Growth in China is a little bit like growth in Joe Scarboroughs ratings. One hundred precent growth is easy, when you start from nothing.

China was a basket case under communism.

Mika also saying the French don't like America...after they elected a pro-American leader. Uggh what kind of logic do they use. By the way, Bubbles...how many of the French people have you talked to? 1, 2...ooh maybe 10. I imagine you've talked to as many French people as I have.

Mark,

No Bubbles reference today? I bet if you checked the labels on those "Bubbles Bottles", they are probably made in China. [I won't say anything about the directions on those bottles and bubbles.]

ConservativeBelle

http://conservativebelle.blogspot.com

These guys are Cloistered in their own MSM world, and I imagine that IF you show up to work like these guys do, that withiin their MSM workplace, American does look Bad.  

They need to send more of these taking heads to NASCAR races, or maybe take a trip to the Border, or get out of DC for a week.

Nancy and Harry are NOT America.......and neither is MSM news rooms.   Broaden your horizons, dudes.

What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ?   David Foote  GoE

 First thing, Mika, you & the Morning Schmo might want to get rid of the 2 dozen newspapers you have covering your desk like the bottom of a birdcage...You might want to enter the 21st century & just get your stories online, unless you like your hands getting inked up.

The USA is not even close to a 2nd rate power, & the only reason we might fall into that catagory in the future is the lack of political support of our military when we do fight. We have'nt fought to win since WW2, there is no country we can't defeat if we really wanted to. There are some in America who believe that we need to like the rest of the world & be liked  by the rest of the world. The fact that we have been neither of those things for the 231 years of since our founding is EXACTLY WHY we are the greatest nation the world has ever known.

Most of our families came here for a better life from all of those places that many on the left would like us to be more like, I have 5 words for those people...DON'T RUIN IT FOR EVERYONE.

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

Have either of you considered - Will either of you complain about the outrageous "pay" being made by the chicom CEO's?
How about the low "pay" by the chicom workers?
Will there be ANY consideration of environmental effects of this rapid, unchecked industrial growth?
Have you considered what this great "growth" is doing to the worldwide price of oil?
Can is growth be sustained, and if not, who will be blamed - the US?
Are the chicoms held to the same standards and workrules that American workers need to meet?
Do the chicoms receive the BEST healthcare in the world, and if they do, what medical advances and breaktroughs have they made?
Can you list the major chicom advances that have help everyone worldwide? (not including noodles and gunpowder)
What great inventors, entrapreneurs have the chicoms given to the world in the past 100 years?

I don't expect any answer from this cowardly bunch, as these and other questions (see original blog post) were and have been asked by others - and yet these so called "reporters" are tripping over themselves in American self-hate.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

The irrelevance of our "reputation" with other nations was never more exposed than before the start of the war against Iraq. Enter the Professor’s Wayback machine, and place yourself in the period just before we went to war. Remember what happened.

• We, and every member nation of the UN, believed that Iraq had WMDs.
• We all acknowledged that Iraq had completely ignored the sanctions against them, and had defied international opinion for many years.
• At that moment, our reputation was at its highest, and Iraq’s was at its lowest.

Yet, except for the UK, Australia, and a relatively few others, countries refused to join the effort against Saddam. Why not? Did they stop admiring us? No. They all clearly calculated that if the Americans would do it by themselves anyway, why contribute when we can reap the benefits for free? In that case, our reputation didn’t help us, and Iraq’s didn’t hurt them. Reputation is irrelevant. 

• I look back on that time, and I remember thinking that since the threat was bad enough, we should invade Iraq on our own, even if the rest didn’t come with us. I now realize that attitude was a mistake, because it signaled other nations that we were going to invade no matter what. That, in turn, gave other nations (France, Germany, etc.) the luxury of reaping the benefits without risking anything, and they exploited that. At the time, that was the smart move. 
• We should have been more reluctant (publicly), thereby forcing our so-called allies to either put up or shut up. 
• And to the administration’s credit, they learned the lesson … when North Korea developed, Bush refused to go it alone. He forced the neighboring countries to participate, and didn’t give them a free ride.

I’ve said it elsewhere – diplomacy isn’t about becoming warm and friendly. Diplomacy is about negotiating. Diplomacy is about how to manage mutual interests. Warm and friendly is a bonus, but it isn’t the real essence of diplomacy. We should never join with some other country unless it advances our interests, and we should never ask another country to join us unless it’s in their interest.

To them, China's growth and dynamism is the most compelling story of the 21st century. "Dynamism" was the sort of word people once used when talking about the United States. Now, they watch us like rubberneckers driving past a car wreck. "You used to be such a great country," they say. "Not even a country. What happened to the great idea that once defined America?

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What happened?

1) socialism was allowed to seep in and breed

2) illegal aliens were allowed to seep in and breed

3) political correctness and "diversity" were allowed to seep in and breed

4)  over-bearing enviromental and special interest groups with NO authority or jurisdiction were allowed to seep in and breed

5)  extremely stupid and ignorant people (who have absolutely NO intention, or knowledge, of following the Constitution, but twisting and changing it) have run for elected office(s) and were allowed to seep in and breed in our government

6)  the conniving, lying, deceitful, agenda-driven MSM was allowed to seep in and breed in the minds and lives of the masses of this country who were too lazy and complacent to NOT have been led around by the collective noses

Mika and todays liberals have the same bankrupt views that Carter and her father had.  They actually think Carter was a good president and her father did a good job as national security advisor.   

The idea of Bill Clinton as a "roving ambassador" to improve our image is the most pathetic thing I have ever heard. They are so silly as to believe our problems can be solved by sending a disbared, sexual pervert, liar and rapist as our representative.  The muslims will love him.  He is such an upright straightforward honest man with such integrity.  He represents all they hate about our culture. 

Classic. 

Why don't we bring Mia's father out of storage and let him screw up some other part of the world like he did the middle east.  

This country has serious problems but the failed policies of the Carter administration and the do nothing but sweep them under the rug approach of the Clintons will not solve them.

Be more like China?  The place that has no democracy, no due process and freedom of speech is laughed at?  Where they put you in jail without a trial (or after a kangaroo court) and do really bad things to you there?  That's what we're supposed to emulate?

No, thanks.  Some of us prefer the values embodied in the American Constitution.

"Dems like Mika are complaining of the results of the very policies that they have enacted, the very burdens on our economy to which they now propose to add with their proposals for "free" health care and a laundry list of other expensive goodies."

Not only that, but if there was ever a period in America's post-WW2 history that epitomized a lack of dynamism, it was the Carter Administration which her daddy so dutifully served.  Double-digit inflation, international prestige crippled, and what Jimmah hiz-seff labeled "a national malaise." Dynamism returned during the Reagan years.

As for the Left's envy of the People Republic of China, isn't it ironic that they say nothing about the dictatorship's heavy-handed squashing of dissenters and opponents, while they cry out against our own Patriot Act as being intrusive and a violation of our civil rights.

It reminds me of one of these demonstations here in Washington DC.  I encountered a college-aged young woman who was praising Fidel Castro.  When I pointed out that Castro was a dictator who literally executes his political opponents, she pointed out to me that he provides free health care.

Go figger.