We’ve heard it before. Last month, as the Federal Government was becoming an 8 percent owner of Chrysler and 50 percent owner of General Motors, President Obama feigned disinterest: I don’t want to run auto companies. I’m not an auto engineer. I don’t know how to create an affordable, well-designed plug-in hybrid. Moments later, Obama revealed his actual intent: “But I know that, if the | Read More »
It was simply amazing. The fog the mainstream media’s infatuation with President Obama is obviously beginning to wear off. At today’s press conference, reporters finally asked Obama some tough questions. Obama was taken aback by the change in tone. As a result, we did not see the smooth articulate teleprompter-reader we normally see. Obama was on the defensive as soon as his opening remarks were | Read More »
Senate Republicans to ramp up opposition, in a respectful and fair manner, against Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, will lead this week’s charge against President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee In a series of speeches Republican Senators will focus on “Sotomayor’s involvement with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the New Haven firefighters case, | Read More »
Herman Cain encourages those of us who believe in less government, less taxes and less dependence on government (Conservatives), to continue to oppose President Obama’s effort to drag the nation far to the left: First, we can and must continue to voice our opposition loudly and collectively to wrongheaded, anti-liberty and anti-free-market proposals. There are some moderate Democrats who are against these socialist policies, and | Read More »
Rasmussen reports President Obama’s Presidential Approval Index fell to -2. That is Obama’s lowest rating to date and the first time the Presidential Approval Index has fallen below zero for Obama. The tracking Poll shows that 32% of the nation’s voters strongly approve of Obama’s performance and 34% strongly disapprove. Rasmussen’s Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the | Read More »
So it begins. The Obama administration has made its first transfer of a detainee at the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to United States soil. Ahmed Ghailani, arrived in New York early Tuesday to be tried in federal court in lower Manhattan for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 224 people. Ghailani’s transfer | Read More »
As you have no doubt heard by now, much has been made about Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s 2001 speech during which she said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” I haven’t thought much of the allegations that | Read More »
Credit where credit is due. Obama, as I suggested he do a year ago, finally confronted his, and our Muslim issue. The first 15 minutes of President Obama’s speech to the Muslim world was what I wanted to hear from candidate Obama a year ago. Had he given that portion of his speech during the presidential campaign much of the irrational fear of Obama as | Read More »
Rebranding America as “one of the largest Muslim countries” is not at all what I had in mind when I called for then candidate Obama to confront his Muslim issue head on. In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, President Obama said the United States could be considered as “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world“: And one of the points | Read More »
General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection this morning and President Obama plans to give the bankrupt car maker another $30 billion bailout during and after the bankruptcy process. That will bring the bailout of General Motors to $50 billion. The $50 billion bailout of General Motors is second only to the $150 billion AIG bailout. According to the Washington Post, under the proposed restructuring of | Read More »
After battling tougher nationwide rules for automobile emissions and mileage standards for years, today automakers will join the federal and state governments and environmental activists and accept a National Program that will mandate reduced carbon emissions and increased fuel economy. According to a press release from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and news reports the National Program, which will “begin to take effect in 2012,” | Read More »
Encouraged by the green light President Obama recently gave to his Attorney General, Eric Holder, left-wing liberal/progressive extremists are seeking disbarment of a dozen Bush administration lawyers linked to legal opinions concerning the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques. The extremists are seeking retribution by persecution because these lawyers concluded, after a legal review, the enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, did not violate the legal prohibition of | Read More »
As the Democrat-controlled Senate conducts sanctimonious hearings on enhanced interrogation methods, several Senate Democrat leaders, including Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer, announced support for delaying any prosecutions of Bush administration interrogation methods until after the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence finishes investigating the issue. This is a good time to recall what Schumer said abut torture at a June 8, 2004 Judiciary Committee hearing: And | Read More »
According to the Associated Press, Specter’s decision to switch rather than fight came cheap. All it took was for President Obama to promise to campaign for Specter in next year’s Pennsylvania Democraticprimary. Of course, Gibbs denied any promises were made to get Specter to get him to become a Democrat. But then Gibbs denied President Obama bowed to King Abdullah. There are unconfirmed rumors about | Read More »
There President Obama goes yet again — saying one thing while doing the opposite. After prodding by the White House, Congressional Democrats near a budget deal so Obama can have his spend too much, tax too much, borrow too much budget in place within his first 100 days. President Obama’s budget includes a $1.75 trillion deficit so he can spend nearly $4 trillion in fiscal | Read More »
Rasmussen finds 58% of Americans believe the Obama administration’s recent release of CIA memos endangers the national security of the United States. Sizable majorities of Republicans and unaffiliated voters say the release of the CIA memos about the interrogations hurts national security. Democrats are evenly divided on whether the release hurt national security or helped the image of the United States abroad. Other findings: Americans | Read More »
Eric Holder, President Obama’s Attorney General, has shamelessly adopted the tactics of the disgraced prosecutors of Senator Stevens. Holder has now released 11 formerly classified legal memoranda. These cherry picked legal opinions have been seized upon by left-wing extremists to call for prosecutions of those involved in interrogations of terrorists such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was | Read More »
Fred Thompson takes Obama to task over the President’s latest amateurish flip flop — the green light that begins the process to provide the left its long-sought show trials of Bush Administration officials. Listen to the following YouTube audio clip: Fred really nails it.
During his April 14, 2009 press briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had an exchange with Helen Thomas about detainees being held at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. During this exchange, Gibbs denied that Obama “taught on constitutional law.” Q Why is the President blocking habeas corpus from prisoners at Bagram? I thought he taught constitutional law. And these prisoners have been there – MR. | Read More »
Show trial: a trial (as of political opponents) in which the verdict is rigged and a public confession is often extracted — Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary President Obama was presented with another opportunity to rule out political retribution dressed up as investigations of the looney left-wing’s fanciful allegations of Bush administration war-crimes. Instead of standing by his previous obfuscation that “we need to look forward as | Read More »
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