My main point is the RNC going with Karl “problem, what problem?” Rove’s data system.  I was not surprised that Karl Rove’s group won the contract to create a data system/infrastructure for future campaigns.  I am horrified!  What work on leading-edge, or technological leaps of IT wizardry has Karl done in the last 20 years?  As I understand it he made is bones creating mailing lists in the 70′s using Fortran and data-entry cards!  In his time the a hard drive was three-feet in diameter!  The 70′s was 40 years ago!  In IT time, that is right around the time of the dinosaurs.

This also tell’s me the the committee that choose Karl Rove’s company over the competitor (and to no ones surprise we never really heard who the competition was) are incompetent, they have learned NOTHING from the past.  Not even remotely.  They don’t understand the competition they are up against.  It’s like, as much as it pains me, the 2012 Championship playoff game between the Green Bay Packers vs. San Francisco. The 49′ers owned Green Bay.  There was nothing we could do, much like Romney’s Orca. And speaking of San Francisco, there are a lot of really huge, successful IT conglomerates in San Francisco.  Maybe you heard of them, Facebook, Google, Apple to name just a few.  And then there is Seattle with Microsoft, and Amazon.  In the last election, most if not all of those companies plus many more , like Oracle, allowed some of their brightest tech Yoda’s to go on sabbatical to help out his Highness BHO.  And while I don’t know this for a fact, I bet the whole of the BHO/DNC’s tech brain trust cost the DNC NOTHING, and was paid for by their perspective employers.  They took political data operation to the bleeding edge and kicked Romney’s pathetic “Orca.”  Orca, a program, that was created by part-time staffers, and paid consultants that did NOTHING but collect a check.  Any first year computer engineering student knows that you have least have to do one life test of the system.  And as you recall that was never done until election day.  And we all know how well that turned out.

So for those of you keeping score: The best tech brains in the fricking world working for BHO/DNC for NOTHING: 50 points.  Karl Rove, a fossil, with his inbreed tech connections that the RNC will have to PAY for: -20 points.  Karl Rove, stepping on the scale while the data is being weighed, so that his chosen candidate magiclly “wins,” like the last one did.  I forgot his name, Romy, something like that: -10 points.  So DNC 50 points, RNC -30 points.

Which begs the question. Who else competed for the contract?  I heard that a tea-party based company did, but for the life of me, I cannot find who that was.  Maybe it was a division of Freedom works?

Anyhow, I am not surprised Karl Rove won the contract. It was  a given.  I think he could have shown the selection committee a cement truck and called it the best voting system ever, and the committee would have bought it.  I fear they did.

If other employers use this tactic to mitigate the nightmare of Obamacare, there are going to be a great deal of employees having to calculate and pay their taxes as opposed to the automatic deduction currently taken from their paychecks (which is, other than Social Security, the greatest scam ever).   All those people that are now independent contractors will know just how much taxes they are paying the government on a very visceral level.  And with Obama, ever the spender, they will no longer be the low information voter, especially if all those extra IRS agents hired for Obamacare come knocking because they are late with, or miscalculated a tax payment.  We all know how reasonable the IRS is.

In a way this would be a good thing.  For once, people would realize just how much of our money the government is taking.  And what they are getting in return for their taxes, and I’m not going there…..

P.S: Moe Lane, love your posts, you rock sir!

“Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes.  The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $51 billion.”

The CDC breaks it down like only the CDC can:

• In 2010, 10,228 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.
• Of the 1,210 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2010, 211 (17%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.
• Of the 211 child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2010, over half (131) were riding in the vehicle with the alcohol-impaired driver.
• In 2010, over 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics.3 That’s one percent of the 112 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year.

The facts speak for themselves.  Time to ban alcohol!

