Category: Barack Obama

Obama Retirement Trap

Posted on by Dave Blount

As noted earlier, it’s only a matter of time until our insatiably greedy socialist rulers seize our retirement accounts. Another ominous warning: Washington is in a desperate search for more revenue and a solution to the future financing of the trillions in national debt obligations currently held by foreign central banks and investors. Economists, politicians […]

 

Chemical Ali Joins Saddam In A Very Hot Place

Posted on by William Teach

Liberals around the world are probably sad right now, and wondering what the USA might have done to make Ali such a bad person Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former Iraqi official known as Chemical Ali, has been executed by hanging, a government spokesman has announced. Majid, an enforcer in Saddam Hussein’s regime and his cousin, […]

 

Obama To Trot Out More Bribes And Empty Promises During SOTU 2010

Posted on by William Teach

He feels your pain. And, by “he,” I mean it will all be about Obama pandering, lying, and bribing the middle class as he talks about himself. Because it is all about Obama. You? You’re just a means to an end. I wonder if we need to get a good drinking game going for Tuesday […]

 

Obama Calls for Bipartisan Commission on Debt. Has He Tried, You Know, Adding?

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Image Courtesy of iowntheworld.com No, really. They need: a commission to figure out: why there is so much of that annoying debt stuff. President Barack Obama on Saturday called on Congress to pass a bill creating a fiscal commission amid reports that he will likely create an executive commission if Congress does not act.: Obama issued a statement […]

 

Is the Left No Longer Obama-Goggled?

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

It seems as if some on the Left:  are no longer blinded by their intoxicated Obama-goggles. It’s going to be one hell of a hangover for them! From : National Review Online’s The Corner: This highlight reel of President Obama’s year of cocky shot-calling on health care reform: is a minor masterpiece of excoriation . And it […]

 

Is This The President’s Fake Letter to the Editor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper happened upon a curious letter to the editor in support of President Obama that seems to have suddenly popped up in nearly 40 newspapers across the country all at once. Every letter claims to be written by an “Ellie Light” and all claim to be from a resident local to […]

 

A Chicago Politician’s Arrogance

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Long time Chicago Democratic Politician Monique Davis is the poster child for arrogance. Davis is a State Rep that has been involved in many flaps centered around her assumption of personal imperviousness, her assumption that her office is a shield used to excuse just any activity at all on her part. She is above the […]

 

Bernardine Dohrn: A ‘Useful Idiot’ for Hamas

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Bernardine Dohrn, terrorist wife of : Bill Ayers, member of : The Weathermen and hostess with the mostest for Barack Obama, joined up with other useful idiots, : Code Pink, to bring : ‘humanitarian aid’ to Gaza. Last month 1,300 pro-Palestinian activists from the US and Europe came to the region in the name of peace and social justice […]

 

Unions Sign On To Obama’s Penalizing of Banks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

According to The Hill, “several union officials” plan to make Obama’s newest attack on America’s banking industry part of their criteria for determining which candidates to support for 2010. So, the unions want to use support for this economy killing tax as a criteria for supporting a candidate. If a politician is for it, then […]

 

Obama Declares War on Banks

Posted on by Dave Blount

The left-wing fanatics running our government are doing their very best to recreate the halcyon days of big government liberalism — the Great Depression. Comrade Obama’s latest assault on the economy: President Obama called on Congress Thursday to expand the government’s ability to limit the size and complexity of major financial institutions… He cast his […]

 

If Gov’t Can’t Run This Carp, How Would They Do With Healthcare?

Posted on by William Teach

A perfect illustration of why government should be limited in their role, because, they are just generally not that great at actually getting things done in a reasonable time period The White House has agreed to Gov. Jim Doyle’s request to hold an emergency Asian carp summit with Great Lakes governors while a Michigan congressman […]

 

CATO on Brown: This is like Ted Kennedy being elected in Utah

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston There’s a lot of analysis out there on why Scott Brown defeated nearly 50 years of Democratic rule of the Massachusetts Senate seat, but the CATO Institute has some cogent, logical points that we should all carefully consider. But before I give you the CATO video, remember this…. it’s time to […]

 

