What a dumb move, if I may say so myself. On the Bush GWOT policies, and Cheney’s criticism of Obama’s rush to close GITMO as being hasty, un-thought-out, and naive, Obama had this to say on 60 Minutes Sunday night: How many terrorists have actually been brought to justice under the philosophy that is being promoted by Vice President Cheney? It hasn’t made us safer. | Read More »
Ordinarily a title like that would be far more attention-getter than accurate descriptor, but what else can we say when we see President Obama so shamelessly yukking it up at the expense of those suffering under his hapless, incapable “leadership” that a CBS reporter is forced to ask if his unseemly behavior is the result of being “punch-drunk”? According to Politico: President Barack Obama said | Read More »
It’s no secret to anybody who’s been paying attention to budget numbers that the United States, with a current GDP of just under $14 trillion, is $52 trillion in the hole in one specific area: Medicare and Social Security payments owed to those who have already prequalified by paying into the system. “Think about that: Unless you accept government-run health care, you have to forfeit | Read More »
Here’s video of Sen. Chris Dodd (DEMOCRAT) telling CNN he wrote the bonuses-are-OK loophole into the Porkulus bill that not one Senator nor Representative read before voting on: So…what now? Congress and the president are talking about having those executives who, under this law written by Democrats and lobbyists, passed by House Democrats without one single Republican vote, passed by the Senate with only Benedict | Read More »
At a meeting with veterans’ groups on Capitol Hill, Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) said: President Obama listened to the genuine concerns expressed by the veteran service organizations regarding the option of billing service-connected injuries to veterans’ insurance companies Based on the respect President Obama has for veterans and the principle concerns of our veteran leaders, the president made the decision that combat wounds should not be | Read More »
President Obama and defense secretary Gates are still determining whether to end production, 183 planes in, of the F-22 Raptor, the world’s most advanced Air Superiority fighter. The rationale of those who are advocating cutting off the program is as simple as it is misguided: a belief that “the fighter, conceived in the Cold War, is a vastly expensive and over-capable weapon irrelevant to current | Read More »
President Obama’s TelePrompTer, which has been challenged to a debate by Rush Limbaugh (neither it nor the Mouth of TelePrompTer, Barack Obama, has responded to date), apparently decided yesterday that St. Paddy’s was best observed with some good, old-fashioned shenanigans. According to the AP: Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the | Read More »
Huge tip of the cap to a fellow RS Contributor for the apropos title. He also asks the question, “How many more pictures like this are they going to allow before they install the video screen in Obama’s podium?” Who knows? One thing is true, as Rush has also noted: the TelePrompTer can serve as a useful whipping boy for the president’s current foibles and | Read More »
UPDATE: The ‘money quote’ from SCOTUSBLOG: The brief was another indication that, at least so far, the new Administration is not moving to make a wide-ranging break with detention policies of the former Bush Administration. The utopian Left, which saw in the Rorshach that was candidate Barack Obama just what they wanted to see (rather than anything tangible or lasting) suffered yet another reality-based blow | Read More »
Update 3/31/09 by Jeff: Ho, hum, it appears Gov. Sebelius is yet another Obama nominee with a tax problem. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (Democrat), fresh off a losing battle against the GOP-led state legislature to solve the state budget crisis by incurring more debt while keeping expenditures exorbitant, has been selected by President Obama to head up the department of Health and Human Services. Given | Read More »
Update: Jake Tapper notes that it was one year ago this week that then-Sen. Obama (D-IL) “swooped in from the campaign trail to — along with then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. — vote for an amendment to impose a one-year moratorium on earmarks for fiscal year 2009.” What a difference a year and a change in power makes, eh? I will | Read More »
Hat tip to Amanda Carpenter for the slogan. Let’s hear it for the Democratic Congress and President Obama, who have managed to spend nearly $1,200,000,000,000.00 before we even hit the Ides of March. Robert Gibbs, Obama’s clean, articulate, incredibly skilled press secretary (/snark) said to day that this will help begin the process of getting America back onto a fiscally-responsible track. We haven’t yet heard | Read More »
Though the deepening economic crisis is certainly enough to fulfill most citizens’ worry quota for the year (if not longer), President Obama’s impotent flailing about on the economy shouldn’t be Americans’ only reason to be concerned about their president, a relatively young man who has shown no ability to succeed at any non-campaigning endeavor in his brief but highly publicized career. As noted here on | Read More »
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 »
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 »
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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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