Pardon My Politics

John LeBoutil­li­er, a for­mer U.S. Con­gress­man and a na­tion­al­ly-rec­og­nized po­lit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor, shares his predictions on Iran, President Obama, 2010 mid term elections, John McCain’s angst, Sarah Palin’s increased popularity, the rise of the Tea Party (along with the fall of the Republican Party), and more.

No oth­er Re­pub­li­can lead­er has the stature or ex­pe­ri­ence of Dick Ch­eney. He alone can lead the Re­pub­li­can coali­tion to vic­to­ry in 2012. There’s even site, pos­si­bly a joke, tout­ing a Palin/Ch­eney tick­et in 2012.

Overall, Tuesday was a huge step away from Obama and his Lurch to the Left. What impact will these off-off-year elections have nationally? Nervousness abounds now that the Left might drag the Democrats over the cliff in 2010 the same way G.W. Bush took the GOP over the cliff in 2006 and 2008.

Michael Bloomberg bought New York City again yes­ter­day. New York City had just be­come ir­re­place­able to the bil­lion­aire turned faux politi­cian. Nev­er mind that he had open­ly crit­i­cized Rudy Giu­liani for want­ing to stay on an ex­tra three months. When you are deal­ing with an ego the size of Bloomberg’s, your mem­o­ry is se­lec­tive and short. What Mike Bloomberg did yes­ter­day was say that he alone was more im­por­tant than the peo­ple he claims to want to serve.

Mem­bers of the GOP pro­pa­gan­da or­gans were ec­stat­ic when Oba­ma failed to get the Olympics for Chica­go. They will howl that Oba­ma is guilty of the pre-??9/11 think­ing un­less he gets us buried in Afghanistan.

Poor Rep. Mike Castle never saw it coming and had nothing to say. The Delaware moderate Republican congressman fixed a Bambi-in-the-headlights gaze on his face when the flag-waving woman in red whipped an otherwise unremarkable town hall meeting into a display of mass insanity.