Sitting here this morning, reviewing the news headlines, a few have caught my eye that I thought that I would expand upon this morning.

From mediabistro.com:

“Meet the Press with David Gregory” was the #1 Sunday public affairs show again last week, with a 660K Total Viewer lead over #2 CBS’ “Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer.”

But the bigger story is the loss of viewers of ABC’s #3“This Week with Christiane Amanpour.” A year ago (Dec. 20, 2009) as the show was preparing for a host change, “This Week” drew 2.79M Total Viewers. Last Sunday it drew 1.91M — down -46% in one year. NBC and CBS were up year-over-year. “FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace“, was down slightly year-over year.

Network Program Total Viewers A25-54

NBC “Meet the Press” 3.37M 1.20M

CBS “Face the Nation” 2.71M 670K

ABC “This Week” 1.91M 610K

FOX “Fox News Sunday” 1.310M 430K

Amanpour, an  Iranian Brit, whose family fled Iran in 1979, was hired by ABC after 18 years on the International Beat for CNN.  She has absolutely no clue with regard to domestic issues. and has been roundly criticized for her anti-Israel bias.  ABC’s President David Westin, chose her over Jake Tapper in what has proven to be a very, poor decision.

Of course, America-haters around the world were in total agreement with Mr. Westin on his selection.

From yahoo.com:

Russia’s lower house of parliament gave preliminary approval Friday to a U.S.-Russian arms treaty, but decided to delay the final vote until next month.

The Kremlin-controlled State Duma voted 350-58 to approve the New START treaty in the first of three readings. The legislators said they would proceed further after returning from the New Year’s vacation that lasts until Jan. 11.

I thought Obama said that the world would come to an end, or sumpin’, if the START Treaty did not get passed during the Lame Duck Session.

According to Russian legislators, they need extra time in order to study the Treaty.  Why couldn’t Congress do that?

Scooter, you just got dissed.

A moment of clarity.  Compare…contrast…and cry:

From news10.net in Sacramento:

Big Sis Janet Napalitano and her TSA are disciplining an airline pilot for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security.

The anonymous 50-year-old pilot, who is also a helicopter test pilot in the Army Reserve and flew missions for the United Nations in Macedonia, lives outside Sacramento. asked that neither he nor his airline be identified. He has worked for the airline for more than a decade and was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit.

Three days after he posted a series of six video clips recorded with a cell phone camera at San Francisco International Airport, four federal air marshals and two sheriff’s deputies arrived at his house to confiscate his federally-issued firearm. Video of all of this has been provided to News10.

The federal marshals took the pilot’s gun and a deputy sheriff asked him to surrender his state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Welcome to the U.S.S.A., Comrade Pilot.

Speaking of a certain dictorial Regime:

Before that mean ol’ Democratically-controlled Congress wouldn’t do what he wanted them to do, and because he knows that the 112th Congress sure won’t pass the legislation he wants, Obama and his administration are going around our country’s system of checks and balances in order to stifle America’s energy production by placing new restrictions on greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for new power plants and oil refinery emission standards over the next year.

In an announcement posted on the agency’s website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with pollution contributing to climate change.

According to Jackson’s statement:

We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and careful way to reduce GHG pollution that threatens the health and welfare of Americans.

This professional bureaucrat claims that emissions from power plants and oil refineries constitute about 40 percent of the greenhouse gas pollution in this country.

Obama had cryptically warned us, two days after the midterm elections, that he was disappointed Congress hadn’t acted on legislation achieving the same end, signaling that other options were under consideration.

Elections?  We don’t need no stinkin’ elections!

From the moment Barack Hussein Obama rose to national prominence, it has been quite clear that he views himself as an entity about your average politicians.  He views himself as a benevolent ruler, whose vision for the country transcends the American political system of checks and balances, and whose innate brilliance rises far above that of all of us ignorant Americans, like me, still clinging to their guns and Bibles. 

You know, those ignorant Americans who showed how they feel about Obama by producing the most remarkable refudiation of the political party that was in power in decades.  A real electoral mandate that Obama seems determined to ignore.

When the new Congress convenes after the holidays, the GOP-controlled House has promised a reading of the Constitution on the House Floor on January 6th, 2011.  That’s a good start.  Now, the folks on Capitol Hill just need to be sure that they understand and follow it, regardless of the wishes of the Regime.