Category: Barack Obama

Obama Claims Power to Decide if Your Medicine is Too Expensive to be Allowed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s very easy for Obamacare supporters to scoff at the whole idea that there are “death panels” ensconced in Obama’s health care power grab. But the fact of the matter is that they exist in a defacto form. One of those defacto death panels is the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), an agency invented under […]

 

Something very, very weird is going on in Washington

Posted on by Bookworm

Are the wheels coming off the bus, or are we witnessing the most brilliant, and dangerous, political theater in our life times? Here’s what it looked like a few days ago: the President caved on maintaining the current tax rate, leaving Republicans triumphant. In exchange, it seemed as if the Republicans were extending unemployment benefits, […]

 

Illinois School Uses ‘Stimulus’ $$ For Raises and Bonuses While Raising Property Taxes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Arrogance is an ugly thing. But it seems that Grayslake School Board Superintendent Ellen Correll has it in spades. Not only did she and four other board members vote to increase its tax levy on the community, but she also announced that she used federal “stimulus” money to dole out raises and bonuses to teachers […]

 

Democrats: Say, Let’s Change Rules to Push Our Agenda FASTER in Lame Duck Session

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is nothing more dangerous than a party that is about to lose power but still has temporary control of the reins of government. That is, of course, what we call the lame duck session of congress — more like a zombie congress; dead men walking… or sitting as the case may be. It has […]

 

Another Big Labor Union Payoff: Obama Adds $3.3 Million to Construction Project

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The government is over spent. This single fact is beyond dispute. Even Democrats say so. We have but to recall that Democrat after Democrat attempted to run for office this last election by claiming fealty to small government, cost cutting, and lower spending. So with all this small government/low spending fever sweeping the political classes, […]

 

DREAM Act Passes House: The Eight Republicans that Voted for it

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Want to dispense some bile? Well here are the names of the eight Republicans that just voted “yes” on the DREAM Act (HR 6497). Even worse are the eleven that didn’t vote at all. Ahn “Joseph” Cao, Louisiana Mike Castle, Delaware Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Florida Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Charles Djou, Hawaii Vern Ehlers, […]

 

FDA Set To Cut Off 17,000 Women Annually From Lifesaving Drug

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is due to take up the case of Avastin, a cancer drug that successfully treats some 17,000 women annually. With a coming December 17 decision, the FDA seems poised to take this drug away from these patients quite despite the fact that their doctors find the drug effective. The […]

 

Hey, Good News, States See Some Revenue Growth. Bad News: Everything Else

Posted on by William Teach

I due truly love the spin from the LA Times: States’ budget picture is brightening – But many continue to face deficits. Tax revenues are rising but demand for social services remains high, and there won’t be a batch of federal stimulus money this year. Interesting. They destroy their own headline with the sub. Then […]

 

The Daily Kos Reaction To Obama Cutting A Deal On Taxes

Posted on by John Hawkins

This may shock some of you, but liberals are….unhappy. I know, I know. It’s stunning. How can it be that such cheerful, contented people have been so sour for…what is it now, like 600-700 straight days? Of course, in all fairness, they do have a reason to be upset: Barack Obama has lied to them […]

 

Obama’s Tax Cuts Surrender All Part Of His Plan, Or Something

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, it has nothing to do with having no choice in breaking yet another promise to his unhinged rich people hating base: Obama’s tax cut extension part of strategy to show bipartisanship Although his liberal supporters are furious about the decision, President Obama’s willingness to extend all of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts is […]

 

Waste: Feds Gave ACORN Half a Million for ‘Fire Prevention’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Jonathan Strong of the Daily Caller has another sad tale of massive government waste involving the criminal group ACORN. Everybody knows about ACORN, the dead, but not really dead activist group charged with all sorts of improprieties and illegalities, the most significant of which is voter fraud, including registering Mickey Mouse to vote. But how […]

 

UN Climate Summit, Cancun, Mexico: Climate Conmen Sending You Back 100 Years

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As most of you know last week I was down in Cancun, Mexico reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit (officially called COP16/CMP6). It was several days of sun, surf, and U.N. conmen. I am back in the saddle here at home but Friday I went from the warm white sands of Cancun back to […]

 

Obamanomics: State Debt Shows A Looming Crisis

Posted on by William Teach

Obviously, the New York Times isn’t blaming this on Obama and the Democrats, yet, since Democrats have held the power of the purse and legislation throughout this entire economic downturn, and the Presidency for the past two years, not too mention a good chunk of the state legislatures, it’s their policies that create the problems […]

 

CNN Takes A Stab At Why There’s Really No Job Recovery

Posted on by William Teach

Surprisingly, Bush was not mentioned. Instead, they find a different villain The problem with bringing down the stubbornly high unemployment rate is that employers are learning to do more with less. Employers still aren’t hiring enough. Just look at November’s disappointing employment report, which barely eked out a gain in jobs. Or better yet, look […]

