Category: Barack Obama

The Lonely Position of Neutral

Posted on by Matt Vespa

I hate raising taxes. : I find high tax rates immoral. : However, we lost the election. : An increase in revenue is inevitable. : What’s perverse about this whole episode is that if we fall off the cliff — Democrats will get everything they want. They’ll get their tax increases, their revenue, and defense cuts. : They would complete […]

 

In Treatment

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Yes, Republicans are in treatment after their catastrophic loss last November. : We kept our majority in the House due to gerrymandering, and we lost two seats in the Senate. : Romney’s loss was bad, but our inability to gain seats in the Senate was ignominious. : Democrats were tasked with defending twenty-three senate seats, and twelve of […]

 

Overly Hysterical Obama Jumps Into Michigan Right To Work Fight

Posted on by William Teach

And, as usual, the Campaigner in Chief was equal parts class warrior, divisive, and full of mule fritters (The Hill) President Obama on Monday injected himself into an escalating fight over changing Michigan into a right-to-work state, saying the state Legislature’s move to ban the required paying of union dues was all about politics. The […]

 

AFP-PA presents taxpayer Xmas list, urges PA governor to reject exchange program

Posted on by Matt Vespa

It’s Christmas Winter solstice/holiday time — and Governor Corbett seems tepid to reject the federal-state health care exchange program, which will be instituted under Obamacare. : Mitt Romney implemented a similar program, at the state level, when he was Governor of Massachusetts — which explains why conservatives were unable to make the 2012 election a referendum […]

 

Paul Blart Could’ve Done Better in Benghazi

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Well, it seems that mall security could have done a better job protecting our compound in Benghazi. : According to Kerry Picket, who recently made her move to Breitbart News, “a: source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi … were shocked to learn State Department security personnel agents were not immediately armed.: Additionally, agents separated […]

 

Green Energy Equals American Decline

Posted on by Michael Fell

A Chinese auto company having just won the auction for bankrupt A123 Systems, one of Barack Obama’s car battery darlings that received a $249 million grant from the Obama government further illustrates why the White House playing capital investor with taxpayer funds investor is a very bad idea. When Obama took office in January 2009, […]

 

Barack Obama Rewards Korean Rapper Who Called For The Murder of American Citizens

Posted on by John Hawkins

Barack Obama doesn’t love this country. Never has, never will. Anyone who paid attention already knew he wasn’t patriotic. Before he was elected, Obama didn’t hold his hand up for the pledge of Allegiance. He made a big deal out of not wearing a flag pin. He sat in Jeremiah Wright’s anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-American church […]

 

The Communication Cliff

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

Republicans should be less worried about the Fiscal Cliff than about their own Communication Cliff. It seems that the GOP leadership has been gripped by a great communicative ineptitude, and until they escape from its grasp, they will continue to languish in political poverty, taking blame for fake crisis after fake crisis manufactured by the […]

 

Liberals Really Upset That Obama’s Considering *GULP* Enforcing Federal Drug Laws

Posted on by William Teach

As I’ve written multiple times, I really couldn’t care less one way or the other about marijuana: I don’t smoke it, have no plans to smoke it, and, really, it is a much less dangerous drug than alcohol. I’d prefer they not smoke it in public, a contact high is not in my daily plans. […]

 

It’s the Spending, Stupid

Posted on by Michael Fell

Barack Obama, who seemingly has remained in campaign mode since first entering public life, continues to insist House Republicans obey his command to hike tax rates on upper income earners.:  If Republicans do note cede to his demands, Obama is willing to let everyone’s taxes go up and to cut one trillion dollars from the […]

 

Surprise! Team Obama Doesn’t Want Senate Voting On Obama Fiscal Cliff “Plan”

Posted on by William Teach

First we had Harry Reid, Democrat Majority Leader in the US Senate, refusing to allow any vote on Obama’s fiscal cliff tax ‘n spend plan, calling it a “stunt”. Following that we get (National Journal) The White House on Thursday dismissed as political mischief Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s offer to bring President Obama’s fiscal […]

 

Norquist: Obama’s Failed Fiscal Cliff Ideas Like a ‘Seinfeld Episode Where No Learning Takes Place’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Grover Norquist worries that Obama is like a bad episode of Seinfeld and might prove unable to learn from his past mistakes pushing us over the fiscal cliff whether we like it or not. This is what Norquist, chief of Americans for Tax Reform — evangelist for the no-tax pledge that so many Republicans have […]

 

Surprise! Obama Admin Approved Weapons Transfers End Up In Jihadi Hands In Libya

Posted on by William Teach

Now that the election is long over, the NY Times decides to do a little real reporting The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, […]

 

Reid Refuses To Allow Vote On Obama’s Fiscal Cliff “Plan”

Posted on by William Teach

One can always count on some funny stuff from Harry Reid (Weekly Standard) Senate majority leader Harry Reid is denying the Senate the chance to vote on President Barack Obama’s proposal. Reid calls Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s request to vote on the plan a “stunt.” “I reserve the right to object. I just a minute […]

 

Tea Party-Unite

Posted on by Michael Fell

With the re-election of Barack Obama and the continuation of Harry Reid’s reign of terror in the U.S. Senate, these are dark times for America. For America to survive, Americans must save it.:  Expressions to the contrary notwithstanding, Americans reside within the Tea Party. Members of the Tea Party must stop their infighting turf wars […]

 

Anna Wintour to be a U.S. Ambassador? ‘Ludicrous’!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

News broke today that President Obama is considering offering the position of the next U.S. Ambassadorship to Great Britain to Anna Wintour, the editor of fashion magazine Vogue. This caused at least one Brit to call the whole idea “ludicrous.” Indeed, the offer seems incomprehensible. To offer the ambassadorship to one of our most important […]

 

Washington Post: “Hey, Obama’s Fiscal Cliff Plan Is Rather Disingenuous, Eh?”

