By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 16th at 11:33 PM  | 

[quick note-Texas is getting in on the action now, as well as Virginia...stay tuned-I'll start the popcorn] BP America, Conoco Phillips, and Caterpillar (among others) have announced their intentions to quit the Climate Action Partnership, a group whose mission is to “call on the federal government to enact legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.” BP American says it “intends to go solo in | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 16th at 09:29 PM  | 

The Hill’s “Blog Briefing Room” suggests that is exactly the reality our beleaguered President finds himself staring at: 52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll. Obama faces a 44-52 deficit among both all Americans and registered voters, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Tuesday. Four percent had no opinion. The reelection numbers are | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 15th at 11:18 PM  | 

Great news from Afghanistan: “Secret Joint Raid Captures Taliban’s Top Commander” putting aside for today the fact that the NYT leaked a secret again…something they do quite frequently. The Taliban’s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials. The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is an | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 15th at 01:28 PM  | 

What must be done now is to award the email hacker with the next Nobel Peace Prize, revoke Al Gore’s, confiscate all the profits that have been made from furthering the lies and misdirections of the climate alarmists (including Michael Moore of course), shut down the UN’s Climate wing, and immediately dismantle and disrupt the EPA and the last 20 years of restrictions and regulations | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 14th at 12:30 PM  | 

[image via AP/ABC] ABC News endeavors to help us understand why Harry Reid is stripping down the jobs bill. The article plods along like you might expect; leading us to believe it’s just as good an idea as any other right now and that it is backed by the White House. Its price tag is dramatically lower than the bipartisan proposal from Baucus and Grassley | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 13th at 10:32 AM  | 

David Reilly over at Bloomberg tells us that Obama needs to “man up” if he doesn’t want to be handing Sarah Palin the keys to the White House in January 2013. While I think it’s quite presumptuous to assume Palin will be his successor, Reilly’s little rant about Obama needing to be more of a tough guy (even against his own people) made me laugh. | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 12th at 12:55 PM  | 

I had a boss, years ago, whose favorite saying was “Doing something is always better than doing nothing.” That was effective in some cases, especially in a manufacturing environment where a down line is always far worse than a crippled one. And while it might have been used successfully more often than not, it was not fool proof; making bad widgets and passing off production | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 11th at 09:07 AM  | 

I would ordinarily offer THIS story with a title of “Offered without Comment” but I have a couple I must present for consideration: Iran is now a ‘nuclear state’, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced this morning. He spoke as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Tehran to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. There are fears of violence as opposition | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 10th at 08:36 PM  | 

I don’t want to mock too indiscriminately here…God knows how badly I would like to see a jobs bill that would foster a genuine hiring environment and help drag us out of the depression-like environment we’ve suffered with for so long, but really?: It’s a bipartisan jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory and placate Republicans with tax cuts | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 10th at 11:00 AM  | 

NY Governor David Paterson is piling a few on the Democrats’ house of cards today as well: In the midst of swirling rumors of a soon-to-be published bombshell story, New York Gov. David Paterson (D) said Wednesday that criticism of him has been motivated by his race. Paterson, who is black and blind, said on Imus in the Morning that he has been the subject | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 9th at 10:30 PM  | 

Your new-found zest for camaraderie and bipartisanship wouldn’t be timed to coincide with your crash in the polls now, would it? I mean, who doesn’t want you to fix the jobs crisis and put that health care nonsense out to pasture like the washed-up brood mare that it has become…but c’mon now-don’t you credit us with any well-earned cynicism and suspicion as you start calling | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 9th at 07:41 PM  | 

So sayeth White House deputy national security adviser John Brennan, at least. Funny how that never occurred to him and his fellow Democrats when George W. Bush was in the White House. Someone needs to be taken out behind the woodshed. Consider Brennan’s whining and bellyaching about being called out for sucking at his job: Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 8th at 10:13 PM  | 

I know, I know…he had his run and he didn’t really give us much during the second half of his second term to set up an electoral edge for Republicans going in to the ’08 cycle. He made some things, in fact, worse for us in several fairly big ways…but still-you gotta love seeing the Cowboy in Chief rub it in Bambi and the left’s | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 6th at 05:14 PM  | 

The moment in history from which our so-called “Tea Party” movement of today takes its name was a singular event; refusing to pay Parliament’s levy on tea (because doing so would be to acknowledge Britain’s authority to tax the Colonies) was the Colonists’ way of standing up against the tyranny of a King and his Parliament. It was a symbolic gesture on the part of | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 2nd at 12:28 AM  | 

What a curious approach to diplomacy our President has chosen for Iran. Having promised to meet them with no preconditions back in ’07 as a candidate, President Obama has decided to deploy a “missile shield to protect American allies in the Gulf from attack by Tehran.” How far we’ve come in our journey with Obama’s “on the job training” gig. Too bad he doesn’t care | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  January 31st at 01:58 AM  | 

…is that he doesn’t seem to get it no matter how hard he keeps trying to convince us he does: Speaking at a conference on the campus of Southern New Hampshire University yesterday, Gingrich said his former majority leader, Dick Armey, is working with Tea Party members to develop a new “Contract with America” through online suggestions for what the country’s citizens want from the | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  January 23rd at 02:07 AM  | 

We were taught a lesson in Massachusetts that far too many of us don’t yet realize we learned: the “Big Tent” is, in fact, very big…and it’s still got room for more no MATTER how much we insist that we long-ago broke camp and set the surrounding terrain on fire. For all the screaming and wailing and gnashing of teeth after the Democrats took control | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  January 21st at 02:16 PM  | 

At least that’s what he seems to be saying: The White House is about to make another big gesture demonstrating its support for Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader under fire for remarks he made about President Obama’s race. In February, Mr. Obama will head to Nevada to appear with Mr. Reid, who is facing a tough reelection battle there, aides said today. After all, | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  January 21st at 12:07 AM  | 

We’ve been telling Obama and the Democrats that we are not pleased with what they’re doing. We kicked them in the shins with NJ and VA, and then we beat them over the head with Massachusetts just to make sure we drove the point home. Obama himself JUST responded by telling us he understood, that he and Congress had “Lost Touch with American People Last | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  January 20th at 05:15 PM  | 

Of the many things the American Revolution gave us, the weapons we would use if we ever needed to fight another one were the most significant. And, they were locked, loaded, and fired at point-blank range in Massachusetts last night: ballot boxes. That this latest “revolutionary skirmish” was engaged where the original Revolution began is not lost on most of us…but of course, VA and | Read More »