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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Washington Post calls Obama “silly”

    Yeah, I could hardly believe it either. Glenn Kessler picks apart Obama’s Kansas speech yesterday in his piece entitled “Obama’s Kansas speech: some suspect facts“. First he quotes the president;

    I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory. Remember in those years, in 2001 and 2003, Congress passed two of the most expensive tax cuts for the wealthy in history. And what did they get us? The slowest job growth in half a century.

    I hate when people say “I mean” – if you were clear in the first place, you wouldn’t have to point out what part of your droning is the part where you explain what you mean.

    So Kessler starts picking that paragraph apart by pointing out that the so-called Bush tax cuts (I prefer to call them the Lilyea Tax Cuts because that’s the only reason I voted for Bush in 2000) weren’t the “most expensive tax cuts in history” from the stand point of the government. and then he gets to the meat;

    That are many factors that affect job growth, and it is silly to directly link the 10-year-old tax cut to today’s job growth — just as it is silly to claim that Bill Clinton’s tax increases resulted in a gain of 23 million jobs.

    Kessler neglects to mention that the “slowed job growth” in the later half of the Bush Administration occurred during a period of full employment. How are you going to grow jobs when everyone who wants to work is working? Well, besides throw open the borders.

    But how much of a liar do you have to be when the Washington Post takes the side of George W Bush over their guy? Well, I guess we know now.

  • An apology for Obama

    This woman, Spike Dolomite Ward wrote a piece in the LA Times today entitled “‘Obamacare’ to the rescue A woman who felt President Obama had let the middle class down has changed her mind.” It’s about a woman and her family who was struck by the tragedy of breast cancer and caught without health insurance.

    She goes into this big long sob story about how she works for a not-for-profit organization. Well, “works for” is being generous. Actually she’s the executive director of Arts in Education Aid Council, at the Armory Center for the Arts, in Pasadena, CA. Her husband used to work in the entertainment industry until he lost his job and decided to go into business for himself.

    Well, it seems that they were so strapped in this economy that they had to choose between their health insurance and their mortgage, and of course, they chose their mortgage. Well, it seems she contracted breast cancer. She writes “We chose to keep our house. We made a nerve-racking gamble, and we lost.”

    She gets to start paying premiums now instead of for those two years she skipped, she apologizes to the president for losing faith in him;

    Fortunately for me, I’ve been saved by the federal government’s Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan, something I had never heard of before needing it. It’s part of President Obama’s healthcare plan, one of the things that has already kicked in, and it guarantees access to insurance for U.S. citizens with preexisting conditions

    She doesn’t mention that because of her irresponsibility, healthcare costs are rising for all of us, so we’re being forced to pay for her sloth. And it’s kind of funny that NOW they can seem to find the money to pay for her health insurance but they couldn’t last year.

    Oh, that house that they chose to pay for instead of health insurance. Here’s what it looks like;
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  • Norks building mobile long range missile that can reach US

    Our buddy, Bill Gertz at the Washington Times writes that the North Koreans are developing a mobile concealable long range missile capable of hitting the US according to the Sevretary of Defense Leon Panette.

    The new intelligence was discussed during a closed-door briefing in mid-November for the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces and discussed in the letter to Mr. Panetta. The letter did not say specifically that the missile was North Korean, but it quoted Mr. Gates on Pyongyang’s mobile ICBM development.

    We’ve been at war with North Korea and Iran for decades while acting like we’re not. Iran is advancing their nuclear program unhindered and North Korea, which already has nukes is targeting our West Coast. And Iran has one of our most secret drones. And we’re drawing down our forces and cutting defense spending in the face of these potential threats. Nice situation we find ourselves in, huh?

  • NY Post: the F&F Lies

    If you still think that Attorney General Holder is still n honest broker in the scandal over the “Fast & Furious” scandal, you really need to read the Michael Walsh article in the New York Post;

    It’s time for the months of lies to end — but don’t hold your breath. The administration recently sealed the court records relating to agent Terry’s murder and — a year later — the one man arrested hasn’t been tried.

    So far, three presidential candidates, a couple of senators and more than 50 congressmen have called for Holder to resign. If he can’t answer the one question that matters — why — that number ought to include his boss.

