Joe Biden.  Delusional.  Democrats: Surely you can do better.  Please do better.  If you are going to win, for the sake of the country, give us someone with some sense.

Of course, I should not complain.  We (Tennessee) gave the country Al Gore.

Before, we were to believe that a Christian video-maker sparked all of this with his Youtube trailer.  Lie.  Obvious lie, from the beginning.  Now, we know it was a lie.  Once again, we are being fed a lie: we are to stupidly believe that once the attack began, President Obama and his administration could have done nothing about it.  In other words, President Obama’s hands are clean of American blood spilled in Benghazi.

I do not accept the official line—parroted by the leftist press—that the unfolding attack left no time to deploy support.  If true, however, this is incompetence.  And, if as we are hearing verified now, the State Department requests for greater security were ignored, then this is even worse.

Understand: This is not a part of the world that our government is not looking at.  There exists AFRICOM.  Africa Command.  This is a relatively new command creation, created largely because of the increasing Islamization of the African continent, and the shift of terrorist training and operations planning from Afghanistan and Pakistan to North Africa.  US Army-Africa is organized, staffed, and headquartered inexplicably at Vincenza, Italy.  Check out their news: World Malaria Day, Female Integration, spouses, medical projects—not a word about Benghazi.

Vicenza is 1,000 miles from Benghazi on the North African coast.

Why?  Why is AFRICOM’s HQ in northern Italy.  I am sure it is nice there and the cuisine is delightful.  You may visit Venice only a short drive away.  It’s far closer to Berlin than Benghazi.

But, with AFRICOM located in Italy, were there “assets” deployable on quick notice?  With North Africa in upheaval, if not, why not?

You better damned believe there were reaction forces standing by to be sent to fight in an emergency.  Who requested help?  To whom?  Who turned the request away?

And, if the official position remains, “President Obama wanted to do something about it but the military just didn’t have anybody close by suited up to get there on time,” then there is no excuse for this incompetence.

But, it worked for the Democrats: they got past the election without the truth of Benghazi disrupting their campaign.

To Democrats:

I am openly inviting you to change parties.  At some point, isn’t some Democrat leader outrage the last straw for you?  There are many to pick from.  Jay Carney on Benghazi; Al Gore’s raving madness; the economy; welfare for terrorists; the Bush-era actions you so railed against, that are continued by President Obama; the growing debt held by foreigners; court-martial for Christians in the military?

Seriously, folks, where does it end?  You may not be ready to switch parties, but could you at least re-think and reconsider?  Your party is a disaster.  Governing disastrously, over a disaster.

The Republican Party needed the good cleansing from the Tea Party movement.  At least the Republicans are challenging themselves.  But, your party just persists in its fallacies.  Take virtual open border immigration policy.  You know, the policy that set us up for the Boston Marathon Massacre.  That immigration policy.  Or, is the bombing already “such a long time ago” that you don’t remember it, as Jay Carney might say?

It no longer suffices to say, “Bush did it too,” even if you are right about that.  That was never a sufficient reason for us.  It’s not for you, either.  Besides, Bush was such a long time ago.

You are offering us a train of loonies and liars.  Please do better.  If you are not ready to re-think foundational Democrat politics, then please just demand more of your party.  You are better than your party is giving you—and us all.

This solid young man tripped over one of our over-lawed, over-taxed, over-regulated culture’s zero-tolerance laws.  ”The authorities” in the front office at the school over-reacted and ratted him out.  Now, he faces felony charges and a year’s expulsion from school.

But, David Gregory is still free!

Secular legalism: the false faith that people can cure all conflict, adjust all injustice, right every perceived wrong, save the planet,  and compel people to be nice by passing laws and regulations and taxes and creating lawsuits.

They forget General Washington’s terse civics lesson for the ages: government is force—the full, armed power of the state called down to compel obedience to the state’s volumes of laws.

When you have lots of laws, you have lots of government.  Lots of government has lots of power.

So, what good will come of this?  Instead of crushing young Mr. Withrow into a simpering serf, he has just been made into a fervent libertarian, if he was not already.

See post below about Mrs. Thatcher and about honoring Great Britain.

Now, see who John Kerry, President Obama’s Secretary of State, proposes to enter into a “special relationship” with.

You can choose to be in special relationship with communists, or with the English, Scotch, Welsh and Irish.

I’m surprised Kerry’s choice is not North Vietnam.  Yes, I know it is no longer “North” Vietnam.  It will always be North Vietnam to me.