What’s that?  We tried it before?  I wasn’t there, how did it work out?  Not so well?  Really?  I would think it would be a no-brainer, slam-dunk!  What’s that, organized crime?  Chicago?  Do tell…

What happened in a Connecticut grade school today is a nightmare.  And I am by no way trying to make light of it.  But the left is going to attack like never before for gun control.  The opening salvo was President Obama personalizing that, “These children were our children.”  Much like the Trayvon Martin case in Miami where President Obama said that, “Trayvon looked like my son.”  Never mind the fact that President Obama doesn’t have a son, (at least not that we know of).  But whenever this president is about to attack, he personalizes it first.  And now, he is trying to get the whole United States to start personalizing this tragedy.

Those of us that believe in the 2nd Amendment will have to stand fast, and hold the line.  We will have to be strong like never before.  While this is a national tragedy, and our thoughts and prayers are with the families, gun control is not the answer.  Just as Prohibition was not the answer in the 1930′s.

Obama never lets a crisis go to waste.  The storm is coming, Obama has told us as much today.

What I would like to know, and I think it would be interesting for RS readers to peer into the future, and speculate about Obama’s next four years….so please share what you think the next four years will bring!

I believe that 1950′s was the high-point of the United States as a God fearing country.  Since then, as a country, we have deviated from God’s way. We have forsaken him in so many ways. I believe that God has finally turned his back to the United States as a county. What I do know about the bible, or at least think I know (please feel free to correct me if I am wrong), is two main points I want to address; 1. The United States in not referenced in the book of Revelations regarding the end-times, which mean this country will be of no significance in the end-times.  2. Any country that turns it’s back on Israel falters. It happened to the UK, it declined as it turned it’s back to Israel. One would be hard-pressed to say that Obama is a supporter of Israel. We may very well see the destruction of Israel in the next year or two. We are going the way of the UK.

And then there is Obama himself. Let me be perfectly clear before I go on, I am not saying, nor am I insinuating, nor implying that Obama is the “Anti-Christ.” Did I make that clear enough? Obama does not have the skills to be the anti-Christ (what troubles me is that Obama, with his paper-thin ego would be insulted if he knew I said that). If you believe in the Anti-Christ, he will have super-natural powers. That said, I am mystified that a relatively unknown individual such as Obama, could rise to the Presidency with such little experience.  He may be the instrument, used by God, to bring America to this point. Obama is the perfect storm, at a critical time, when America was tired and just wanted “Change.”  There is no way that Obama would have become President anytime in recent history, other than, actually, EXACTLY in 2008. If he ran in a time like the 1980′s he would have been quickly discarded as insignificant and ill-prepared to be President. He would have been mocked as the man that wants to be President, that doesn’t even have a real job. He would have been laughed off the national stage.

Which brings me to ORCA. For a time I worked in IT (I am now a nurse). I worked in software testing. And something does not make any sense to me, and admittedly I cannot wrap my mind around it. When you build a program, especially one that needs input from other programs you are always testing, testing, and then more testing. Then you validate the output data with the inputted test data. Once you  statistically confirm that the output data is valid, you try a small sample of real data or live data.  As you begin to grow in confidence, you increase the live sample size until you are at 100% of the sample. You also stress the system knowing full-well that IT WILL FAIL!  And it will FAIL MORE THAN ONCE! Stress-tests are never something one looks forward to, but they are invaluable to the success of the system. It appears from what we are hearing that none of the normal practices were followed. Not even the phone hotlines were tested! Then it comes out the the ORCA consultants were no more than software snake-oil salesmen! As hard as that is to believe, from the complete failure of ORCA, I can believe it.

It became clear to me that there was a cognitive disconnect of epic proportions from watching Romney and Ryan’s reaction on election night. It was clear to me that they were just as stunned as we were. These are two very smart, very capable men. It was clear from their reactions that their internal data was not matching the real-time data. Their predictions and models were not syncing. That something was very wrong. Titanic. Meets. Iceberg. Wrong.

