So suggests the morons running our Country right now, at least: Responding to the massive BP oil spill, Congress is getting ready to quadruple—to 32 cents a barrel—a tax on oil used to help finance cleanups. The increase would raise nearly $11 billion over the next decade. The tax is levied on oil produced in the U.S. or imported from foreign countries. The revenue goes | Read More »
[image via NY Magazine] Of the many and varied examples of outlandishness from our President, Obama’s recent assertion that he will allow Gulf drilling only if [we are ensured of] no more spills cannot go unmocked. In a private email exchange, I was offered this observation: Let’s shut down coal operations until we can tell the American people that the recent tragic loss of 26 | Read More »
And another chair in the House goes empty…for now. For the record, I do not concur with Dionne’s Lamentations™ over Obey’s departure in this little fluff piece, but I DO rather enjoy Obey’s reasons for abandoning ship…go read it-it’s great theater. In the meantime, enjoy one of my all time favorite bands portraying my joy… Consider this an Open thread… ** (defined in the Urban | Read More »
Barack Obama seems to believe that Unions are not “special interest” groups. Either that, or he really believes we’re just too stupid to understand what he says and pay attention – over time – to what he actually does. In his Book “Audacity of Hope” then-Junior Senator Obama had an interesting comment about Unions (via OnTheIssues.Org) [emphasis mine]: The leaders of service workers unions broke | Read More »
How deliciously cynical of the First Couple that they would take a holiday in Stickville, USA so they can pretend to know us and know the pain they’ve inflicted on us: Barack and Michelle Obama flew off for a brief holiday in North Carolina on Friday in what was seen as an attempt to take a “middle class” vacation more in keeping with those of | Read More »
Quick post to point out an obscure little piece of news…NOW…as it happens: Cutter rejoins White House to aid in selling health care: The White House named Stephanie Cutter, a veteran Democratic operative, to oversee the White House’s messaging strategy on health care, among other large policy matters, in advance of the November midterm elections. Funny we need to hire an outside consultant back onto | Read More »
Apparently (and stunningly) the President of the American Federation of Government Employees (affiliate of the AFL-CIO) spoke out against the so-called “High Road Contracting Policy” (currently under consideration by the Obama Administration’s Union-hugging policy geniuses and eagerly being awaited by those who would most benefit by it being inflicted on us) when he “recently questioned the wisdom of using the procurement process as a tool | Read More »
[image via Drudge] So I’m skimming along through my morning “news constitutional” yesterday, and I come across the WaPo Headline that promises to tell me “why people dislike government (and why it matters for 2010).” I chuckle as I click through, anticipating a host of stuff I already know but fear being hung by the neck until dead for if I speak up too much | Read More »
So says Joe Klein and John Heilemann: “I did a little bit of research just before this show – it’s on this little napkin here. I looked up the definition of sedition which is conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state. And a lot of these statements, especially the ones coming from people like Glenn Beck and to a certain extent | Read More »
Former President Bill Clinton, while speaking at an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund recently, said this: [W]ords have consequences as much as actions do, and what we advocate, commensurate with our position and responsibility, we have to take responsibility for. Mr. Clinton makes an excellent larger point about our Political Heroes in general and President Obama in particular, though this | Read More »
I’m not in favor of gay marriage. When you’re done yelling at me, and before you put it to the keyboard, take a deep breath and read this: President Obama mandated Thursday that hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and allow same-sex couples to share medical power of attorney, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts | Read More »
Much has been written about President Obama’s far-left proclivities, the radical foundations beneath the friends and associates who helped shape his views throughout the formative years of his political development, and the tinfoil hat-wearing suspicion that his Presidency is nothing more than a years-in-the-making conspiracy against all that America has ever stood for. As one most likely to be the first to mock the ‘black | Read More »
I don’t see much point in prattling on and on about these words of wisdom from Rupert Murdoch, but I can’t let this pass without sharing a thought on the subject. In these economic times, and with these fiscal challenges, I can appreciate Murdoch’s need to keep his eye on the bottom line and attempt to protect the interests of his shareholders (him being high | Read More »
It would be far easier to rail against the apparent misguidance of President Obama on National Defense and his silly little notions of World Peace than to attempt a calm assessment of his revamped nuclear strategy, but a calm assessment is more of what this country needs right now. Rudy Giuliani has a piece up over at National Review that sums it up fairly well: | Read More »
Unfortunately, this latest news from the RNC is really just the icing on the cake of ‘a long train of abuses and usurpations’ by Steele and the RNC and only goes to show that Michael Steele has no business leading Republicans into the most critically important midterm elections in recent American history. He sucks at his job, and he needs to go-NOW: Neil S. Alpert, | Read More »
I couldn’t help but laugh at the oozing irony of this news about compliance with the Census in the Austin Texas area: Late Thursday afternoon, the maps showed Travis, Williamson and Hays counties and the City of Austin lagging well behind the national response rate of 20 percent. (The Census Bureau says the data is updated between 3 and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.) The | Read More »
I’m especially pleased to announce this morning that Obama has made 15 recess appointments. Honestly, I’m not all that concerned with who these people are NOR do I care about what they’ve been given a temp assignment to do. I’m sure these things matter to the right people in the right circles though. More’s the pity for them, I suppose. What does deserve note, however, | Read More »
I’m not going to apologize. I’m not going to incite. I’m not going to quantify or qualify…and I’m not going to condone OR condemn. I’m simply going to suggest that, with all we know about what’s coming our way courtesy the Hope and Change Express™, no one should pretend to be surprised that folks who are against this madness are not at all happy about | Read More »
Most of us, from either side of the health care debate have at least one bad thing to say about the “way” in which the Democrats got health care done. Of course, whether the matter is closed remains to be seen. In the meantime, I think it’s worth putting this out there for folks to consider: I see the way we did health care reform | Read More »
[image via Mark Knoller/TwitPic] Obama signed the Executive order today that bought Bart Stupak’s abandonment of the unborn. He blew off his first chance to sign it yesterday (likely the Planned Parenthood people hadn’t finished the final markup of the Executive order in time) but went through with his promise to issue a document that has no legal standing earlier today. The text of what | Read More »
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