Archive | May, 2009
Good News: Treasury Gives GMAC Second Bailout
Another $7.5 billion bailout to the former financing arm of GM, bringing total taxpayer bailout for the company to about $12 billion. You know, because we were wondering what we’d do with all of that extra money we had lying about. If I haven’t made this clear already, I never want to hear about the [...]
Helen Thomas: Katie Couric Saved the Country With Her Palin Interviews
21. May 2009
I know what she means. After all, had it not been for those interviews we could’ve ended up with an idiot for Vice President who scared the country needlessly, contradicted the administration’s policy, and was a general embarrassment to the American people. Lucky we dodged that bullet, huh? By the way, Allahpundit refers to Thomas [...]
Four Arrested in NY Terror Plot
21. May 2009
Three Americans and one Haitian were arrested in New York last evening, after the FBI learned that they intended to bomb two synagogues and shoot at military planes with shoulder-fired missiles. They were apparently planting fake explosives they believed to be real at the time of the arrest. All four residents of Newburgh, N.Y., were [...]
CNN: Cheney Favorable Ratings On the Rise
21. May 2009
How did Democrats screw this up so badly? It wasn’t bad enough that their Speaker of the House is now viewed as a pathological liar, that Americans are now siding with the right over the torture issue, that Republicans have caught up in party ID surveys, or that even top Democrats have conceded that the [...]
Dems Introduce Mandatory Paid Vacation Act
21. May 2009
Yet another Democratic policy conceived without any thought to negative economic impact or how increased costs would get passed on to the consumer. As Gabriel Malor says, here’s their entire thought process: A week (and phased-in two week) paid vacation sounds like a nice thing. We should have that. The end. And businesses are left [...]
Obama Thanks Non-Existent Defense Secretary
21. May 2009
A stupid mistake, yes. But we’re once again left to imagine how the media would’ve played this had Bush mixed the name up. The incident would be used to prove once again that Bush is a dunderhead and child president truly who needs to be replaced. Instead, we’re told that Obama is an intellectual and [...]
NYT: Pentagon Withholding Report on Gitmo Detainees Returning to Battlefield
20. May 2009
Why would the New York Times report on something that would appear to reflect poorly on the Obama Administration? Because it also happens to go out of its way to lay all of the blame on the Pentagon, insisting President Obama bears no blame whatsoever. You know, despite the fact he’s Commander-in-Chief and could’ve ordered [...]
Joe Klein: Perhaps Krauthammer Would be Different if He Could Walk
20. May 2009
Allahpundit can’t quite believe that Joe Klein would mean it the way it sounds. Why not? Klein isn’t exactly the epitome of class and doesn’t seem to mind being a crass to degrade others. Again, we’re talking about Joe Klein of Newsweek here. Even as a liberal he’s managed to get civil rights groups to [...]
Panetta: Israel Striking Iran Means “Big Trouble”
20. May 2009
Just the latest threatening language from an administration more concerned with being right about singing Kumbaya with Iran than protecting an American ally. We’ve got to give Iran six month to respond to our overtures for appeasement, you see. No matter how many times the state sponsor of terror stresses that it will never give [...]
GM Bankruptcy Plan Includes Quickly Selling Assets to Government
19. May 2009
You know, because Uncle Sam has such a long track record of managing things successfully and on budget. But don’t you dare think for a second that the government wants to run the automaker. That’s crazy talk. NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) – General Motors Corp’s (GM.N) plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a quick [...]
21. May 2009
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