Category: Barack Obama

Leadership In The Obama Era: A PR Blitz On The Fiscal Cliff

Posted on by William Teach

This is what you get when you elect a community organizer with no executive experience to replace the complete SCOAMF who was in office from 2009-2012 (Washington Post) The White House signaled Tuesday that it will try to marshal the momentum from President Obama’s reelection triumph into another victory at the negotiating table, launching a […]

 

Exposing Benghazi Baloney

Posted on by Michael Fell

After a Tuesday morning meeting with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Kelly Ayotte said concerns they had about Rice’s misleading statements regarding the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya which resulted in the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans have grown, not diminished. McCain, R-AZ, […]

 

College Professors Lose Hours Because of Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of my favorite stories this week is the college professors at Pennsylvania’s Community College of Allegheny who’ve had their hours cut because of the costly requirements of Obamacare. One of Obamacare’s changes to general business practices is to make people who work 30 hours or more a “full time worker.” For generations that magic […]

 

White House: Social Security Should Be Off Limits In “Fiscal Cliff” Talks, But Won’t Show Their Plan

Posted on by William Teach

Other than raising taxes and gutting the military, is there anything Team Obama is willing to discuss? They’ve already shrieked that Obamacare is off limits, even though it is another in a long line of entitlement programs that can’t be paid for (CBS News) It appears another issue of disagreement has surfaced in regard to […]

 

Morsy-White House: Similar Designs?

Posted on by Michael Fell

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy declared he is exempt from overview by Egyptian courts, saying they cannot overturn any decision or law he has issued since taking office or until a new Egyptian constitution is finalized.:  Morsy also decreed that Egypt’s courts will have no authority or oversight over a constitution-writing panel dominated by Islamists.:  The […]

 

Disagree With Obama On Taxes? Then You’re Ruining The Holiday Season

Posted on by William Teach

Team Obama can’t even force themselves to use the word “Christmas” (Daily Caller) Any Republican refusal to accept President Barack Obama’s fiscal plan may ruin Christmas for the nation’s retailers, the White House claimed in a report released Monday morning. “The National Retail Federation is forecasting that holiday sales will grow 4.1 percent this year […]

 

Minorities Disproportionately Worse Off Under Obama

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

It is puzzling that so many minorities voted for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney considering how disproportionately they have suffered economically during Obama’s presidency. Black unemployment under Obama: increased: at a higher pace than whites, from 12.7% to 14.1%, ending at almost twice the unemployment rate of whites. Now, one out of every seven blacks is unemployed. […]

 

In Final Week Romney Coverage Increasingly Negative, MSNBC Had Zero Favorable Romney Stories

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

According to the latest study of the last week of the media’s coverage of the 2012 presidential election, Romney’s coverage turned increasingly negative. The worst example was that of MSNBC which didn’t have any positive stories about Romney’s campaign, not a single one. The study conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in […]

 

Typical: Obama Uses Turkey Pardon To Take Shots At Romney

Posted on by William Teach

This is one of the reasons I say Obama is Not My President (NMP): his ability to be uncharitable and snarky to his political opponents. A president is supposed to at least pay lip service to being the POTUS, rather than always acting as leader of one Party (The Blaze) During the annual presidential tradition […]

 

This Week’s (Fiscal) Sign of the Apocalypse

Posted on by Dustin Siggins

When I first came to Washington in 2008, I was told that the American people are instinctively conservative, but functionally liberal, which was why a public that wanted budget cuts refused to touch the major costs in the federal government. This is a sentiment I have heard many times since, but back then it was […]

 

Deciphering Susan Rice Without Being Racist

Posted on by Matt Vespa

I’m almost at the mark! I’m so excited. : I just have one more jar of Ovaltine to drink before I’m able to send in my application for the James Clyburn Racial Code Word Decipher. : It’s going to be useful — as we all try to make sense of the various racial code wards that have […]

 

Sen. Leahy — What Are You Doing!?

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Is this the latest salvo in the left’s war to implement a hyper-regulatory state? : Do Democrats see the United Kingdom as a model for their version of the surveillance society? : What on earth could Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) be thinking coming up with legislation like this? : According to Declan McCullagh of C|Net, Sen. Leahy thinks […]

 

CNN Mad at Low-Voting Obama County, Not Worried Over No-Voting Romney Counties

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN was gobsmacked over a county in Texas that saw an extremely low voter turnout for Barack Obama in the late elections. On the other hand the several counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania that had zero votes for Mitt Romney didn’t bother the cable Network at all. On Friday, November 16, CNN aired an “expose” […]

 

After The Election, Pro-life Americans Find Themselves in the Minority

Posted on by Matt Vespa

On May 23, 2012, Gallup released a poll that showed that people who identify themselves as ‘pro-choice’ was at a record low of 41%. Additionally, Americans who described themselves as pro-life, at the time, constituted 50% of the population. That nine point margin in America’s ongoing culture war has flipped. Pro-choice Americans are now 54% […]

 

