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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • White House targets citizens in attacks

    I’m feeling a bit nervous here. We were accused of stifling dissent during the last eight years. What’s-his-face-Mr.-Sarandon complained that there was a chill wind blowing that kept him silent – from the podium at the National Press Club. Those poor Dixie Chicks only made several million dollars on their tour because of the evil Republicans. But all the while, the White House was actually silent about the controversies that surrounded all of the cranks who claimed they were being persecuted by the Bush/Cheney cabal.

    But now we get a new administration, and they specifically target private citizens, attacking them in their public forum, from the White House bully pulpit. First, they went after Rick Santelli of CNBC a week or so ago. Last weekend, they decided to go after Rush Limbaugh. This morning Dave Poof (or whatever the hell his name is) Obama’s campaign manager, has an uncontested piece in the Washington Post singling out Limbaugh and stapling all kinds of false interpretations of Limbaugh’s speeches to Republicans and Conservatives.

    Today we read that the White House has decided to take on CNBC’s Jim Cramer, a lifelong Democrat for saying this (the best part begins at about 3 minutes into the video);

    Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

    So here comes Gibbs again (at about 2:50 into the video);

    Gibbs calls investors “a small audience” – 50% of Americans are invested in stocks or mutual funds. I’d hardly call that a small audience.

    This is unprecedented in our history – the president, through his staff, attacking private citizens for expressing their opinions. I feel a chill wind so where’s Mr. Sarandon now? Where’s my news conference at the National Press Club?

    Added: I guess Democrats are taking their cue from Hugo Chavez, who announced a media war this weekend.

  • Hoyer ignores White House on earmarks

    According to the Washington Times this morning, our new president is having trouble keeping his free-spending Congressional cohorts in line so he can keep the promisies he made to voters last year;

    House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer became the second leading congressional Democrat in a week to push back against Mr. Obama’s drive to curb member-directed earmarks on spending bills.

    Saying he was open to the president’s “suggestions” about how to reform the spending process, the Maryland Democrat told reporters, “I don’t think the White House has the ability to tell us what to do. I hope you all got that down.”

    His remark echoed a warning from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, that the earmarks process is a congressional prerogative.

    Emphasis is mine – in other words, Congress is going to do what it wants – despite the president. I guess they still think it’s Bush up there in the White House.

    Yeah, here’s what Obama said in the campaign;

    In case you missed it, this line was in there;

    Obama and Biden will slash earmarks to no greater than year 1994 levels and ensure all spending decisions are open to the public.

    Apparently Reid, Pelosi and Hoyer missed that part of the campaign. Are any of them looking around at the economy outside of the Beltway? Next year’s elections are going to be so much fun to watch.

  • Another tax criminal in the Obama cabal of tax cheats

    Yeah, how many more of these criminals are we going to tolerate (from the Washington Times);

    Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas, has agreed to pay around $9,975 in back taxes from 2005 to 2007, the Senate Finance Committee said.

    Much of the unpaid taxes came from speaking fees Mr. Kirk had failed to report because he had donated the honorarium to his alma mater, Austin College, and from tickets to professional basketball games that he had deducted as professional entertainment expenses.

    The White House, however, is “confident that Mayor Kirk will be confirmed,” said spokesman Ben LaBolt.

    According to the Washington Post, he took some other liberties with his taxes, too;

    Kirk also overstated the value of a television he donated, valuing it at $3,000 instead of $1,500, the committee found. And he did not have an acknowledgment letter for a $900 donation.

    Despite these obvious lies, Max Baucus is willing to confirm him;

    “Mayor Kirk is the right person for this job and I will work to move his nomination quickly,” Baucus said. “I am confident he can successfully restore the confidence of Congress and the American people in a balanced international trade agenda.”

    And Grassley is ready to cave – he just won’t tell us;

    Baucus’s Republican counterpart, Sen. Charles Grassley, will “reserve judgment” until a hearing is completed, said to his spokeswoman, Jill Gerber. The committee plans to hold a hearing on Kirk’s nomination next Monday.

