President Obama has come out with a plan to rescue the economy from the terrible possibility of a double-dip recession and get our fiscal house back in order by raising taxes by $1.5 trillion on "the wealthy." To be fair, the president has also proposed $1 trillion in savings by winding down the wars in […]
The title of this post is a quote from Mythbusters’ Adam Savage whose reality frequently isn’t quite to his liking as machines he constructs fail spectacularly in a ball of flame. It’s also indicative of the mindset of some parts of the “reality-based” media. When last we came across Providence Journal columnist and head of […]
Yesterday, while everyone with anything better to do was watching the Monday Night Football doubleheader and not reading political blogs, the Obama administration sent out OMB Director Jack Lew to explain how Obama plans on paying for Stimulus II: Same ol’ $#!+. (via Andrew Stiles at NRO) $400 billion by limiting itemized deductions, including the […]
I watched President Obama’s campaign speech last Thursday to a joint session of Congress. We had to wait for his vacation to be over to get that? Seriously? “Pass this bill?” What bill? No one’s seen it yet. Rumor has it one will be delivered this week, but once again … things your staff could’ve […]
Monday afternoon in Detroit, 20 minutes before President Barack Obama took the stage, Teamsters President James Hoffa exhorted the crowd to “take these [Tea Party] son of a bitches out.” At the ballot box, of course. This martial, some might say “violent” rhetoric, has been a staple of American politics almost since the beginning. People […]
Education Secretary Arne Duncan needs to learn that humility is a worthwhile trait to cultivate. When Texas Gov. Rick Perry entered the race for the GOP presidential nomination, Duncan thought that would be an opportune time to criticize the state of education in Texas. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Texas’s school system “has really […]
President Obama got called on the carpet by a tea party organizer for his failure to police his V.P.’s adherence to the “new tone” required of politicians in the wake of the tragic shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. In the end, Obama denied that Joe “The Mouth” Biden had called Republicans terrorists and dismissed […]
Yid with Lid has a post up taking presidential flack Jay Carney to task for hypocrisy for defending President Obama's August vacation when he attacked President George W. Bush for doing the same in 2001. Carney now acknowledges that you never really do get a vacation as president--the work follows you wherever you are. Yid […]
I watched some video of President Obama’s speech earlier today. I think it’s a testament to the human condition to struggle mightily against overwhelming odds that Wall Street traders didn’t fling themselves off tall buildings after watching that performance by the nation’s (leading from behind) leader. A speech like the one Obama gave today is […]