On October 10, 2004, Senator Robert Byrd, now President pro tempore of the United States Senate -- third in the line of presidential succession, objected to the Senate conducting business on Sunday:
Today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [...]The latest episode of the conservative comedy show "NewsBusted" covers Obama's recent China junket, the federal government's out-of-control borrowing, Saturday Night Live's recent mocking of President Obama, Angelina Jolie calling Obama a socialist in disguise, Levi Johnston's Playgirl pictorial, Senator Reid's 'Botax' and more.
Watch and enjoy.
' [...]The Labor Department reports the unemployment rate rose to 10.0 percent in November, from 10.2 percent in October.
According to Market Watch, an alternative gauge of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and those forced to work part-time, fell to 17.2%.
Nonfarm payrolls fell by just 11,000 in October, the best [...]
In his long-awaited Afghan strategy speech, President Obama falsely said:
"Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive."According to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, those 21 words are yet another example of Obama bearing false witness.
In [...]
Robert Burns and Calvin Woodward fact checked President Obama's latest Afghan War strategy speech.
I have already said that I thought Obama's have it both ways Afghan strategy speech left a lot to be desired.
These are just some of the examples the two Associated Press writers highlighted:
President Obama's big speech announcing, after three months of indecision, that he will give Gen. McChrystal only three-quarters of the 40,000 additional troops the general told Obama he needed to achieve victory in Afghanistan left a lot to be desired.
The 11-day mission delivered key spare parts to prolong the life of the international space station. The parts are expected to add years to the station's life [...]
The traditional Thanksgiving story is that some time in the fall of 1621, the settlers at Plymouth, Mass., held a feast to thank God they'd survived their harrowing first year in the New World.
They invited neighboring Indians, who had taught them agricultural skills critical to their' [...]
Rasmussen reports Obama's Presidential Approval Index fell to -15. Another record low.
Rasmussen's Obama Approval Index has now been in negative double digits for nine straight days. Last week the index stood at the previous record low, -14, for three consecutive days.
According to Rasmussen, support [...]It really doesn't matter how President Obama divides the Afghan baby, how he splits the difference between McChrystal and Biden. Because the war in Afghanistan has been lost.
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I say this because of one' [...]
Democrats' Obamacare will raise premiums and taxes, cut Medicare, and drive up the deficit. Is This the kind of health care reform the American people want?
In the following video, Senate Republicans remind us that Americans do not want higher premiums and higher taxes disguised as reform:
' [...]When the Pelosi/Reid left-wing Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04 -- that's $8.67 trillion.
Today, the national debt is 12,039,319,107,488.80 -- more than $12 trillion.
That is a 38% increase in the national debt in the less than three year period that Speaker [...]
Space shuttle Atlantis is safely in orbit with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the International Space Station.
Atlantis lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:28 p.m. EST.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News [...]
Patients First goes after President Obama's broken promises of transparency in the health care reform process:
The House Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) has created the following blueprint for The Democrats' taxpayer-funded Obamacare mega-bureaucracy:
You can access a larger version of the chart here.
The' [...]
According to Market Watch, an alternative gauge of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and those forced to work part-time, rose to 17.5%, the highest on record dating to 1995.
The jobless [...]
It has now been 66 days since General Stanley A. McChrystal's report, in which he requests more troops, was issued at the end of August.
Unable to make a decision for months, President Obama continues to indecisively dither about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan to fight what he [...]
Congressman Mike Pence urges Americans to make their voices heard regarding the Democrats' latest Obamacare legislation -- Pelosi's 1,990-page, trillion dollar health care plan, which creates 111 new federal bureaucracies:
Full transcript of' [...]
Today, voters in New Jersey, an upstate New York's Congressional District (NY-23) and Virginia will participate in the first electoral referendum on the Obama presidency.
All three races, the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial and the NY-23 Congressional elections were nationalized by Obama and the Democrats.
In New Jersey, Democrat Governor [...]
Obama spent the day golfing instead of making his long awaited decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan.
For weeks, President Obama has been indecisively dithering about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan to fight what he correctly calls a "war of necessity." General Stanley A. McChrystal's report, in [...]
As Democrat leaders huddle behind closed doors to work out their final version of Obamacare legislation, the Republican National Committee goes after the broken promises of transparency made by Harry Reid and Barack Obama:
Presidential candidate Obama promised over and over, and over, and over, and over, again not to negotiate health [...]