How does a program that took years to create, and cost tens of millions of dollars, that was so vitally important to the the success of the most significant election in our lifetime, get so utterly mismanaged and overlooked? Failures of this magnitude just don’t happen. With a project like ORCA, with it’s size and scope, hundreds of thousands of event’s either had to happen, or be omitted in exactly the right sequence, at exactly the right time to completely fail. In these times of software creation it is almost statistically impossible to happen had they followed the most basic software testing protocols. Had they done just ONE stress-test on the system it would have been clear that ORCA was a complete disaster.

In my disbelief of this election, with such high stakes, what I come back to again and again is that this was God’s Will. The United States has turned it’s back on God, and now God has turned his back to the United States, and he is going to leave us to our own devices and demise. And I completely understand. That is where God’s Grace comes in and calms my heart, and my soul. I was so despondent, so broken hearted, I was falling into hopelessness. What I then realized is what matters most is my soul, and that through all this, God still Loves me and always will in all my sin and imperfection. We are only on this earth for a short time. This has been a stark reminder that my connection with God can always be improved.

Unlike Erick, I believe that this country has passed the tipping-point; that the elections of 2014, 2016 and beyond will not matter. At least not significantly. We have the same GOP leadership in Congress that Mitt Romney has in his ORCA software. It is clear that some of the darkest days this country has ever experienced lie ahead, as the decline of this country’s fortunes accelerate. But it does not mean that I have lost hope. I will fight for freedom, and the America that I love. But I will do it now with the Grace and Love of God.

1. Obama leading by decree or policy and the Congress not being able to do anything about it.

2. Obama completely embracing the UN mandates; Gun control, Internet control, World tax

3. Up to three very liberal supreme court justices; Say goodbye to current gun laws and a re-visit to Citizens United, Voter ID laws

4.  Say hello to Obamacare, it is here to stay.  And it will become a huge motivator for people to vote for Democrats in the next elections.

5. The MSM is now officially  an arm of the DNC.

6. Our military will be decimated, not by a foreign country, but by Obama.  We won’t have to wait long for China and Russia to start getting cocky.  They already have…

7. What Republicans we have in the house, will start to get even “squishier.”  And yes, we will still have John Boehner and Mitch McConnell.  Nothing says “Leadership” like those two clowns.

8.  Energy?  Hug a windmill.  Warmth?  Light an Obama approved candle.  Have to get somewhere, ride a bike.

So another way of saying it; “Welcome to the United States of Europe!”  ”You’ll love the vacation plan!  You get the whole month of August off, just like in the real Europe.”

This brings me to my next point.  How can this country prosper, grow, and excel if we, as a country, are so polarized?  If Obama has proven one thing, it is that he will play one 47% against the other 47% no matter the cost to this country or its future.  And getting back to 1980.  Reagan won in a landslide because the majority of the people didn’t like Carter’s policies, the way he handled the economy, or his foreign policy.  The majority of the country wanted to get back to work;they wanted to get off unemployment.  Has this country’s work-ethic devolved into  the majority of Americans wanting a government handout rather than work?  I’m not sure I really want to know the answer to that question.

If either case is true, then the USA has deep systemic issues that threaten the future of this great country.

Tonight, I got on my knees and prayed….first I asked that God not forsake us, then I prayed for the Constitution.  I prayed for our military.  I then prayed for my wife, my step kids, and that this great country, the way we once knew it, isn’t over.

If a Republican had been President the last four years, you would have ripped him or her apart like a pack of hungry wolves.  You would have been merciless.  No rock would be large enough to be unturned.  They would have had to increase the size of the White House pressroom to allow more press to attend.  They probably would have had to sound proof it too so the rancor during press conferences would not disturb the rest of Washington DC.  What would you have done if a Republican President and administration spent 850 billion on it’s closest friends and industries?  What would you have do if the unemployment never dropped below 8% for 40 straight months?  And what would you have done if the administration switched from reporting 6 month unemployment to only reporting 3 month unemployment?  What would you have done if a Republican President and administration had  so many unelected Czars?  What would you have done if such an administration allowed hundreds of guns to walk over the boarder to Mexico, without Mexico’s knowledge, only to kill thousands of innocent civilians and a U.S board guard?  Then, as if that was not bad enough, the United State’s Attorney General does everything he can to hide it, and the Republican President covers him with “Executive Privilege?”  I can go on and on; gas prices, inflation, QE (I, II, III),  Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, (Hell, ALL of the Middle East)….oh, and I almost forgot, those high paying “Green Energy Jobs!”  What would you have done?  I know what would have happened; you would have gone apoplectic.  Every night another liberal reporter would spontaneously combust, live on TV while reporting what they cannot believe is happening.

