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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Change we can’t afford

    The President went on television and wrote in the Washington Post today to scare the bejeezus out of us over the shit sandwich he wants to cram down our collective throat. In the Post, he warned;

    And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.

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  • Obama limits tax cheats in cabinet to one

    Yeah, everyone knows now that Daschle withdrew his name from nomination. I first heard of it from my cousin Scott in an email. He wonders who’ll replace Daschle. My guess is someone more Leftist – Obama thinks he was sunk by Republican reluctance to put a lying cheater in the Obama cabinet, so he’ll teach them to question The One.

    Hot Air says Daschle was sunk by the New York Times. I think he was sunk by The One. Michelle Malkin quotes the Obama official statement expressing “sadness and regret” at Daschle’s voluntary withdrawal but Michelle reads it differently;

    Regret that Daschle’s serial evasions caught up with him. Sadness that he didn’t get the Geithner treatment. DLTDHYOTWO!

    Drew M writes at Ace of Spades;

    Related: Timothy Geithner released a statement:

    All I can say is I’m very happy to have been confirmed before Tom’s problems became public. Now, as the man in charge of the IRS I will be personally auditing Tom’s tax returns to see if we can get anymore money out of him.

    I may have made that last bit up. It’s hard to tell these days.

    From the Gateway Pundit;

    We’re going to miss those sporty red glasses.

    My first thought of a replacement for Daschle was Chuck Rangel, but then, he has a tax cheat problem, too. So Obama will grabs some unknown professor with an ideological streak a mile wide, a hardcore commie who hasn’t made enough money in a year to cheat on taxes, can’t afford an illegal alien housekeeper and doesn’t flinch at the thought of taking down the economy in one fell swoop. That’s probably why the New York Times didn’t mind taking swipes at Daschle – they wanted a cold-blooded Che Guevara-type that would hustle us towards communism in the next two years.

    Of course, I may be wrong, but Obama will be out for blood after suffering this defeat a few short weeks after the Inauguration.

  • Daschle’s tax evasion woes

    One year I took a few thousand dollars out of my savings in Muni bonds to pay off bills and I forgot about it at tax time. A year later, the IRS sent me a bill for $4000 and threatened to begin collection action against me until I proved that it was from my savings and that I’d made about $200 on the sale of the bonds which didn’t affect the taxes I owed that on iota. It took me three months to straighten it all out. A few years before, the DC government had done the same thing until I proved that they owed me money instead. Of course it took me months to get the check for the few dollars they owed me.

    Now, Tom Daschle missed paying about $150,000 and an apology gets him off. It kind of makes me wonder WTF? Emily Yoffe in the Washington Post writes that maybe the IRS should make everyone cabinet appointees;

    …maybe the IRS, in an effort to find scofflaws, should have every American nominated to a Cabinet post, given the salutary effect it seems to have on one’s memory of taxes unpaid — witness the taxable-income confession of our new Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner.

    So what’s the difference between me and Tom Daschle? Washington Post’s Ceci Connelly explains;

    Over three decades on Capitol Hill, including 10 years as the Senate Democratic leader, Daschle has nurtured one of the largest, most experienced talent pools in the city. His charges guided Barack Obama from his first days in the Senate, through the presidential race and into the White House. Daschle’s tentacles, moreover, stretch far beyond the agency Obama picked him to lead, reaching across the entire administration from the upper echelons of the White House to mid-level departmental positions to Obama’s kitchen cabinet.

    The network is being tapped this week as Daschle and his allies scramble to explain why he did not pay more than $100,000 in back taxes, primarily for the use of a car and driver for three years. After a 75-minute closed-door meeting yesterday with the Senate Finance Committee, he emerged ashen-faced and apologetic.

    So basically, they’re going to make him stew in own juices for a whole week and then confirm him when Americans have pretty much forgot that they’re going to have real life tax cheats doing the people’s business – pretty much like they’ve forgotten that Joe Biden’s much-vaunted high college grades were the product of his cheating in college.

