December 6, 2012 – 7:09 am
One can always count on some funny stuff from Harry Reid (Weekly Standard) Senate majority leader Harry Reid is denying the Senate the chance to vote on President Barack Obama’s proposal. Reid calls Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s request to vote on the plan a “stunt.” “I reserve the right to object. I just a minute […]
December 5, 2012 – 8:09 am
Late yesterday, the Washington Post editorial board determined that the “Opening bids on ‘fiscal cliff’ talks are too small“. After spending most of the opening part of the editorial attacking John Boehner’s opening bid (surprising, eh?), we learn What’s worrisome, though, is that the two sides are slipping into a kind of tacit agreement to […]
December 4, 2012 – 8:16 am
Because success should be punished, comrades! (Politico) Tax rate increases aren’t the only way in which Democrats are aiming to collect more tax dollars from the rich — they’re also looking to resurrect a dormant pair of oddly named laws that targeted the wealthy for decades. Some call them gimmicks, some call them a step […]
December 2, 2012 – 7:59 am
If there’s one thing that Obama has done throughout his political career, it’s avoiding hard choices (and avoiding responsibility for Bad Things along with Blamestorming, but that’s a different story). More often than not he votes “present”. When it comes to dealing with the aftermath of the vote at the United Nations granting the Palestinians […]
December 1, 2012 – 8:51 am
Yet another “enemies” list for the most polarizing president ever (via The Lonely Conservative) “Joe Biden was in Costco and he wanted to buy some of this stuff, but I told him he had too much work to do. I wasn’t going to have him building roller coasters all day long. Now, of course, Santa […]
November 30, 2012 – 7:36 am
An unserious proposal from an unserious president (Politico) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s fiscal cliff proposal to Republicans Thursday was rejected out of hand, but offered a window into President Barack Obama’s priorities in the fast-evolving budget talks. In the plan, sources said, Geithner proposed a two-step process to ultimately achieve about $1.6 trillion in new […]
November 28, 2012 – 8:59 am
This is what you get when you elect a community organizer with no executive experience to replace the complete SCOAMF who was in office from 2009-2012 (Washington Post) The White House signaled Tuesday that it will try to marshal the momentum from President Obama’s reelection triumph into another victory at the negotiating table, launching a […]
November 27, 2012 – 8:07 am
Other than raising taxes and gutting the military, is there anything Team Obama is willing to discuss? They’ve already shrieked that Obamacare is off limits, even though it is another in a long line of entitlement programs that can’t be paid for (CBS News) It appears another issue of disagreement has surfaced in regard to […]
November 26, 2012 – 2:39 pm
From The Lonely Conservative Remember the creepy tweet above from the night before the last election? It’s a shame that so many Americans didn’t see the similarities between that and something the Stalinists would have put out. Then again, it’s a shame so many Americans are clueless about Stalin’s atrocities. Quite a few Russian’s recognize […]
November 26, 2012 – 8:11 am
Team Obama can’t even force themselves to use the word “Christmas” (Daily Caller) Any Republican refusal to accept President Barack Obama’s fiscal plan may ruin Christmas for the nation’s retailers, the White House claimed in a report released Monday morning. “The National Retail Federation is forecasting that holiday sales will grow 4.1 percent this year … […]
