Category Archives: Democrats

Obama To Request $2 Billion For Border, Illegal Children

This is an interesting turn of events for a guy and his administration who had essentially created the current situation at the border (NY Times) (NM) President Obama will ask Congress to provide more than $2 billion in new funds to control the surge of illegal Central American migrants at the South Texas border, and […]

Harry Reid Doesn’t Want Dems To Take Tough Votes

It appears that he has serious concerns over losing his cushy spot as Majority Leaders (AP) A fear of voting has gripped Democratic leaders in the Senate, slowing the chamber’s modest productivity this election season to a near halt. With control of the Senate at risk in November, leaders are going to remarkable lengths to […]

Obama Weekly Address: Virtually Out Of Ideas

Barack Obama has a little over a year and a half left in his disastrous and failed presidency, and he is getting more and more whiny , above and beyond his normal whining. And his typical blamestorming and castigation. Here he goes again during the Weekly Address (video here) Hi, everybody.  This week, I spent […]

Good News: Obama Kicks Of Summer Road Show

Because he cares about average Americans and is totally in touch with what you care about, or something (Politico) President Barack Obama headed out of Washington on Thursday to offer assurance to Americans that he hasn’t lost touch with the issues that guide their daily lives — or their complaints about the political system. “Are […]

Did Lois Lerner Seek IRS Audit Of Sen. Chuck Grassley?

Fox News runs with they headline that she did, and Rep. David Camp thinks she did, but, Grassley thinks she was targeting a Tea Party group. Some news orgs follow along with the Grassley targeted meme, others go with group targeted Congressional investigators have uncovered emails showing ex-IRS official Lois Lerner targeted a sitting Republican […]

Biden: Gay Rights Trump Pretty Much Everything

Someone let Joe Biden off his chains again (Yahoo News) Vice President Joe Biden declared Tuesday that protecting gay rights is a defining mark of a civilized nation and must trump national cultures and social traditions as the Obama administration sought to mobilize a global front against anti-gay violence and discrimination. Biden told a gathering […]

Great Optics: Democrats Protecting IRS

It’s not the first time House Democrats have been caught protecting the IRS and high ranking employees as the IRS targeting scandal rolls on, and it surely won’t be the last (video is available at each link) (Mediaite) Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier followed up a Republican grilling IRS Commissioner John Koskinen by scolding fellow Republicans […]

Rep Jackie Speiers (D) To Introduce Whiny E-Cigarette Bill

But, hey, it’s for the kids or something! (AP) U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier is proposing legislation that would regulate electronic cigarettes in the same way that tobacco products are currently regulated. Speier, D-Hillsborough, announced the proposed law — called the Stop Selling and Marketing to Our Kids E-Cigarettes Act, or SMOKE — on Friday morning […]

Mika Brzezinski To Obama: “Say, Wasn’t Al Qaeda Decimated?”

Obviously, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski was heavily intoxicated, or perhaps was hanging with Maureen Dowd in Colorado, when she decided to ask Obama a tough question. Well, more than likely, she was attempting to give Obama a way to hit some talking points (Mediaite) In an interview pre-taped Friday but aired on Morning Joe Monday morning, […]

Democrats Using “Climate Change” As Wedge Issue Or Something

I hope they do use it for the 2014 elections: pushing “climate change” rules and laws hasn’t worked out so well for politicians around the world as of late (see what happened to Australia’s Labor Party). Furthermore, it would make an interesting contrast as the Democrat politicians run all around in fossil fueled vehicles campaigning […]

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