Obama’s “Saved Or Created Jobs” Does Not Match Reality
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 27th at 05:49 PM |
The House Republicans have put together some data your local mainstream media outlet probably will shy away from discussing. Today, Barack Obama told the public, “In these last few months, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has saved or created nearly 100 — 150,000 jobs”? But that’s just not true. 16,000 jobs have been lost every single day since Barry’s stimulus plan was passed. At | Read More »
The Irony of Barack Obama’s Speech
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 21st at 11:56 AM |
Let’s ignore, for a moment, that he introduced his Defense Secretary as William Gates. Barack Obama has been out for over a year claiming George Bush was destroying the constitution. Today, Barack Obama stood in front of the real, physical constitution in the National Archives with bright lights shining on the constitution. Anyone who has been there knows that they won’t even let you have | Read More »
The Car Czar is taking the title too literally
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 18th at 10:03 AM |
Steve Rattner, you will recall, is Barack Obama’s car czar — the man who has gone so far as to micromanage GM’s advertising campaigns and car inventories. Rattner is also the guy who, in the name of global warming and environmentalism, is pushing GM and Chrysler to build smaller cars that use less fuel and kill more people in collisions. You would think that Rattner, | Read More »
The Lesbian Who Loved A Man: Wanda Sykes Is Hot for Barry & Cold for Rush and Cheney
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 11th at 04:00 AM |
[Editorial Note to Ms. Sykes from Erick: I'm pretty sure, if we play the odds, it would be more likely for the 20th hijacker to be named Barack Hussein Obama than Rush Hudson Limbaugh, III] By now you have probably read about Wanda Sykes’ comments at the Correspondents Dinner. It is the first time in recorded history a lesbian has stood before America’s media elite | Read More »
How I Killed the Obama Resolution
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 4th at 08:53 PM |
The Barack Obama resolution came up to City Council’s Ordinances and Resolutions Committee on which I sit. I had threatened to bring 100 amendments to Council to shut things down if the resolution made head way. Well, last week, in an unguarded moment I said something very intemperate regarding Justice David Souter. I should not have said it, but I did. I’m not going to | Read More »
The First Few Amendments
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 3rd at 10:01 PM |
As some of you know, my fellow Council Member Elaine Lucas has submitted legislation to declare Barack Obama a member of Macon’s City Council. Tomorrow in committee we begin discussing the legislation. Below are a few of my amendments: Erickson Amendment to the RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MACON, GEORGIA HONORING PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ON BECOMING THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF | Read More »
The Obama Thugocracy Has Arrived
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 2nd at 07:30 PM |
Maybe it is the upbringing in Indonesia that taught Barack Obama the finer points of running a thugocracy. Or maybe it was from reading Saul Alinsky and growing up surrounded by communists, radicals, and domestic terrorists. First you hire a bunch of tax cheats, then you confiscate a pile of tax payer dollars to bailout your preferred billionaires and screw shareholders of companies, then begin | Read More »
Obama’s Press Conference
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 29th at 07:19 PM |
Obama Speaks.
Is Obama Rushing Another Attack?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 27th at 10:45 AM |
We know, because Joe Biden told us, that the Obama administration expects us to get attacked again domestically. That’s the working M.O. of this administration: no matter what we do, we’re going to eventually get hit again. The Obama administration views the seven years after 9/11 as more a fluke than a successful strategy by George Bush to prevent domestic terror attacks. So if the | Read More »
Barack Obama Succeeded In Getting HIs Stimulus Plan Through Congress. Now America Fails.
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 26th at 09:52 PM |
On January 10, 2009, Barack Obama delivered his Weekly Address to the Nation as the then President-Elect. He said We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime. We learned yesterday that in the past month alone, we lost more than half a million jobs – a total of nearly 2.6 million in the | Read More »
Obama admits using tax policy to promote “fairness” not to raise revenue
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 26th at 09:26 PM |
Ladies and gentlemen, when Barack Obama succeeds, the country fails. Look no further than this interview with Charlie Gibson: GIBSON: All right. You have, however, said you would favor an increase in the capital gains tax. As a matter of fact, you said on CNBC, and I quote, “I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton,” which was 28 percent. It’s now | Read More »
Obama Continues To March Toward More American Deaths
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 24th at 02:13 PM |
The other day I asked a very serious question: How Many Americans Will Die Because of Barack Obama’s Weak National Security Leadership? As I noted at the time and have noted previously, That Obama is sweeping out career intelligence officers is a clear sign he intends to clear out the policies these intelligence officers advocated and implemented — the very same policies that kept us | Read More »
How Obama Intends to Control the Census
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 22nd at 12:28 PM |
With a hat tip to my friend David, we know now how Barack Obama intends to turn the Census into a political quagmire without pulling it into the White House. See this from the Washington Times. President Obama is losing a member of his press shop just shy of his first 100 days in office. Ellen Moran, White House communications director, will become chief of | Read More »
How Many Americans Will Die Because of Barack Obama’s Weak National Security Leadership?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 21st at 10:14 PM |
Let me say this without reservation, despite the left-wing assault when I twittered it: I do not doubt that more Americans will die at the hands of terrorists under the watch of Barack Obama than under the watch of George W. Bush. Back on January 8th, I wrote General Michael Hayden and John O. Brennan are career guys. They are not partisans. I could not | Read More »
Mercedes Marquez: The latest corrupt Barack Obama Appointee
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 21st at 09:50 AM |
Barack Obama has nominated Mercedes Marquez to be Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development. Will Republican Senators ask her about the following: The Los Angeles Housing Department has paid thousands of dollars to a Zen Buddhist priest from Hawaii for management training that includes teaching breathing with sphincter control, learning “how to stand” and playing with wooden sticks. | Read More »
Roy Blunt: “Protesting Taxing & Spending is Offensive to Taxers and Spenders”
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 15th at 10:30 AM |
Just got off the phone with Roy Blunt. He was calling about the Department of Homeland Security report and called it “stupid.” He said he is pretty offended by it and we “cannot let the government get away without paying a price in public opinion,” which, he said, is really about all the Obama administration cares about right now. He said Missouri made the same | Read More »
Obama’s House Built on Rocks Will Fail
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 14th at 01:23 PM |
Today Barack Obama took to the New Testament when talking about the bleak economic outlook his policies are helping create. Obama said, “There is a parable at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that tells the story of two men. The first built his house on a pile of sand, and it was soon destroyed when the storm hit. But the second is | Read More »
The King and the Queen
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 9th at 11:11 PM |
Barack Obama did not bow from the waist when he met Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas Queen, Defender of the Faith, Duchess of Edinburgh, Countess of Merioneth, Baroness Greenwich, Duke of Lancaster, Lord of Mann, Duke of Normandy, Sovereign of the Order of Canada, Sovereign of the Order of | Read More »
Chicago Politics in the White House
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 2nd at 07:52 AM |
Remember when Clinton was in the White House? For the first time that I remember, the media had to start breaking out the polling between job and personality — that is, they had to separate out that the public really approved of the job Clinton was doing, but they thought he was a sleazy individual they personally did not much care for. With Obama, we | Read More »