Category: Democrats

Unions: On the Outside Looking In At Political Power?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Since Obama began his run for the White House he has been Big Labor’s best friend. And they loved him for it, too. As Obama ran and as soon as he got into office the unions had stars in their eyes. They thought that with a bought and paid for president in their hip pocket, […]

 

Obama’s New CAFE Standards Will Cost Us All More Money

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Obama administration has been touting new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to be imposed on America’s automobile manufacturers saying that it will save all Americans money at the pumps. Unfortunately, there are all sorts of hidden costs of which the administration isn’t noting, costs that will drive up the price of driving in […]

 

Before Pipeline Explosion Calif. Utility Spent Millions on Political Campaigning

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back in September of 2010, a gas pipeline running underneath the city of San Bruno, California ruptured. The resulting explosion killed eight people. A recently finished investigation has revealed safety and engineering failures at many levels but, sadly, even the state agency charged with investigating seems to be hoping that the failures are hushed up. […]

 

Tea Party-Haters Attack Chgo Business For Event Countering Obama B-Day Bash

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

William J. Kelly of Chicago organized an event at a business across the street and about a block down from the venue where President Obama held his birthday bash/fundraiser. Naturally Chicago’s anti-Tea Party set were furious at the business and used threats and intimidation to stop Kelly’s event. Kelly called the event “Jobs Bash 2011,” […]

 

Alec Baldwin Calls HuffPo Readers Stupid

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ooopsie. Looks like all is not honey and roses in the left-wing, out of the mainstream land of Huffington Post. When one of the site’s most popular bloggers and celebrities calls HuffyPo readers stupid, it makes for a tense atmosphere among the out of the stratosphere left. Alec Baldiwn, famed for his left-wing diatribes — […]

 

Bad News: Democrats Will Focus On Jobs Again

Posted on by William Teach

And we all know what happens when they actually focus on jobs: things get much worse. Then they get distracted by a shiny abortion or something, and things slowly get worse The debt ceiling crisis barely was averted Tuesday when President Barack Obama and other top Democrats were ready to change the subject. Obama offered […]

 

Freedom of Speech Wins: Baltimore Politician Drops Lawsuit Against Blogger

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Examiner blogger Adam Meister was doing what bloggers do, namely posting the info that “journalists” refuse to write about. In this case, back in March, Meister found that a Baltimore Councilwoman was living in a different district than she claimed she was living in. As a result, the politician tried to sue the blogger for […]

 

New Tone: Blackmail And Six Shooters

Posted on by William Teach

Remember when the liberal scolds were calling for a new era of civility? Politico’s Roger Simon had this to write “Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all […]

 

Left-Winger Robert Reich Despondent Over Obama Failure

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, lefty political commentator, and so-called “economist,” is despondent over the failure of President Obama to “tell Americans the truth” about the budget debate now coursing through Washington D.C. Reich is very typical of how the far left in American politics is furious at Obama’s constant failure […]

 

If You Thought The Debt Deal Was The End Of The Fight….

Posted on by William Teach

…..sorry, no, it could bring on an even bigger fight, per Reuters Kevin Drawbaugh: Analysis: Storms ahead as debt deal sets up tax fight If Congress passes the debt ceiling deal by Tuesday, as expected, it could trigger a battle over tax reform within weeks and turn Washington once again into a dateline for deadlock. […]

 

Illinois Budget Deficit: Worst of the Worst

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Illinois ended 2010 as the most indebted state in the union. Sadly, not a thing has been done so far in 2011 to make it better. Instead, it will get worse. As State House News reports, the state rings in at number 50 in the nation’s most broke states. Illinois owed $37.9 billion more than […]

 

Union Member Fined $300K Just for Finding Work!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The lesson: if you are a union member, better to sit on your rear-end and do nothing than find gainful employment. A poor Chicago-area carpenter who was sick and tired of waiting for his useless union to find him work struck out on his own and got a job with a non-union shop. Big mistake. […]

 

When MSNBC Says A Double Dip Recession Is Here….

