Category: Barack Obama

Promises, Promises: Obama’s Ever Evolving Pledge Not To Raise Taxes On People Making Less Than $250,000 A Year In Quotes

Posted on by John Hawkins

Barack Obama is being smeared by baseless claims that he would dramatically raise marginal tax rates to levels not seen since the 1970s, or impose new taxes on everything from your child’s education fund to your water. These tired attacks are patently false and have been repeatedly debunked by independent fact check organizations. Below are […]

 

WSJ Lays Out The Differences Between Katrina And BP Responses

Posted on by William Teach

Paul H. Rubin, professor of economics at Emory University, does a great job in comparing and contrasting the federal responses to the two disasters as they relate to two presidents, though, I do think he forgot one point, which I’ll get to. First, some background In many respects, the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Katrina are […]

 

Obama Knew all and did Nothing….

Posted on by Heather Bachman

From day one of the spill, we have seen that it has left more than tragedy and waste in its path but also a magnifying of exactly what our White House holds: Zero real leadership and continuous degradation of the U.S. Constitution.:  While many political experts have said time and time again that our Commander […]

 

PeBO Apparently Bored With The Whole Gulf Oil Spill Thing

Posted on by William Teach

He’s made his speech, visited the Gulf a few times, blamed a whole bunch of people, so, it is time for Obama to move on to other things that have importance to Himself. He had nothing scheduled this weekend, except some golf (we haven’t heard what he did Sunday, but, being Father’s Day, I’d give […]

 

Sunday Funnies: Obama Lectures G20 About Debt Reduction

Posted on by William Teach

In the past, we on the Right have made fun of the Left’s use of the phrase “reality based community.” Over the past few years, we have discussed how Obama seems to be divorced from reality and actually have the temerity to lecture about it. More proof, in the form of a letter sent June […]

 

Barton’s Short Lived Gift to the DNC

Posted on by Heather Bachman

Yesterday, Representative Joe Barton issued an apology, first on behalf of the nation and then of himself and called the recent acceptance of the Obama Administration’s orders for BP to pay $20 billion dollars in order to compensate for damage from the spill a “shakedown”.:  This apology was a horrid utterance by a man who […]

 

America Deserves the Apology…Not BP

Posted on by Heather Bachman

BP is deserving of no apology; the real apology, should be to the American people. What is the real “shakedown” are the actions taken by the Obama Administration in order to milk whatever they can get from the BP spill aftermath. While they are happily having speeches cloaked in actions toward BP when in reality […]

 

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Responds To Clinton’s Statement Regarding Lawsuit

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, by now, you will have heard that Hillary Clinton made a statement on an Ecuadorian TV station that the Obama admin. will sue Arizona over their illegal immigration law, a statement made right before Brewer met with PeBo, where it was not mentioned. Last night, she responded in a conversation with Fox News’ […]

 

Obama’s Creepy & Dictatorial $20 Billion Dollar Ultimatum To BP

Posted on by John Hawkins

One of the sad realities of politics is that telling an easily demagogued truth can often get you in trouble, not because of what you said, but because of how it will be falsely portrayed. Joe Barton is getting a taste of that, right now: House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) broke with a top […]

 

Obama’s Healthcare Give Away to Union Special Interests

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of Obamacare’s new rules states that if your employer finds it necessary to change healthcare providers to a more cost effective plan they will lose their federal health plan exemptions. This will cause employers to drop employees from health plans forcing workers onto government sponsored plans. So much for Obama’s hoary idea that you […]

 

The Professor Tells Americans To Just Get Over Their Oil Addiction

Posted on by William Teach

And, Obama swings and misses during his first televised speech from the Oval office. Fifty five plus days out, and Obama still has no plan. He offered absolutely nothing new other than a few seemingly offhand remarks about “Doing Something.” He talked about lawsuits and holding BP accountable. Threw lots of blame around while claiming […]

 

In 2009 Video Blago Said Prosecutors Wanted ‘Sh*t on Obama’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back in 2009 a video compilation of clips of impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was posted on YouTube. Today folks are realizing that this video features Blago claiming that the reason prosecutors went after him was to get information on President Obama. On the video made at a book signing party at Columbia College, Blago […]

 