    These are the people that are going to “change” Washington. They’re the ones who are going to fight for us. Even though we can’t trust them to do the things we do everyday in our own lives, somehow it’s OK when a Democrat does it.

    More on Daschle’s serial tax evasion at the home of Ms. Malkin.

    UPDATE: Drudge and Breitbart report that another Obama tax cheat has withdrawn her name from consideration for the cabinet.

  • Where’s the “split” really?

    Monday afternoon, I made mention that a the Republican Governor of Vermont was making nice to Obama (remember it was Republican Senator James Jeffords of Vermont who defected to the Democrat caucus to take away the Republicans’ majority in the Senate).

    Well since I only have that useless-ass CNN International in my hotel, I had to watch Wolf Blitzer cover the story. He began by hinting that the Republican party was fracturing, he said that “Republicans are beginning to split from the Congressional GOP…” on the stimulus package – then he jumped into the story about the Vermont governor siding with Obama. How is that a split? A governor has no say in how in how the Republicans vote in Congress.

    But if Blitzer wanted a real report about a split in Congress he could have followed this story on Fox News Channel‘s web site;

    A key Democratic senator told FOX News on Monday that he wants to strip “tens of billions” of dollars from the economic stimulus proposal, rejecting the White House claim that senators are complaining about just a tiny fraction of the package.

    Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Republicans and Democrats alike want to gut the nearly $900 billion program of items that he says will not stimulate job growth.

    President Obama and his aides have downplayed disagreements over the package as it comes before the Senate for debate.

    I guess if it’s not Republicans saying something about disagreeing with their party, it’s not newsworthy at the Barack Obama News Network.

    Speaking of Barack Obama, is anyone going to mention that his “relaxed” dress code at the White House harkens back to the Jimmy Carter years? Carter always looked so casual while he was trying to figure out how to un-fk the world. All. Day. All. Night.

    When is Obama going to go full-Jimmy and give the deserters and resisters amnesty?

  • GOP promotes their own stimulous plan

    According to the Washington Times, the Congressional Republicans have decided to act like participants in the process rather than just an ideological barricade to the Democrats’ massive implementation of their their socialist programs;

    House Republicans, leery of being labeled naysayers after rejecting the $819 billion economic rescue bill, are launching a district-by-district message campaign to promote their own stimulus bill and highlight the huge taxpayer debt amassed by the Democrats’ spending plan.

    The data, including a calculation of the debt load that the House-passed plan would heap on each congressional district, is being disseminated by the Republican National Campaign Committee (NRCC) through blogs, talk radio and local media in the districts of vulnerable Democrats.

    “We plan to make the case on a micro level that targeted tax relief and eliminating wasteful spending in any stimulus bill is the right way forward for America,” said Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican.

    That’s how they’ll bring me back to the party – actually provide an opposing plan to give Americans a choice between parties. It’s an especially effective plan when the Democrats are sending gumballs like this to get their particular message out (found at Ace of Spades);
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  • Obama to Islam; We are not your enemy

    AP is making a big deal about President Obama’s interview last night on Al-Arabiya, the Arab news network, his first since his Inauguration. The headline is supposed to be big news;

    The New York Times calls it a “new tone” in Mideast relations;

    Well, it’s such a simple solution to the Mideast problem, why didn’t Bush think of that? Actually he did. Although the Bush era speech has been scrubbed from the White House website (the speech is supposed to be at this URL; www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html), through the magic of cached webpages, I found the speech he made on Sept. 20, 2001 when he told the Arab world that Islam is not our enemy;

    So what’s new? Obama juxtaposed a word or two, but it ends up having the same meaning. Is this what change is? Obama recycling Bush speeches only this time the media fawns over virtually the same words?

  • Dems’ double standard

    One of my favorite writers is Wesley Pruden, the editor emeritus of the Washington Times. This morning he demonstrates why he’s been my daily read since I moved to this town nearly 10 years ago in a piece on the Obama Administration getting smacked in the head with reality;

    Gone are his airy assurances that the rough places of the planet can be sanded smooth with a soaring speech, that an enemy’s guns are no match for warm and fuzzy language. Maybe mere eloquence can’t shame the troublemakers to silence after all. Neither will several verses of “Kumbaya.” Maybe the world wants more than a Coke.