In all those cases, you would have been out for blood.  And rightly so.  You would have been doing the country a great service.  Every week would be an “All the President’s Men” moment.  Pulitzer would have have to create more awards to give out just to keep up with all the scandals and boondoggles.   What did we get, nothing.  Crickets.  Denial.

These last four years you have shown yourself for the leftists and socialists that you are.  We see you, and there is no more denying it, you crave European Socialism at the cost of our Freedoms and our Constitution.  You will not be able to hide, and we will not forget.  And when you go after President Mitt Romney with hard questions, we will ask you, where have you been the past four years?

Your credibility with the American People is gone.  Much like President Obama, your credibility is nothing but vapors.  More conservative bloggers will rise up to defend our Freedom, our Constitution.  They will show the truth to your lies.

In the last four years, we almost lost our country, and if we are not careful, we still may.  We now know where your loyalties lie, and they are not with US.  You aided-and-abetted the near destruction of our great country.  And you lost.

On November 7th this great country will rise again to greatness without you.

Joe was over-the-top.  In comedy, it is good to go-over-the-top, that’s where the gold is, were the big laugh is at.  Why?  Because the audience watching the bit would never dream of going there, but they are glad you did.   Last night’s debate was not a comedy sketch.  It was all too real.  The Vice-President of the United States only two options; to be the fool, the court jester, or the bully.  All in an effort nullify Ryan’s intellect and ideas.  I could not listen any longer, it was just too senseless…like a radio station at the edge of it’s coverage that is full of static.   I want to hear something, but there is just noise.  Frustrating.  There was nothing to learn from the debate.  But there was.

I’m sure each camp will spin last night’s debate as, “We won!”  I intrinsically know who won, it was Ryan.  But not for the reasons you would think.  Ryan won because he maintained is humility and his grace in the presence of a impish buffoon.  Biden proved once again that humility and grace are the two things sadly missing in the Obama/Biden administration.

Give Joe a cookie.  With milk.

“Minority leader: Odds long to undo health care law”

This is from the “Leader” of the GOP in the Senate.  It gets worse.

“…but U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the odds are against repealing the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.”

Can SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, please tell Senator Mitch McConnell to shut up already?  Unfortunately, not.

The Kentucky Republican said Monday it’s hard to unravel something of the magnitude of the 2,700-page health care law.

In any fight, you hide your vulnerabilities, weaknesses, not telegraph them to the enemy.  This man just told Obama, the democrats that he doesn’t have a lot of faith in his, or his party’s ability to repeal Obamacare.  Even more damning, his own party now knows what Mitch McConnell really thinks about repealing Obamacare.  How disheartening for them.  And what a great excuse when the GOP moderates tells President Mitt Romney and the country that the GOP controlled Senate could not repeal Obamacare.  Mitch McConnell has created an excuse for failure five months before the election.  Pathetic!

But alas, not all is lost!  In the seventh of the nine paragraph’s there is this gem.

  “McConnell still says he’ll do whatever he can to repeal the law.”

Sounds more like an afterthought to me.

I am infuriated and incensed.  As I said yesterday, this man is either past his prime, lost his game.  Or, it is that he is an establishment GOP Republican.  We have five months to work our butt’s off to get Mitt elected, and control of the Senate back to the GOP.  This is a fight for the Soul of America.  While we fight like hell, we have Senator Mitch McConnell telegraphing five months before the election that he does not think that Obamacare can be repealed.  How is that leadership?  Can someone, anyone, get him to shut up, and move away from cameras and microphones?  Does he not understand that this country is in the greatest fight since the civil war for what this country will fundamentally stand for?  That this is a fight for our FREEDOMS?  From what I have seen in the past 24 hours the answer is NO!

