Archive | December, 2011
ABC News: Experts Say Democratic Payroll Tax Cut Extension Won’t Work
The two-month payroll tax cut extension backed by Senate Democrats and President Obama won’t work, independent experts tell ABC News. Officials from the policy-neutral National Payroll Reporting Consortium, Inc. have expressed concern to members of Congress that the two-month payroll tax holiday passed by the Senate and supported by President Obama cannot be implemented properly. [...]
Biden: The Taliban Aren’t Our Enemies Just Because They Harbored Al Qaeda, Killed U.S. Troops
19. December 2011
I’m sure the families of those who have died at the hands of Taliban fighters will be thrilled by Vice President Biden’s comments. Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban [...]
Whoa: Kim Jong-il is Dead at 69
19. December 2011
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, who has ruled the country of North Korea with an iron fist since the death of his father in 1994, has died of an unspecified heart condition, state-run media in North Korea is reporting. He was 69 and was believed to suffer from diabetes. He was riding a train at [...]
Obama Vacation to Cost More than $4 Million
18. December 2011
Barack Obama’s 17-day vacation in Hawaii will cost taxpayers more than $4 million — even while Obama wages class warfare, declaring that at a certain point one has enough money. Shared sacrifice is apparently a concept by which only the “little people” must abide. The total cost (based on what is known) for the 17-day [...]
TSA Let Rapper Keep Bags of Weed in His Luggage
16. December 2011
Welcome to TSA — where we strip search grandma but let rappers bring their weed onto the plane. Don’t worry, though. Because they totally left him a disapproving note.TSA agents don’t appear to value their jobs very much. Less than two months after an employee was fired for leaving a note inside a passenger’s bag [...]
Bachmann Campaign Spreads Rumor Gingrich is Buying Tea Party Endorsements; Tea Party Groups Deny
16. December 2011
Continuing the odd habit she has of attacking challengers to Mitt Romney while rarely actually attacking Mitt Romney. Why, it’s almost like she’s making a play to be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential nominee. Last month her spokesman said: Bachmann is trying to grow an organic base of supporters, and Newt Gingrich is trying to buy [...]
Bachmann in 2008: You know who’s awesome? Newt Gingrich
16. December 2011
In 2008 we already knew about Gingrich’s personal life. We knew about his past support for the individual mandate. We knew he worked for Fannie and Freddie. We knew about all of that. All of the things haunting him today were already public. That didn’t stop Michele Bachmann from heaping praises on him, going as [...]
Stabenow Smashed Corzine Only After He Refused Donations to Campaign
16. December 2011
A prominent Democratic senator shocked aides to disgraced former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine (D) by savaging him during Senate hearing on the collapse of his firm MF Global, from which more than $1.2 billion in investor money went missing. Why the shock? Because it seems Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich) only attacked him publicly after [...]
Congressmen Banned from Saying “Christmas” in Flyers
16. December 2011
Members of Congress are prohibited from wishing their constituents a “Merry Christmas” in holiday mailings — apparently even if it’s as part of a list of winter holidays. Fiscal restraint? Nope. “Happy holidays” is totally acceptable. Saying “Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, or a wonderful Kwanzaa”? Not acceptable. A franking commission spokesman confirmed to The Washington [...]
Gallup: Americans Still Don’t Give a Crap About “Income Inequality”
16. December 2011
It was always a phony issue anyway. Of course there’s “income inequality”. Always has been, always will be. Unless you’d like to pay someone who works hard all week the same as someone who slacks off and does the very minimum work necessary, that’s always going to be the case. Someone who started and owns [...]
19. December 2011
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