Should we believe White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs when he claimed that President Barack Hussein Obama wouldn’t be watching last night’s election returns? Of course not. Why? Because unless Obama was intrigued by the Bowling Green at Buffalo nail biter, it was a slow TV night – except of course, for the election returns.

OK thinks that like everything else about this administration, what we were told wasn’t what was going on behind the scenes. We think Obama & Co. anticipated last night’s results. In fact, we think several TVs were on inside the White House last night and that Obama checked out election returns with the rest of us. Moreover, we believe what he saw frightened him as much as any scary movie on the tube on Halloween night.

Yesterday’s election returns hammered home what many of us have sensed was brewing the past few months. Last night was the exclamation point of the statement carved by the TEA parties, angry citizens protesting the senseless healthcare bills, the September 12^th D.C. conservative invasion and those who believe the last stimulus bill did about as much good as a fully wired house when the electric company shuts off the juice.

It’s more than a feeling now. It’s a certainty – and it can be summed up in a few words: CONSERVATISM IS ON THE RISE.

More than that, the GOP victories are “a warning shot” as Eric Cantor (R-VA) summed up the Virginia takeover, “and it says to the moderate Democrats in the House that they ought to think twice about continuing to pursue the policies of this White House and (White House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi” (“GOP Gains Could Hurt Obama Political Capital, If Not Agenda,” November 4, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/03/gop-gains-hurt-obama-capital-agenda/).

Virginia voters gave conservatives throughout the land a triple gift: a new conservative governor (Bob McDonnell), a re-elected conservative lieutenant governor (Bill Bolling) and a conservative attorney general (Ken Cuccinelli). So much for Obama’s star power. The ads he cut for Dem loser Creigh Deeds sounded more like bombastic leftover Obama for Prez sound bytes and didn’t help Deeds at all.

But it may be New Jersey voters who rattled Dems the most. Governor Corzine is out, in spite of slamming challenger Chris Christie for everything from sidestepping ethics laws to being overweight. Christie will be the Garden State’s new helmsman, leaving Corzine to mull over his campaign failure and Obama’s three Corzine campaign visits to Jersey, which did little to help the governor’s cause.

Let’s not forget that even before conservatives stormed the polls, they had already made it clear they’re tired of centrists and those who go the wishy-washy route. Case in point: RINO Dede Scozzafava withdrew from New York’s 23^rd Congressional District race after feeling conservative heat. She then fully exposed her liberal colors by backing Democrat Bill Owens. Although Owens defeated conservative Doug Hoffman, it was good to see Scozzafava buckle under pressure and fully out herself.

We need much more of the true conservatism we witnessed last night – and it’s coming. This is one show to be a part of, a show not to be missed. We predict its ratings will soar in the 2010 season. (Don’t miss any more episodes, Mr. President.)

By Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge

The beginning of the end of Guantanamo Bay detention center is here and it underscores the Obama administration’s increasingly slipshod national defense strategy. Obama will no doubt continue with plans to close Gitmo within a year; he signed an executive order pledging to do so. Yet on Sunday (Feb. 22), The Seattle Times reported the Pentagon has concluded, “that the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, meets the standards for humane treatment of detainees established in the Geneva Convention accords.”  The left must be disappointed by this news – it certainly refutes statements given by known terrorists. 

Binyam Mohamed was released from Gitmo yesterday (Monday, Feb. 23).  In November 2005, he was charged with treason. Mohamed was accused of planning to bomb apartment buildings and detonate a dirty bomb on the U.S. transport network. Mohamad claims that he was tortured “medieval style.”  In 2006, the Supreme Court decided President George W. Bush couldn’t create military commissions. New charges were leveled against Mohamed in 2008. Finally, all charges were dropped against him because he might have been subjected to waterboarding while being interrogated.

Nevertheless, Mohamad is a terrorist and a liar. He is a member of al-Qaeda. The United States is still at war with al-Qaeda terrorists. Mohamad allegedly received al-Qaeda training in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Gateway Pundit, 2/23/09). To release him is to mock every American – every human being – who has ever suffered direct or peripheral pain as a result of this rogue terrorist organization. 

Today, while thousands of al-Qaeda victims lie in graves or are ashes or floating atoms, Benyam Mohamad walks the streets of London, a free man.  This is not only an injustice, it’s another example of the mendacity at the heart of the new Obama administration.

Col. Gordon Cucullu appeared on Sean Hannity’s show on the Fox News Channel last Friday (2/20/09), to discuss his book, Inside Gitmo. Cucullu revealed that Gitmo terrorists regularly injure American guards and medics that service them. The Colonel also claimed that “there are four hundred attacks annually by the detainees on the guards and medics . . . these include grabbing and breaking arms by smashing them against the cell to throwing bodily fluids, semen, spit, urine on the guards” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5wXrDLLLaM). In one instance, a detainee asked a nineteen-year-old female medic for assistance. When she leaned forward, he grabbed her head and bashed her face repeatedly against his cell. He broke bones in her face and she has since undergone 16 operations to reconstruct it.

The president met with members of the USS Cole and families of 9-11 victims recently.  He did so because he chose to end all military trials at Guantanamo base, thus leaving the architect of the Cole bombing plot unpunished. That didn’t necessarily mean that criminals were going to be set free right away. When Obama signed the executive order to close Gitmo his second day in office, part of the plan called for the formation of “a commission to devise future policies on detention within the next 180 days” (Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/gitmo-to-close-obama/2009/01/23/1232471534632.html). Yet Benyam Mohamad was released yesterday.  (Don’t worry: he was flown out before Attorney General Eric Holder arrived for a tour of the base later in the day.)

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says that the Obama administration is trying to “come up with a plan that ensures our security and does so in a way that meets the test of our values” (“Briefing by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, 2/20/2009,” www.whitehouse.gov). Neither of those goals is being met.  Our security gets more watered down by the day.  Consider that the Obama administration:

Is backing away from the missile defense system that George W. Bush was working to place in the Czech Republic.

Is behaving diffidently when it comes to Pakistan.  As Dick Morris points out, Team Obama recently “closed all overseas CIA interrogation centers” and has taken a negligent position with Pakistan:  “Pakistan, a supposed ally, has just concluded a deal with the Taliban ceding to its control an area on the Afghan/Paki border which its troops had, unsuccessfully, tried to capture.  The Taliban now has the same deal it had in Afghanistan - a protected sanctuary from which to launch raids on the West” (DickMorris.com, Feb. 19, 2009).

Has pledged $900 million dollars to rebuild Gaza, when everyone knows that Hamas absconds with most aid and funding channeled into the region.

Is not fighting Kyrgystan’s plan to shut down a U.S. military base that plays an important role in American operations in Afghanistan.

Yes, we have major troubles on our own soil right now, but the economic turmoil we’re facing is no excuse to grow indifferent about keeping America safe. In fact, it’s one of the president’s main duties.

Surprisingly, the Obama camp recently upheld the Bush administration’s detention of Afghanistan military prisoners.  But with Gitmo’s doors closing and another terrorist released yesterday, how long will it be before the Afghan detainees are set free?