If we are lucky enough to win back the Senate, at the very least we need Mitch McConnell removed as Majority Leader.  He needs to go.  We need a real leader.  Winner’s never quit, losers quit before they start.  McConnell is a loser!

As is standard operating procedure for the Leader of the establishment Senate GOP, Priority Number 1 is to steal defeat from the jaws of victory.  Here is classic Mitch:

McConnell insisted repealing Obamacare would be the biggest improvement for the American health care system, but Wallace interrupted him to ask once again how, after “repeal and replace,” the GOP would expand coverage. McConnell said he’d “get to it in a minute” before going right back to bashing the Affordable Care Act.

When one is doing a Sunday talk show, you don’t have a minute, you have seconds!  Seconds to present a clear, concise, logical, competent response.  And you need to know your message cold.  One cannot come across as an incompetent dolt that is assuming that he is in Chris Wallace’s good graces.  Because even Chris Wallace will go into shark mode when he smells blood in the water.

But Senator McConnell is just starting to bleed….

He said that the Republicans would put forth “modest reforms” in place of the law and would not simply take a “meat ax” to it. But once again, Wallace piped in to get McConnell to directly answer his question.

“Modest Reforms?”  Really?  I’m not a Demi-God like Mitch, but even I wonder, “What the hell does modest reforms mean?”  For some liberals, Obamacare is “Modest Reform.”  And what the hell is a “meat axe?”  Is that an axe that is specific to Kentucky?

But wait, the hits just keep coming!  It’s not enough that Mitch has the friendliest host that he will find on a Sunday morning, but Mitch puts Chris Wallace in a position to further bust out the shark:

“I just want to ask what specifically are you going to do to provide universal coverage to the 30 million people who are uninsured?”

So Mitch, I guess that “Modest Reforms” didn’t quite cut it.  Too bad, Champ.  Sorry you didn’t see that one coming.  But I did!  A kid on a high-school debate team would see that coming.  But you will dazzle Chris Wallace with your next laser-like retort….

McConnell answered, “That is not the issue.” Wallace shot back with, “You don’t think 30 million people uninsured is an issue?”

“That is not the issue?”  Ouch!  Mitch, did that hurt when you pushed your face into Chris Wallace’s right fist?  “That is not the issue?”  Mitch, in one blithering inept, deft move, you made 30 million uninsured Americans the issue that you don’t’ have a sound answer to!  But Ole’ Mitch is not done pushing his face around Chris Wallace’s fists.  Not by a long shot.

“Wallace brought up the issue of pre-existing conditions, which the health care law does cover, and asked McConnell how Republicans would deal with that issue. McConnell said that should be left to the states to work out and not the job of the federal government.”

“That should be left up to the states to work out and not the job of the federal government.”  Translated, Mitch, it sounds to me like you don’t have a clue what to do with pre-existing issues either.  Thankfully, mercifully, Chris Wallace ran out of time for the segment.  It is unclear how much more damage Senator Mitch McConnell could have done to his face with more time.

The appearance of Senator Mitch McConnell on Fox News Sunday is proof that he needs to go.   Not only did he squander his opportunity to present a coherent message on the repeal of Obamacare, he made the GOP look incompetent.  It is proof that he incapable of dealing with the Democrats, not to mention the hostile media.  It is proof that he is not thinking as a leader.  Call it what you want; he has lost his game, he is past his prime.  I could see value of Mitch McConnell as the wise elder statesman, working behind the scene, but I doubt he is willing to let go of his power for the good of his party.  He will just keep pushing his face into his opponent’s fists.

Here is the video link:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1715039029001/

The following letter was discussed on conservative talk radio host (WISN  AM-1130)  Vicki McKenna’s show today and is making the rounds via e-mails, too.  The author did talk to Vicki and did not want their name put out there.  (Wonder why?  ).