Health Care Reform = More Money, Bigger Hospitals, and Less Private Practices

Posted on by Matt Vespa

For a while, conservatives have known that Obamacare would be a dose of bad medicine. : However, given the axiom that bog government helps big business, the same could be true with the medical industry. : Tim Carney at The Washington Examiner aptly pointed out today, from Bloomberg, Obamacare favors big hospitals, and smashes small practices. In […]

 

CBS Praises Obama for Hurricane Sandy Visit, Attacked Bush for Katrina Visit

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On November 16, CBS News aired a segment full of praise for President Obama’s visit to Staten Island in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. But this positive spin is in stark contrast to the scolding the network gave President Bush when he visited the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.. In the report […]

 

Benghazi Betrayal May be a Cover-Up of American Weapons in Hands of Terrorists

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

In a scandal looking more and more like Fast and Furious, information is coming out revealing what may be the real reason why the Obama administration refused to provide military support to save Americans in Benghazi. Obama was terrified the public would find out that American weapons had been given to Libyan terrorists, who then […]

 

Gallup Results Present Problems For Both Agendas

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Gallup has released some interesting poll findings showing that both sides of the aisle have their work cut out for them if they’re going to keep Americans happy. Released Thursday, the Gallup: results show: that only 37% of Americans favor a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, while 62% want to see measure that will halt illegal […]

 

Sen. Mike Lee and Senator-Elect Ted Cruz: ‘Our Ideas Work, Their Ideas Don’t’

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Senator-Elect Ted Cruz (R-TX) were adamant about two things when they addressed The Federalist Society’s discussion about constitutional law and the Supreme Court yesterday: “our [conservative] ideas work, their [ liberal] ideas don’t.” : Furthermore, our ideas have been winning the argument, which explains why law schools are limiting the amount […]

 

Go After Obama

Posted on by Michael Fell

Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified Friday that “Al Qaeda involvement” references were removed from the CIA’s original talking points, which had indicated that the CIA knew immediately that an Al Qaeda linked group was responsible for the 9/11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which led to the brutal murder of four […]

 

Buzz Feed Reporter Reveals Anti-Mormon Bigotry of Press Corps

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

McKay Coppins of Buzzfeed was one of the reporters in the Romney press pool during his late campaign for president. He is also a Mormon. In a long piece posted on November 14, Coppins reveals the stark anti-Mormon bigotry that his fellow members of the media openly displayed as they followed team Romney around the […]

 

Penitentiary President

Posted on by Michael Fell

Why is Barack Obama about to be sworn in for a second term instead of being fingerprinted and booked into a federal penitentiary? There are at least three people who may eventually be able to respond to that question. In a joint press conference, three Republican senators said the only way for Congress to get […]

 

NBC: Hey That Lincoln Movie Reminds Us of How Great Obama Is

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In yet another facile example of the Old Media equating President Obama’s presidency to the greatness of Abraham Lincoln’s, NBC News correspondent Kevin Tibbles used the occasion of the opening of the new Lincoln movie helmed by Director Steven Spielberg to do just that. On Saturday’s NBC Nightly News, Tibbles reported on the opening of […]

 

Democrats Want To Go Off The Fiscal Cliff

Posted on by Matt Vespa

During the president’s Nov. 14 news conference, he channeled the Sandy response as a “metaphor” for how the federal government should operate.: “It’s been aggressive and strong and fast and robust and a lot of people have been helped because of it…that’s a pretty good metaphor for how I want federal government to operate generally, and […]

 

Demographics Poses A Challenge to Republicans, But It’s Not Unwinnable

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Demographic shifts, Hispanic outreach, and how to make inroads with the youth have dominated conservative circles after a resounding Obama win last week. : It’s a discussion conservatives must have if they are to survive as a national political force. : Mitt Romney lost Hispanics, with almost 75% of them voting for the president, and young, single […]

 

Obama: Fixing Economy Takes Precedence Over Hotcoldwetdry Legislation

Posted on by William Teach

That’s how Politico positions (NMP) Obama’s comments on the climate change hoax, somewhat breaking the hearts of Warmists everywhere Climate change will take a back seat to efforts to boost the economy in the near term, but the issue would return to the agenda in the future, President Barack Obama said Wednesday. “I think the […]

 

Obama To Finally Hold Press Conference, Will Face Tough Questions He Won’t Answer

Posted on by William Teach

Obama hasn’t held a full press conference in over eight months. He did not take questions during his post-election victory statement, and relegated the lapdog media to the corner during that one. It will be interesting to see if Obama gets tough questions, as The Politico’s Maggie Budoff Brown and Josh Gerstein posit, or get […]

 

No Change, No Hope

Posted on by Michael Fell

While the “progressive” Party Pravda is dutifully focused on distracting Americans with stories about the tragic resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus,:  the White House goes merrily along with its anti-growth, anti-business, anti-energy, radical fringe leftist “progressive” agenda.:  The Barack Obama administration is now making plans for the next phase in fundamentally transforming America […]

 

Foodstamps Surge to All Time High, Biggest One Month Growth Ever Recorded

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Obama administration has finally released its report on the number of Americans on foodstamps. This report was released nine days past its traditional release date and just coincidentally days after the election. Shockingly, those numbers show that Americans on foodstamps is at an all time high. Worse the report shows the highest one month […]