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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The Obama Administration marks a new kind of change that I never thought I would see in our Federal government. It's a kind of change I am not surprised at seeing, and has manifested many times during Obama's first few months in office. It is whining and complaining about problems ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
I think most people have heard Wanda Sykes sicko attacks on Rush Limbaugh during the White House Correspondents' Dinner this past weekend, in which she wished Limbaugh would drop dead of kidney failure. So far, the only White House response has been that they didn't pick her to do the ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
I ran across this
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
The Left complained about Bush's alleged attempts to dismantle the Constitution, yet there is nary a peep about Obama's attempt to blatantly do exactly that. From the Telegraph in the UK:
The Michigan vs Jackson ruling in 1986 established that, if a defendants have a lawyer or have asked for one ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
CBS News is carrying a report about the fuel usage of Obama's Earth Day trip to Iowa. It has been pegged at over 9,000 gallons of fuel, predominantly aviation fuel for Air force One.
I don't know how much fuel the average American household burns in a year, but in my ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
This week, "Dances with Terrorists" Obama released documents detailing interrogation techniques authorized by the Bush Administration. He has also opened the doors to prosecuting Bush Administration officials in a chilling, Soviet-style transfer of power. Never in American history, has an incoming administration prosecuted members of the outgoing administration. This is ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Okay, there has actually been a lot more than the dozen or so political failures I have documented thus far. But this one takes the cake. Obama went to Europe with a staff of over 500 (not sure if that includes the 200 security personnel or not). That's bad enough. ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Barack Obama appeared on Jay Leno last night at taxpayer expense. That's right, we foot the bill so that Obama can jetset to LA to appear on a nationally televised talk show to the tune of about $1 MILION. Why isn't the Jay Leno Show footing the bill as they ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
The Washington Times has the latest on the Obama "Cap and Tax" plan.
President Obama's climate plan could cost industry close to $2 trillion, nearly three times the White House's initial estimate of the so-called "cap-and-trade" legislation, according to Senate staffers who were briefed by the White House.
The plan calls for ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Obama's phony outrage over the AIG bonuses is catching up to him.
From the New York Post:
Over the weekend, cloaked in their finest populist costumes, the Beltway's hair-sprayed and powdered politicians and White House aides took to the airwaves to inveigh against $165 million in employee-retention payments made by the government-backed ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Obama has a new plan for destroying our military: make them pay for their treatment of service related (combat) disabilities and illnesses. From Yahoo News:
The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Obama is flailing about and now asking for ideas on how to fix the economy. From FoxNews:
President Obama on Tuesday accused critics of his $3.6 trillion budget proposal of taking a "just say no" approach to his plan and offering few ideas of their own.
Obama spoke after meeting with ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Seems that Obama's popularity is shrinking.
From Washington Post:
President Obama's apparent inability to block executive bonuses at insurance giant AIG has dealt a sharp blow to his young administration and is threatening to derail both public and congressional support for his ambitious political agenda.
At heart of this current set back is ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Debt, Lies, and Politics
Obama scores yet another political failure as he prepares to sign yet another big spending bill, this time a mere $410 BILLION of OUR money. This is the follow-up to the recently enacted spending spree of $867 BILLION (or, more accurately, over $1 TRILLION when you figure ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
From the realm of the laughable, we have a new declaration from The One (courtesy of FoxNews):
President Obama has vowed to cut the country's budget deficit in half by the end of his first term.
Obama's first budget has a built in deficit of over $1.5 TRILLION, nearly three times ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
It's pretty much all over the Internet that Obama has broken his campaign promise that his administration would be the most transparent in history. A report released by Politico, Obama has, since taking office, pushed through without public disclosure a slew of Executive Orders and other policy changes that should ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
CNSNews is carrying a report that informs American workers that we can now expect to see our wages depressed now that Obama has gotten his pork-laden spending bill masquerading as an economic stimulus package.
The huge economic stimulus package that President Obama signed into law Tuesday will result in "lower wages" ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
The headline on FoxNews says it all: Are Obama's Policies Ushering In a New Era of Socialism? Answer: Yes!
With taxpayers shelling out $700 billion to bail out Wall Street and another $787 billion to jolt the sputtering economy, serious questions are being raised about whether all the government intervention is ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
Okay, we all know he hasn't got any, aside from getting elected. What I am referring to here is my attempt at a google parody page. When I first put it up, it worked for about 48 hours before Google redirected the hits to searches on "obama political successes" to ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Obama has now made it quite clear that his idea of bipartisanship requires Republicans to capitulate to his Socialist agenda.
From Yahoo.com:
A fired-up Barack Obama ditched his TelePrompter to rally House Democrats and rip Republican opponents of his recovery package Thursday night - at one point openly mocking the GOP for ...
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