Regarding the recall elections and past 16 months in which Wisconsin was held captive by a minority of anti-Walker folks – please enjoy the following:

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To all leftists, occupiers, unionistas and malcontents,

Thank you! What an election! We couldn’t have done it without you. Without your tantrums, outbursts and boorish behavior we might have stayed home for this election. Without your filthy, pot smoking hemp-headed minions occupying and violating the Capitol we might have been complacent. Without your obnoxious protests, boycotts and other actions from your union playbook, we might have sat this one out.

But you couldn’t hold back. You couldn’t restrain yourselves and behave like adults. You couldn’t accept the 2010 election results. We sat and watched as you erupted in a juvenile hissy fit that embarrassed Wisconsin . The spectacle you created is what motivated us. And thanks to your ill-mannered behavior, we won. We turned out. Big time! And now we are organized and energized. Committed. “All in”. And we aren’t going away. We now have our own organizations (no dues required), an army of volunteers and the means to communicate. And countless new sources of funding, including a donor base from all 50 states. And we have “Verify The Recall” to ferret out your infiltrators in our future local elections.

So thank you Mike Tate, Graeme Zielinski , Fred ” Loonie ” Levenhagen , Ismael Ozanne , Maryanne Sumi , Noble Ray, Charles Tubbs , Joanne Kloppenberg , Segway Boy, John Chisolm , public employee union members, UW TA’s , WEAC , SEIU , MTI , AFSCME Council 24 in Union Grove and WI prison guards,. Thanks for the death threats, the intimidation, the bullying, belligerence, thuggery and goonish behavior. The lack of ethics and the failure to enforce rules and laws. Thank you for putting your selfish, greedy motives on display for all taxpayers to see.

Your antics might have made you feel good but they didn’t make you look good. They sickened the rest of us.

Thank you Shirley Abrahamson and Ann Walsh Bradley. Your petty politics woke us up. Thank you Miles Kristan for dumping the beer on Robin Vos’s head. Thank you University doctors for writing the phony excuses; Madison teachers for calling in sick or dragging your students to the protests without permission. Thank you Katherine Windels for making death threats against the Governor. The noontime capitol singers who taunted Sheboygan high school students. Thank you WEA Trust for raping Wisconsin  taxpayers. Thank you Gwen Moore for your embarrassing minstrel show. And thanks all of you for harassing the Walker  family at their private home.

You have all been exposed. Your tactics have been rejected. Your bad behavior has been forever captured on You Tube.

Thank you Peter Barca and fellow Assembly members for donning your foolish orange T-shirts and screaming “shame” at legislators just doing their jobs.

Thank you Mark Miller and all 14 senators for fleeing the state and making fools of yourselves in the process. Illinois  needed a few more village idiots. Thanks for showing us what democracy doesn’t look like.

And Mayor Barrett. How grateful we are that you chose one low road after another in your issue-less campaign against the Governor. This was your strike three. You are out. Take a seat on the bench and stay there. I have a hunch this was your final at-bat.

All of you helped turn Wisconsin  permanently red. Your Governor, Scott Walker, will not just complete his first term, he is all but assured as many future terms as he seeks. He will be your governor for a long, long time. Get used to it. And his national “rock star” status just might lead him to be your President some day. Just think, it couldn’t have happened without you! So to all of you blue fisters , thank you from the bottom of my happy, red heart.

Sincerely,

A Wisconsin taxpayer

 

 

The Tea-Party has done it’s best to promote and elect conservative leaders.  It is clear to me that the Tea-Party not only needs to promote conservatives, but it must, must, promote conservatives that are winners!  Candidates that know not only how to win, but expect to win!  Candidates that will fight to get the win.  We need to overturn the GOP establishment.

The idea that the GOP establishment is now coming to the “realization” that Romney can win knowing how badly Obama has performed sickens me.

