The Roundup

Okay, I'm on the Roundup patrol this week because I am me and they are them, somebody has to do the heavy lifting, and, of course, I don't really have anything else to do right now.

Whenever the Republicans have a crucial job, like critiquing the Afghanistan policy of the dithering Obama Administration, they turn to their man of Ruthian proportions, if not of physical prowess, Dick Cheney. And like the Babe, the former Vice-President hit a home run last night in his speech on the Afghanistan war at the Center for Security Policy. To extend the baseball metaphor, little Rahm Emanuel, just up from a Chicago farm team, was sent out to the mound on the Sunday talk shows to defend current Administration policy, and lobbed a few jibes at the Bush Administration for handing off a disaster in Afghanistan with little help for the new Administration. Babe Cheney hit these soft, underhanded pitches from the foreign policy rookie out of the ballpark, branding him a bald-faced liar in the process.

Gallup's latest tracking polls indicate a Presidential drop in approval of Brobdingnagian proportions in the 3rd quarter of this year. It's the biggest drop in almost 60 years.

Perhaps the Pesident's poll problems stem from another setback on his signature Healthcare policy. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attempted to reduce the cost of the new Healthcare Bill by simply reassigning $250 billion dollars out of the proposed Healthcare Bill and into the already massive debt of Medicare/Medicaid. He lost the vote against a coalition of Republicans and a whopping 12 Democrats and 1 Independent. Hey, President Obama really is bringing us bi-partisanship, just like he promised!

Two young guns at National Review Online are taking aim at the important stuff. Mark Steyn posts in The Corner a report on the advantages of eating dogs, and Jonah Goldberg let's us know about three more Timewasters, here, here and here. I would have gotten this Roundup done sooner, but got caught up killing zombies.