    Meanwhile, Darrel Issa is investigating whether the US government helped the Mexican cartels launder money, according to The Hill;

    According to an article published in the New York Times on Sunday, undercover agents with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) helped transport millions of dollars in cash across the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to study and dismantle the trafficking routes of drug cartels.

    The article said the DEA allowed the drug cartels to continue functioning as they tracked their money moving methods.

  • Fool me once, shame on you

    I will absolutely disappoint all of my conservative friends and readers if you force me to choose between Obama and Gingrich. Look, I was Gingrich’s biggest fan until he was caught doing the same thing he went after Clinton for during the impeachment proceedings. I admired him for engineering the coup in 1993 that put Congress in Republican control for the first time in 50 years. i’d actually been a fan for years before as I read about him in Hedrick Smith’s “The Power Game”

    Why do you think that the Washington Post runs an article today announcing that Democrat strategists are “worried” about Gingrich. Probably because the Post wants to see a Gingrich candidacy, like when they convinced us that McCain was a better choice than George W. Bush. When they tried to tell us that they’d have voted for McCain and we believed them and ran McCain against their worst candidate since Jimmy Carter.

    Republicans are about to blow their easiest election in decades by putting the corrupt Gingrich against the incompetent boob currently occupying the White House. I’ll sit the election out before I get fooled again. I have nothing good to say about Gingrich and I won’t swallow my pride all next year just to avoid a second Obama term.

    Yeah, I choked down a McCain candidate, but I’m not plastering a phony smile on my face for Gingrich for a whole year like I did in 2008. You folks had better get your shit together and put up a better choice, because I’ll shut this blog down before it supports that corrupt buffoon Gingrich.

    How’s that for some Monday morning controversy?

  • Clinton promises continued US support for Afghanistan after exit

    Matt Milham at Stars & Stripes writes that the Obama Administration has promised that the United States will continue to support the Afghanistan government after the last troops have been pulled out of the country;

    “The United States intends to stay the course with our friends in Afghanistan,” Clinton said, echoing earlier remarks by Guido Westerwelle, Germany’s foreign minister, who said his country was sending a “clear message to the people of Afghanistan: We will not leave you alone; you will not be abandoned.”

    Yeah, that’s the same promise that the Nixon Administration made to South Vietnam and you can see how well that worked out for the now-stable South Vietnamese government. The Democrat Congress refused to appropriate funds South Vietnam needed in 1975 to blunt the North Vietnamese assault into the South.

    South Vietnamese president Thieu, when he announced his resignation as NVA forces streamed into Saigon, the capitol;

    At the time of the peace agreement the United States agreed to replace equipment on a one-by-one basis. But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American’s word reliable these days? The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

    If I were an Afghan, and not Taliban, I’d be worried right about now.

  • Privates see the folly of a timetable withdrawal

    Tman sends us a link from the LA Times in which even Army privates can see the folly of a time table withdrawal from Iraq;

    Logan Trainum, Hickman’s best friend, said David told him troops felt compromised by President Obama’s announcement in October that U.S. troops in Iraq would be home by Christmas.

    “David was frustrated — he said all the guys were frustrated,” Trainum said. “They felt like people were going to make one last try to get them before they left.”

    If [Gold Star Mom] Veronica Hickman could meet Obama, she said, “I’d tell him: ‘You shouldn’t have broadcast that everybody would be out by the end of the year. It made them targets. You should have slyly got them out.’ ”

    But everyone is in such a big rush for the exits, there’s no time to consider the cost that the troops have to pay for politicians’ campaigning ploys. And the LA Times doesn’t have to act like they had no part in the whole scheme to get troops killed.

  • Move along. Nothing to see here.

    Old Trooper and Claymore sent us a link to the Weekly Standard which reports that the Obama Administration has sealed the records of the murder of U.S. Border patrol agent Brian Terry, supposedly with a weapon that US taxpayers bought for the Mexican drug cartels;

    The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico.

    Yeah, the most open administration in the history of the world has nothing to hide, so we should ignore this action. If it was the Bushies, we might have reason to doubt their motivations, but certainly not this crowd in the White House.