Marx Madness Redux
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 21st at 11:18 PM |
My radio producer, Shane, is a genius. And he put this audio montage together in honor of the 2nd anniversary of Obamacare. What to call it? Marx Madness. What to put as background music? Why the national anthem to the USSR of course. Enjoy. UPDATE: On radio and twitter I’ve been giving Stephen Kruiser credit for coming up with it, but Fingers Malloy tells me | Read More »
Barack Obama’s Energy Policy: Unicorn Farts as the Fuel of Tomorrow
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 19th at 04:46 AM |
On Friday, the President of the United States accused his Republican opponents of being members of the Flat Earth Society because of their demands that the nation increase drilling. In no small bit of irony, the President who bitterly lamented the rise of ATM’s and internet travel options accused the GOP of wanting to bitterly cling to the past. But what of Barack Obama’s energy | Read More »
Further Proof Romney Supported a National Individual Mandate In 2009
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 3rd at 07:54 PM |
As I mentioned yesterday, back in 2009 Mitt Romney took to the pages of USA Today to tell President Obama that as he came up with a healthcare plan he should consider using “tax penalties” as Massachusetts did or “tax credits, as others have proposed” to help cover the costs of health care. The “tax penalties” is Mitt Romney’s individual mandate, a key portion the | Read More »
BREAKING: Mitt Romney Urged Obama to Embrace the Individual Mandate
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 2nd at 06:32 PM |
Had Michigan not been as close, the Democrats would have waited to spring this on us in the general election. Luckily we have it now and I hope Ohio voters are paying attention. In July 2009, Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed in USA Today urging Barack Obama to usean individual mandate at the national level to control healthcare costs. On the campaign trail now, Mitt | Read More »
If You Use Georgia Pacific Paper Products, Barack Obama Wants You To Turn Yourself In
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 1st at 04:46 AM |
Georgia-Pacific makes a lot of household paper products. Quilted Northern toilet paper, Angel Soft toilet paper, Brawny paper towels, Dixie cups, Vanity Fair napkins, etc. If you use any of them, Barack Obama wants you to report yourself to the government. No, I’m not making this up. On twitter last night, whoever the idiot is who runs the President’s twitter feed (I assume it is | Read More »
Principle as Political Liability
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 21st at 04:46 AM |
What a weird campaign season we are having. Let me present you a truth that some of you may bristle under, but is true nonetheless. No matter how right the cause or principle, it may still be a political liability. I’ll start with the one you’ll agree with it. Barack Obama and many on the left may believe that abortion . . . er . | Read More »
Today House Republicans Are Set To Approve Barack Obama’s Latest Stimulus Plan
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 14th at 04:46 AM |
“Call your Congressman today at 202-224-3121 and tell him to oppose H.R. 7, the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act.” It is sad that we have gotten here, but House Republicans, including conservative stalwarts like Jim Jordan of Ohio, are set to pass Barack Obama’s latest stimulus plan. Except they are calling it John Boehner’s “Highway Bill.” Consider, however that Barack Obama’s budget, unveiled yesterday, | Read More »
The Anne Boleyn Budget — 1000 Days In
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 13th at 10:04 AM |
Anne Boleyn was queen for 1000 days then her head rolled off her shoulders thanks to a Frenchman’s sword. We’re seeing the Anne Boleyn of budgets making its way to Capitol Hill now — after 1000 days the President is finally presenting his budget. But like the last one that got rejected 97-0 in the Senate, this one too, it seems, will get rejected by | Read More »
House Conservatives Support Barack Obama’s Latest Stimulus
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 9th at 04:46 AM |
Since February of 2009 when President Barack Obama began his aggressive push for stimulus into the American economy, he focused on one core area — infrastructure. In fact, in his stimulus speech before Congress in 2009, his States of the Union in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and his Jobs Act speech of late 2011, the President repeated referred to spending government money to create jobs | Read More »
The Perversion of the Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ by the Sinner Barack H. Obama
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 5th at 02:04 AM |
