Category: Barack Obama

Military Tribunal For KSM? Hmmmm….. UPDATED

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The Washington Post reports (via HotAir) that Kahlid Sheik Mohammed will now be getting a military tribunal: President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. […]

 

Rahm Emanuel Is Committing Suicide By Cop

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Erick Erickson writes a provocative piece tonight: It started mid-February with a hagiographic tale of woe in the Obama administration and how Rahm Emanuel is the hero and adult in the room. A week later it followed with another look into the White House with Obama as the wimp and Rahm as the muscle. Earlier […]

 

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Bribe ‘Em: Obama Now Trading Judgeships For Votes

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Chicago-style politics once again coming home to roost. The Weekly Standard is reporting that Obama is now selling judgeships for health care votes: Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to […]

 

Obama Judgeship Bribery Joins Louisiana Purchase and Cornhusker Kickback

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Are you a member of the U.S. House of Reps or a Senator that needs some “convincing” that selling out your constituents and implementing a socialist take over of healthcare is a good idea? Well, President Wheeler-Dealer has a deal for you. You’ve heard of the Cornhusker Kickback where a Senator from a western state […]

 

159 Big Spending, Big Government Features of Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When Obama says that his Obamacare healthcare plan isn’t a big government take over of healthcare he really is simply lying outright to the nation (well, let’s be honest, it’s not really his plan because the Democrats wrote it and he had no real input into it). Here is a list of 159 new programs, […]

 

Tea Party ‘Extremists’ Take Center Stage

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The liberal media’s newest meme is to claim that the tea party movement is made up exclusively of John Birchers, militia types, racists, and “birthers.” Politico, for instance, had an extensive story about how legitimate conservatives are coming to realize that they’ll have to conduct a Buckley styled purge of the extremists if they expect […]

 

Representative Paul Broun is Getting Jersey With It

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Yesterday, Republican Representative Paul Broun, of Georgia no less, played the Jersey card. He not only invoked Snooki, of the Mtv show Jersey Shore, but also “The Situation.” You go, Pauly! Broun: Snookie has more substance than Obama’s bipartisanship “offer” (Washington, D.C.) U.S. Representative Paul Broun, M.D. (GA-10) released the following statement after President Barack […]

 

Senator Obama On Reconciliation: “The Wrong Place For Policy Changes”

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

President Obama is not matching up with Senator Obama. That’s kinda surprising given how short a time the President spent as Senator. Well, he was there long enough to be a total hypocrite: Under The Rules, The Reconciliation Process Does Not Permit That Debate. Reconciliation Is Therefore The Wrong Place For Policy Changes … In […]

 

Congress? Who Needs ‘Em? Let Obama Pack the Supreme Court

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Philadelphia Inquirer published a reader feedback opinion editorial from reader Stan Isaacs that is as outlandish as it is indicative of the disregard for the American process that liberals all too often exhibit. It is proof once again that tradition, law, and any effort at legitimacy is wholly outside a liberal’s field of interest. […]

 

Obama Told to Lay Off the Drinking and Smoking

Posted on by Dave Blount

If you don’t think it’s alarming that the President of the United States is a left-wing community organizer with no serious qualifications who has spent his entire life surrounded by anti-American communist nutjobs, what if you were to learn that the president is a left-wing community organizer with no serious qualifications who has spent his […]

 

Support for Obama Erodes Even on the Left

Posted on by Dave Blount

W’s approval rating did not crash through the floor — rendering him ineffective as a president — because liberals didn’t like him. They had hated him from the start for denying Prince Albert the crown. It all came crashing down for Bush when his own conservative base turned against him due to his big spending […]

 

Election Of Obama Reduces U.S. Shark Attacks

Posted on by William Teach

Not only did he lower the seas and heal the Earth, but, wow, I must say, wow The not-so-good news for swimmers: shark attacks worldwide rose marginally in 2009. But the brighter news for those splashing into American waters is that attacks off U.S. shores plummeted more than 30 percent. In 2009, there were 61 […]

 

VIDEO: Four Key Minutes from Obama’s Failed Healthcare Summit

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A great video from the Heritage Foundation that shows how the Republicans really made Obama look the fool at his healthcare summit last week. My favorite is Louise Slaughter (D, NY) who was all upset that a women in here district was “wearing her dead sister’s teeth” because the woman could not afford dental care. […]

 

Real Reason for Beer Summits Discovered

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Turns out, not only was Obama told to stop smoking (meaning he still does. Which only bothers me due to his rank hypocrisy) but the man who fancies himself a health expert and everyone’s doctor was also told to “moderate his alcohol intake.” Besides wondering just how much he does drink that he needs to […]

 

Obama Signals British That They Aren’t So Special

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama, it was claimed, would “repair” our reputation both with our enemies and our friends. So how has he done? Let’s take Britain for example. Has he “fixed” our special relationship with the British Isles? Well, if by fixed you mean he has fastened that relationship to a negative track, well then “fixed” it […]