    Of course he’ll be confirmed because the Republicans are too busy being distracted by the Steele/Limbaugh death match. We’re great at tearing each other apart – we’re quick to agree with Democrats while taking pot shots at each other. That’s how you pack a cabinet with criminals and REALLY lose your civil rights.

    And Obama (along with Associated Press) is feeding the irrational BDS by releasing top secret Morocco Mole documents about fighting terrorism;

    The Justice Department released nine legal opinions showing that, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration determined that certain constitutional rights would not apply during the coming fight. Within two weeks, government lawyers were already discussing ways to wiretap U.S. conversations without warrants.

    Sounds pretty serious doesn’t it? Well, if you’re not blinded by rage, the next line, one single sentence, hints that it’s not that bad really;

    The Bush administration eventually abandoned many of the legal conclusions, but the documents themselves had been closely held.

    In other words, lawyers were noodling and the people who had to actually execute the decisions disagreed and did the right thing. But you really have to be paying attention to catch that single line out of the entire article. So all this is really about is protecting the discussion, not protecting actual criminal acts. Ya know like people who don’t pay their taxes and get in charge of departments of governments who’d tear our arms off if we didn’t pay all of our taxes.

  • Stroking the unicorn herder

    This Associated Press story about Obama and his budget agenda is probably the most dreadful piece of literature ever written;

    “Breathtaking in its scope and ambition….”
    “Perhaps the only things as high as Obama’s goals are the hurdles they must clear.”
    “…a sprawling road map that will require several hard-fought pieces of legislation.”
    “We’re struck with how bold and courageous a budget it is….”
    “Washington veterans say that if anyone can overcome the hurdles, it is Obama.”
    “The country wants it, the economy needs it, businesses large and small know that they can’t afford not to have it…”
    “The president’s agenda is vast and ambitious….”

    They don’t mention that the president’s agenda is built on a foundation of clay. In order to afford these changes, everyone has to continue making the exact same amount of money they earn now. In order to increase taxes on the top 5% of wage earners, Obama will ahve to raise taxes on families making more than $160,000 – the group in the $250,000 plus range only make up the top 1.5% of wage earners. Now, how many people are goingto continue making the same amount of money, if it means more will go to taxes – even at the $160k level.

    In my own case, I figured out that although my wife’s income was about a 1/3 of our total income, it was responsible for more than half of our taxes – so she quit. How many others will discover that they’re working for the government?

    It also depends on the stimulus bill which he just signed in making gains on the recovery – that is impossible. The market has fallen since Obama’s election because no one with an interest in investing in America thinks it will work. Obama thinks he can “will” a healthy economy – he’s learning like Bill Clinton did in 1993 that’s not possible. Those of us with our money on the line aren’t going to toss it in the pot without good reason. He hasn’t given us a good reason yet.

    “We’re struck with how bold and courageous a budget it is,” said James Horney of the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which supports the president. “There are a whole lot of things that are going to be extremely difficult because there are very powerful vested interests out there that will fight them.”

    Powerful and vested interests like the American people. Is it any wonder that newspapers are folding across the country when they all draw their content from sources like the Associated Press?

  • Obama, the populist crusader

    In President Obama’s radio address today, he struck out at the half of the country who oppose his massive $3.6 trillion budget proposal casting himself in the role of populist crusader vowing to “fight for families” – you know that same drivel that lost Gore and Kerry their elections. From the Washington Times;

    “I realize that passing this budget won’t be easy. Because it represents real and dramatic change, it also represents a threat to the status quo in Washington,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly video and radio address.

    Mr. Obama’s language was combative and confrontational, as he promised to fight for “American families.”

    “I know these steps won’t sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they’re gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this: So am I,” he said.

    Well, it may represent change, but change for the sake of change isn’t always good, is it? But that’s what he won his election on – nebulous change. It’s funny, but I didn’t see any Washington lobbyists in Lafayette Park yesterday. There may have been, but I only saw regular Americans who took the afternoon to express their displeasure with Obama’s proposals. There weren’t any lobbyists in Lansing or St Louis – those were just regular people who see the folly in Obama’s plans. Just because you’re in charge, that doesn’t make you right.

    “The system we have now might work for the powerful and well-connected interests that have run Washington for far too long, but I don’t. I work for the American people,” he said.

