{"id":8215,"date":"2010-08-08T20:48:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T03:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2010-08-08T20:50:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T03:50:16","slug":"clarices-pieces-from-cordoba-to-marbella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=8215","title":{"rendered":"From the American Thinker&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"home_blog_date\">August 08, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2010\/08\/clarices_pieces_from_cordoba_t.html\">Clarice&#8217;s Pieces: From Cordoba to Marbella<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong>By<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/clarice_feldman\/\"><strong>Clarice Feldman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/expansion_embed.js\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/googleads.g.doubleclick.net\/pagead\/test_domain.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_protectAndRun(\"ads_core.google_render_ad\", google_handleError, google_render_ad);\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">The no-good, horrible, terrible week for the credentialed morons.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">Newton believed that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, and while he was observing physical phenomenon, the same can be said this week of American politics.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">If last week signaled this was going to be a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2010\/08\/clarices_pieces_long_hot_summe.html\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">long, hot summer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">, this week reminded me to start advertising more widely my new business venture: provisioning sharpened pikes at the gates of D.C.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">Credentialed morons in Congress, with the president&#8217;s urging, rammed down our throats a massive restructuring of our medical system, bribing, arm-twisting, playing fast and loose with the rules and the truth. And overreaching jurists, with an imperial sense of there being no limits to their power under the Constitution, continued jabbing their thumbs in the electorate&#8217;s eyes. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">Last summer&#8217;s town halls quickly morphed into the Tea Party movement and, in turn, into open rebellion by states and voters alike. Through all of this, the political class, locked in its parochial, self-aggrandizing bubble, sees nothing amiss.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">Speaker Pelosi called vacationing Congress back to enact a $26-billion payoff to public service employees and the improvident states, which will enable them to bankrupt us all. Michelle Obama headed off for a $375,000 taxpayer-paid vacation in Marbella, Spain with Sasha in tow, apparently in the misguided belief that this place has the kind of cachet suitable to prance around in her unbecoming but expensive fashions. (This is her sixth vacation since March, and two more are scheduled before the kids return to school.) In the meantime, the Recovery Summer is, in Rush&#8217;s words, looking more like the summer of life support. The true unemployment figure is credibly estimated at 22% (&#8220;unexpected&#8221; as that may be to media like Reuters and the AP, which also seem ensconced in the bubble with the political class). And despite billions spent on &#8220;shovel-ready jobs&#8221; like sidewalks to nowhere, the economy is in bad shape as people shove what they have in their mattresses rather than leave it to the whims of the political class to steal to pay off their base.<\/span><\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2010\/08\/clarices_pieces_from_cordoba_t.html\">Read the rest&#8230;<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px;\"><!-- startprint --> <span class=\"home_blog_date\">August 08, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Clarice&#8217;s Pieces: From Cordoba to Marbella<\/h1>\n<p><strong>By<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/clarice_feldman\/\"><strong>Clarice Feldman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_box_ad\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-4560167926987914\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\n\/\/2006-11-22: AT - Articles - 300 by 250\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"0110545599\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"336699\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"999966\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"003399\";\n\/\/ ]]><\/script> <script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/expansion_embed.js\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/googleads.g.doubleclick.net\/pagead\/test_domain.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_protectAndRun(\"ads_core.google_render_ad\", google_handleError, google_render_ad);\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><ins style=\"border: medium none; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; display: inline-table; height: 250px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;\"><ins id=\"google_ads_frame2_anchor\" style=\"border: medium none; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; display: block; height: 250px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;\"><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">The no-good, horrible, terrible week for the credentialed morons.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">Newton believed that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, and while he was observing physical phenomenon, the same can be said this week of American politics.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">If last week signaled this was going to be a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2010\/08\/clarices_pieces_long_hot_summe.html\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">long, hot summer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">, this week reminded me to start advertising more widely my new business venture: provisioning sharpened pikes at the gates of D.C.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: small;\">Credentialed morons in Congress, with the president&#8217;s urging, rammed down our throats a massive restructuring of our medical system, bribing, arm-twisting, playing fast and loose with the rules and the truth. 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