The Country’s In the Very Best of Hands.

Oh. My. God. Whistling past the graveyard here, folks. Whistling past the graveyard.

Blame Game.

Whatever you thought of President George W. Bush, he never, not once, ever blamed Bill Clinton for the 8 years of foreign policy ineptitude that led inevitably to 9/11–though he quite justifiably could have done so. The 1990′s were filled with terrorist acts and not all were either directed against the US or committed by [...]

Want Some Cheese With That Whine, Mr. President?

Reading an analysis of self-appointed cult leader Oprah’s recent interview with the President and his evil-eyebrowed wife was a jolly good time.  It has become abundantly clear that the poor fellow is delusional!  Alas!  What can we do? “…we have inherited the biggest set of challenges of any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” Stop whining.  [...]

GameStop Health Care

I’m no government know-it-all; I’m just a mom, a former elementary school teacher who believes simple is best.  I have been watching as our government partakes in a circus-like atmosphere, trying to choose a health care plan that will cost too much, both literally and figuratively.  I personally have prayed for the uninsured for years; I [...]

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize.

Just so we keep this in perspective, Jimmy Carter also won this award once. The US president, Barack Obama, was today awarded the 2009 Nobel peace prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”. The Nobel committee said “only rarely has a person such as Obama captured the world’s attention [...]

Obama, Jack and Squat.

In the world of SNL, life often imitates art.  NBC’s darling President Obama was not spared this weekend, and this opening sketch sums things up somewhat nicely.  I say somewhat because despite the mocking of what little our President has not done, the unbelievable spending, lack of promised transparency, and general dividing of our nation [...]

Are you a RACIST?

It is no secret to readers of this blog that Jonah Goldberg kicks some serious ass, and this article does not disappoint.  Apparently anyone who opposes the President is a racist.  It does not matter if the reason you oppose him has nothing to do with his race; it is automatically assumed because our President and [...]

Keep your eye on the ball.

Ever get the feeling that Democrats can’t possibly be this stupid? To increase deficits to unmanageable levels on purpose under the guise of ‘fixing’ the economy? To cram health care ‘reform’ legislation through congress without even bothering to understand what it means let alone whether it will actually reform anything or make things infinitely worse? [...]

Wee Weed.

I am a former elementary school teacher.  My first year was spent teaching  fifth grade to twenty of the most amazing young people ever to come together in a classroom.  After that, I had two great years of teaching first grade.  Then came the Kindergarten year from hell. As a Kindergarten teacher, you get used [...]

Chronically Ill?

Hi everyone, I’m Trish, and I’m honored to be writing for this amazing blog today! This morning I received an email from an old friend.  She’s one of those old friends who doesn’t actually write to me (or anyone else, for that matter); she just sends forwarded material, copied-and-pasted articles, and links to a massive list [...]

Why so serious?

What’s your reaction to this poster? If you’re anything like the scribblers over at the Washington Post, your reaction (of course) is that the poster is racist. Huh? The only way this thing is racist is if any negative depiction of Obama is racist, and that can’t be true, can it? If so, then nothing [...]

Uh oh.

The Obama administration has just posted the following press release at whitehouse.gov: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.  These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track [...]

7-minute brownies.

I love Jonah Goldberg, and he absolutely tees off on Obama this morning: All presidents go through rough patches, and Obama’s no exception. Odds are his poll numbers will get better — and worse — in the years to come. All of this is typical. But this misses a crucial point: Obama isn’t supposed to [...]

Acting stupidly.

Excellent writeup of the Gates/Obama affair by Victor Davis Hanson: In the jargon of postmodernism, the president asserted one racial narrative as truth, while most of multiracial America accepted quite another: that Professor’s Gates’s contacts and friendships gave him privileged treatment not accorded to others who scream and blow up at policemen, and that minority [...]

Poll dancer.

Latest from Rasmussen:

The scorpion and the frog.

It’s actually sort of amusing how everyone’s so shocked (Shocked, I say!) about Obama’s “sudden” lurch to the left.  It’s like the proverbial frog being surprised to find that–halfway across the river–the scorpion that he’d been so kind to carry on his back has bitten him. As the poison courses through his body, the incredulous [...]

Snapshot.

Has Obama rescued the economy? You very well may think that if you get your news from the NY Times or MSNBC or any one of a trillion other mouthpieces for the Democrat party, but reality (as it often does) has intervened to spoil the party. Cast thine eyes on this from the indispensible Innocent [...]

Fallout boy.

With the economy still faltering and jobs still being lost, Mr. Obama’s credibility is sinking and his job approval rating is declining along with the popularity of his initiatives. Republicans, who had insisted the stimulus was wasteful and wouldn’t work, are being vindicated. The political fallout that mattered most, however, has been among Democrats in [...]

Waste.

It’s not surprising that the much-ballyhooed “economic stimulus” hasn’t done much stimulating. President Obama and his aides argue that it’s too early to expect startling results. They have a point. A $14 trillion economy won’t revive in a nanosecond. But the defects of the $787 billion package go deeper and won’t be cured by time. [...]

Face value.

Just as Obama intensifies his efforts to fulfill a campaign promise and reach an agreement with Congress on health care reform, the number of Americans who say they trust the president has fallen from 66 percent to 54 percent. At the same time, the percentage of those who say they do not trust the president [...]

Obama speaks on Iran.

While at a press conference with Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi yesterday, Obama had the opportunity to respond to the following question: Q Mr. President, on Iran, does the disputed election results affect — there’s been violence in the street — in any way change your willingness to meet with Mr. Ahmadinejad without preconditions? And also, [...]

The dumb one.

Turns out Obama was the dumb one after all. Victor Davis Hanson wraps it neatly for us in a pretty pink bow: In the recent Cairo speech, Obama’s historical allusions were . . . suspect. Almost every one of his references was either misleading or incomplete. He suggested that today’s Middle East tension was fed [...]

And the band played on.

May unemployment numbers are in, and they’re pretty bad. Worse, worse in fact, than even Obama’s crack team of experts predicted. Has the stimulus made things worse?     I guess there are 2 ways of looking at that steaming mess, aren’t there? First, Obama’s estimates for joblessness with and without the stimulus were way [...]

Nuance.

From Obama’s Cairo speech: “No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.” First, and obviously, if no nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons, then on what grounds is [...]

Roskam.

Official statement from Republican Congressman Peter Roskam on President Obama’s recent support for Iranian pursuit of nuclear power (did I just type that??): “President Obama’s recent comment in support of Iranian nuclear power is both shocking and reckless. Supporting Iran’s “legitimate [nuclear] aspirations” ignores all recent history and smacks of the same naive and misguided [...]