I’m afraid we need a little Sunday morning theology. Hopefully someone at the White House will read this and realize just how ill advised the President was to do what he did this week and we should be praying hard for him to see the error of his ways on this. In the Bible we read these things: “And God blessed them. And God said | Read More »
Ener1 and Barack Obama: If You Own Masterlock Stock, Sell
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | January 26th at 01:30 PM |
In 2010, Barack Obama touted Solyndra’s solar panels in his State of the Union speech. We know what happened to Solyndra. In this week’s State of the Union, Barack Obama touted Ener1′s electric car batteries. Today, Ener1 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Also in Barack Obama’s State of the Union this week, he touted Masterlock and the high productivity of its unionized workforce. Given the | Read More »
The State of the Union
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | January 25th at 04:46 AM |
There need not be 7000 words, the length of the President’s speech, to break it down for you. John F. Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” Barack Obama’s State of the Union is all about letting you know that government is going to do everything for you and when it can’t keep | Read More »
Ted Kennedy Prepared Barack Obama’s Attack Ads
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 29th at 04:45 AM |
In 1994, Ted Kennedy ran against Mitt Romney. Romney ran on his jobs record in the private sector. Sound familiar? Well, get ready for Barack Obama’s ad campaign against Mitt Romney. Ted Kennedy already produced the ads and I’ve got them. We’re going to hear about Bain Capital taking federal bailout money. We’ll hear the tales of woe from people Mitt Romney ordered laid off. | Read More »
Bad News for Barack Obama’s Re-Election
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 16th at 11:18 AM |
He is still the favorite to win. He is the incumbent President of the United States. He flies on a big blue airplane that gives him free media exposure whenever he lands. He gets to bring along politicians with whom he can curry favor. It is hard to pick off an incumbent President. But there are warning signs on the horizon for Mr. Obama. It | Read More »
Work for Obama, Get a Federal Contract, and Watch Left-Wing Pseudo-Journalists Roll Over and Purr
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 15th at 10:35 AM |
Solyndra, Lightsquared, and now Solayzme are all companies that are closely connected to the Obama campaign and all got government money. While the Obama Administration has been attacking Republicans as “crony capitalists” and using an army of left-wing pseudo-journalists to make the attacks, the Obama Administration has been rewarding campaign friends with government contracts. In Barack Obama’s America, he, not the marketplace, picks the winners | Read More »
Barack Obama Throws Bill Clinton Under the Bus
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 15th at 04:47 AM |
Historically when the left takes power in a country they begin to rewrite their history. Barack Obama, a quintessential leftist, has started doing that in the run up to his re-election. In his speech in Kansas last week, Obama claimed that at no time in our history had we ever spurred economic growth and prosperity by cutting taxes and deregulating. He conveniently had to overlook | Read More »
Let’s Not Persecute Gays, But Christians? Meh.
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 8th at 04:31 PM |
Rick Perry is getting all sorts of fire for his ad mentioning gays in the military and kids not being able to pray in school. The left and the libertarian leaning poseurs are all out in force attacking Perry and that ad with a “prove it.” Well . . . We all know about the report of the Obama Administration saying it will check to | Read More »
Obama Says It is Good to be in Texas While in Kansas
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 6th at 03:58 PM |
Were it Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann, all we’d hear about for the next week is that they went to Kansas and said it was “Good to be back in Texas.” Except it wasn’t Perry or Bachmann. It was Barack Obama not using the teleprompter. Like the 57 states. Except Barack Obama is a genius.
Herman Cain and the Big Picture
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | November 29th at 04:45 AM |
I would much rather talk about how Barack Obama is screwing the country with disastrous policies, but instead we are yet again forced to talk about who Herman Cain might have had sexual relations with. Yet again his staff (pun alert!!!!) has let him down. His attorney’s statement reads like a non-denial denial, which would be fine for a Democrat, but after Bill Clinton the | Read More »
What Do Rick Perry and Barack Obama Have in Common?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | November 10th at 01:13 PM |
With a tip of the hat to Christina at the Neal Boortz Show who put this together, Rick Perry can at least take some comfort from the fact that he is no worse without a teleprompter than Barack Obama. Download here.