What We Got From Porkulus

In honor of Comrade Obama, maybe we should rename this Looting and Mooching Day, since under his regime, ever fewer Americans labor — as these numbers make clear: Zero: The number of new jobs added in the month of August… 9.1%: The [official] unemployment rate for the month of August… From March 2009 (the month […]

 





Newt Gingrich’s Illinois Fundraiser

As I sit down to craft this report I just this moment returned from a fundraiser for former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich held in a small town called Lake Barrington in the western suburbs of Chicago. It was a nice, congenial scene unfortunately held on one of Chicago’s hottest evenings with temperatures reaching […]

 

Proof: Obama WAS Trying to Use Joint Speech One-Upmanship As Political Ploy

The American left and its handmaidens in the Old Media spent 24 hours desperately trying to spin Obama’s attempt to schedule a joint session of Congress on the same day as the GOP debate as an example of how the GOP is refusing to work with him. These leftists categorically deny that Obama was simply […]

 


Rep. Peter Roskam Starts Ball Rolling On Regulation Scale Back

I spent most of the day on Aug 30 sort of embeded with Congressman Peter Roskam, Republican of the Illinois 6th District and Chief Deputy Whip in Washington, as he toured his district talking to local businesses. The whirlwind tour of businesses in Roskam’s district — topped with a presser in downtown Chicago — was […]

 

Infant Tyro: Obama’s One-Upmanship of GOP Debates Clearly a Power Play

-By Warner Todd Huston President Obama wants to give us his jobs plan. Yeah, three years after he got elected saying he was all about jobs. It isn’t the speech that is important, here, though — he won’t say anything new or important in it. It is the fact that he’s trying to bury the […]

 

Illinois Ranks Bottom of States With Worst Government Unions Accountability

-By Warner Todd Huston A new study finds that Illinois ranks at the bottom of states with the worst climate of government union accountability in the nation. The Land of Lincoln ranks 47th in the nation of out of control, unaccountable government unions says the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s new “Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index.” The […]

 

Children Better Behaved Than Union Thugs in Wisconsin

The MacIver Institute of Wisconsin has been doing stellar work on the situation between the unions and the rest of Wisconsin since Governor Scott Walker first entered the Governor’s mansion. The Institute has really shown the thuggery that is the unions again and again, revealing them for what they are. Well, MacIver has done it […]

 


Obama: The Kingpin of Broken Promises

Well, let’s get the ball rolling on another broken promise from The One, Barack Hussein Obama, shall we? I mean, every time we think we are done chronicling his broken promises we have to do a reset. He’s had so many gutter balls on this that it is hard to keep them straight. His record […]

 


Obama’s Newest Way To Let Unions Avoid Disclosure Rules

Obama and his union-sold Department of Labor has spent the last three years trying every legal trick, and some merely arrogant ones, to help unions get away with criminal behavior. Obama has especially been working to get his union patrons out of having to declare their financial information to the government like businesses have to. […]

 

Joe Biden OK With Murdering Chinese Babies

We are faced with a difficult dilemma concerning Vice President Joe Biden’s outrageous comments about China’s one-child policy delivered in China this week. On one hand we must either believe Joe Biden is a compete idiot, or on the other understand that he is OK with the fact that Chinese officials forced women to late […]

 


No Spark: The Unanswered Questions of the Chevy Volt

Every time we turn around these days President Obama is touting the idea that the “future” of America lies in green energy and one of those greenie ideas is an Obama favorite: electric cars. Not to let him down, Government Motors has obliged by pushing the Chevy Volt as the car of the future. But […]

 

Obama Attends Cocktail Party At Home Of Wealthy Harvard Militant Marxist Black Panther Mentor

Charles Ogletree was a black panther. He is also the lawyer of Henry Louis Gates, the racist Harvard professor who’s racism caused the beer summit. Ogletree’s daughter Rashida was recently hired into Holder’s Justice Department as a lawyer. Ogletree is still a militant leftist and is still called on by the Obamas for advice. OAK […]

 

Get Ready for A Laugh Riot New Obama Movie: ‘Porkulus II, The Next Fail’

That’s right, folks, if you thought Porkulus one was a laugh a minute, get ready for “Porkulus II: The Next Fail,” a new flick coming soon from Obama/Alinsky/Marx productions. If you thought the last Porkulus was a failure wait till you see the next one. Click image to see larger version Yes, all your favorites […]

 


Union Astroturf Pretends Like Tea Partiers to Attack GOP

The Hill has an interesting, if not a bit slanted, report about the faux grassroots efforts of unions and left-wing advocates to pretend they are somehow just like the Tea Party by attacking the town hall meetings of various GOP congressman across the country this Summer. The Hill dutifully reports without complaint the union’s claims […]

 

Top Ten Richest Members of Congress: Only 3 Are Republicans?

OK, what’s the deal, here? I thought all the rich folk was s’possed to be Republican? But in Roll Call’s list of the richest members of congress we find that the top ten is stuffed mostly with fatcat Democrats. Only three Republicans made the top ten richest list. Gosh, what happened to the left’s meme? […]

 

Obamas Travel Like South American Dictators

Presidente Obama es muy importante. He must be. He travels like a South American Dictator instead of a president of a democratic nation. Sacrifice is so for the little people, ya know? Let’s take his latest of his many, many vacations. His loverly wife, Michelle, had the government fly her via helicopter and a government […]

 

(NMP) Obama Continues To Question Republican’s Patriotism In Weekly DNC Address

Wait, it wasn’t the official DNC address? It was the weekly Presidential Saturday address? The man is a shameless, partisan hack President Obama says political leaders in Washington should take a lesson on values and patriotism from the American people he met on a Midwest bus trip last week. The president delivered this morning’s weekly […]

 


As US Credit Rating Falls, Florida’s Rises

Elections matter. Even as America’s credit worthiness has fallen for the first time in history under President Downgrade, Florida’s under Republican Governor Rick Scott is on the rise: While the United States credit rating with Standard & Poor’s may have been downgraded recently, Florida’s credit outlook has been revised from negative to stable. The improvement […]

 

Big Donor to Democrats Appointed to Obamacare Policy Panel

We’ve seen it over and over with the Obama administration. All one need do to become a “czar” or get a plum appointment to yet another Obama regulatory board is to donate big money to Obama’s campaigns specifically or the Democrats in general. Now it’s happened again. The Washington Examiner’s Lachlan Markay reports that Judith […]

 

Obama Blames Job Loss on Technology, Internet and Efficiency

During his Midwest Misery Tour, President Obama was back to blaming technology, the Internet, and ATMs again for America’s job loss. At a stop in Atkinson, Illinois Obama spoke about the need for education at an agricultural company named Wyffels Hybrids, Inc. He said that America is no longer a place where you can just […]