Code Pink where are you? Code Pink is not so much anti-war, as it is pro-liberal, form Jammie Wearing Fool: As President Barack Obama formally declared an end to combat operations in Iraq this week, the anti-war movement that helped sweep him into office — and that worked for seven years to bring U.S. troops [...]
The dumbest presidential administration in my life time, Harry S Truman and on, has deemed it necessary to orchestrate a media push that somehow, the President who plays golf every Sunday, was born a Muslim and slept through twenty years of Jeremiah Wright’s sermon is some how supposed to believed to a Christian. White [...]
Yesterday on CBS Sunday Morning, President Barack Obama was being interviewed by Harry Smith. This seems to be this President’s primary function. I can just see his job description now–Item 1, must interview with the media incessantly. Never mind running the country. We’ll leave that to Pelosi and Reid. And, who can blame him? It’s more [...]
The news events of the last few months have certainly put the Obama Administration in a peculiar position. The Gulf crisis notwithstanding, most of these events have been created by this president and his staff.
Team Obama went the the G20 Summit in Toronto this weekend to chide the other 19 nations to continue to stimulate their economy through Keynsian economic principles. “Not so fast”, said the other countries. “We have to make choices, and right now, we choose fiscal solvency and prudence”. What a concept!
Passage of the Financial Institutions Reform package was always tenuous, at best, but the death of Senator Robert Byrd over the weekend makes passage more difficult. One less Democratic vote means that it’s more likely that Republicans can filibuster this package, and this is a good thing. Here’s why: Any bill that increases regulation, drives up costs to the consumer, and squeezes financial services companies’ margins will negatively affect the economy. The costs of increased regulation always get passed along to the consumer in some way, shape or form. Limiting profits also limit tax revenues [...]
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Yes, I know, it’s been some time since I’ve cracked an editor open on this site. It’s shameful, but you guys know the situation. And anyway, and David is been doing a bang up job of keeping this site active and well read The truth is, but a time I get home from my new [...]
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Is Dumbo Sane? From Byron York, Washington Examiner: There was one particularly striking moment in President Obama’s widely panned Oval Office speech on the Gulf oil disaster. About midway through his talk, Obama acknowledged that he had approved new offshore drilling a few weeks before the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion on April 20. But Obama [...]
Several notes. Well, first of all, we have had some site issues this morning, apparently relate to an issue with a plugin update. For some reason, the webserver cache isn’t responding as it should. I’ve disabled it to allow business as usual to go on here at BitsBlog. I’m investigating it …. (As are the [...]
The Lady or the Tiger II, or oh what a tangled web you weave when first you practice to deceive. Trying get out from under the Joe Sestak mess, David Axelrod just keeps digging. Now Axelrod is accusing Sestak of lying. Ed Morrissey, Hot Air, elaborates: Either Sestak is lying, or Sestak is telling the [...]
Dumbo sets sights on big trucks, what could go wrong? From Erica Werner and Ken Thomas, Associated Press: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is setting the nation’s sights on vehicles that run on half the fuel they now use and give off half the pollution. Obama on Friday directed the government to set the first-ever [...]
L & O DOA, Deadline: This one is a shocker. Veteran crime drama Law & Order will not get its shot at history after all. I hear that after long deliberations, NBC has decided to cancel the long-running procedural, which will end its run at 20 seasons, tied with Gunsmoke. This is very surprising as [...]
Liberal is synonym for stupid. Dim witted Senators want to wreck economy to solve imaginary problem: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new Senate bill aimed at battling global warming would impose new limits on carbon dioxide pollution from factories, utilities and vehicles, while expanding heavy-polluting domestic oil production and nuclear power generation. The legislation, which is [...]
More violence from illegal immigrants in Arizona, from Arizona Republic: A Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy was shot in the stomach Friday by an undocumented immigrant off Interstate 8, according sheriff’s officials. Lt. Tami Villar told 12 News that the search and rescue deputy was investigating a load of marijuana in the desert and was confronted [...]
The ears are already falling off of Dumbo Care. The Dim Won wants to fix anthropogenic global warming and the evils of capitalism. Before we give Barack Obama more carte blanch power, we ought to demand that the Obami demonstrate some competency. Having already wrecked the economy and wrecking health care, they need keep their [...]
Pirates – 11, Navy – 0, Dana Hughes and Kirit Radia from ABC News: A U.S. Navy ship has sunk a pirate “mother ship” in the Indian Ocean and captured 11 pirates, and then promptly let them go. While those five pirates remain in custody, the 11 captured Thursday were allowed to leave in small [...]
Henry Waxman is the new Ken Lay. It has been said the an honest man has nothing to fear. The demorats are sweating bullets. The Obami fear, honest accounting, from the Washington Examiner Dems fear honest Obamacare accounting Remember the Enron scandal in 2001, which drove a bipartisan majority in Congress to demand far-reaching reforms [...]
