The Obama Administration Supports Tibet
The Dalai Lama departs the Palm Room of the White House after meeting with President Obama. Reportedly Obama was “supportive” but not to such a degree that it required that the trash be cleared away.
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Obama Afghanistan Policy Update
As we’ve discussed before, President Obama is on the horns of a dilemma. He campaigned on the idea that the “real” war on transnational terrorism is being fought in Afghanistan and has since demonstrated that, true to his roots in the far left, he can’t bring himself to pursue any policy which might strengthen US influence abroad. In the process he has carried out a | Read More »
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Today’s Priority: Urban Renewal
Great. Just what we need. Another top priority. Right now we have the economy, cap and tax, global warming, and socializing health care as front burner issues. Did I forget anything? Oh, yeah, there are a couple of wars being fought, two rogue states about to acquire nukes, and Russia casting covetous eyes on any number of small nations. Add to this dog’s breakfast yet | Read More »
Tags: Barack Obama, urban renewal
Obama and Politics of Demonization
There have been three salient features thus far of the Obama Administration. The first is its secretive nature, elevating to the status of quasi state secrets information that has been readily available in previous Administrations. The second is a Carteresque level of incompetence which spans the gamut from economic to foreign policy. The third is simple nastiness when confronted with opposition. Since January we have | Read More »
The Presidential Monkey’s Paw
Since the Easter rescue of Maersk Alabama captain Richard Phillips a lot of electrons have been expended proclaiming what it means, and to a lesser extent what it doesn’t mean. While we should all be happy at the release of Captain Phillips, we should be chary of this episode, its management, and the implications.
Obama Yucks It Up Over Failing Economy
Yesterday on CBS’s 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft elicted the most insightful comments from President Obama that we’ve seen to date on the financial crisis he doesn’t want to waste. Obama:I just want to say the only thing less popular than putting money in the banks [begins to smile] is putting…ha ha ha… money in the [continues to chortle and doesn’t finish the answer]. Kroft. Eighteen | Read More »
Tags: 60 minutes, Barack Obama
The Tim Geithner Dead Pool
Tim Geithner should probably start packing his stuff. Now. Because what we have in the article in today’s Washington Post called “How the Fed Failed to Tell Obama About The Bonuses” is nothing more or less than an attempt to load up Mr. Geithner with unique responsibility for the AIG bonus fiasco, set him ablaze, and send him drifting out to sea. When one cuts | Read More »
Six Myths About Obama
Yesterday Alex Conant, the spokesman for the RNC during the 2008 presidential campaign, posted an interesting article at Politico called “The 5 biggest myths about Obama.” Conant provides a good starting point for examining Obama’s modus operandi but I think, based on what we’ve seen thus far, that he may not be totally correct.
Obama Encourages States To Be Responsible
In the aftermath of the $1 Trillion spending orgy foisted off on us by the crisis driven Obama Administration, Barack Obama and his court jester, Joe Biden, are encouraging the states to be responsible in their visit to the trough. Obama stopped by a conference Thursday with state officials gathered in the capital to discuss carrying out the $787 billion economic stimulus program. He said | Read More »
Tags: Barack Obama, stimulus
Obama To Curb Veterans Health Care
Throughout the course of the 2008 campaign we heard a relentless woof-woof from the Obama campaign of how they were going to take care of veterans and how John McCain, an actual disabled veteran, was going to screw veterans. When McCain proposed allowing veterans to seek treatment outside the VA medical system by using vouchers, a blessing if there ever was one, he was pilloried | Read More »
The Peace Dividend: Coming in 2010
Despite being engaged in a war in Afghanistan, what President Obama has termed the “central front” in our war on terror (or our hissy fit on terror as it is shaping up with this administration), the administration is pressing ahead with cuts in the defense budget. It is clear that the decision on the procurement of a replacement for the aging fleet of KC-135 tankers, | Read More »
The Cut Direct
I’ve never been one to particularly care about the the opinions of other countries — no permanent friends, just permanent interests and all that — but I am a believer in the principle of never being unintentionally rude.While intentional rudeness has a valuable place in relationships between nations and people, unintentional rudeness is nothing more than poor breeding. It is one thing to walk out | Read More »
The Perpetual Crisis
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. This is an opportunity. What used to be long-term problems — be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area — things that we had postponed | Read More »
Riding the Tiger
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. This is an opportunity. What used to be long-term problems — be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area — things that we had postponed | Read More »
Obama Loves His Teleprompter
According to Politico (which has somehow found time to detach itself from Obama’s bodily parts and publish this): President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter. The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks. Resting on top of a tall, narrow pole, they flank his podium during speeches in the White House’s stately parlors. They stood next | Read More »
The Leona Helmsley Administration
Former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk, who is President Obama’s nominee to be the U.S. Trade Representative, failed to pay almost $10,000 in taxes during the past three years Washington Post Treasury secretary nominee Tim Geithner admits he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes MSNBC [HHS Nominee Tom Daschle] offered up a timeline to explain how he had overlooked taxes on more than $300,000 worth of | Read More »
Gary Larson Forsees the Obama Administration
From the NY Daily News compare with classic Larson:
He’s Off to a Great Start
One of The One’s first acts was signing an Executive Order which is supposed to close down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Other than Jack Murtha’s offer to move them all to his district, there seems to be no plan to deal with the dangerous prisoners. Apparently sending them home is out of the question for reasons I’m not terribly clear on. Off course, | Read More »
Obama Addresses Blagojevich Scandal
“Do you have another question?” Well, guess that clears up this mess. Nothing going on here. I am just surprised that this know-nothing report wasn’t the recipient of a Smiting From Heaven for having the temerity to expect a (if not THE) deity to answer a question. However, the reporter continued, trying to get Obama to remedy a seeming conflict between Obama’s “hands-off” approach dealing | Read More »
NY Governor: Jesus Was Black
Barack Obama has been criticized for his career as a self-aggrandizing busybody, aka community organizer. Of late we’ve been told that Jesus the Christ was a community organizer (on the basis of what evidence I’m more than a little unclear), this presumably is to let us know just how IMPORTANT, nay VITAL, this job is. I mean if this syllogism is true your very salvation | Read More »
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