NBC’s Viera Scolding Scott Brown on Today Show

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Meridith Viera seemed a bit annoyed that she was interviewing the newly elected Republican Scott Brown instead of Democrat Martha Coakley now that Massachusetts voters made their choice in the Tuesday special election for the open Senate seat there. Viera did her level best to phrase the results of the election in an agenda driven […]

 

Krugman Says Obama Doesn’t Blame Bush Enough?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the worst writers in political punditry, a man with a little deserved reputation as a thinker and analyst, is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Sometimes the things he says are so absurd that it is hard to believe that even he believes what he is writing. Aside from his discreditable insistence that […]

 

President Obama’s Very Bad No Good Horrible Year

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Let’s a list of the sadness: Stimulus Freddie And Fanny Olympics Government Motors Copenhagen Climategate Crotchbomber Economy And Creigh Deeds, John Corzine and now, Coakley. It’s been a sad year. Not all of it has been in his control, but a huge part of it has been directly under President Obama’s control. And now President […]

 

America Now Less Free Than Canada

Posted on by Dave Blount

Sweet Land of Liberty, this was once called; and it will be again — provided our current government is run out of Washington. Under Comrade Obama, America is dropping like a stone on the Index of Economic Freedom. This year, of the world’s 20 largest economies, the U.S. suffered the largest drop in overall economic […]

 

Next to Be Nationalized: 401Ks

Posted on by Dave Blount

The next target in Comrade Obama’s blitzkrieg against the economic freedom that made America wealthy is our retirement accounts: President Barack Obama is calling for establishing automatic workplace pensions and expanding unemployment insurance as part of his spending plan for the U.S. Labor Department next fiscal year. We liken this to an “Obama 401k Plan.” […]

 

President Obama Plans A “Combative Turn”?

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Would the Presidents combative turn be in contrast to his bipartisan chumminess up until now? Oh wait…. Via Politico: President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say. “This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who […]

 

TSA Candidate Thinks Terrorism Is Sort Of Important, And Our Fault

Posted on by William Teach

Good think Obama has nominated someone who thinks terrorism merits some slight importance Erroll Southers, President Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), said the war on terror should be given “some parity” with other national priorities such as global warming, education, and the economy. In the online interview (from 2008), Southers was […]

 

President Chump Lives In His Own Little Progressive World, As Highlighted By The Mass. Election

Posted on by William Teach

Two stories jump out at me this morning, showing just how divorced from reality Obama is, stories that show he cares little for what the American people want and think. Starting out, here is the text of an ad featuring President Chump for Marcia, er, Martha Coakley SCRIPT Mr. Obama says: “Martha knows the struggles […]

 

You Know Who’s At Fault For The Disaster That Is Coakley? Bush

Posted on by William Teach

For a Party that calls themselves “progressives,” they sure spend quite a bit of time whining about the past and blaming everyone else As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama‘s rally on behalf of AG Martha Coakley (D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley’s now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with […]

 

Cindy Sheehan: Bewitched, Bothered and Totally Bewildered

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Cindy Sheehan, ever desperate for attention, tried to flaunt her Code Pink-y wares in front of the boys on the Left once again. One problem: she sort of went to: the wrong house. The: Washington Post has more: LANGLEY, Va. – A group led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has protested near the CIA’s headquarters and former […]

 

Corrupt Politics in Cook County Illinois, Some History

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Everyone is always talking about how corrupt Illinois politics is. Well, it’s been that way since day one. Since I live here (I’ll take your condolences) I thought I’d give a brief history of Cook County, the home of the City of Chicago. There is a saying about Chicago’s weather: if you don’t like the […]

 

Does Obama trip to Massachusetts presage Coakley’s failure?

Posted on by Bookworm

The last and best word on the subject is that Obama is going to Massachusetts to bring his prestige to bear on the upcoming Massachusetts Senatorial election. You can hear Coakley confirm this, even as she makes the stunning statement — stunning considering that she’s hoping to represent Massachusetts in the United States Senate — […]

 

Now WE Will Pay for Unions Fancy Healthcare Packages

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As if there were ever any doubts, the unions bosses that descended upon the White House earlier in the week appear to have succeeded in getting their members excluded from the so-called Cadillac taxes on expensive healthcare packages. The Obama administration, having been bought and paid for by unions, agreed to demands that unions be […]