Category: Government Waste

Liberals Value Good Intentions Above Both Truth and Outcomes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Amusingly enough the Washington Post has a blog called PostPartisan. I say amusing because it is obvious that there is nothing “post” partisan about it if a rant against tea partiers by Jonathan Capehart is any indication. He thinks that Obama was speaking to the tea partiers in his latest healthcare address and so posted […]

 

Obama Supporter’s Racism Cop Out

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you want to see the ignorance of the left, below is a good video to see it in. In it a woman that supports Obamacare makes all sorts of accusations that everyone is a racist in a confrontation at a small protest outside of Illinois Representative Jan Schakowsky’s Chicago-area offices. Another portly woman whines […]

 

Obamacare is ‘Like Christmas’ for Democrat Voters

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

WRAL TV of Durham, N.C. has a story today that exemplifies how Democrats win votes in a most un-American way. In the words of one North Carolina resident and Democrat voter, Democrats are “like Christmas” because with Democrats in office no one has to pay any of their bills. WRAL had a news story on […]

 

Cato Study: Unions Violate Freedom

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Cato Institute has issued its latest Tax and Budget bulletin, this one centered on public-sector unions. The essence of the report is that public employee unions violate freedom, make government more expensive and inefficient, and the incestuous relationship between unions and politicians takes away power from the voters. While labor unions do play a […]

 

Trials for bin Laden? Why?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There has never been a trial of a fallen national leader that would stand up to the scrutiny of good criminal law. They have always been politically motivated, full of passion, and short on legal niceties or any observation of technical precision. Because of this, should the United States capture Usamma bin Laden, she should […]

 

Obama Forcing Gov’t Costs to Rise With Union Sop

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here we are in an economic downturn and Barack Obama is forcing government costs to rise. The Detroit News has noticed it, too, with a recent editorial on Obama’s absurd “responsible contractor” rule on vendors that contract with the federal government. This new rule would force all vendors that contract with the government to exist […]

 

Some Interesting Healthcare Tweets

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Of course, nothing could be better than the Tweet I saw from Sky_Bluez: “Stupid is as Stupak does.” That about sums up the whole day so far. But here are a few others from various folks on my Twitter feed that are worth noting… buelldawg said: “Tea Party protesters who gathered on the Capitol lawn […]

 

Lord of the Rings Updated for 2010, The Dark Lord ACORN Lives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The last book of the famous Lord of the Rings Trilogy is ripe for some updating, so here’s a proposal to that end. The Dark Lord Sauron is a perfect evil villain, of course. He’s shadowy, unseen, hard to grasp, but pervasive and the personification of oppression and evil. But his name needs to be […]

 

Democrats Don’t Care About ‘Health,’ It’s All About Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Robert Creamer of the HuffyPost penned a very revealing piece that proves that Democrats simply don’t care at all about anyone’s “health,” but that this whole fiasco is solely about political “wins” and power. If someone happens to get a little healthcare out of the thing, that is purely incidental to the actual purpose of […]

 

VP Biden Says Obama Plans to ‘Control Insurance Companies’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The indispensable Jake Tapper of ABC News took an interview with Vice President Joe “Foot in Mouth” Biden that contains a nugget of information that tends to prove that Barack Obama intends to destroy America’s insurance industry and place it under the full control of the federal government. Tapper asked VP Biden what he’d been […]

 

Obama Set to Create More Joe Stacks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Republican members of the House Ways and Means committee today alerted the country to the appalling fact that Obama and his Democrat cohorts will be creating 17,000 new IRS agents with the President’s signing of Obamacare. With animosity against the Internal Revenue Service growing, it seems clear that Obama is creating more Joe Stack […]

 

California’s Brown Tells Unions to ‘Attack’ His GOP Opponent

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You couldn’t get any better proof that unions are little else but hatchet men for the Democrat Party than Jerry Brown’s recent visit to a labor group meeting in California this week. At a meeting of the Laborers’ International Union of North America in Sacramento, Brown gave marching orders to the unions in his race […]

 

Read HR4872, Healthcare Bill Online

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

OpenCongress has online the healthcare bill that will soon be facing a vote in the House of Representatives. Health Care Bill Summary – by OpenCongress: this is the full text of H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010. This bill would amend the Senate version of the health care reform bill to bring its provisions […]

 

More of Obama’s ‘Transparency’ Lies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember how Obama stomped across the country between 2004 and 2009 saying that the Bush administration was the “most secretive administration ever”? Remember how he assured us that if HE won the presidency he’d have the most “transparent” administration ever? He lied. About both point. As Andrew Malcolm of the L.A. Times notes, Obama has […]

