Nightly Ramble: The “What the Truck” Edition

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This is The “What the Truck” Edition

• WE HAVE THE ENERGY WE NEED…. BUT.… Can we get it? That’s the question that Investor’s Business daily examines, today. Why are Democrats so very reluctant to develop energy reources… particularly when we could solve most of our economic worries in short order by doing so? Kinda makes you wonder what their real intentions are.
• YOU JUST KNEW THEY’D TRY THIS: … as Boortz points out today… Blaming GWB and the Iraq war for a lack of governent healthcare. Like, it had nothing to do with the American peple not liking the proposal, right? And it also had nothing at all to do with the masive spending Obama’s put on everything else, eh?  (spit)  Had enough, yet, America?
• MEANWHILE, NORTH OF THE BORDER…  The Canadian Healthcare system shows us what government healthcare is about.
• SO NOW THE FBI IS A POLITICAL TOOL? The sordid story of leftie blogger Hal Turner would seem to suggest that.
  

  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to be deliberately provocative, his attorney said Tuesday.
  Hal Turner worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an “agent provocateur” and was taught by the agency “what he could say that wouldn’t be crossing the line,” defense attorney Michael Orozco said.”His job was basically to publish information which would cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest,” Orozco said.

  Prosecutors have acknowledged that Turner was an informant who spied on radical right-wing organizations, but the defense has said Turner was not working for the FBI when he allegedly made threats against Connecticut legislators and wrote that three federal judges in Illinois deserved to die.

  “But if you compare anything that he did say when he was operating, there was no difference. No difference whatsoever,” Orozco said.

  Special Agent Ross Rice, a spokesman for the FBI in Chicago, said he would not comment on or even confirm Turner’s relationship with the FBI.

  Of course the left has their wazoo in a wad over this, as they do about most things…  Bleeding typical.

• Ummmm….  Oops….
• I DON’T KNOW…  I can’t figure Michael Smerconish out either.  I wonder how that support of Obama worked out for him? After that, you’ll forgive me if I don’t take the questions coming from the man to “The One” next week to be anything but Chrissy Mathews style softballs.
• WHY OBAMACARE IS FAILING: Yesterday Victor Hansen addressed this question. This monring, Jonah Goldberg does.  Jonah suggests the reason is that the administration has been “astoundingly incompetent.”  Well incompetent they may be… and perhaps even astoundingly so. But I wonder…. I doubt anyone could have sold socialism better.  It’s never done well with the American public. Now, that Obama has couched his socialism salesmaanship in his overt racism, is another matter. But since when has socialism ever been anything but group politics, including racial groupings?