Category Archives: Politics

Surrender Monkey Friday: Race Baiters Force An Apology

Of course, we all know the (contrived) controversy over the NY Post stimulus cartoon, which sent libs and the typical race baiters into apoplexy. Sharpton, as usual, had a freak out Hundreds of demonstrators rallied to boycott the New York Post on Thursday, branding the newspaper as racist for publishing a cartoon that appeared to […]

Even McClatchy Isn’t Buying The Stimulus

Look, you know that a newspaper leans far to the left when it features “Truth To Power” as its tag line. But even they aren’t buying the hopeNchange of the porkapalooza plan Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no The compromise economic stimulus plan agreed to by negotiators from the House of Representatives and […]

Two Otters Are Better Then One. Now With Mice!

Today’s sappily cute story When the keepers shut down the otter exhibit at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Sunday, they left one otter out in the exhibit overnight. When they came back to open up Monday morning, there were two. Nope, there wasn’t a birth. A wild North American river otter had found its way in […]

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. […]

Telegraph: How’s It Going, President Neophyte?

Expect Toby Harnden of the UK Telegraph to get lots and lots of hate mail from the Obamanuts for this article During last year’s epic election campaign, Hillary Clinton said that in the White House “there is no time for on-the-job training”. Joe Biden, too, remarked that the presidency was “not something that lends itself […]

News From Barry’s World – Barry Loses Control Plus Others

First, Barry has lost control, and, guess who gets the blame? Michael Hirsh at Newsweek has the hysterical article Barack Obama began making his comeback Wednesday, apparently aware that he has all but lost control of the agenda in Washington at a time when he simply can’t afford to do so. Obama’s biggest problem isn’t Taxgate—which […]

Stimulus? Not If A School Has Religious Meetings

Well well well, we actually get to see some of the San Francisco liberal anti-religion fervor in the so-called stimulus bill, via Culture and Media Institute Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…unless your institution of higher learning is getting part of the massive (nearly $900-billion […]

Is Obama Going To Increase Defense Budget By 8%?

A few days ago, I mentioned a story originating from Fox News that Obama requested the Pentagon decrease their budget by a bit over 10%. Well, it gets interesting from there, according to Congressional Quarterly (h/t Hot Air) The Obama administration has given the Pentagon a $527 billion limit, excluding war costs, for its fiscal […]

Michael Steele New RNC Chairman, Complete With Moonbattery

Unsurprisingly, CNN only found this to be a minor sidebar story, part of their Political Ticker, encompassing a whopping 6 paragraphs Members of the Republican National Committee elected their first-ever African-American party chief on Friday, choosing former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele to chair the organization after six rounds of tumultuous balloting. I roused myself […]

Surrender Monkey Friday: Forced To be Bipartisan?

The Surrender Monkey is quite sure that Jonah Goldberg is feeling quite vindicated at this moment Senator Judd Gregg awoke to the bad news on Thursday morning that a coalition of Democratic groups had planned to run television advertisements in his state to pressure him to support President Obama’s economic recovery plan. Mr. Gregg, a […]

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