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limBAugh from 6 to grant special favors to even read the letter, said, A question for you lin-
moffett from 5
The White House is also Nebraska (subsidizing its “I do not believe that any- gering Obama supporters: mously played Babe Ruth
being completely dis- Medicaid costs) pursuant body has legitimate con- How is his “man of the on the silver screen as well
missive -- another term to the Democrats’ bribe to stitutional concerns about people” facade looking to as long-time commentator
Obama is fond of using, to secure Sen. Ben Nelson’s the legislation.” you now? and New York Giants fan
describe the United States support. (I might note That settles it then. Chief Andy Rooney (1919).
before he ascended to the that the attorneys general Justice Gibbs has spoken. David Limbaugh is a
throne -- concerning le- could have asserted quite Also, when asked whether writer, author and attor- Sportsquiz
gitimate questions about a few other constitutional Obama supported the ney. His book “Bankrupt: What was the nickname
the constitutionality of challenges, such as the provision giving special The Intellectual and Moral for the famous Boston
Obamacare. bill’s unlawful mandate treatment to Nebraska, Bankruptcy of Today’s Bruin frontline from the
Consider this: No fewer that people be forced to he glibly said, “He’s a sup- Democratic Party” was 1940s which included
than 13 state attorneys buy health insurance and porter of the Senate bill, released recently in pa- Milt Schmidt, Bobby Bau-
general signed a letter the utter lack of consti- so I don’t know what that perback. To find out more er, and Woody Dumart?
to House Speaker Nancy tutional authority for the will lead you to conclude.” about David Limbaugh, (answer follows).
Pelosi and Senate Major- federal government to leg- How’s that for a little sar- please visit his Web site
ity Leader Harry Reid, islate in this area at all.) casm chaser to top off at www.DavidLimbaugh. Sportsquote
expressing their “grave How did the White House your shot of corruption? com. To read features by “I’ve been here so long
concern” over the con- respond when asked about Even Nancy Pelosi, a other Creators Syndicate that when I got here the
stitutionality of one pro- this letter? piece of work in her own writers and cartoonists, Dead Sea wasn’t even
vision of the bill. This Well, White House press right, is no longer vouch- visit the Creators Syndi- sick.” - Wimp Sanderson
provision would cause secretary Robert Gibbs, ing for the integrity of her cate Web page at www. on his 916th game as
the federal government after admitting he hadn’t Fearless Leader. When creators.com. basketball coach at Uni-
asked about Obama’s versity of Alabama.
broken campaign pledge
to air health care nego- Sportsquiz Answer
tiations on C-SPAN, she The “Kraut Line.”
metzler from 7
in education where pri- quipped, “Really? There
Kai Eide, the UN’s con- mary and secondary stu- are a number of things he
troversial Special Repre- dents (not mentioning was for on the campaign
sentative told the Security girls that are in school trail.”
Council that a working too) have reached an im-
civilian government, civil pressive seven million
structures and a capable students. Excellent. Yet
Afghan national army are he laments there is only
keys to success. “If we do room for 60,000 universi-
not take the civilian com- ty students! While many
ponents of the transition talented Afghans are in
strategy as seriously as university abroad, I won-
the military component, der if he is hinting the
then we will fail. What we international community
need is a strategy that is should be offering a col-
politically and not militar- lege education as part of
ily driven.” To a point. the international recon-
He called for “A political- struction package?
ly-driven strategy where Ban Ki-moon stressed,
Afghan-ownership and “Ultimately the main ob-
capacity stand at the cen- stacle is not the lack of
ter of our activities...the structures or even a short-
military surge must not age of resources…rather,
be allowed to undermine the main problem is a
equally important civilian question of political will.”
objectives and the devel- Indeed, there’s plenty of
opment of a politically blame to go around, but
driven strategy.” Stated there’s a particular re-
another way, President sponsibility for the Af-
Karzai’s Kabul govern- ghans themselves to solve
ment, not Obama must their own problems. We
“own” the problem. can help, we have helped,
In a land where 80 per- and we will continue to
cent of the population is help, but there clearly
dependent on agriculture comes a point where the
(farming is often defined as international conferences
opium production), where and global aid programs
infrastructure is lacking can go just so far. If we are
or always being attacked promoting the proverbial
by the Taliban terrorists, “soft power,” approach
and where nearly the en- it may come with a hard
tire Kabul government knock price-tag.
budget comes from foreign
aid, the very concept of a John J. Metzler is a Unit-
normal civil society seems ed Nations correspondent
at stunningly glaring odds covering diplomatic and
with reality. defense issues.
For example, Eide cites
significant improvement
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