Mirror, mirror, on the wall…

Last week we talked about Obama’s vanity. It seems that this well will never go dry. So there he was invading our Thanksgiving Day football games, and we know that in December there will be the Obama Christmas special with Oprah, but this week takes the prize. Obama has been fiddling for months while Afghanistan is burning, and when does he decide to announce his decision? Why, at the same time as the annual airing of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. Is nothing sacred in this country anymore?

While the defeatist decision the president made is an important one, we’ve been waiting since September 1st for him to make it. Certainly, adjusting the time and date of the speech announcing our giving up the fight could have happened, oh, we don’t know… the day before.

Testing our resolve

Funny. When Bush left office, we were winning in Afghanistan and no one dared mess with the U.S. Now, the Taliban is ramping up attacks and everyone from the Chinese to Iran are testing the military bearing of the Wimp in Chief. The latest: Russia is building arms plants in Venezuela. Nice! This is not much different from when the Soviet Union was putting medium range nuclear missiles in Cuba, but Obama is more concerned with how much harmless CO2 you are emitting as a car-driving meat-eating American. Heck, we’re not even concerned with how many new missiles Russia is building any more. That’s right, we’ve stopped counting.

Healthcare hooey

The ObamaCare headlines have been light this week, with most headlines centered around Tiger Woods. We have, however, dug up some interesting tidbits worth perusing:

• Harvard Medical School Study: Computers Don’t Save Hospitals Money
• ObamaCare Would Reduce Innovation, Cause Preventable Deaths
• Health and Human Services would become federal giant under Senate plan

Just a reminder: the US Department of Health and Human Services has ties to billionaire financier and political progressive George Soros. As we reported before, Soros’ “Project on Death in America” is hosted on the National Institute of Health website, which is part of HHS. To paraphrase that scene in Star Wars, “These are not the death panels you are looking for.”

While you’re worried about your mortgage…

Renowned economist Milton Friedmen said:

“There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income.”

How true it is. While you’re worrying about money and how you’re going to afford Christmas presents, just look at some of these examples of Big Government spending your money:

• Nancy Pelosi spends $2,993 on flowers
• D.C. agency buys massages for 40 employees