Category: Economy

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 […]

 

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. […]

 

Using the System FOR Us: The Freedom Force Strategy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The National Precinct Alliance is an effort to give tea party folks the guidance to make a difference at home, within their own local political system. This is the only way that we conservatives can influence what is happening in our state government and what is happening in Washington. All our tea party protests are […]

 

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 […]

 

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 […]

 

Washington State’s SEIU Bought Republican

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On February 24, Moe Lane posted a short piece alerting one and all to the fact that one of the Republican candidates for Washington State’s 3rd Congressional District is a favorite of the hard-core lefties in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — one of Obama’s favorite Big Labors cohorts. Mr. Lane, though, was sure […]

 

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 […]

 

Now The Brits are Having Tea Parties!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s just plain odd, but funny and telling all at the same time. Apparently the Brits are going to have their own tea party to protest their own plight of over taxation. Accordingly, Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan is sponsoring a Brighton Tea Party to be held on February 27. Hannan thinks that […]

 

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 […]

 

Bernanke: You Dems Are Turning America Into Greece

Posted on by William Teach

OK, he didn’t specifically say that, but, for all intentions, that is what he meant With uncharacteristic bluntness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States could soon face a debt crisis like the one in Greece, and declared that the central bank will not help legislators by printing […]

 

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 […]

 

ObamaCare Includes Massive Tax Hike

Posted on by Dave Blount

Electing an outrageously unqualified community activist who has spent his entire life surrounded by communists would result in lower taxes for the vast majority of Americans, we were repeatedly and emphatically promised. But the hype that installed our socialist kakistocracy is over. Now come the tax hikes: The White House’s new health-care proposal promises the […]

 

New Video: ‘Ayn Rand: Goddess Of The Market’

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Jennifer Burns, the author of the best-selling late 2009 book on Ayn Rand’s remarkably contentious history with the American right stopped by the vast Silicon Graffiti production facilities last week to discuss her book and the research that went into it.

 

The Mount Vernon Statement, A Poor Man’s Manifesto… VERY Poor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A group made up of some of the biggest names in contemporary conservatism got together a few days ago and crafted what they are calling the “Mount Vernon Statement,” a manifesto of sorts meant to give direction to today’s conservative movement. Put succinctly, it fails to fill the bill. Taken as a whole this statement […]

 

Public Employees Unions Destroying California

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mark Tapscot echoes our current theme here on the blog by reporting that California is once again in a disastrous budget shortfall and one of the biggest reason that this is so is the undue power of the recalcitrant public employees unions. Tapscot says that California cannot get out of its mess because, “the unions […]

 

Kaus: Unions Are Crippling Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Lefty website Slate.com’s Mickey Kaus is another one of those left of center folks that are realizing that unions are killing Obama. Of course, I’d go one farther and say that unions are killing America, but Kaus is only worried about helping Obama. Regardless, he’s right that unions are a dangerous impediment. Kaus finds that […]

 

Longtime Dem Consultant Torpedoed by Union Thugs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In Democrat political consulting circles Pat Caddell is a big name. One-time adviser to President Jimmy Carter and longtime political strategist for the left, Caddell isn’t someone you throw off a campaign easily. But the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) doesn’t care about past success. It only cares about its power. After being thrown off […]

 

Happy Anniversary, Stimulus Package! Boondoggle: Great NRSC Ad

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

This is an excellent ad by the Senate Republicans, released to coincide with the one year anniversary of the boondoggle known as the stimulus package. You know, the one that has served to create or save nothing but debt and further unemployment. This ad needs to run everywhere, and often.:  In fact, it needs to […]

 

Sheriff Joe: All Those Stimulus Jobs Are For The Second Half

Posted on by William Teach

Remember all the talk about the Stimulus being about shovel ready jobs? Remember how this legislation was just so danged important that no one would be allowed to take the time to read it, it had to be voted on right now or OMG WE’RE DOOMED? Of course, Barry waited 5 days to sign it. […]

 

Stimulus Wednesday: Where’s The Money (Not) Going?

Posted on by William Teach

The Generational Theft Act has been on the books for over a year at this point, and Sheriff Joe and other Obama peeps will travel around the country pushing their unbelievable unpopular Stimulus plan. Just how unpopular? A CBS News/New York Times poll from last week found that just six percent of Americans think the […]

 

$135 Million of Your Money Wasted on ‘Green Wall’ In Oregon

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

About $135 million of our tax dollars in federal stimulus is being wasted on an upgrade for the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland, Oregon, one aspect of which is the so-called “green wall.” Why wasted? Because no one even knows if this “green wall” will even work and no engineering solutions have been […]

 

Moonbat Slackers Solve World’s Problems

Posted on by Dave Blount

The solution to our “key economic, social and environmental problems” turns out to be surprisingly simple, according to the British taxpayer-financed New Economics Foundation. All we have to do is stop engaging in so much productive activity. To solve inequality of outcomes between the industrious and the lazy, and to rescue the polar bears from […]

 

Obama Administration Summed Up in One Headline

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

“PROMISES, PROMISES: Jobs Bill Won’t Add Many Jobs” Image courtesy Liberty Maniacs/Zazzle You know that whole “creating and saving:  jobs” thing? Let me be clear: Psyche!:  I was totally kidding! Jobs Shmobs.:  I’ve got speeches to give and face time to relentlessly score on television. And, anyway, math is hard! PROMISES, PROMISES: Jobs Bill Won’t […]

 

How To Become a Millionaire Easy: Become a Gov’t Worker

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Having trouble making ends meet? Eating your meals from a dog food can? Lost your job, seen your retirement accounts dwindle or disappear, having a hard time getting work? Millions of Americans are facing these problems. Some, however, aren’t. And those some are government workers, apparently. Unionized government workers at that. Doug Ross has a […]

 

Bada Bing, NJ Governor Christie: Fiscally Responsible AND a Backbone!

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I was born and raised in New Jersey; moved down to South Carolina 5 years ago. Prior to that, I lived in New Jersey my entire life. I left because it became impossible to make ends meet there, primarily due to an insanely high cost of living. That can be blamed, in part, on the […]

 

Food Stamps Are Not Welfare

Posted on by Dave Blount

With the help of the statist media, Big Government is making progress in its drive to corrode our culture to the point that dependence on coercively funded handouts is both socially acceptable and ubiquitous: A decade ago, New York City officials were so reluctant to give out food stamps, they made people register one day […]

 

CNBC Slams Obama’s ‘Unholy Alliance’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, CNBC’s Media and Technology Editor, Dennis Kneale, is only the latest to jump my little “Unions are Antithetical to Good Government” bandwagon. Kneale slams Obama’s “unholy alliance” with Big Labor and proclaims it a danger to the country. He couldn’t be more right. Here is the article: “Obama’s Unholy Union-With Unions” Here are a […]

 

Time Magazine: Hummer, Model T Some of ‘Worst Cars of All Time’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When you are asked what is the “worst car of all time,” what first runs through your head? The Le Car, the Corvair, maybe the Edsel? Cars that had horrible sales records, bad safety or engineering records or were just all around failures? Aren’t these the sort of cars that first runs through your head? […]