 

Why has Media Not Played up Republicans Taking Obama’s Senate Seat?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Wouldn’t you think it would be a big deal if a Republican president lost his senate seat to a Democrat only 2 short years after he was elected to the highest office in the land? I mean, don’t you think the media would think that a Republican president losing his own former office to the […]

 

Government Wasted $3.2 Million on Misleading Andy Griffith Obamacare Ads

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Do you remember the good old days when $3.2 million was a lot of money?:  To the Obama administration it must be a drop in the bucket because that’s what they spent on those silly television ads where Andy Griffith is pimping Obamacare. Judicial Watch reported this morning that today that it has obtained documents […]

 

Teachers Union’s BIG Break: Obama Let’s Them Get Out of Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the list was revealed of 111 corporations and unions that got a free pass to get out of having to suffer under Obamacare given them by their bought-and-paid-for president, we see that the teachers really got a break. With over 350,000 members, the United Federation of Teachers is one of the largest organizations on […]

 

Obamacare Forces Union to Drop Insurance for 6,000 Children

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember how Obama said that if you liked your healthcare plan you could keep it? Apparently someone forgot to tell the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York because they’ve announced that Obamacare is forcing them to drop coverage for the children of its 30,000 low-wage members. The union will be dropping coverage for […]

 

Terrorism, Sure. Oh, but it’s ‘Not a Conspiracy’!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

How many terror attacks or attempted terror attacks have occurred on U.S. soil since 9/11? Five? Six? Ten? According to our government each and every one of these attacks, whether failed or not, have had one thing in common: “they are not part of a conspiracy.” Clearly, however, our officials are lying to us on […]

 

Illegal Alien’s Bill of Rights

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Barack Obama will soon introduce the Undocumented Resident’s Affirmative Toleration Act (URAT) in order to protect those unfortunate minorities that didn’t win life’s lottery by being born in the U.S.A. President Obama’s compassion for these downtrodden and oppressed peoples is well known, but he wants particular attention paid to those human beings that white […]

 

Michelle Grants Pie Amnesty, Gives Alms to the Poor

Posted on by Jane Jamison

The First Lady announced just before Thanksgiving…….whew!……….. that she would give America a “break” from her food policing….but only for a few days. LET THEM EAT PIE! Michelle “Being-First-Lady-Is-Hell” Obama had plenty of time to get her photo op with the “little people” who have no jobs the day before Thanksgiving. That’s because she had […]

 

Why Would the Obama Administration Think China Will “Help” with N. Korean Aggression?

Posted on by Jane Jamison

This little story : is a ridiculous oversimplification of the facts, but since President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are either ignoring the obvious: or trying to gild it over with idle threats, maybe this will take things to a level they will understand.:  Maybe President Obama can take the time to read the report enclosed […]

 

Obama’s Government Denying Tax Status Based on Pro-Israeli Support?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A pro-Israel education group called Z Street is claiming that Obama’s IRS has violated its Constitutional rights by denying it tax exempt status solely because it supports Israel, support that apparently runs counter to Obama’s stance on Israel. Z Street reports that Obama’s IRS asked a telling question of the group as it sought the […]

 

Obama’s Labor Dept. To Create Gov’t Sponsored ‘Labor News’ Agency?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What is it called when a government creates a state-sponsored “news” agency, again? Ah yes, it’s called government propaganda. And that is what the Obama administration seems interested in creating if the words of Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis’s senior advisor Carl Fillichio can be believed. On Nov. 19 Fillichio attended the annual meeting of […]

 

Obama Doesn’t Think About Palin, Concerned More With Being The Best President He Can Be

Posted on by William Teach

A double shot from ABC News today, how could I pass up a headline like: President Obama to Barbara Walters: ‘I Don’t Think About Sarah Palin‘? In an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters from the White House, President Barack Obama says he’s not giving much thought to the 2012 election, but is focusing instead on […]

 

Teacher Union Chief: Big Boss, Big Hypocrite

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What was it that our apologizer in chief and his minions have told us? Wasn’t it that we all have to sacrifice because the U.S. is less than she used to be? Well American Federation of Teachers union chief, Rhonda “Randi” Weingarten, says phooey on that. Sacrifice if for the unwashed masses, not her. Weingarten […]

 

GOP Guvs Ready to Take on Greedy Public Employee Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is a story that warms the anti-union cockles of my free-market heart. At the recent meeting of the Republican Governors Association in San Diego those governors gathered made a point to discuss angles of attack to take down the budget-busting, anti-democratic public employees unions. In attendance was the ever present former Speaker of the […]