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PJ Media<\/em><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0Some vice presidential wisdom: most might now think it to be safer to go hunting with Dick Cheney than to be in a hotel room with Al Gore.<\/p>\n 2. Not since the era of Earl Butz and James Watt have cabinet members been as intemperately spoken as the present bunch: Eric Holder (\u201cnation of cowards\u201d), Hilda Solis (\u201cdocumented or not\u201d), Janet Napolitano (\u201cman-caused disasters\u201d), Ken Salazar (\u201cboot on their neck\u201d), or a Steven Chu (\u201cno more agriculture in California\u201d).<\/p>\n 3. For much of his long life, a man like the now canonized late Sen. Robert Byrd made the early lives of men like Justice Clarence Thomas miserable. Contrast the present eulogies for Byrd with the past Senate hearings over Thomas.<\/p>\n 4. President Obama gave a long, rambling speech on illegal immigration and did not mention the Mexican government once. In fact, the word \u201cMexico\u201d appeared one time \u2014 in connection with a human interest story about an immigrant success story. A man from Mars might have thought the problem was as much Canadian as Mexican.<\/p>\n 5. The federal reaction to the BP spill \u2014 weeks of initial inaction characterized by shunning offers of international help, coupled with a blanket moratorium on drilling, including the safer sorts quite unlike the BP well \u2014 will eventually mean trillions of dollars in costs that will dwarf the financial toll of Katrina.<\/p>\n 6. We know now there is no shelf life to \u201cBush Did It.\u201d If unemployment hits 12% two years from now, we will be told we are lucky to have Obama saving us from the 20% rate that would have otherwise followed from the Bush legacy. It will be as if in 2006 Bush was still blaming Clinton for eight years of appeasement that led to 9\/11. It will never cease; we accept that now. In 1944, FDR was still running on the Hoover depression of 1929. So it shall be again.<\/p>\n 7. The new neutrality: From what administration officials have said, we can assume now that if Argentina invades the Falklands again, we will be neutral; in the next Israel response to Lebanon or Gaza, we will be neutral; in any Israeli preemptive raid on the Iranian nuclear facility, we will be neutral; if Turkey readjusts things in the Aegean or on Cyprus, we will be neutral; if Russia moves on Georgia or any of the former republics, we will be neutral; if Venezuela goes into Colombia, we will be neutral; if Pakistan provokes India again, we will be neutral; if China moves on Taiwan, we will be neutral.<\/p>\n 8. That the Guantanamo Bay detention facility will be closed is as unlikely as its continued use will not any longer bother any on the left.<\/p>\n 9. It is apparently morally worse to waterboard a known terrorist in Guantanamo than to assassinate a suspected one and his family in Waziristan.<\/p>\n 10. As sure as the sun shall rise, expect that within the next six months an administration official or appointee will have said something analogous to \u201ctypical white person,\u201d \u201ccowards,\u201d \u201cwise Latina,\u201d or police acting \u201cstupidly.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a92010 Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media 1.\u00a0Some vice presidential wisdom: most might now think it to be safer to go hunting with Dick Cheney than to be in a hotel room with Al Gore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[586],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-or","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4452,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/little-eichmanns-and-digital-brownshirts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1515,"position":0},"title":"“Little Eichmanns” and “Digital Brownshirts”","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Deconstructing the Hitlerian slur by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The effort to remove fascists in the Middle East and jump-start democracy, for all its ups and downs, has been opposed not just by principled critics who bristled at tactics and strategy, but also by peculiarly vehement cynics here\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "March 2005"","block_context":{"text":"March 2005","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2005\/march-2005\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2283,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/now-wait-just-one-minute\/","url_meta":{"origin":1515,"position":1},"title":"Now Wait Just One Minute…","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson NRO's\u00a0The Corner Maureen Dowd wrote another unfortunate, poorly argued, and thinly researched column yesterday. 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