Lickety-Split Links (021210, Morning)
Happy 201st, Abe.
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William McGurn, in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal:
This weekend, Americans were treated to something new: Barack Obama defending his war policies by suggesting they merely continue his predecessor’s practices. The defense is illuminating, not least for its implicit recognition that George W. Bush has more credibility on fighting terrorists than does the sitting president.
15 months after his election, the guy’s still obsessed with his predecessor.
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Pamela Geller vs. three libs is an unfair fight — in Pamela’s favor.
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From the AP yesterday:
The University of East Anglia says it will conduct a new review of the science published by its scandal-hit Climate Research Unit.
The university says the presitigious Royal Society science academy will help find independent scientists to run the new inquiry.
The problem will be finding any scientific data that hasn’t been manipulated and/or corrupted.
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Robert Gibbs thinks he’s funny. Actually, he’s a jerk, and so unfunny that even apparatchik White House reporters aren’t laughing so much at his “jokes” any more.
All Gibbs and so many others at the White House are doing is feeding what Bill Whittle described here at PJM on Wednesday:
By calling us Tea Baggers, and racists, and Nazis, and rubes, and hicks… by pretending we’re just a fringe group of dangerous radicals, or saying — as the President did, twice, and apparently with a straight face — that he was unaware that tens or hundreds of thousands of hard-working American patriots were clogging the streets of the city he lives in — well all of these geniuses poured can after can of lighter fluid on to what might have been some old, wet charcoal — nearly impossible to light — and turned it into a wildfire that will likely remake the landscape of this country. That’s why there’s a Tea Party.
Thanks, Bob.
