Dems just say ‘No’ to Obama on Gitmo funds

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  May 4th at 07:12 PM  | 

The leadership of the House of Representatives turned down a request from the Obama Administration for funding to begin closing the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The reason the Democrats refused to give the president what he wanted this time was not a lack of votes, as the members of his party in the House could have easily funded his request whether Republicans | Read More »

Obama outrages on his first day at the office

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  January 21st at 08:34 PM  | 

President Barack Obama, on his first full day in the office, has managed to draw the ire of family members of those killed on September 11, 2001, and in other terror attacks.  The rookie president’s executive draft  order Wednesday calls for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within a year and halting any war crimes trials in the meantime.  In response to the Obama order, a judge | Read More »

The Audacity of Patience

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  December 3rd at 10:37 PM  | 

The hard left, I must say, has shown remarkable patience in light of the middle ground the Obama Administration-In-Waiting has cautiously taken since election day. Oh, there’s been some grumbling about all the Clintonistas the O-Team is stocking the executive branch with, The One’s realization that perhaps it might be best to let the Bush tax cuts simply expire rather than repeal them during a | Read More »