    His briskly executed executive order to close the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, demonstrated that he’s absolutely, positively, unequivocally serious about keeping his endlessly repeated vow to shut down the prison. Some day, but not today. Within a year, unless it takes longer than that. Or possibly never. He, along with a growing number of his enablers, has discovered evil in the world.

    Yeah, I’ve been smacked in the head with another type of reality. Last month, it was chic to be a dissenter against the government. Every little thing that happened to the Bush Administration was a jolly good laugh or proof that they were corrupt and evil. For seven years we had to listen to the “dumb Bush” stories because he choked on a pretzel.

    But suddenly, we’re supposed to excuse Obama’s behavior. One commenter told us that if we can’t say anything good about the president, we shouldn’t say anything at all. Can you imagine if I’d said that during the Bush Administration or if I’d deleted every comment critical of the President? Hell, the most repeated phrase of the Left for eight years was that “dissent is patriotic”. Suddenly not so much.

    Back in November, I wrote right after the election how Lou Schrader of Las Cruces, NM was criticized by his Democrat neighbors for flying his flag upside down and accused of being unpatriotic while for years, it was merely patriotic dissent to do it while the Bush Administration was in office.

    Where’s Obama’s illegal alien aunt? It took me hundreds of dollars and months to straighten out my wife’s, step daughter’s and grand daughter’s immigrant status when my wife lost her green card a few years back. But this particular illegal alien gets a complete pass.

    And what about this goon who’s about to be our Treasury Secretary who skipped out on paying his taxes? Michelle Malkin has much more on him and the vote confirming him last night. Can you imagine the storm of criticism if Bush had nominated someone with a similar history?

    Yet they’re still pursuing Karl Rove on the J-Department’s firing of Democrat lawyers – even though there are lawyers awaiting their pink slips at DOJ from the new administration. Is the Washington Post concerned about them? Not that I can tell.

    Or if there was a CIA director running that agency with the serious experience deficiency of Leon Panetta when 9-11 happened? Or a chief-of-staff with connections to a crooked governor – or a president with connections to a corrupt governor.

    Leftists have fanned out across the internet to stifle any criticism of The One – I’ve been getting email from other bloggers mentioning this phenomenon all week – and the over 400 comments on our blurb about the Salute to Heroes Ball last week. All we did was mention that he wasn’t there and they descended in a swarm not unlike dung beetles.

    Let me explain to any trolls who might be tempted to tell me to be nice or shut up; legitimate criticism is patriotic. But you clowns used made up shit like his military record, Valerie Plame, cocaine abuse, closet drinking, illegal war, waterboarding and pretzel-choking (how many other s can you name?). You grow up, for Pete’s sake.

  • The hypocrisy of the peace movement

    Yeah, it’s a different world. Here’s my latest Code Pink email in which they brag that they had front row seats at the Inauguration last week instead of being plopped into jail for acting up like for the 2004 Inauguration.

    Jon Ward at the Washington Times confirms their front row seats;

    I asked if someone in Congress had given Medea her tickets. She just smiled and said, “We do have friends.”

    Yeah, they do have friends. Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink has bundled donations for Obama up to $100,000. But aren’t they primarily a “peace group”? I mean it’s in their name Code Pink 4 Peace, right? So where do they stand on the rocket attacks into Pakistan last week? Nuthin’. At least I’m not the only one to notice. The Environmental Republican writes what I’ve been saying for years;

    So what can we surmise from this little investigation? How about the left-wing of this country is populated with hypocritical ideologues who not only hated Bush but had a severe dislike for America. Now that they have a leader who they feel a kinship with, well, it’s all good.

    Update: I also failed to mention that the new Obama administration is acting with more secrecy than Bush ever did with regard to military matters:

    But, hey, all of that crap we heard from them over the last few years was good for a few front row seats at the Inauguration. How many American soldiers’ lives did they trade for those seats? Do they care?