Could not agree more: Growing disillusionment with the Obama administration’s handling of the economy as well as health care and immigration has gone hand in hand with mounting unhappiness with the President’s aloof and imperial style of leadership, and a growing perception that he is out of touch with ordinary Americans, especially at a time [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown – Telegraph Blogs
August 14th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Barack Obama
Brilliance from Peggy Noonan – David Cameron, don’t follow Barack Obama – Telegraph
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments
David Cameron, don’t follow Barack Obama – Telegraph. Moreover, the President’s decision to focus his entire first year on health care, when the voters were focused on the economy, on unemployment, on deficits, demonstrated, in the end unhappily for him and frustratingly for his fellow citizens, that he simply wasn’t thinking about what they were [...]
Tags: Barack Obama
Peggy Noonan: Now for the Slaughter – WSJ.com
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments
Peggy Noonan: Now for the Slaughter – WSJ.com. – Brilliance from Peggy Noonan HT: Drudge
Tags: Barack Obama · Health Care
This Man Needs His Teleprompter – Insurance Premiums to Drop %3000?
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments
Wow! Where is the mainstream media on this? I’m just not very impressed. He’s not very good on his feet, he clearly has no clue about how businesses work and he’s wrong about what the Republicans have proposed. This is not hope and change but demagoguery. It’s also not true. HT: Greg Hengler at Townhall
Tags: Barack Obama · Health Care
Fire Michael Steele Now
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
Townhall.com Blog : Meredith Jessup : Steele Enjoys Spending Spree on Donors’ Dime.
Tags: Politics
Townhall.com Blog : Michael Medved : What Is There About “Unelectable” That We Don’t Understand?
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments
Townhall.com Blog : Michael Medved : What Is There About “Unelectable” That We Don’t Understand?. It is terribly disrespectful to our 2008 presidential nominee to even consider an alternative to John McCain for his Senate seat in Arizona. We need McCain and to see him treated like this reminds me of what the Democrats did [...]
Tags: US Senate
How Obama got Keynes wrong – Feb. 5, 2010
February 7th, 2010 · No Comments
How Obama got Keynes wrong – Feb. 5, 2010. Very interesting ready on what Keynesian economics is and how the Obama administration has missed the boat on this one. HT to InstaPundit
Tags: Barack Obama · Economy
The great global warming collapse – The Globe and Mail
February 6th, 2010 · No Comments
The great global warming collapse – The Globe and Mail. No matter where you may stand on global warming it is alarming that “scientists” are manipulating data. Obviously it is more than just about warming. There is clearly and agenda. I have two different theories on why this occurs. The first one is simple greed; [...]
Tags: Environment
Are The Lefties Throwing in the Towel on Obama?
January 24th, 2010 · No Comments
Leftwing Professor Writes Hilarious Essay About ‘Conan Obama’ | NewsBusters.org. It looks to me like our all talk and negative results president is losing some hard-core left-wingers. Here’s a hint President Obama, head towards the center and lead. Hat Tip: InstaPundit
Tags: Barack Obama
He’s Done Everything Wrong – The Daily Beast
January 20th, 2010 · No Comments
Change we should not believe in. Read the whole article by a endorser and voter of Barack Obama. There has never been a candidate so ill prepared for the presidency than Obama and that says a lot. In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse [...]
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Ford ‘strongly considering’ N.Y. Senate run – More politics- msnbc.com
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments
From MSNBC: Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. is readying for a fight in the race to challenge New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in this fall's Democratic primary. via Ford ‘strongly considering’ N.Y. Senate run – More politics- msnbc.com. I like Harold Ford Jr. quite a bit. He doesn’t share too many of my political [...]
Tags: Congress
VDH’s Private Papers::Obamanoia
October 31st, 2009 · No Comments
VDH’s Private Papers::Obamanoia – This covers all my concerns about the current path of this administration. It’s a lot of warmed-over Jimmy Carter plus the worst aspects of Richard Nixon. Hope and Change are good as long as you agree with Obama. If not, you are trashed. HT: Doug TenNapel
Tags: Barack Obama
Obama Worship Takes Another Turn
October 9th, 2009 · No Comments
President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize for doing what? What a joke. He had very few accomplishments before he became President and hasn’t really done anything since then. I think they just assumed that Obama is so amazing that world peace would already be achieved by the time the award was announced.
