which attempts to restrict the President in his conduct of the war:
Suppose Democrats write their restrictions on the use of forces into legislation that funds the war. And suppose the president signs the legislation but ignores the restrictions, calling them unconstitutional usurpations of his powers as commander in chief. What could Democrats do? Cross First Street NE and ask the Supreme Court to compel the president to acquiesce in congressional micromanagement of a war? The court probably would refuse to get involved on the grounds that this is a "political question."UPDATE: Meanwhile Victor Davis Hanson has some choice words for the numerical majority of Dems in the Senate who voted FOR the war.
The court has held that some constitutional controversies should be settled by the government's political -- meaning elected -- branches. In 1962, the court said that a case involves a political question when there is:
" . . . textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion; or the impossibility of a court's undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government; or an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made; or the potentiality of embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question."
In that welter of criteria there are reasons that the court will not rescue congressional Democrats from facing the logic of their posturing. They lack the will to exercise their clearly constitutional power to defund the war. And they lack the power to achieve that end by usurping the commander in chief's powers to conduct a war.
Labels: Democrat Sabotage, Iraq, President Bush, US Politics, Victor Davis Hanson
Sunday, February 18, 2007
al-Newsweek adopts the AP's Journalistic Standards UPDATED
Victor Davis Hanson points to a very disturbing "article" in Newsweek that actually appears to be about 3/4 Fiction. This is not only troubling, it points to a greater pattern within "mainstream" news sources of adopting and presenting a highly partisan negative bias to anything an elected Republican Administration attempts to accomplish, no matter what the facts on the ground are.
Of course some would say that this has been going on for years. They have a small point, with one very large difference--which is: in the past the media actually used facts to back up its bias.
Today not only is the bias much more virulent, acidic, hard-left, and noticible, but there seems to be no need or even desire for many of these "news" outlets to get their stories right; it is rather the ideological conclusion that is important instead of the real world. We seem to truly have arrived at a version of the future as lampooned in Orwell's Animal Farm--only Orwell was talking about Stalinism.
When conclusions are based on conjured events which are pure fantasy, the media has entered an Alice in Wonderland existence; to quote Grace Slick "when logic and proportion have fallen softly dead...", it is time for the citizens of the world to look elsewhere for their facts.
UPDATE: Michael Novak:
Of course some would say that this has been going on for years. They have a small point, with one very large difference--which is: in the past the media actually used facts to back up its bias.
Today not only is the bias much more virulent, acidic, hard-left, and noticible, but there seems to be no need or even desire for many of these "news" outlets to get their stories right; it is rather the ideological conclusion that is important instead of the real world. We seem to truly have arrived at a version of the future as lampooned in Orwell's Animal Farm--only Orwell was talking about Stalinism.
When conclusions are based on conjured events which are pure fantasy, the media has entered an Alice in Wonderland existence; to quote Grace Slick "when logic and proportion have fallen softly dead...", it is time for the citizens of the world to look elsewhere for their facts.
UPDATE: Michael Novak:
In America, our editors still seem to work to increase the power of the anti-democratic forces by being cooperators in their propaganda war, whose aim is to make cowards of all Americans.
Labels: Media Bias, Media War, The Left, Victor Davis Hanson
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Animal Farm 2007
Victor Davis Hanson describes just how bad it has gotten. And the answer is: bad.
Labels: History, Iran, Iraq, US Politics, Victor Davis Hanson, War strategy, War Successes
Sunday, February 04, 2007
VDH: "Democrats Prepare for Anything and Advocate Nothing"
More of the usual from the Party of Surrender. As Victor Davis Hanson makes quite clear, it is all on the shoulders of our troops now.
Labels: Democrat Sabotage, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Fascism, Middle East, US Politics, Victor Davis Hanson
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Must Read of the Day: VDH on the Surge
This is soooo spot-on it is scary....
Labels: Appeasement, Democrat Sabotage, Iran, Iraq, Victor Davis Hanson, War strategy
Sunday, January 21, 2007
VDH and the Consequences of Leaving Iraq
Every Democrat in sight shoud read If We Fail, another Victor Davis Hanson masterpiece. They won't of course--which is terrible for us, but even worse for them.
Labels: Iraq, Middle East, US Politics, Victor Davis Hanson, War strategy
