Posted by
Dennis Pemberton on Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:20:07 AM
Lefties should be pleased with Day One. Although the criminal prosecution of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. is still pending, liberal bugaboos were pandered to, and conservatives shown whose boss.
1. The retraction of Bush's executive order banning abortion-related funding should be music to the ears of non-Muslim no-creators in the Third World, of whom there must be at least two. If the Jihadi-Western War has a demographic component, then by all means should we give the fecund Islamists a hand up by killing babies who might one day grow up to say "NO!" to Sharia.
2. Continuing on the Islamist riff, he has suspended Gitmo prosecutions, and is apparently poised to close the terrorist holding cell in a year. Unless he's going to put these guys on unflagged prison ships, they're either going to get their day in court, or be let out to mingle. It's a safe bet no other country will have them, so we can all look forward to having an Al Qaeda trainee asking us whether that Big Gulp was a refill or not.
3. Showing how cool and in touch he is, the President is getting a tricked out Blackberry, ultra secure and guaranteed to be hacked in a week.
4. The White House site was redone, adding a gratuitous slap at President Bush for failure to rebuild the Gulf Coast after Katrina. That seems doable now, with a competent Bobby Jindal as governor, but Louisiana is where federal money goes to disappear.
Today, the President is concentrating on foreign affairs. Yippee! Can't get into any trouble there!