Category Archives: Barry Obama

Romney Demands Apology From Obama For Feckless Bain Attacks

He won’t get it, obviously. Team Obama has nothing else to run on (NY Times) Mitt Romney demanded an apology from President Obama on Friday for making what he called “reckless” and “absurd” allegations in an escalating battle over whether Mr. Romney’s business record included outsourcing American jobs. After days in which the Obama campaign […]

Obama Calls Mandate A Tax

Remember this? Mr. Obama’s teleprompter failed him again President Obama used the word “tax” to describe the health care mandate under his reforms, a departure from his prior etymological stance that it is a penalty. “By the way, if you’ve got health insurance, you’re not getting hit by a tax,” the president said during his […]

Oops: Green Energy Loans Not Designed To Create Jobs

Someone really confused their talking points (Washington Examiner) David Frantz, who runs the Energy Department’s loan guarantee program, contradicted President Obama today by telling Congress that the program is not designed to create jobs. “The predominance of our portfolio — and the objective, really, of the act — is to be creating large infrastructure, utility-scale […]

Obama: “Hey, If Only I Was A Better Story Teller…”

Good grief (via Allahpundit) (CBS News) President Obama’s biggest mistake during his first term, he told CBS News in an exclusive interview, has been putting policy over storytelling. “When I think about what we’ve done well and what we haven’t done well,” the president said, “the mistake of my first term – couple of years […]

Chris Christie To Obama On More Stimulus: “Please Don’t”

Christie’s not particularly enthused about more government stimulus for more government workers (NY Post) No more public workers — please! That was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s alarmed reaction to President Obama’s push to send states another dose of stimulus money to hire teachers, firefighters and police. “Please don’t send me any more money to […]

Dueling Tax Plans: Whose Is Better For The 98%?

What we’ve seen lately from Team Obama is an attempt to shit the dialogue from his terrible handling of the economy and the notion that Obama is out of ideas by offering up…..the retread idea of class warfare by raising taxes on “the rich”. ABC News takes an actual look at what the tax plans […]

Team Obama Admits It’s Campaign Will Be Mostly Negative

But, then, what else does Obama have to run on? A failed economic stimulus plan that wasted a billion dollars? A highly unpopular healthcare bill? The Lilly Ledbetter Act, which was so wonderful that the Democrats tried to pass legislation that did the same thing again this year? Drone strikes that make his base insane(r)? […]

Hill Poll: Most Feel Obama Has Changed The Country For The Worse

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that most think Obama is ruining the country. And I bet some people are surprised by this poll. They might have listened when Obama said that he wanted to “fundamentally transform America” during his hopey changey run for the White House. And they might have paid attention to his […]

Washington Post Fact Checker Gives Obama Tweet 3 Pinocchio’s

Let’s face it, Team Obama likes to stretch the truth, if not out right lie, in order to smear opponents. The number of un-truths, stretches, and lies that are going into Obama campaign fodder is a daily occurrence. It would take a giant post to list all the false ads. He can’t win on his […]

For Crummy Jobs Report, 25K Were Just Temporary Workers

Remember, you aren’t supposed to read too much into the jobs report June 2012: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it is informative to consider each report in the context of other data that are becoming available.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/07/06/employment-situation-june) They’ve been saying the same thing for […]

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