President Obama’s got 30-some “czars” – special advisers who don’t undergo Senate confirmation and are answerable only to him – in his government. Can someone please explain intellectually how Obama can decry the so-called “unitary executive” theory while at the same time taking that same theory to heights not even conceived of by his predecessor?
If you don’t know who Van Jones is, don’t feel bad. Until late Saturday night, he was President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” czar. Jones oversaw a budget of billions of dollars, didn’t have to go through Senate confirmation and answered only to Barack Obama himself. On Saturday night, Jones resigned his position – an action […]
National Review’s Mark Hemingway went to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s town hall and has an amusing report on the experience. I especially liked this bit: When one woman on Social Security disability, and obviously sympathetic to the Democrats' proposed reforms, explained that she had to drop her $400-a-month health insurance, Steny Hoyer (D-Math) explained […]
Can you just imagine Karl Rove or Andy Card saying this before a gathering of Republicans about Democrats in general and still having his job? Can you imagine the delight with which the mainstream media would replay this video over and over – probably not bleeping out the expletive? Yet, Obama’s “Green Jobs” Czar still […]
I caught about 90 seconds of “The O’Reilly Factor” this evening with radio talk show host Laura Ingraham sitting in for the Irishman. Pollster Scott Rasmussen was on explaining that his tracking polls are showing that President Obama has lost not Democrats (he’s still got them), not Republicans (he never had them), but unaffiliated voters. […]
Sen. Ted Kennedy died earlier this week after serving for 47 years in his family’s apparently hereditary Senate seat. Normally, I subscribe to the admonition to not speak ill of the dead, which is why this blog made no note of Kennedy’s passing earlier. However, sometimes people write things so jaw-droppingly outrageous that I am […]
Over the last few days, the mainstream media, the talking-head shows on cable news, the left side of the blogosphere and the Obama Justice Department have been going ape over a 5-year-old CIA inspector general’s report that outlined some of the outrageous lengths CIA interrogators went to to try and get information to save American […]
President Obama appeared before some religious leaders yesterday and apparently turned in a performance that, had it been done by former President George W. Bush, would’ve sent the left into paroxysms of “theocrat” and “Christianist.” Repeatedly invoking the Bible, President Obama yesterday told religious leaders that health-care critics are "bearing false witness" against his plan. […]
Law professor John Yoo returned to classes at UC Berkeley yesterday, and the loons came out. Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who co-wrote legal memos that critics say were used to justify the torture of suspected terrorists. Campus police arrested at […]
Apparently the initial underfunding of the so-called “Cash for Clunkers” program wasn’t the only screw-up. The federal government has only reimbursed auto dealers for 2 percent of the claims they've submitted through the popular "cash for clunkers" program, a Pennsylvania congressman said, calling on the Obama administration to help speed up the process. Rep. Joe […]