Archive | July, 2009
Poor Babies: Obama Staffers Exausted by the Stress of Wasting Money
I know how much can you sympathize with them today, as we learn that the national deficit has hit $1 trillion for the first nine months of the fiscal year. Spending the nation into a debt that our great-great grandchildren will be paying off is a tiring venture, my friends. In a city where work [...]
Fantastic: US Budget Deficit Hits $1 Trillion
13. July 2009
And we’re not even a full six months into the presidency of Barack Obama. Just imagine what that figure will look like in, say, November 2012. Nine months into the fiscal year, the federal deficit has topped $1 trillion for the first time. The imbalance is intensifying fears about higher interest rates and inflation, and [...]
Steven Rattner, Obama Car Czar, Resigns
13. July 2009
Steven Rattner, head of the Auto Industry Task Force charged with turning around the American auto industry, has resigned his post unexpectedly. He’ll apparently be replaced by a union lackey, so there’s not much to look forward to. Steven Rattner, head of the Obama administration’s auto task force, is leaving that post and will be [...]
Report: Obama Lied About the Success of Arne Duncan
13. July 2009
I know what you’re thinking: Barack Obama lying? It’s probably blowing your mind, contradicting everything you’ve ever known about The One. The man that represents Catholics better that the pope telling a tall-tale in order advance his interests? Heart-ache… New research from a Chicago civic group takes direct aim at the city’s “abysmal” public high [...]
Hey, Remember that Ultra-Secret CIA Plan? Yeah….
13. July 2009
Apparently its goal was to kill or capture…Al Qaeda leaders. You know, the people responsible for carrying out the 9/11 attacks? Yeah, them. A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence [...]
Newsweek: Obama Represents Catholics More than the Pope
12. July 2009
The media’s attempts to elevate Barack Obama to a religious pedestal takes a more pathetic turn today, as Newsweek publishes a letter from Kathleen Kennedy Townsend insisting that Barack Obama is a better representative for Catholics than…the Pope. In truth, though, Obama’s pragmatic approach to divisive policy (his notion that we should acknowledge the good [...]
The Troubling Iranian View of Barack Obama
12. July 2009
Peter Feaver (really) of Foreign Policy has a post up at the magazine’s Shadow Government blog, in which he notes the troubling way in which the Iranian government views President Obama. They see him as different than the rest of the western community, which strongly opposes the Islamic Republica’s nuclear program. The Washington Post is spinning this [...]
Obama DOJ May Probe Bush EIT Program
12. July 2009
Cap-and-trade is being exposed as the job-killing legislation that it is? Socialized health-care bills are being met with opposition from the public and Blue Dog Democrats? Obama’s popularity rating has been trending downward? Time for a witchunt of the Bush Administration! Attorney General Eric Holder is leaning toward launching a probe into the Bush administration’s [...]
NYT: Cheney Ordered to CIA To Lie to Congress
12. July 2009
Uh huh: The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday. The report that Mr. [...]
Obama: That “Shovel-Ready” Stimulus Will Take Quite Some Time to Kick In
11. July 2009
The check is in the mail, he assures us as unemployment continues to climb and the economy falter. The $800 billion stimulus bill will kick-in and do its job…eventually. WASHINGTON — President Obama is stepping up efforts to maintain public support for his agenda as rising unemployment presents him with the biggest test of his [...]
13. July 2009
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