Tags: Barack Obama
Public School Obama Indoctrination
September 24th, 2009 · No Comments
This is disgusting. If one of my kids was in this class I’m just suing everybody. Whoever ran this had better be fired or at least suspended for quite a while.
Tags: Barack Obama · Education
President Barack Obama is beginning to look out of his depth – Telegraph
September 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment
President Barack Obama is beginning to look out of his depth – Telegraph. Regimes in Moscow, Pyongyang and Tehran simply pocket his concessions and carry on as before. The picture emerging from the White House is a disturbing one, of timidity, clumsiness and short-term calculation. Some say he is the weakest president since Jimmy Carter. [...]
Tags: Barack Obama · World Politics
Obama Accuses Then Does It Himself
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments
From Obama Health Care Speech: FULL VIDEO, TEXT. Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close. More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it most. And more will die as a result. We [...]
Tags: Health Care · Politics
Report: Clinton meets Kim Jong Il in N. Korea – Go Get ‘Em Bill
August 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Report: Clinton meets Kim Jong Il in N. Korea – North Korea- msnbc.com. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il met with former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday after he arrived in the communist nation to seek the release of two jailed U.S. journalists, state media reported. Best of luck on this. Great idea!
Tags: The Clintons
Stupidity from Glenn Beck
July 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Fox host: Obama is ‘a racist’ – More politics- msnbc.com. “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people,” Beck said. “He has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.” I believe Barack Obama is wrong on many issues, including calling out the officer in the Gates arrest situation, but Glenn Beck isn’t helping [...]
Tags: Please Go Away · Politics
Congress’s Travel Tab Swells – WSJ.com
July 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Congress’s Travel Tab Swells – WSJ.com. Often, lawmakers combine trips to war zones with visits to more tranquil spots. In February, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a delegation of Democratic lawmakers to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan for a day. Before landing in Kabul, the eight lawmakers and their entourage of spouses and aides spent [...]
Tags: Politics
How Obama Treated Republican Nominees to the Supreme Court
May 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Latino landmark. Instead, we are in for yet another circus. Any hope that Republicans might not go full bore after a Latina with an admirable personal story – Sotomayor grew up in a rough Bronx housing project and thrived despite suffering from juvenile diabetes and enduring her father’s death at age 9 – is already [...]
Tags: Supreme Court
Townhall.com Blog : Hugh Hewitt : President Obama Tries To Play “Rope-the-Dopes” With Judge Sotomayor
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Townhall.com Blog : Hugh Hewitt : President Obama Tries To Play “Rope-the-Dopes” With Judge Sotomayor. – Great article by Hugh Hewitt on how to handle the nomination of Judge Sotomayor. I’d like to see the Republicans listen to Hewitt as this nomination is dealt with.
Tags: Supreme Court
Jack Kemp Dies – One of the Best
May 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Jack Kemp, one-time VP nominee, dies – Politics- msnbc.com. Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described “bleeding-heart conservative,” died Saturday. He was 73. Jack Kemp was one of my favorite politicians. His “bleeding-heart conservative” label is perfect and I am that also.
Tags: Politics
Bush-era offshore drilling plan shelved – Environment- msnbc.com
February 10th, 2009 · No Comments
Bush-era offshore drilling plan shelved – Environment- msnbc.com. The Obama administration on Tuesday overturned another Bush-era energy policy, setting aside a draft plan to allow drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. My assumption now is that President Obama doesn’t mind high gas prices because when President Bush started planning for drilling the cost went [...]
Tags: Energy · Environment
Senate passes bill to delay digital TV switch – Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Senate passes bill to delay digital TV switch – Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com. President Barack Obama earlier this month called for the transition date to be postponed after the Commerce Department hit a $1.34 billion funding limit for government coupons that consumers may use to help pay for digital TV converter boxes. The boxes, which [...]
Tags: Politics
Taking Care of the Earth – Even if you don”t believe in global warming (or aren’t sure)
December 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I”m not sure of the truth about global warning and doubt that Chicken Little Al Gore is correct that earth hangs in the balance. What I am sure of, from my understanding of the Bible, is that we should do a better job of taking care of the environment. We can all do little things [...]
Tags: Environment