 

Barton Barriers: Austin Bureaucrats’ Conception of Art

Posted on by Dave Blount

Our liberal rulers must get a sick kick out of wasting our money in the most conspicuously absurd manner possible. In Austin, the moonbat toehold in Texas, bureaucrats have seen fit to spend $thousands on a tower of traffic barricades that has been christened as “art“: So what is art? According to the City of […]

 

The Left Turning Western Civilization into Alice’s Wonderland

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see”– Alice of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Clearly the left are Aliceites. They are […]

 

Have You Heard? Clinton Appointed Judge Is Impeached

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr. was appointed to the federal bench by Bill Clinton in 1994. In March of 2010 he was impeached by the House of Representatives for bribe taking and corruption. I’m just curious, but have you heard this story about this Democrat judge being impeached? On March 11, Porteous, a Clinton appointee […]

 

What Karl Rove Says About Me

Posted on by Matt Latimer

It was brought to my attention that Karl Rove offered some criticism of me on this site.: :  What he said was rather harmless — though inaccurate.:  If you’ll forgive the shameless plug, the real story is in my book, SPEECH*LESS:: Tales of a White House Survivor.:  : I also offered some comments here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-09/the-rove-you-dont-know/ The only thing […]

 

AP Conflates Fake ‘Catholic’ Group With Catholic Church

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here is one of the sneaky tricks that the Old Media plays in order to support a cause. In this case it’s the Associated Press coming to the aid of Obamacare with “news” that a “Catholic” hospital group is coming out in support of Obamacare. Of course, the AP does not inform the reader that […]

 

PJTVs Launches New Tea Party TV – Interview With Glenn Reynolds

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pajamas Media is capitalizing on its earlier coverage of the Tea Party movement and has launched Tea Party TV. As the PR release says, “Expanding on its coverage of the National Tea Party Convention last week, PJTV announced its launch of Tea Party TV, offering comprehensive coverage of the Tea Party movement. The cornerstone of […]

 

3rd Annual AFP Defending the Amer. Dream Summit, Wisconsin — Opening Festivities

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am here in Beautiful Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin for the AFP Defending the American Dream Summit… or I assume it’ll be beautiful once the drab days of Winter are over, anyway. I haven’t been to the Dells since about 1973, so things have changed a tad since I was last here. Tonight, after registration closed […]

 

Coffee Party Astroturf

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What is it that the left and the Old Media said about the Tea Party movement? Didn’t they say it was not really filled with regular folks and didn’t they say it was not really a grass roots level effort because some nefarious “top-down” Republican groups were secretly behind the whole thing? That’s what Paul […]

 

House Republicans Approve Earmark Ban

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

This is a step in the right direction at curbing spending. You have to start somewhere and pork-barrel spending is a good place to start. While the numbers involved aren’t huge, in relation to total spending, at the very least it means that the GOP is listening and starting to take heed. Usually, one isn’t […]

 

Unions Top the $1 Billion Club in California Political Spending

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The California Teachers Association spent $211,849,298 on lobbying and political spending to get its way in California in 2009. Along with the CTA, the Calif. State Council of Service Employees and 13 other organizations spent a total of one billion dollars on political lobbying of the State House at Sacramento. All of these special interests […]

 

150 Convicted County Officials in Obama’s Chicagoland Area

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Better Government Association (http://www.bettergov.org/), a beleaguered Chicago-based watchdog group that has its work cut out for it, recently released its “Hall of Shame” report that details the nearly 150 county officials that have gone to jail for corruption in Barack Obama’s home county of Cook. And that doesn’t even include the over 100 Chicago […]

 

Dear America, Admit That You’re Stupid! Love, Nancy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The founding fathers debated bills for weeks. They then wrote them, referred them to committee’s of style and prose, brought them back to the floor, debated them again, wrote newspaper articles about them, went home to their districts to discuss them, and finally passed them — or not — after much deliberation. Today’s Speaker of […]

 

‘Restoring’ Unions ‘Right’ to Bargain Collectively

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Not long ago union advocate Stewart Acuff penned a piece for the Huffington website that was filled with soaring rhetoric about unions “creating the middle class” and pleading for voters to pressure Congress to pass the absurdly named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). He claimed that this piece of… legislation would “restore the right to […]

 

Terrorists at Fla. Atlantic U Are O.K., Young Americans for Freedom VERBOTEN

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We send our young adults to university to be educated in the ways of the world, we all know. Following that well-worn path, young James Schackleford decided on the publicly funded Florida Atlantic University for his edification and boy did he learn a lesson about modern education last week. Mr. Schackleford learned that the FAU […]