Eric Holder looked about as comfortable as a worm on a fish hook during his appearance before a Senate committee questioning him about his decision to try the 9-11 terrorists in New York. One of the most idiotic things he said was that the whole world would be impressed by our judicial system when they see us give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a fair trial before executing him. To be fair, the trial isn’t really about KSM but about the Bush administration. As the Marc Rich pardon showed, Holder is someone who can be pushed around. Radical lawyers in the Justice Department believe the Bush administration committed war crimes and want a civil trial to prove their case. Holder and his boss, the President, are more than happy to go along. However, Holder looks ridiculous when he tries to justify his decision. 

President Obama sounded an awful lot like Judge Roy Bean when he answered a question about the upcoming civil trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.  It was Bean who famously told a defendant he would get a fair trial and then be hanged.  Obama essentially said the same thing.  He said KSM would get a fair trial then be executed. 

If you had any doubt about how reckless, irresponsible and incompetent Obama's decision to provide civilian trials for terrorism leaders is, consider this - 9/11 might have never happened had it not been for the civilian trial of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh involved in the first world trade center bombing.  It was during his trial that bin Laden learned about our interest in him as a terrorist financier and planner.   Following the disclosure, bin Laden fled Sudan for sanctuary in Afghanistan. Had he not fled, we may have been able to secure his capture by offering the Sudanese authorities a few million dollars for his detention and transfer to the U.S. Without bin Laden, there would have been no 9/11.  Thousands of Americans died as a result of the information released at the civilian trial of Rahman. Don’t be surprised if tens of thousands of Americans die as a result of information released at the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

There used to be a joke in what was then Communist East Germany.  The Communists took over the desert.  At first nothing happened, then there was a shortage of sand.  If we get a public option, at first nothing will happen, then there will be shortage of doctors.

Listening to Obama's San Francisco speech where he talked about getting a mop to clean up the mess he inherited, I thought of Disney's animation "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".  The Sorcerer hands Mickey Mouse a mop and bucket and tells him to clean up the castle, but Mickey decides to take a short cut. He puts on the Sorcerer’s hat and orders the mop to do the cleaning for him. It starts off well, but pretty soon gets out of control with buckets of water sloshing everywhere. This is an apt metaphor for the Obama administration. It started off well but is now out of control. We are spending trillions of dollars and accomplishing virtually nothing. Unemployment is heading into double digits. The dollar continues to fall. Our foreign policy is confused and indecisive and our stature as a great power is declining. Obama is making a mess of things. He does not know how to use the power given to him.

Thanks to Obama's uncontrollable spending, you now owe $4,600 more than you did last year.  That's the share each man, woman, and child will have to pay for the $1.4 trillion deficit Obama racked up in just one year.

It was supposed to be a done deal.  Chicago was the leading contender to host the 2016 Olympics, so President Obama and his lovely wife flew off to Copenhagen in separate jets to bask in the glory of Chicago's selection and take credit for it.  It didn't turn out that way.  Apparently the rest of the world is getting as fed up with the Obamas' pontificating as most Americans.  This is a big loss for Obama but a big win for the people of Chicago who won't have to shell out millions to make the friends of Obama rich.