    It also worked for people who went out and worked for a living without waiting for a hand out from the government – in fact, your whole plan depends on those who work to continue working just as they always have, while you suck them dry of any ambition or pride while you buy votes with the lazy and indigent masses looking for hand outs. Where’s your “fairness” now?

  • Washington Tea Party live blogging

    I’m at Lafayette Park, doing my photography thing. Here are some of the first pictures. I’ll be updating this post all afternoon with pictures, videos and commentary when I can.

    Joe the Plumber is here;
    Tea Party 030
    He was a big hit, but he said he was there to do interviews for Pajama Media and he did – he probably interviewed ten people between shaking everyone’s hand.
    (more…)

  • What did they expect?

    Last night I wrote about one moonbat who was disappointed that Obama was continuing the policies of his predecessor in regards to the war against al Qaeda in Pakistan. This morning, Drudge’s headline is;

    In the linked article, Jewish leaders are surprised that Clinton has done an about-face from the Clinton who needed Jewish votes to keep her seat in the Senate. Mort Zuckerman complains;

    On Thursday, as Secretary of State she had yet another about face in the form of angry messages demanding Israel speed up aid to Gaza. Jewish leaders are furious.

    “I am very surprised, frankly, at this statement from the United States government and from the secretary of state,” said Mortimer Zuckerman, publisher of the New York Daily News and member of the NYC Jewish Community Relations Council.

    Did they really expect anything to be different? Her husband came into office with a liberal agenda and when he got spanked by reality, he abandoned it all to “become” a small government president who suddenly championed government reform.

    Wasn’t anyone paying attention to the fact that Obama was promising gun owners that he wouldn’t take their guns days after he promised church groups he was going to take gunowners’ guns? Didn’t anyone notice that he alternately promised to end the war to one group and vowed to continue the war to others?

    Say what you want about President Bush, but when a certain event would occur, we knew how he’d react because we knew what his principles were. There are no principles in the Democrat Party. Well, no principles beyond attracting votes. That’s why the troops lost their privacy at Dover AFB – there are more Leftists who want to exploit flag draped coffins than there are military personnel who don’t. Leftsts win.

    That’s why compensation and benefits for the military are going to get cut – there are more people who don’t give a shit about them than do. So if you want to guess how the current administration will come down on any issue, check your local liberal rag. Looking for principled decisions will be a long and fruitless search – trust me.

  • Moonbat wants Obama impeached

    I guess everyone on the Left hasn’t been Obamatized yet. Meet Tom Santoni whose bio reads;

    …a long time human rights and economic justice activist, a professional musician and stained glass artist specializing in peace symbols, and a member of the Central Florida chapter of Veterans For Peace.

    He left out that he works part-time a public library. You just know someone with those kinds of creds is a deep political thinker, right? Well here’s part of his thoughtful indictment of The One;

    Some highlights;

    In a blatant and unmistakable act of war against a sovereign nation, Barack Obama, four days into his administration on Friday, January 23, 2009, as commander in chief of US armed forces, ordered the US military to launch Hellfire missile strikes on homes in northwest Pakistan, killing dozens of civilians including at least three children. The military was aiming to bomb al Qaeda and Taliban “suspects,” but there was some unfortunate “collateral damage”. Oops.

    Yeah, Dianne Feinstein blew the whistle on that one – those drones are based in Pakistan and operating with the full knowledge of the pakistani government, so it’s hardly a “blatant and unmistakable act of war”.

    But then Mr. Stainglass Peace Symbols starts making sense;

    Anyone who doesn’t think Obama should be impeached who supported the impeachment of the previous administration for these same crimes is dealing in double standards and hypocrisy. Everyone who voted for Obama has blood on his hands, especially after he made repeated campaign promises to increase already bank-busting military spending, double the number of US forces in the unwinnable US war and occupation of Afghanistan, continue to develop and deploy Reagan’s Star Wars missile “defense” system, and to “go after suspected terrorists wherever they are.”

    Ooops – someone else figured out that Left is a bunch of hypocrits. Word is spreading. Lemme know when ya’all feel like you’ve been used like tools. Yeah, it’s going t be a long four years for everyone.