Senate GOP Set To Unveil Jobs Plan

It’s a real jobs plan, one meant to stimulate the economy and get people back to work, unlike Obama’s one which was a campaign platform that had so many poison pills that even his own party couldn’t pass it in the Democrat controlled Senate (The Politico) President Barack Obama had his American Jobs Act. Now, […]

 

Breaking: Subpoena Sent To DOJ And Eric Holder Over Gunwalking

No print stories out yet, will link when they are up. An interesting point is that if Holder claims “executive privilege,” that means that he discussed the issue with the President. Meaning he lied to Congress, and that Obama knows about the whole program. Here we go: Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight […]

 

Know Why Climate Realists Are Winning The Battle? Good PR!

So says Excitable James Hansen, who makes a ton of money of the climate change hoax as he takes unnecessary fossil fueled flights all over the world to get arrested (I’m sure there is some type of moral turpitude clause in his government contract) Climate sceptics are winning the argument with the public over global […]

 

LA Times Attempts To Explain That #OWS Folks Aren’t Hippies Without A Plan

Funny, I don’t remember them ever attempting to explain the TEA Party point of view (LA Times) How do you know when a protest movement is starting to scare the pants off the establishment? One clue is when the protesters are casually dismissed as hippies or rabble, or their principles redefined as class envy or […]

 

Senate Dems Go With Plan B On Obama’s “Jobs” Bill: Treat It Like Castor Oil

As Obama runs around the country pretending to be a parrot …. “pass my bill, pass my bill, Obama wants a campaign donation” …. Senate Dems have a different plan (The Politico) Democrats may not vote on President Barack Obama’s jobs bill just once. They could hold several votes on it, even though they know […]

 

Around 100 Tea Partiers Arrested….Oh, Wait, Sorry, 99 Percenters Arrested In Boston

Remember who all those TEA Partiers were arrested during many of the protests? No? They weren’t? There were barely any arrests, if any? There were permits and stuff, and the TP’s acted in a civil manner? How about the 99 Percenters? Boston police moved in and began arresting scores of Occupy Boston protesters who refused […]

 

Perry Pathetically Hits Romney On His Wealth, Plans To Join #OWS

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the minute Rick Perry jumped into the GOP presidential primary race, it turned much nastier, rather than just some jostling back and forth. It was more focused on each candidate providing their ideas on the future of America, and the candidates were running more against Obama […]

 

Reid’s Nuclear Option Brings On The Law Of Unintended Consequences

Hey, Harry, don’t you just hate when your plans jump up and smack you right in the kisser? (The Hill) Senate Republicans vow they will retaliate for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) decision to unilaterally change the Senate’s rules Thursday without prior warning or negotiation. Republican aides say their bosses will now be even […]

 

Occupy Wall Street Morons Pushing For Boycott Against Banks

And, when I call them morons, I’m not simply using typical language that us folks in political blogging use against our opponents (unlike those on the left, I do not consider them enemies, like the left thinks about the right): in this case, they are morons. Here’s a CNBC story from Friday which jumped into […]

 

Do Solyndra Emails Show Potential Illegality?

Yesterday, the Washington Post published a story about the push for Solyndra loan coming from the top at the White House. That story came out around 4pm Friday. I, like many others covered it. That story has been heavily re-written by the authors late Friday night (at least the link goes to the story, and […]

 

Business Leaders Love Hagen-McCain Profit Repatriation Bill; Harry Reid, Not So Much

No matter what one may say about Senators Kay Hagan (D-NC) and John McCain (R-Az), this is damned wonderful idea, one which has been kicked around for a long time (WRAL) Several prominent business leaders from North Carolina are backing a bi-partisan bill in the U.S. Senate that would cut dramatically the tax rate on […]

 

Friday Open Thread And Diary Rescue….Squirrel!

You asked for it, you got it: Friday open thread! No diary rescue, because, of course, conservatives don’t do diaries, like the Nancy’s on the left do. We do posts. Anyhow, squirrel! Anyhow, someone doesn’t understand that ninja’s don’t “storm in”. Oral sex may be a leading cause of throat and mouth cancer. An Aussie […]

 

Even The Washington Post Thinks Dumping Taxpayer Money Into Green Enterprises Is A Bad Idea

The actual take-away from the Washington Post editorial is that Obama should appear to be more upset, because it looks bad politically for him to be so blase’ about blowing half a billion dollars on a company that was bound to fail (Washington Post) ONCE THE OBAMA administration’s paragon of a clean-energy future, Solyndra has […]

 

When The Occupy Wall Street Violence Starts, Blame Obama And Pelosi

I think we can all agree that it is not a matter of if violence occurs from this movement that’s about….well, the same old left wing gripes…., but a matter of when violence occurs. The more this Leftist protest spreads across the country, putting dirty, unshowered, and unhinged liberals on the street with average folks […]

 

Now We Have “Occupy Cincinnati”

At first, I thought this might have been a campaign by Cincinnati’s Chamber of Commerce, or perhaps something to get people to attend Bengels’ games, alas, no, it’s just another unhinged attempt at giving liberals another avenue for airing their same old grievances, which typically devolve to ” hey, gimme, I’m entitled” (Cincinnati.com) Occupy Cincinnati […]

