March 6, 2013 – 2:49 pm
Can we start calling him “Peter Obama?” (Politico) Over the past few days, Obama and his team have pulled back from a kick-off strategy that portrayed the $84 billion in automatic cuts this year as a parade of instant horrors — hellish waits at airports, a quick cascade of private job losses resulting from voided […]
March 6, 2013 – 7:01 am
At least until PINO Obama resumes White House tours (Daily Caller) Republican Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert introduced an amendment to the Continuing Resolution that would not provide the White House with any taxpayer funds to transport President Barack Obama to and from any golf course until they resume White House public tours. In a House […]
March 2, 2013 – 9:29 am
Yeah, remember the doom and gloom from (NMP) Obama? From his silly press conference yesterday (NBC News) “This is not going to be an apocalypse, I think as some people have said. It’s just dumb. And it’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt individual people, and it’s going to hurt the economy overall,†he […]
March 2, 2013 – 9:00 am
Yeah, remember this? (Washington Examiner) “If you want to buy a gun — whether it’s from a licensed dealer or a private seller — you should at least have to show you are not a felon or somebody legally prohibited from buying one,†Obama said in January, adding that “We should get tougher on people […]
March 1, 2013 – 3:22 pm
This comes after a whopping hour long meeting with the congressional leaders (Fox) In response to reporter Jessica Yellin of CNN who jokingly asked why President Obama didn’t prevent lawmakers from “leaving the room†until a budget deal was reached instead of implementing sequestration cuts, the commander in chief responded by saying, “I am not […]
February 28, 2013 – 6:45 am
This is leadership in the age of Obama (Daily Caller) President Barack Obama will wait until the sequester hits to have his first sequester-related face-to-face meeting with congressional leaders on Friday, according to a report by ABC News’s Jonathan Karl: “A congressional source with direct knowledge of the plans tells me the top four congressional […]
February 26, 2013 – 9:24 am
Daily reminder: they aren’t cuts. Just a slight reduction in the rate of spending increase, but, you know, if the Sequestration is allowed to proceed the animals in the national parks will turn feral and start eating tourists before joining forces and attacking cities (Daily Caller) In an effort to put the looming automatic spending […]
February 25, 2013 – 7:04 am
Leading by fear-mongering (The Blaze) On Sunday, the White House continued its effort to prevent the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts known as “sequestration†from starting this Friday, releasing a dramatic state-by-state list of how they claim each state will be impacted if Congress fails to act. It’s worth remembering that the “cut†is […]
February 23, 2013 – 8:17 am
I guess David Brooks is wrong: Obama does have a plan. Or at least an outline of a plan. Whether there are any actual details and legislation that can be voted on is unknown. Here’s Jennifer Palmieri blogging for Obama A Balanced Plan to Avert the Sequester and Reduce the Deficit Good thing America doesn’t […]
February 22, 2013 – 7:45 am
A random act of journalism from Carrie Budoff Brown and Jake Sherman (Politico) President Barack Obama’s greatest adversary in the latest budget battle isn’t the Republican leadership in Congress — it’s his confidence in his own ability to force a win. He has been so certain of his campaign skills that he didn’t open a […]