Here’s the link:

http://patriotupdate.com/23383/gop-discovers-that-mitt-romney-could-win

I am talking about what I believe is the upcoming attack by Israel on Iran.  I have read that Israel has cancelled the upcoming Holiday, and has called in all its reservists.  While some may believe it may just be posturing on Netanyahu’s part, I disagree.  Netanyahu is a True Warrior, Obama is a fly.  Netanyahu knows exactly what the entire world leaders know; that is that Obama is one of, if not the weakest American President in the history of America.  He also knows, from Obama’s  first open-microphone gaffe in Paris France, where Obama himself made it clear to the French President that Israel was not Obama’s favorite country.  Netanyahu also knows that if Israel attacks Iran, Obama will most likely lose the upcoming presidential election.   Ole’ Joe Biden recently confirmed this at a speech he gave.  It is alleged that Obama offered Netanyahu advanced bunker-buster bombs if Israel held off the attack until after America’s November election.  Accusations by Israel of the White House leaking Israel’s battle plans to the press only add credence to Obama’s desperate need to hold off an attack by Israel on Iran.  Does anyone think Netanyahu wants to work with Obama for four more years than work with Mitt Romney?  No brainer.  There is nothing that Obama can give Netanyahu to stop being the Warrior that he is.  Obama will always be the fly.

And now, Obama has signaled to the world, that he is willing to roll-over on an Iranian nuclear program.  In actuality, he was going to roll-over all along.  Everyone that knows Obama knew that, most significantly, Netanyahu.  Obama’s latest roll-over in a long line of roll-overs, only confirms to Netanyahu that Israel must act for its own defense, and be prepared to act unilaterally if needed.  This is a very dangerous position for Obama to put Israel in.

The understanding I get from what I have been reading is that if Israel attacks Iran, and has a perfect attack, (that Israel hits all its intended targets) such an attack would set Iran’s quest for the nuclear bomb back a year, maybe two at most.  It would take a sustained attack to do more damage.  The only country that has the operational capacity for a sustained attack is the United States.

There are two ways Ahmadinejad and the Iranian leadership could go; ignore it, or go crazy – man, Katie-bar-the-door counter attack.  Iran has been spoiling for a fight with Israel since Ahmadinejad became President.   I believe that is why he was made President.  So I don’t see the Iranian leadership giving Israel a free-pass no matter how insignificant the damage an attack may end up being.

What I see as the likely response from Iran is an orchestrated attempt to completely over-whelm Israel’s defense.  While this may seem obvious, things have changed in the past few months with the uprisings in Syria, Egypt, and to a lesser extent Libya.  Syria is well, Syria, they might as well be Iran’s “Mini-Me.”  Egypt is being taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood.  Not a good omen in any light.  There has already been a rocket attack from Egypt into Israel.  The peace accord that Egypt had with Israel might as well be used for very scratchy toilet paper now.  If Israel attacks Iran I foresee Iran, Syria, Hezbollah vis-à-vis Lebanon, and very now very likely Egypt, going after Israel.

The dirty little secret in Iraq is that they did have chemical weapons of mass destruction.  Republicans didn’t want to admit it because they knew about them, and did not find them; made for very bad optics, incompetence being foremost.  The democrats could not acknowledge WMD’s in Iraq, because that would validate President Bush’s desire to go to invade Iraq.  Liberals can’t have a war that is a valid one; it’s not in their color-wheel.  A search of the Wikileaks for WMD’s attests to this fact.  Over 2,500 chemical weapons from Iraq have been found in Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  It would be no surprise to me that Syria has the majority of Iraq’s stockpile, and has been the major distributer of chemical WMD to Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Imagine if Syria and Hezbollah used chemical WMD’s on Israel?  In short order Israel’s next attack on Iran, and Iran’s supporters could go nuclear.  While Israel has never admitted to having nuclear weapons, most assuredly they do.

