I can’t abide a weasel …

It’s probably another character flaw of mine, but I can’t tolerate a weasel. 

Weasels always play the edges. They speak in half-truths and hide in unspoken disclaimers.  They’re always playing a game of catch-me-if-you-can.  They are tedious and annoying to deal with because getting the true story out of them is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.    

They routinely withhold the truth, misrepresent facts, or claim ignorance of something they know full well. They shift blame to others, or to some special circumstance, when they themselves are at fault.  They never step up, they never take responsibility, and they never admit they are wrong. 

It’s a game with them.  They want to see how far they can go.  Everybody else is a gullible rube to be fooled; the sport is to see how far they can take the rubes before disbelief sets in.     

Being a weasel is not a temporary thing; once a weasel, always a weasel.  Ordinary decent people admit mistakes; weasels “misremembered” or “misspoke” or perhaps weren’t “clear enough,” as if that makes their conscious, outright lie somehow more forgivable. 

I really despise these bastards.     

Maybe that’s why I have such disdain for politicians in general, and Democrats like Obama, Biden, Holder, Reid, Pelosi, Durban and Hoyer in particular.

They all believe we are stupid.  Apparently a lot of folks in the media are as well, or agree that the public is too stupid to know the difference.    

As I’ve said before, if you really want to piss me off, make me feel you think I’m stupid.  I suspect I’m not alone in this.  I think most Americans probably feel the same. 

Yet here we are again, with even more preposterous claims from the Obama administration and its spokespuppets that the answer to terrorism is … wait for it … jobs. 

Holy Mother of Jesus. 

Did some writer from The Onion hack into Obama’s teleprompter and put that in? 

ISIS is cutting off the heads of Muslims and non-Muslims alike, burning alive people in cages, crucifying children, and selling female captives into slavery.  Boko Haram is slaughtering the male populations of entire villages and raping and enslaving the surviving daughters and wives.  Other Islamic terrorists have killed people at the Boston Marathon, attacked and murdered innocents in the UK, France, Denmark, Canada and lest we forget – the Twin Towers in NYC.    

And our answer is to find them better jobs and more economic opportunities than choosing to be a murderous barbarian? 

Really?  Obama said something like that?  Someone at the State Department agreed? 

News flash, folks – the Islamists are busy fulfilling an apocalyptic vision.  They aren’t killing people just to kill time while they wait for better career options to open up. 

The Islamists want to provoke an all-out war between Muslims and infidels.  It’s a holy war for them.  It’s a full-time gig. They already have the jobs they want.   

Someone who straps on a suicide vest isn’t doing that because they couldn’t get a job in the service department of Ahmad’s Used Camels, or as a designer at David’s Burkas.  They aren’t blowing themselves up out of despair over the lack of entry-level jobs.

They are killing themselves and others because their religion rewards it. They are doing it because they become heroes.   

Not because they want to be someone’s employee of the month.

So now, faced with widespread astonishment that Obama and State would say such a stupid and unbelievable thing, the inner weasels are emerging. 

Now they are quoting George W. to support what they said: didn’t George W. say something similar? That one of the root causes of terrorism was poverty and lack of economic opportunity?  

Is this the same George W. the same people blame for everything else?  The dumbest President ever, in their view?  Why yes it is. And now, suddenly, he's adding credibility to their claim?  

The answer to all that is yes, but that was years ago and out of context -- way, way, out of context. George W. wasn’t talking about terrorists cutting off heads, burning people alive, invading countries, etc. A little selective editing, don't you think?  

And haven’t heads of state in areas spawning terrorists claimed the same? That poverty and lack of economic opportunity spawn terrorists? Maybe, but most them are always looking for money from us, anyway. 

So try this, instead, all you weasels.  Consider Osama Bin Laden.  Wealthy, well educated.  Did he plan 9/11 and the killing of thousands of innocent Americans because he didn’t have a job?  Consider the people who piloted the planes that flew into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and tried to hit the Capitol?  They were all from affluent, well-educated Saudi families. 

The people who are coming from Europe and America to join ISIS aren’t job hunting, either. 

Recently, Obama’s spokespuppets referred to “Egyptian citizens” who were beheaded by ISIS, instead of calling them Coptic Christians, which is why they were beheaded.  This is a classic weasel move – it’s true they were also Egyptian citizens, but leaving out the critical fact of “why” they were beheaded is intentionally deceptive. 

Of course there are always the classics:  “If you like your plan you can keep your plan.  If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.” The hidden disclaimer was that this would be true if, and only if, you were willing to pay a lot more to keep your plan (assuming it was still available), and to keep your doctor.  

The same goes for his claim that the average American family would see their premiums fall through ObamaCare; which is true if they qualified for a subsidy and agreed to ridiculously high out-of-pocket deductibles. Oops, forget to mention that, huh?    

It goes on and on. 

It’s all weasel stuff.  And sadly, weasels tend to admire other weasels. 

Worst of all, weasels vote for weasels. 

That’s how we’ve come to where we are today as a nation. 

We’re not “One nation under God,” but one nation under weasels.