Rep. Steve King: Obama Favors Blacks Over Whites

Posted on by John Hawkins

Conservative Republican Steve King said the following about Barack Obama, Democrats on Tuesday denounced an Iowa Republican congressman who says President Barack Obama favors blacks over whites, and a GOP candidate from Colorado canceled a fundraiser the Iowan was to keynote. Rep. Steve King, known for sometimes incendiary remarks about immigration, Abu Ghraib and other […]

 

Princess Leia Found Her Darth Vader: It’s You and Me

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, she’s a former alcoholic, drug addict, washed up actor, shock therapy patient (no, really) and one-time princess to the universe, but now Carrie “Princess Leia” Fisher can add one more calumny to her long list of off-kilter, personality deficits: she’s a “teabagger” hater. So, she’s got that going for her, which is nice. Hawking […]

 

American Journalism, Brought to you By The Democrat Party

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When someone says “journalist” do you have a picture of a fedora-sporting, cigar chomping, agitator with jaded mien and independent mind, a man stubbornly outside the political establishment looking in and eyeing it all with suspicion? Do you get a flash of a writer that stands in opposition to entrenched powers, one looking out for […]

 

Obama: The Oil Spill Is Like 9/11 Or Something. Guess What He Did Next

Posted on by William Teach

Comedy gold Sunday morning from Obama (that’s when the story was published). Or, should that be, cluelessness, thin skinnedness, and detachedness? Anyhow, via Gateway Pundit, we get a Politicio story, Obama: Gulf spill ‘echoes 9/11’ Sounding reflective as he heads into a bruising electoral season, President Barack Obama told POLITICO columnist Roger Simon that the […]

 

It Took An Oil Spill To Teach Obama About The Limits Of Government

Posted on by John Hawkins

The aftermath of:  the:  Obama oil spill or alternately, Obamatrina, has been fascinating to watch. For the first time in recorded memory, we actually have liberals, including Barack Obama, proclaiming that there are limits to what government can accomplish. Can the government create jobs by spending billions we don’t have? Can:  it : run the auto […]

 

A Wonderful Example of the Left’s Fascism at Chicagoland Radio and Media Message Board

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The fascist way that the left deals with opinion differing from its own is just one of the many reasons why the left in America today is so hypocritical. Aside from the oppressive aire of our Universities and colleges no better example of the quashing of opposing views can be seen than on Internet message […]

 

Unions Preventing a Timely Cleanup of Oil in the Gulf?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Joseph Carafano of the Heritage Foundation has made an interesting observation and wonders if President Obama is allowing unions to make it harder to effect a timely and effective cleanup of the BP oil spill in the Gulf? The offer of aid from foreign companies has been refused by the Obama administration and the Jones […]

 

Whiner-In-Chief: I Can’t Suck It Up With A Straw

Posted on by William Teach

Un-professional, inexperienced, overly-partisan, thin-skinned, clueless, and, of course, a major league whiner. Am I leaving any descriptor out about Obama? He whines like Wayne Gretzky played hockey: no one is better. A bit of video surfaced, due to the pool reporters not being allowed to view this specific conversation, appeared on the White House website […]

 

Obamacare: Eliminating the Poor and Elderly’s Last Resort to Life and Health

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Many left-wingers complain that our healthcare system as it stands leaves out the poor, elderly, and those least able to care for themselves. They say that because of this inequity private medical care should be eliminated and government should take over that role in society. That way, they claim, all will be treated equally and […]

 

Obama Shovels Our Money at Palestinian Terror State

Posted on by Dave Blount

If only squids could be trained to talk, you could name one Comrade Obama and teach it to intone, “Let me be clear” before it lets loose with a cloud of ink. But there is one thing Chairman Zero has made perfectly lucid: where he falls in the worldwide struggle between liberty and tyranny. His […]

 

Obama Tries Tough Guy Act on for Size.

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Today, President Obama decided to try to inherit something else from Bush: a spine and fortitude. However, in true incompetent Obama form, he failed, as always. Via Allahpundit: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Obama cannot pull off that whole cowboy image. Hey, remember when being a cowboy was […]

 

Insurance Company The First Victim Of ObamaCare

Posted on by William Teach

Sadly, expect more and more of this, which goes right along with what the ObamaCare supporters and legislators actually want A Virginia-based insurance company says “considerable uncertainties” created by the Democrats’ health care overhaul will force it to close its doors by the end of the year. The firm, nHealth, appears to be the first […]