By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 9th at 11:12 AM  | 

Believe it or not, the term “muddling through” comes from none other than ultra-Keynesian Paul Krugman, who kicked off today’s column by saying, “The Obama administration’s economic policy is already falling behind the curve, and there’s a real, growing danger that it will never catch up.” It’s pretty clear that “muddling through a rescue” is about the kindest face that can possibly be put on | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 6th at 02:42 PM  | 

Yikes – that’s a lot of paper. Then again, as the Obama administration’s advent has apparently succeeded in bringing fur back into fashion with “high-minded” Democrats, I’m not terribly surprised that paper waste of that magnitude (let alone spending waste of the magnitude that paper represents) is pretty much a ho-hum deal these days.

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 6th at 02:06 PM  | 

Last Friday, ten House Republican leaders sent a letter to President Barack Obama. In it, they offered to work across party lines and Congressional divisions with the new president to achieve the latter’s stated commitment “to fiscal transparency and accountability and ensuring that [all] spending commitments are paid for without burdening our children and grandchildren with excessive debt,” and to “slash[ing] earmarks to no greater | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 6th at 12:54 PM  | 

Update: An emailer points out that the 54 Rs and Ds who abstained from voting on the motion must have made President Obama, with his history of over 100 “present” votes in the Illinois state legislature, very proud. Minority Leader John Boehner’s Motion to Recommit, which would have frozen federal spending at current levels and stripped the 9,000 un-reviewed earmarks from the $410,000,000,000.00 omnibus spending | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 6th at 11:59 AM  | 

I wanted to tell you about what “liberal talk show host” Stephanie Miller said on Larry King the other night, but my ADD got the better of me as I was typing the title to this post, and I started thinking about just what a “left-wing talk show host” actually was, and wondering whether, much like the tree falling in the remote woods, if a | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 6th at 10:52 AM  | 

We’ve received word that House Republicans plan to force a vote this morning on a spending freeze that would lock in federal spending at current levels and strip the $410,000,000,000.00 “omnibus” spending bill of all 9,000 “un-scrutinized earmarks.” Though certain to fail, this is another laudable move from a GOP minority that unanimously opposed the nearly $1,000,000,000,000.00 in pork-barrel waste that made up President Obama’s | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 6th at 09:30 AM  | 

Entirely in tune with the “post-partisan” brand of “new politics” Barack Obama (D-IL) has brought with him to Washington, the DNC has launched a new contest: think of the smuggest, most partisan, and crudest ten-words-or-less message to Rush Limbaugh that you can, submit it for to the Democrat Party (along with your ZIP code and email address), and hope to win the grand prize: your | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 6th at 09:00 AM  | 

Remember ABC host George Stephanopoulos’s claim last Sunday that House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) was rushing to repudiate Rush Limbaugh himself, along with Limbaugh’s willingness to fight for conservative principles and for American (rather than Obaman) success? Well, it looks like the Democratic National Committee needs to start getting in on the daily strategy calls between Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) and | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 5th at 11:00 PM  | 

Of course, CNN being what it is, no mention of that was made in the firing show cancellation announcement, which blamed the termination of D.L. Hughley’s weekend talk show on “budget constraints.” The statement continued: D.L. approached CNN about being permanently based in Los Angeles, where his family lives. To accommodate this, we agreed upon a new role where he will be a contributor for | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 4th at 11:55 AM  | 

At 2:45, the Congressman from Mizzurruh has some pointed, and accurate, words for the President whose bailouts and budgets are assaults on capitalism, productivity, and responsibility, and whose every action has served to abort recovery, instead driving our economy further into a hole.

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 3rd at 01:57 PM  | 

Roland Burris’s reelection website is live, and the first thing that jumps out at the viewer is his lengthy list of accomplishments (see right; click here for full screencap). In all fairness, I’ve got to give Senator Burris full credit for having the most honest accomplishments section of a campaign website that I’ve ever seen. Pity it (likely) won’t last. Whatever changes on the page, | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 3rd at 01:12 PM  | 

On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists known as the Sons of Liberty boarded three English ships at Massachusetts’ Griffin Wharf. They pulled over 90,000 lbs of tea from the ships’ cargo holds and threw it into Boston Harbor in a symbolic act of protest history would remember as the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Party was an key step in the course from | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 3rd at 10:23 AM  | 

Remember when President Obama called on Washington to develop a little “flinty Chicago Toughness” after his daughters’ exclusive private school, Sidwell Friends, was closed due to ice and snow at the beginning of February? “When it comes to the weather,” he said, “folks in Washington don’t seem to be able to handle things.” Well, it appears President Obama’s walk isn’t quite as tough as his | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 3rd at 09:29 AM  | 

Yesterday in the broad daylight of mid-morning, a dozen masked terrorists carried out an attack on a police-escorted convoy carrying Sri Lanka’s national cricket team to the stadium in Lahore, where they were to compete against Pakistan (Note: Click here for map of region showing Sri Lanka’s location). Six players were wounded, and five members of their police escort, which included “several” vehicles filled with | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 3rd at 08:49 AM  | 

Since taking office, President Obama has taken advantage of every opportunity to talk down America’s economy, productivity, and future opportunities, and to shovel blame for the consequences of that doom-and-gloom pessimism onto the administration that preceded his. Yesterday, the market closed below 7,000 for the first time since 1997 — the first year of President Clinton’s second term. Further, since the Democrats took over Congress | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 26th at 04:49 PM  | 

In his non-State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama claimed that health care “is a cost that now causes a bankruptcy in America every 30 seconds,” and that, “in the last eight years, premiums have grown four times faster than wages.” Further, he claimed that “one million more Americans…lost their health insurance” in “each” of the eight years of the Bush administration. Each | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 25th at 07:53 AM  | 

You see, President Obama is supposed to be the only minority who is allowed to address — and inspire — the American people (not to mention the fact that Jindal’s politics are all wrong, making him the worst possible kind of minority). Listen to the clip below and you’ll hear Keith Olbermann [Someone on the set; it sounds like KO to me] mutter “Oh, God,” | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 07:47 AM  | 

Faced with a losing battle against strengthening Taliban elements in its Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA), the Pakistani government officially threw in the towel last week on its already halfhearted efforts to combat terrorism in the key Malakand Division of the country’s northwest, agreeing to a peace treaty with local Taliban leaders that paves the way for terrorist-administered Shari’a law | Read More »

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 07:41 AM  | 

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By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 20th at 07:58 AM  | 

The faulty-memoried Blagojevich appointee is rapidly losing support from all quarters, and the rumor mill Democratic PR machine news media is starting to get cranking with reports of Sen. Roland Burris’s (D) imminent resignation. Personally, my fake money’s on this afternoon. As living proof that there really is no such thing as a clean Chicago Democrat, Burris has become a liability to President Obama (D) | Read More »