Posted on by William Teach

Late yesterday, the Washington Post editorial board determined that the “Opening bids on ‘fiscal cliff’ talks are too small“. After spending most of the opening part of the editorial attacking John Boehner’s opening bid (surprising, eh?), we learn What’s worrisome, though, is that the two sides are slipping into a kind of tacit agreement to […]

 

Spielberg’s Lincoln Isn’t Pro-Obama

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As most people, I went and saw Lincoln.:  I’m no fan of biopics, but this one was rather good. In fact, it was excellent.:  Daniel Day-Lewis will probably win another Academy Award for Best Actor, and it was not a pro-Obama film.:  Many conservatives feared that the movie would be allegorical about the 44th president.:  […]

 

AP’s False Claim That ‘Some’ Democrats Open to Entitlement Cuts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a November 28 article, the Associated Press tried to give cover to Democrats by insisting that they are somehow divided over cuts in entitlements to help solve the “fiscal cliff” problem. But the truth is, Democrats are united against these cuts, not divided. In its piece headlined, “It’s Not Just Taxes: Benefit Cuts Divide […]

 

Obama, GOP Throw Their Dogs In The Ring

Posted on by Matt Vespa

I’m sure a lot of you exuded similar reactions to the president’s laughable fiscal proposal to prevent the nation from going over the cliff. : He asked for $50 billion in additional stimulus and $1.6 trillion in tax hikes “as part of any ‘fiscal cliff’ deal,”: according to CNBC. : In all: The plan calls for $1.6 trillion […]

 

Obama, Dems Quietly Look To Nail Those Evil Producers With Even Higher Marginal Rates

Posted on by William Teach

Because success should be punished, comrades! (Politico) Tax rate increases aren’t the only way in which Democrats are aiming to collect more tax dollars from the rich – they’re also looking to resurrect a dormant pair of oddly named laws that targeted the wealthy for decades. Some call them gimmicks, some call them a step […]

 

Media Ignores Obama Admin’s Effort to Define ‘Poverty’ Upward

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mickey Kaus has alerted readers to a change in the way the federal government figures the poverty line and that new way so alters the formula that we will never be able to show any improvement in rates of poverty going foward. Worse, the new formula stops measuring strict want and instead measures a more […]

 

Obama Votes “Present” On Palestinian Funding

Posted on by William Teach

If there’s one thing that Obama has done throughout his political career, it’s avoiding hard choices (and avoiding responsibility for Bad Things along with Blamestorming, but that’s a different story). More often than not he votes “present”. When it comes to dealing with the aftermath of the vote at the United Nations granting the Palestinians […]

 

Sen. Orrin Hatch: Obama Fiscal Proposal ‘Classic Bait and Switch’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) delivered the GOP weekly address and it was a damn good one. He pulled no punches and laid it out straight that Obama lied when he ran for re-election and perpetrated a “classic bait and switch” maneuver. What ever you think of Mr. Hatch or the GOP, he spoke truth […]

 

Obama’s Keeping A “Naughty And Nice” List

Posted on by William Teach

Yet another “enemies” list for the most polarizing president ever (via The Lonely Conservative) “Joe Biden was in Costco and he wanted to buy some of this stuff, but I told him he had too much work to do. I wasn’t going to have him building roller coasters all day long. Now, of course, Santa […]

 

Republicans Will Have to Swallow Tax Hikes

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As I’ve said previously, I hate tax increases, but I’ll settle if a 10:1 deal is reached. : Ten dollars of spending cuts, including welfare state cuts, for every one dollar raised in revenue. : It’s a rational deal. : If we can retake the Senate, and maintain our majority in the House; then perhaps we can discuss […]

 

Is It A Woman’s World?

Posted on by Matt Vespa

I won’t lie. I found Suzanne Venker’s piece about the ‘war on men‘ interesting, thought-provoking, and controversial. In the process, she has reaped a whirlwind of left-wing hate. It’s no surprise that today’s economy is better suited for women. Manufacturing, the lynchpin of male labor, has collapsed — and now scores of men are left […]

 

Assoc. Press Paints Murders in Benghazi as Merely a ‘PR Disaster’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an outrageous attempt to defuse for President Obama the murderous disaster that is his security failures in Benghazi on September 11, the Associated Press deemed the whole debacle merely a “PR disaster” and speculated it could all just be forgotten if Susan Rice were to be successfully nominated as our next Secretary of State. […]

 

Obama’s Fiscal Cliff Offer: Tax And Spend

Posted on by William Teach

An unserious proposal from an unserious president (Politico) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s fiscal cliff proposal to Republicans Thursday was rejected out of hand, but offered a window into President Barack Obama’s priorities in the fast-evolving budget talks. In the plan, sources said, Geithner proposed a two-step process to ultimately achieve about $1.6 trillion in new […]

 

Obama’s Plan: Tax Now, Cut Later

Posted on by Michael Fell

Obama has demonstrated zero flexibility on his insistence that higher tax rates for the wealthy kick in on January 1, 2013. To those familiar with “progressive” modus operandi, it is not surprising that the White House and their “progressive” political allies envision Medicare and other “entitlement” savings happening ten to twenty years from now. This […]