Blindfolded.

The AP is reporting that President Obama is “looking at any way to create jobs”. That’s interesting. He must not be looking very hard. Or maybe he really is looking, but managed to get something in his eye. Or maybe he’s faking it. Never waste a crisis, you know. It’d be hard to imagine that [...]

Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Someone named Noam N. Levey penned this wonderful little bit of misinformation in today’s LA Times:
Imagine the debate over healthcare legislation on Capitol Hill as a tussle among three friends out for dinner.
All three have been struggling to pay their bills lately. When the check arrives, they try to figure out how to divide it. [...]

Because they’ve been so trustworthy before.

The socialists are promising that THIS time it will be different. Forget about that whole Medicare thing where we promised to take care of a small SLIVER of our population (the elderly). Forget that we utterly failed. Focus instead how THIS TIME it will be different and that we’re more effectively manage the health of [...]

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 Bystanders [...]

Represent.

From the “if we don’t want it, what are our elected officials doing pushing for it” file, comes this latest Rasmussen report:
The health care reform legislation working its way through Congress has lost support over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% of U.S. voters are at least somewhat [...]

Wonderful.

Sometimes an apt analogy is the perfect medicine for thick-headedness.
Check this out:

“Hurray! I’m for the other team!”

The NY Times doing its’ usual cheerleading:
WASHINGTON — Badly outnumbered and months behind in the debate on energy and climate change, House Republicans plan to introduce an energy bill on Wednesday as an alternative to the Democratic plan barreling toward a House vote this month.
How’s that for a lede? The Republicans have a plan, but [...]

Gobbledegook.

Had to read this headline twice.
Obama seeks fiscal responsibility mantle
He’s seeking it now? I mean, it’s nice, if it’s true, but I can’ t believe that this is about anything except Obama trying to cover his ass after his MASSIVE outlay of irresponsible spending contained in the “stimulus” package. Let’s see what you think.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) [...]

Colossal waste.

In early January, 2 members of President Elect Obama’s economic team, Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, published what Team Obama was billing as their plan for economic recovery. You can find the full text of the document here. In it, we were shown how unprecedented massive government spending was to be our ticket out of [...]

Because this sends the right message.

When you’re volunteering at a food bank.
Via NY Daily News:
While volunteering Wednesday at a D.C. food bank, the First Lady sported her usual J.Crew cardigan, a pair of utilitarian capri pants and, on her feet, a sneaky splurge: trainers that go for $540.
That’s right: These sneakers – suede, with grosgrain ribbon laces and metallic pink [...]

Denial.

Matt Kibbe, in yesterday’s reasononline, on how the Left is trying to  make sense of the Tea Party Movement:
Some tried to diminish the tea parties as misguided tax protests. In reality, the protestors demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of economics that went well beyond objections to higher tax rates. You can’t spend money you don’t have, [...]

More on the Air Force One fiasco.

From The Virginian:
Who wanted new pictures of Air Force One against the New York skyline? Why was there a demand for secrecy? And, of course, the big question: who thought that low flying jumbo jets over Manhattan would pass un-noticed by the people who watched their friends die just eight years ago?
[ . . . [...]

Why is this so hard?

OK.
Imagine you own a business. Your object of course is to produce lots of quality stuff that people want to buy at prices that will permit you to make a profit. This profit will permit you to keep making these things, and keep selling them to people who want to buy them. If you were [...]

Allahu akbar.

Soul crushing debt?     Trillions of dollars.
Humiliating and demoralizing unemployment? 700k+ last month alone.
Bowing in submission to the Saudi King?

Priceless.
No, it doesn’t really matter any, and yes, there are other things to talk about that are infinitely more relevant, but why does it seem, 50 days in, that there is a landslide of “little” [...]

What an absolute dumbass.

And I mean that with no disrespect to dumbasses.
Here’s everyone’s All-American Obama today while taping Leno:
The first appearance by a sitting president on “The Tonight Show” may well end up being the last.
President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the [...]

Dry run.

Put in charge of making sure that taxpayer money didn’t get wasted, the vaulted Obama administration has brought the current AIG debacle to our doorsteps. What does this portend for the rest of the Obamagenda?
Jennifer Rubin at Commentary absolutely nails it:
The president’s New Deal II agenda depends on two premises — the sky is falling and [...]

A National Crisis?

What do you make of the fact that 50% of all home foreclosures last year happened in only 35 United States counties clustered in about 7 States?
 
Does it make you wonder whether this is a National Crisis or not?
It sure makes me feel that way.
Eventually, the responsible people of this country are going to learn [...]

Stay the Course?

Obama urges us to remain calm.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama expressed confidence on Tuesday that his economic reforms would work and said U.S. stocks were potentially a good buy even as he forecast a long road to economic recovery.
“I’m absolutely confident that credit is going to be flowing again, that businesses are going [...]

Here we go.

Don’t know how this can get any plainer. When you screw the people responsible for bringing us all the goods and services we depend on to live by increasing their operating expenses, you only end up screwing consumers.
Have you heard about Obama’s latest plan to screw us?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s budget outline calls for [...]

What’s a thing worth?

Whatever price the market will bear.
The rest is all fluff.
So why not let the housing market find it’s own solution? We’ve got lots of people apparently struggling to make payments on houses that are no longer worth as much as the outstanding loans. While this may be a sad case for the individuals involved, it’s [...]

We’re all children now.

It’s obvious what’s happening. The question is why. It’s clear that this glib, self-important aristocrat from the South side of Honolulu by way of private schools in Indonesia named Obama thinks that America works better for him as a Socialized welfare state despite all evidence suggesting it works better for ITSELF as a free market [...]

Serf’s up.

Catch some government spending and you’ll be sittin’ on top of the world…:)
In feudal times, the serfs all lived happy and cozy lives on the manor under the total protection of the Lord. It was a nice little arrangement. Got an issue with your neighbor taking too much land? The Lord will take care of [...]

Sickening

Senate hastens our demise.
The bill passed the House 246 to 183 and, in a vote held open for several hours, the Senate 60 to 38, both largely along party lines. President Obama is expected to sign it into law early next week.
The legislation represents the start of a new ideological era that places the federal government at the [...]

Pot, meet kettle.

Michelle Obama’s comments from July, 2008 on President Bush’s rebate checks:
PONTIAC, Mich — In response to a question about the economic stimulus checks administered by the U.S. government earlier this year, Michelle Obama said her husband believes that short-term fixes don’t solve economic problems.
“You’re getting $600,” she told an audience of mostly African-American women here. [...]

No confidence.

No nuance at all to the financial sector’s reaction to the passing of the bailout:
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) – U.S. stocks fell, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its biggest drop since Barack Obama’s inauguration, while Treasuries rallied on skepticism that the government’s bank rescue will work. The dollar and gold rose.
Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. slipped [...]