Category Archives: Current Affairs

Obambi Reaches Out To The World In Editorial

The Neverending Campaign takes a new twist. Where as his previous foray into speaking to the world at the Brandenburg Gate was just hopeychangey, Obamateur doesn’t quite understand that one of the reasons the world hates us is because we are arrogant (and we have every damned right to be arrogant, IMO), so, what does […]

Obamateur To Private Investors: Hey, How About Buying These

Without preamble: U.S. Rounding Up Investors to Buy Bad Assets Obama administration officials worked Sunday to persuade reluctant private investors to buy as much as $1 trillion in troubled mortgages and related assets from banks, with government help. What a super idea! I bet you want to get in on this deal, don’t ya? What […]

Oh, Goody. Obama Ticks Off Brazil, Russia May Base Bombers In Cuba

The Obamateur Hour has managed to annoy yet another ally Brazil has become a major U.S. trading partner, with cautious economic policies that have helped it weather the crisis better than almost all other major economies. With huge new offshore oil finds and abundant ethanol, Brazil could be key to helping wean the U.S. off […]

President Neophyte Working Hard To Tick Off Allies

No unicorns visible in the British press corp: Iain Martin President Barack Obama just plain rude to Britain. Don’t call us in future. Why couldn’t President Obama have put on more of a show for his British guests? He looked like he simply couldn’t be bothered. Number 10 may be content that they just about […]

Here Come The Tax Hikes

Soak the rich and trickle it down to the middle class and poor. Jake Tapper digs in to the Porkulus bill, and gives us these wonderful new taxes 1) On people making more than $250,000. $338 billion – Bush tax cuts expire $179 billlion – eliminate itemized deduction $118 billion – capital gains tax hike […]

Cedar Rapids Tea Party, Minus That Polluting Tea

Call tea a pollutant down South, that would be a butt woopin’ A Cedar Rapids group will do a symbolic tea dumping into the Cedar River on Saturday because state officials won’t let them use the real thing. An anti-tax group wanted to pitch in real tea like the Bostonian revolutionaries opposed to England’s tea […]

Oh, Good. US To Give $900 Million To The Folks Who Start The Wars

And all this follow on the heels of the Obama admin. throwing Israel under the bus at the Durban II “anti-racism” conference The United States plans to pledge more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel’s invasion and strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, a U.S. official said on Monday. The money will be […]

Apparently, It Is Dumb To Ask For Physical Proof Regarding Obama

After eight years of the Left accusing Bush of everything that they don’t blame on anthropogenic global warming, and sometimes they blame both, with little to no proof, lefties, still riding high on hopeNchange, and probably the fumes from their black velvet Obama paintings, just do not like it when anyone asks for simple proof […]

Nancy and Barry’s Promises In The Dark

It’s been a short walk from Nancy Pelosi’s claim of the most ethical and honest Congress ever, as well as Obama’s promise to run a transparent government, to this President Barack Obama has proclaimed his administration will be more open than the previous administration. However, his counterparts in the House and the Senate aren’t following suit. […]

Obama’s Big Day: Pulling Back On Afghanistan And Increasing Power

Hmmm, how many times during the HopeyChangey campaign (which is still going strong at barackobama.com) did we hear something similar to this? As President, I would deploy at least two additional brigades to Afghanistan to re-enforce our counter-terrorism operations and support NATO’s efforts against the Taliban. Now we get PRESIDENT Barack Obama has demanded that […]

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