Did You Feel John Murtha's Hand Reaching Into Your Pocket?

Tyler Grimm: John Murtha’s Airport and Other Wasteful Earmarks - WSJ.com: "In 20 years, Mr. Murtha has successfully doled out more than $150 million of federal payments to what is now being called the airport for no one...

There are a total of 18 flights per week, all of which go to Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C...

The airport has an $8.5 million, taxpayer-funded radar system that has never been used. The runway was paved with reinforced concrete at a cost of more than $17 million. The latest investment was $800,000 from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to repave half of the secondary runway. (Never mind that the first one is hardly ever in use.)"

Whether you felt it or not, John Murtha reached into your wallet and removed $1 from you and every taxpaying American for his empty airport in Johnstown. Now, if John Murtha's airport were the only pork barrel project in DC I'd say, "so what?" But this is just one of many of Murtha's projects, and he is but one of the herds of swine that feed at the federal trough. I don't know about you, but this makes my blood boil. Thank goodness Barack Obama is putting an end to all this.

Petulant Child

Transcript: President Obama's Montana Health Care Town Hall Meeting - Kaiser Health News: "When the previous administration passed the prescription drug bill, that was something that a lot of seniors needed, right? They needed prescription drug help. The price tag on that was hundreds of billions of dollars. You know how we paid for it? We didn't. It just got added on to the deficit and the debt."

This response blew me away. It ranks right up there with the comment about how we shouldn't be afraid of a public option since we all know how inefficient the Postal Service is. In this one, the President is bringing up a fact that certainly argues against his health care expansion plans - we have yet to pay to pay for the last big government expansion in health care - yet he brought it up any way. WHY? He's like a petulant child who's being prohibited from doing something his older sibling got away with - "Georgie got to expand health care without paying for it, so I should be able to also, IT'S NOT FAIR!!!"

Axelrod better get the President back on teleprompter.

Tone Deaf

Dorothy Rabinowitz: Obama’s Tone-Deaf Health Campaign - WSJ.com: "The president has a problem. For, despite a great election victory, Mr. Obama, it becomes ever clearer, knows little about Americans. He knows the crowds—he is at home with those. He is a stranger to the country’s heart and character.

He seems unable to grasp what runs counter to its nature. That Americans don’t take well, for instance, to bullying, especially of the moralizing kind, implicit in those speeches on health care for everybody. Neither do they wish to be taken where they don’t know they want to go and being told it’s good for them."

Another Profile In Courage

Transcript: "So they can’t hold town hall meetings now. They’re having to hold them in safe facilities. I think one of these guys is holding his town hall meeting in a children’s hospital. In effect, the children are acting as human shields to prevent the citizens expressing their anger toward him."

Obama Trades Away Our Nuclear Security in Exchange for the Sleeves Off of Putin's Vest

Charles Krauthammer - Obama's Nuclear Arms Deal With Russia Is Plumage -- But at a Price - washingtonpost.com: "Unfortunately for the United States, the country Obama represents, the prospective treaty is useless at best, detrimental at worst.

Useless because the level of offensive nuclear weaponry, the subject of the U.S.-Russia 'Joint Understanding,' is an irrelevance. We could today terminate all such negotiations, invite the Russians to build as many warheads as they want and profitably watch them spend themselves into penury, as did their Soviet predecessors, stockpiling weapons that do nothing more than, as Churchill put it, make the rubble bounce."

Read the column. The Russians are going to have to make the reductions called for in Obama's grand START accord, whether we agree to anything or not. They can't afford to maintain current levels. Any concessions from the US come at zero cost to the Russians. They do come at the cost making our nuclear deterrent less reliable.