 

AP: Unions Stymied Under Obama?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press posted a story lamenting that Big Labor has failed so far to get Obama to heel by their commands. Big Labor has said “jump” and Obama has but skipped. The article is correct, though, that Big Labor has failed in its two biggest goals: socialist healthcare and card check. At least, they’ve […]

 

Yes, President Obama Is A Smoking Hypocrite

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

There’s lots of hang-wringing over whether the President’s cancer sticks make him look hypocritical about the government health care he’s trying to ram through Congress so he looks useful. Quite simply: he’s a hypocrite in the leftist usage of the term. Technically, being a hypocrite is saying that something is bad (i.e. smoking), but not […]

 

Bush Says He Won’t Criticize Obama, As It’s Just Too Easy

Posted on by William Teach

Alright, OK, he didn’t say that last part, but, for good or bad, President Bush 43 shows exactly why folks on the Right supported him even in light of his Democrat-lite domestic agenda: he’s a classy guy who doesn’t play the blame game FORT WORTH, Texas | Former President George W. Bush turned to his […]

 

The Most Transparent Administration Evah Strikes Again

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

Submit a FOIA request to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to release certain agency documents related to the issue of global warming, and what do you get? I simply can’t add anything to this. Unbelievable. (Via ST reader Sev) Cross-posted from the Sister Toldjah blog.

 

Obama Still Smoking ‘Em If He’s Got ‘Em

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

President Obama had his first physical as President today. I’m surprised he couldn’t perform the physical himself, since he fancies himself a doctor and all. Obama told to quit smoking for good at health check-up Under his recommendations, Kuhlman urged the president to “continue smoking cessation efforts” and noted Obama was medicating himself with nicotine […]

 

Obama Already Planning 2012 Election Campaign

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I know, hard to believe, right? And by hard to believe, I mean totally believable and obvious to anyone without their head up their own behind. If anyone is shocked by the fact that Obama is already focusing on his 2012 re-election campaign, they may as well give up now. The man has never stopped […]

 

SEIU Prez Andy Stern Appointed to Federal Deficit Commission?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama has today appointed Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern to the federal deficit-reduction commission. And I say, why not? After all union thugs like Stern are one of the root causes of federal deficits so he should know all about them. Unfortunately, though, Stern only knows how to make deficits worse […]

 

Lefty Dupe Says Pentagon Isn’t Part of the Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Americans for Prosperity has this hilarious slice of lefty disconnect that is just so typical of how folks on the left really just don’t have a grasp on rarity. Just outside of Blair House, across the street from the White House at the corner of 17th St & Pennsylvania Ave., we see young lady from […]

 

Sweet! Obama Admin. Blows Off England Again

Posted on by William Teach

Remember when Obama and the left would make our relations with the world all rainbows and unicorn poots? Well, how’s that working out? Washington refused to endorse British claims to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands yesterday as the diplomatic row over oil drilling in the South Atlantic intensified in London, Buenos Aires and at the […]

 

Fiscal Responsibility Lasted Two Weeks In Senate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Two weeks ago the U.S. Senate passed new rules that would require new spending to be offset somewhere else in the budget, the so-called paygo rule. They did this because Democrats and Obama got tired of being called big spending socialists and wanted the veneer of fiscal responsibility with which to cloak themselves. It lasted […]

 

Bill Proposals Move Ill. Primary Back to March (Democrat Capriciousness)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Estimates of voter participation proved that the February primary didn’t garner much interest. With less than 30 percent of registered voters turning out to nominate those that will run in November, moving the primary to February was obviously a bad move. Of course, this year’s primary was moved up to February in a 2007 bill […]

 

Health Care Summit Sum Up So Far–UPDATED

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Obama: Whatever you can do, we’ve done better. Pelosi: People are sad. Reid: People are sad and Republicans suck. Alexander: Here are the CBO facts. Obama to Alexander: You lie. Coburn, MD: We should cut costs. Baucus: Mumble, mumble. Incoherent gibberish. UPDATED: Obama: I won. UPDATED AGAIN: It is my sense that the Democrats want […]

 

Suffering Through Obama’s Political Theater: Blair House Bait-N-Switch Project

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Just FYI, I’ll be live-tweeting the Health Care Summit. Why is Obama doing this? From National Review’s Tevi Troy: In addition, as the New York Times reported, the main reason that President Obama had to – finally – release a White House plan is that the Democrats in the House and Senate could not come […]

 

When Did Dems Hate Reconciliation? When Bush was Prez, of Course

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senate Democratic Majority leader Harry Reid is spitting more of his venom at the Republicans saying that they should “stop crying” about the Democrats desire to use the “nuclear option” — a process called reconciliation — to pass Obamacare despite that most Americans are against the bill. Reid says that reconciliation is common and that […]