Cutting the Troops
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | January 7th at 07:00 AM |
I am not one of those who thinks the Defense budget is sacrosanct and cannot be cut. Even Governor Palin is on record saying we cannot spare the Defense budget from cuts in these times and she, unlike me, has a child in harm’s way. In any event, the Defense Department is out saying it will make cuts to the various branches of the military. | Read More »
Let’s Take Barack Obama’s Advice on the Debt Limit
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | January 6th at 10:52 AM |
Back in 2006, as the vote on the debt limit came up, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Harry Reid all voted against it. Here is what I am calling on all Republicans to do. They should go to the floor of their respective house in the congress and, before pledging to vote against the debt limit just like Barack Obama did when he was there, | Read More »
Sticks, Stones, and Thin-Skinned Barry
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 7th at 03:04 PM |
“Mr. Obama, I have a question for you — if the American people are hostages and the GOP are the hostage takers, what the hell are you besides a failed negotiator/hostage rescuer?” Robert Menendez, the other day, said it was like negotiating with terrorists referencing the tax compromise talks. Today, Barack Obama called the GOP ‘hostage takers.’ So much for reaching across the aisle. Of | Read More »
Why Governors Matter: Nikki Haley Takes on Barack Obama
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 3rd at 05:00 AM |
Nikki Haley is just so awesome. At a White House gathering for the new governors, Governor-Elect Haley confronted Mr. Obama and asked him to repeal Obamacare. Obama refused so Haley said she wanted an opt-out for South Carolina. She made sure the White House knew she was going to fight every step of the way on this. What is more awesome is that she demanded | Read More »
Impotence & Salad
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | November 29th at 05:00 AM |
Welcome back. I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. There are a few stories that came out over the holiday weekend and I think they are best tied together by one word — impotence. Barack Obama increasingly appears to be an impotent President and no amount of viagra funded through Obamacare seems capable of helping the man. First there was North Korea. They have, in | Read More »
Michele Bachmann Is On the Money
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | November 23rd at 05:00 AM |
Michele Bachmann, for reasons unknown to me, decided to sit down with the BBC. God bless her for evangelizing and bringing the message of freedom even to places like that. But she is being attacked and distorted for what she said in this interview. The interviewer kept asking Congresswoman Bachmann if she stood by a 2008 statement that Barack Obama was anti-American. What she responded | Read More »
Why Does Tim Geithner Still Have A Job?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | November 10th at 10:00 AM |
One week before the midterm elections in 2006, George W. Bush publicly said he would stand by Donald Rumsfeld. The day after the election, Donald Rumsfeld was out the door. The President, Republicans, and virtually everyone else blamed the war for the GOP midterm disaster. Rumsfeld was the head that rolled. The day after the election. Tim Geithner’s head remains in Washington. Why? The President | Read More »
‘It’s Not Me. It’s You.’
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | November 8th at 06:00 AM |
Mr. Obama has made up his mind. The voters did not reject him or his policies on Tuesday. They just rejected the economy. Never mind that it is his policies that have made things worse. We’ve heard this now since last Wednesday. Mr. Obama has taken it as his mantra that “it’s the economy stupid” and also that people are too stupid to understand what | Read More »
Delegitimizing The Victories: The Politics of the Angry White Male
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | November 1st at 05:00 AM |
“It will be easier for the Democrats to believe in a grand conspiracy that stole the election, than to accept rejection by the American people.” Conservatives will be fighting on two fronts after today. First, Establishment Republicans will be peddling stories, as they have in the past week, that conservative gains in the Senate were really not significant compared to the Establishment pickups. We’ll deal | Read More »
America’s First Black President Tries to Push Out Another Black Politician
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 29th at 05:00 AM |
First they came for David Patterson, Governor of New York. Barack Obama and the Democrats ganged up on him and forced him to not seek re-election. Now they’ve come for Kendrick Meeks, or at least Bill Clinton, America’s first black President, has come for Kendrick Meeks, but at the behest of America’s second black President. It started with a story in the Politico. Bill Clinton | Read More »
White House Conspires With Media Matters
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 28th at 09:02 AM |
ABC News notes the White House had a meeting of special needs representatives. What ABC News fails to point out is that two of them work at Media Matters For America, the George Soros funded character assassins who see evil racists in the white filling of every twinkie they consume. In fact that’s why they eat so many twinkies at Media Matters — they are | Read More »
Why Not Barack Obama?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 14th at 05:00 AM |
Last evening, the President of Chile called out by name two world leaders for special thanks for their support — British Prime Minister David Cameron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Barack Obama’s name was not mentioned. Barack Obama, purported leader of the free world, resides in the Western Hemisphere with the Chilean President and is supposedly restoring American greatness in the world. What has | Read More »
Barack Obama the Birther
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 12th at 12:59 PM |
Barack Obama accusing the Chamber of Commerce of laundering foreign money and putting it into the election this year is as crazy as the Birthers demanding to see his birth certificate having convinced themselves Obama is a foreign born manchurian candidate. I largely agree with Glenn Reynolds on this. Obama is raising the specter of foreign influence in the election so his base views the | Read More »
Barack Obama Is ‘A Threat to Our Democracy’
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 11th at 05:00 AM |
“[U]nlike the Chamber of Commerce, the Obama campaign most likely accepted into its campaign coffers donations from foreign individuals and never returned the money.” When you’ve hung around with so many people who idealize communism and socialism and loath the United States, you tend to develop an inner-Soviet voice. Barack Obama sure has. He let it slip with Joe the Plumber and Obama’s talk of | Read More »
The Incongruous Moment
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 5th at 10:25 AM |
We have reached the incongruous moment — that moment in time where things not in keeping with the surrounds and intended visuals suddenly merge into making perfect sense. Walter Mondale is giving advice to Barack Obama on how to connect with the American people. It was Mondale who, yesterday, told Barack Obama to ditch the teleprompter. This was preceded by Michael Dukakis admitting he had | Read More »
I Think This Means The Terrorists Have Won
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 9th at 10:05 AM |
This is a shot of the top of Google News right now. If korans are burned in Florida by some moron preacher, the terrorists will get new recruits. If the Ground Zero Mosque is moved in New York, the terrorists will get new recruits. In other words, we either bow to the demands and wishes of radical Islamists or else. This is madness. No. This | Read More »
The Victim in Chief Makes a Pitch for Greater Socialism
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 7th at 05:00 AM |
Barack Obama went to Milwaukee, WI yesterday to speak to one of the few friendly audiences he has left in America — Big Labor. Our Victim-in-Chief, with no sense of history, declared that people talk about him like a dog. First, it is worth point out he named his dog after himself — Bo. Either the dog stinks or got Mr. Obama’s initials. It could | Read More »
Barack Obama Monotones
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 31st at 09:20 PM |
Barack Obama again waited for Rush Limbaugh to go on vacation before addressing the public from the Oval Office. Like the last speech, this speech was, for three-quarters of it, dry and monotone — President Spock addressing the nation without emotion. Finally, at the end, Spockobama gave into emotion and showed some talking about the troops. Throughout though, the speech was a rather pathetic speech. | Read More »
Barack Obama Speaks
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 31st at 07:58 PM |
Not since February of 2009 has Barack Obama spoken in depth about Iraq. Naturally, he waits for Rush Limbaugh to go on vacation to it — notice he always waits for Rush to go on vacation before addressing the nation from the Oval Office Beige Room. Here’s our traditional Cover-It-Live box. Have at it. Barack Obama Speaks From the Oval Beige Room