For America such an attack, the foremost effort would be to keep the Strait of Hormuz open to shipping.  If there are any even small problems of shipping transit in the strait, gas will be eight or more dollars a gallon than the five or six we are expecting this summer.  If a US Navy ship suffers major damage, or is sunk while patrolling the strait, gas prices would go up even further with the escalation of the war.  At best, with Obama, maybe the defense of Israel is the second priority.  Who knows?  No one knows what Obama would do in such a scenario.  He most assuredly would give a heartfelt speech, saying that the Israelis acted “Stupidly.”  From past experiences any response from Obama would be weak.

However, I do not believe that Obama is alone in this.  I do not believe that America has the will for an “All-In” War.  The last time America was “All-In” was World War II.  We had to be.  Our way of life was at threat.  I am astonished at America’s reaction to 9/11.  Within six months most Americans not directly affected by the attack on 9/11 pretty much went on with their lives.  The thing that I did not understand, and still do not understand, is that if there are two billion Muslims in the world, and ten percent are radicalized, equates to 200 million potential combatants!  I’m not being racist here; I am simply taking ten-percent from a quantity of two- billion.  That is roughly two-thirds the population of the United States!  Post 9/11, there was no draft, no bond sales, no rationing of materials, and no national mobilization of any type.  And remember that this was an asymmetric war from the start.  We could have to be fighting in all points of the globe, most not immediately known.  It was a very large equation that started with 200 million potential combatants with a gigantic unknown.   Where are they all?  So for America not going “All-In” after 9/11 I don’t know what it would take.  Iran may force the United States to finally go, ”All-In” in confronting terror in the Middle East.

The really big problem with Israel attacking alone is time.  They most likely will only get one shot.  Time-on-target.  Much like a scuba diver that is going deep, they only have minutes on the bottom.  The time is spent getting there and back.  Assuming that Israel only uses conventional munitions the damage will be moderate at best.  And it will be only the surface targets that get hit the worst.  Buried targets below five-hundred feet could be hit with bunker-busters.  But beyond that it would take repeated sorties to hit target deeper.

Unfortunately for either Israel or the United States the best weapon to reach deeply buried structures would be tactical nuclear bunker-busters.  Such a program was fast-tracked several years ago.  Such weapons would do several things well; they would destroy either directly or by seismic blast wave any structure buried a thousand feet or more, and the radiation would make repair of any structure impossible.  Since the blast occurs underground, there would be less fallout as compared to an air-burst nuclear bomb.  Do we have a President, and as American’s, are we willing to go “All-In”?  Are we willing to use a nuclear bomb if that was the perfect weapon for the mission?  I don’t think so.  Not yet.  Hezbollah may change all that.

Recent congressional testimony indicated that Hezbollah may have a thousand or more funding organizations, and hundreds of sleeper-cells in the United States.  No doubt Iran would not think twice about activating them if America entered into the fray.  With our porous borders it would not be a stretch of the imagination to think that those sleeper-cells have chemical WDM’s here in the United States.  Imagine a cool, crisp, fall Saturday at a college football game.   Several college stadiums capacities are in excess of one-hundred-thousand people.  Imagine Hezbollah using chemical WMD during at such a game?  Several tens-of-thousands would be killed on live TV.  Would we be willing to go “All-In” then?

The problem with any country using nuclear weapons is that if one country uses it, then other counties think they are within their right to use them.  Then suddenly all past grievances and insults between counties are to be paid for in full.  India may attack Pakistan using nuclear weapons.  The Soviet Union would look at its own expansion.  With a nuclear diversion, China may finally try to overtake Taiwan which they see as China’s property.  It would be very possible that the United States, South Korea, and Japan, if they did not have their hands too full with China’s attempt at expansion, would finally put North Korea out of its suffering.

My point here is that an attack by Israel may not only open one Pandora’s Box, but a whole series of them in rapid succession.  This could not come a worst time; when we have a sixteen trillion dollar debt (World Wars cost money), and when we have the weakest President in the history of the United States history leading the fight.  It is fight that I believe is coming soon.

Like in football games, a team should never rely on a field goal, or overtime to win.  Relying on the Supreme Court to make ObamaCare go away is much the same thing.  We need to repeal ObamaCare by legislative action once and for all!