 

GOP Advance Bill Defunding UN Population Control Agency

Obviously, Democrats have a problem with this (CNS News) U.S. House Republicans fired another shot across the bow of the United Nations Wednesday, advancing a bill to defund a U.N. agency accused of complicity in China’s coercive population control policies. By a 23-17 vote along party lines, the House Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill, […]

 

Awesome: Globull Warming Beliefs Kill 23 Hondurans For Palm Oil Land

Remember the story about 20,000 Ugandans evicted from their land, along with many who were raped and murdered, all in the name of carbon offsets, thanks to the Warmists and their crazy beliefs? Well, now we get, via The Reference Frame (The New American) The deaths of 23 Honduran farmers involved in land disputes with […]

 

Quietly, Obama Wants To Allow Collectors To Robo-Call Wireless Phones

I can’t decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing (Fox News) To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the cellphones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government. […]

 

Non-Candidate Christie Says Won’t Be A Candidate. Still Waiting On Sarah

Anyone shocked? From The Politico New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie formally announced that he wasn’t going to join the presidential race on Tuesday, saying he’d come back to his original feeling about staying out despite reconsidering in recent days. “In the end, what I’ve always felt was the right decision remains the right decision today. […]

 

Climate Change Has Caused Massive Suffering In The Past

I have to tell you, it’s stories like these which may turn me back into a Warmist….oh, you didn’t know that prior to 2003, I was a True Believer? Well, yes, I was, and stories like these make me very worried about the future if climate change continues to happen. Starting off with Discovery News: […]

 

Can Obama Legally Kill You With A Drone Strike?

Obviously, there has been a big kerfuffle over the “targeted killing” of Anwar al-Awlaki, a United States citizen turned al Qaeda big wig (along with Samir Khan, another traitor who hails originally from North Carolina). Said kerfuffle is bipartisan in nature, with many saying that killing him amounts to assassination of a US citizen, and […]

 

Yet Another Taxpayer Subsidized “Green” Energy Company In Trouble

But, they just wanted to heal the planet, save it from evil mankind, which is killing the planet with trace amounts of a gas necessary for life! And, shockingly, the NY Times covers it: A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant in Nevada Struggles In a remote desert spot in northern Nevada, there is a geothermal plant run […]

 

New Tone Watch: Brad Miller (D-NC) Says Liberals Should Get Angry

Let’s start with a setup to add context (WRAL) Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Raleigh and Durham on Sunday to show solidarity with an ongoing protest against corporate greed and social inequality on Wall Street. So, commies gathered on Sunday? People who aren’t smart enough and aren’t willing to do the hard work to […]

 

Super Peaceful Wall Street Protest Sees 700 Arrested

It’s amazing. The Occupy Wall Street protest is just like one of those gatherings by the TEA Party. Remember when hundreds were arrested at Glenn Beck’s 8/28 gathering? And the big march on Washington? The tax day protest? Oh, wait, there weren’t? But, still, you know it is only the TEA Party that’s violent and […]

 

Team Obama Considers Suing More States Over Illegal Immigration

Of course, they aren’t planning legal challenges over sanctuary cities and failures to enforce the law, no, they may sue over tough illegal immigration laws (Fox News) After suing Arizona and Alabama over their strict immigration laws, the Obama administration is seriously weighing whether to legally challenge similar measures in four other states. “To the […]

 

Voters Aren’t Buying Obama’s “Bad Luck” Meme

ATM’s, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, European debt, Arab spring, you name it, the voters aren’t buying blaming it (Fox News) Most American voters blame bad leadership for the condition of the economy, and think Democrats and Republicans alike have hurt more than helped the situation. That’s according to a Fox News poll released Friday. President Obama […]

 

Shocker! ACLU Decries Targeted Killing Of al-Awlaki

I thought this deserved a stand-alone post rather than an adder to the previous post on al-Awlaki (ACLU Statement) U.S. airstrikes in Yemen today killed Anwar Al-Aulaqi, an American citizen who has never been charged with any crime. ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said, “The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law. […]

 

Obameconomy: 90% Say It Stinks

Obviously, this is Bush’s fault. Or the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Iraq. Afghanistan. Republicans. America has “gotten a little soft.” Bad luck. European debt. Greece. The Arab Spring. Bo ate his plan. (CNN) Three years after a financial crisis pushed the country deep into recession, an overwhelming number of Americans – 90% – say […]

 

Good News! Al Qaeda Leader Anwar Al-Awlaki Reported Killed, Realizes Only Male Virgins Left In Paradise

The good news tag is not meant to be it’s usual sarcasm (CBS News) Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born radical Islamic preacher who rose to the highest level of al Qaeda’s franchise in Yemen, has been killed. Al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico, has been linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) attempted bombing of […]

 

Rick Perry Walks Back His “Heartless” Comment

Someone saw some flagging support and falling polls (Newsmax) Presidential candidate Rick Perry on Wednesday apologized for saying that anyone who opposed giving tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants “did not have a heart.” In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, the Texas governor said he had made a poor choice of words during […]