Posted on by William Teach

Then things are quite a bit worse then they appear. Douglas A. McIntyre provides 10 signs the double-dip recession has begun Friday’s news on GDP shows the double dip has arrived – an expansion of only 1.3 percent and consumer spending up 0.1 percent in the second quarter. Astonishingly low by any account. The debt […]

 

Debt Deal Winners And Losers

Posted on by William Teach

Over at the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza breaks down the winners and losers in the debt deal. Here are a few of his winners Tea party: There were major questions coming into the 112th Congress about who would blink first – the largely establishment-aligned leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman […]

 

PIMCO Chief: US Credit Rating Will Get Downgraded Regardless Of Deal

Posted on by William Teach

Hmm, hasn’t President Snippy Pants been running around, scaring people, telling them the US credit rating will get downgraded if Someone Else doesn’t put a deal together? Not so fast, “according to PIMCO founder and managing director Bill Gross” When asked by CNN host Ali Velshi on Sunday whether the U.S. deserved to maintain its […]

 

OK kids, it’s time once again to play “Name That Party!”

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

A Newark, NJ “campaign worker” pled guilty to election fraud on Friday. Angel Colon admitted submitting fraudulent absentee and messenger ballots on behalf of State Senator Teresa Ruiz in 2007. Ruiz won the election. Now here’s the test. Go read the AP story. Did you notice any mention of Colon’s or Ruiz’s political party affiliation? […]

 

Gays, Media, Ignore MSNBC Talker’s Gay Slur

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We all know that the Old Media is filled with double standards where it concerns treatment of conservatives and liberals. Last week we found yet another example of the media’s penchant to hypocrisy when a talking head on MSNBC used a derogatory term associated with gays yet the entire militant gay establishment and their pals […]

 

A Few Things Illinois Needs to know about the Debt Crisis

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The debt crisis is a national disaster, of course. But Illinois will likely be affected worse than many other states. For one thing, Illinois is the most broke state in the union and will be affected more immediately by the mess that is our national economy than any other state. But, as Fox Business network’s […]

 

Is There A Tentative Compromise Debt Deal?

Posted on by William Teach

ABC News is reporting that there is tentative debt deal, per “congressional sources”. Here’s the deal they are reporting, according to both Dem and GOP sources A debt ceiling increase of up to $2.1 to $2.4 trillion (depending on the size of the spending cuts agreed to in the final deal). They have now agreed […]

 

Shocker! Economy Falters Dramatically In First Quarter

Posted on by William Teach

I know, I know, you’re saying “how could that possibly happen after two years of far left Keynesian economic policies?” The economic recovery faltered dramatically in the first half of the year, and that means more trouble ahead. The latest Commerce Department figures show that the nation’s economic output was gasping for breath long before […]

 

Politico Op-Ed: TEA Partiers Are Terrorists

Posted on by William Teach

The actual headline reads “The tea party’s terrorist tactics“, which is interesting, when one considers that The Politico, like so many other leftist news outlets, refers to actual Islamist terrorists as militants and insurgents. And, having kept track of so many liberal blogs and forums for a long time, the Left generally thinks of Conservatives […]

 

New York Times Blames American Conservatives for Norway Massacre

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(Just back from vacation so I am a few days late on this one, but…) The New York Times is never one to let a good tragedy go to waste when it can turn that sad incident into a bludgeon with which to bash American conservatives, even if the incident doesn’t have a thing to […]

 

Henry Waxman Asks Sec. Chu To Create Globull Warming Re-Education Program

Posted on by William Teach

Because you haven’t been exposed enough to the so-called science of anthropogenic global warming, er, climate change, er, climate crisis, Henry Waxman wants more, and penned a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu (via Minnesotans For Global Warming). A few excerpts (full letter for your amusement at MGW) I am writing to urge you to […]

 

Another Tale of Our Anti-Parent DCFS Establishment

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is a sad truth that from coast to coast our departments of children and family service (DCFS) agencies are in disarray. All too often they ill serve the children they are supposed to be helping and they almost always step on the rights of parents without much bothering to give a good reading of […]

 

Wu Done It

Posted on by Dave Blount

We already knew that Rep. David Wu (D-OR) is conspicuously unsound even by liberal standards. Other Dems have supported him anyway. At least he was taking medication. Turns out the medication might have been Viagra: Rep. David Wu has been accused of an “unwanted sexual encounter” with the teenage daughter of a longtime friend, the […]

 

NY Times Blames The Deficit On……..

Posted on by William Teach

….if the first thought that came to mind was “enormous and reckless spending by Obama and the Democrats,” well, sorry, nope, uh uh, you have to go back to the B and T words With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth […]

 

This is fury

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Done really well. Mark Steyn, “Planless Dems:: The ruling party has no spending plan other than to plan to spend even more“. As I said, these are structural problems. In theory, they can be fixed. But, when you look at the nature of them, you’ve got to wonder whether they ever will be this side of […]