In his uninspiring inauguration speech, President Obama told the world we would not waver in defense of our way of life, and he told the evil doers that “our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.” That wasn’t even three weeks ago, but it seems like a different time. Since uttering that strong rhetoric, President Obama | Read More »
President Obama will visit with families of September 11 terrorist attacks and the 17 sailors killed in the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole. Obama has some ‘splaining to do. Groups representing victims’ families were angered by Obama’s half-baked executive order to close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay and Obama’s order to drop the charges against the terrorist mastermind of the Cole bombing. | Read More »
President Obama plans to address Congress for the first time on February 24: White House officials say that Obama’s speech to a joint session of the House and Senate will have the trappings of a State of the Union address, but it will not be considered one. His first State of the Union speech won’t come until next January. Which brings to mind the un-birthday | Read More »
President Obama reveals that his sly attempt to appear bipartisan by nominating Republican Senator Judd Gregg to be Commerce Secretary is nothing more than pure partisan politics. In an effort to mollify ruffled feathers of “black and Hispanic leaders” about Gregg’s commitment to funding the 2010 census, Obama has already decided to clip the wings of his Secretary of Commerce-designate: The director of the Census | Read More »
I think I messed up. I screwed up in not recognizing the perception that even though this is an honest mistake, I believe, on Tom’s part, that, you know, ordinary people are out there paying taxes every day and whether it’s an intentional mistake or not, it was sending the wrong signal. You can watch President Obama’s admission in the following video: The full transcript | Read More »
Nancy Killefer, President Obama’s nominee to chief performance officer for the federal government has withdrawn her nomination: When her selection was announced by President Barack Obama on Jan. 7, The Associated Press disclosed that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a more than $900 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help. So after fighting | Read More »
“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.” — Senator Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507 Tom Daschle, President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, is singing a different tune today. “I am deeply embarrassed and disappointed by the errors that required me to amend my tax returns,” said | Read More »
On Thursday, President Obama directed the closing of the terrorist detention center in Guantanamo Bay, but not for a year. Senator McCain thinks Obama was too hasty and failed to consider where the terrorists detained at Guantanamo will go: “So, the easy part, in all due respect, is to say we’re going to close Guantanamo,” McCain said. “Then I think I would have said where | Read More »
President Obama won Senate confirmation for six of his Cabinet nominees just hours after he took the oath of office: Among those confirmed Tuesday were Obama’s pick for energy secretary, Steven Chu, homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano; agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack; education secretary, Arne Duncan; interior secretary Ken Salazar; and veterans affairs secretary Eric Shinseki. For all that talk of being ready to hit the | Read More »
Even though it will take Barack Obama less than a minute to recite the oath of office, his lavish celebration will cost more than $160 million and required a state of emergency to be declared in the District of Columbia. In 2005, the International Herald Tribune (the “global edition of the New York Times) found spending $40 million for President Bush’s second inauguration to be | Read More »
In an audacious display of chutzpah, President-elect Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress advance plans to spend an additional $1.2 trillion — an amount that will double the record breaking $1.2 trillion budget deficit, while Obama tells Washington Post reporters and editors he will convene a “fiscal responsibility summit.” Under Obama’s veto threat, the Senate, by a vote of 52 to 42, released the second $350 | Read More »
President-elect Obama, in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on “This Week,” would not rule out political retribution dressed up as investigations of the looney left-wing’s fanciful allegations of Bush administration war-crimes:
In this week’s edition of what Obama use to call “Your Weekly Address from the President-elect” [someone finally convinced Obama how patronizingly presumptuous that title sounds because they have gone back and renamed all the videos], Obama announced yet another increase in the number of jobs he hopes his $800 billion bailout will “create or save.” Obama just can’t seem to find a goal that | Read More »
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, says president-elect Obama’s Senate seat will stay vacant until Democrat Governor Blagojevich is removed and a new appointment can be certified: “At this point we’ve clearly reached an impasse,” Durbin told reporters at his Chicago office. That’s Democrat speak for the courts don’t see things our way. Durbin also said the “Senate cannot waive a | Read More »
Republicans push back against turning a stimulus package into a bloated boondoggle. Republican Senators spent the day at a retreat at the Library of Congress with three distinguished economists–Martin Feldstein, Larry Lindsey, and Peter Wallison–talking about how to get the economy going. At the conclusion of the retreat Senators McConnell and Alexander spoke about what an economic stimulus ought to contain: Senator Alexander: We — | Read More »
President-elect Obama, stung by criticism from California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein and West Virginia Democrat Senator John Rockefeller backed away from the reported appointment of Leon Panetta to head the CIA: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who this week begins her tenure as the first female head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she was not consulted on the choice and indicated she might oppose it. | Read More »
President-elect Obama predicts “trillion-dollar deficits for years to come.” “We’re already looking at a trillion-dollar budget deficit or close to a trillion-dollar budget deficit, and that potentially we’ve got trillion-dollar deficits for years to come, even with the economic recovery that we are working on at this point,” Obama said. The federal deficit was about $455 billion for fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, | Read More »
NBC News reports Obama’s Commerce Secretary designate, Governor Bill Richardson has withdrawn his name for the position, citing a pending investigation into a company that has done business with his state: Obama said Sunday he accepted Richardson’s decision to withdraw with ‘deep regret.’ “Governor Richardson is an outstanding public servant and would have brought to the job of Commerce Secretary and our economic team great | Read More »
When the Democrats regained control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04 — that’s $8.67 trillion. In the two years Pelosi and the Democrats have been in charge, the national debt has grown to $10,699,804,864,612.13 — that’s $10.70 trillion. Since Pelosi and the Democrats regained control of Congress $2,029,208,621,639.09, or $2.03 trillion, has been added to the national debt. That is | Read More »
Boondoggle: a wasteful or impractical project or activity often involving graft – Merriam Webster Online Dictionary Back from his two-week Hawaiian vacation, President-elect Obama’s plans to bail out the economy don’t match his rhetoric. The words sound good: We need an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that not only creates jobs in the short-term but spurs economic growth and competitiveness in the long-term,” he says. | Read More »
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