Now that President Obama has expanded his propaganda war against Republicans to include Fox News, Jay Leno has some fun at Obama's expense by poking fun at the new front:
President Obama today agreed to commit an additional 40,000 troops to help fight Fox News.As the Democrats go all out to save Governor Corzine -- even enlisting Bill Clinton and President Obama into the fray, Christie welcomes Obama back to New Jersey with the following video:
The race is now too close to call, but Rasmussen has already written Christie's obituary:
A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey finds 51% do not agree with Obama on the issues that matter most to them.
The last time the CNN pollsters asked that question, back in April, 57% said they agreed with Obama on important issues and only 41% disagreed.
President Obama won the election [...]
The Senate Finance Committee has posted the legislative language of its Obamacare bill - "America's Healthy Future Act 2009" at the committee Web site – all 1,502 pages of it. You can access the language in PDF format here, or you can read the following-embedded version:
A new Harris poll finds President Obama's job approval rating continues to fall. Only 45% still approve of Obama's performance, while over half of Americans (55%) disapprove.
There is the usual partisan divide, with 77% of Democrats giving President Obama positive ratings compared to 14% of Republicans. Obama continues to [...]
Democrats are so desperate to pass Obamacare that they have quietly set up the necessary procedures to use the so-called "nuclear option."
This is an admission by the Democrats that they do not have the popular support needed to pass Obamacare by the usual Senate rules.
The Democrats'' [...]
The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, the government watchdog which oversees how the stimulus monies are spent reports contractors who received money from President Obama's failed $787 billion stimulus program created or saved 30,383 jobs by the beginning of October.
According to the Wall Street Journal, this report covers [...]
The Director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas W. Elmendorf, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the House-passed Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade tax climate change legislation -- would slow the economy and would cause "significant" job losses in fossil fuel industries:
We want to leave no misunderstanding that aggregate performance [...]After working with President Obama to deliver Obamacare, the health insurance industry now warns that Obamacare will increase a typical family's health insurance premium by $4,000 in 2019:
Late Sunday, the industry trade group America's Health Insurance Plans sent its member companies a new accounting firm study that projects the legislation [...]President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's' [...]
A new Field Poll is good news for California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. He is now virtually tied with former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina for the Republican nomination challenge Democrat Barbara Boxer for the U.S. Senate:
The poll found a majority of GOP voters undecided about who they want to challenge [...]In a correction to Wednesday's article, the Washington Times reports that the Obama administration say there is no chance that ACORN will get the $997,402 Assistance to Firefighters Grant it was awarded last month:
FEMA officials said Wednesday that the award was posted on the agency's Web site Sept. [...]This Article has been Updated.
As President Obama renewed his effort to distance himself from his brotherhood of community organizers, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, more commonly known "ACORN," his Department of Homeland Security awarded the radical left-wing organization a nearly $1 million "Assistance to Firefighters Grant."
According to [...]
Saturday Night Live goes after President Obama's failure to achieve his promised change in closing Gitmo, getting out of Iraq, improving the war in Afghanistan, health care reform, climate change, immigration reform, gays in the military, limits on executive powers, and torture prosecutions. The skit even takes a shot at' [...]
The Labor Department reports the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in September, from 9.7 percent in August.
Employers cut 263,000 jobs in September, more than expected. The job losses were widespread -- 64,000 in construction, 51,000 in manufacturing and 53,000 in government.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a [...]
The Republican National Committee launched a new web video on Obamacare taxes.
According to RNC Chairman Michael Steele, President Obama plan to take over health care includes huge new taxes that will harm the economy and cost jobs:
Democrats are paying for their dangerous experiment with higher taxes on small business [...]
A group of House Democrats wants illegal aliens to be included in Obamacare.
President Obama has said he does not want health care proposals to cover illegal immigrants. The bill drafted by Montana Democrat and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, specifically excludes illegals from the proposed health care exchange.
In [...]
With members of President Obama's brotherhood of community organizers, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, more commonly known "ACORN," caught on video while they gave advice on how to skirt federal laws to buy a home to use as a brothel and how to cloak the status of [...]
Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency urge President Obama to stop Attorney General Eric Holder's politically motivated decision to conduct a criminal investigation of CIA operatives who used enhanced the interrogation techniques.
The seven directors; John Deutch, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, James Schlesinger, George Tenet, William Webster and James [...]
This week "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday" opened with a clever skit about the Joe Wilson's "You lie!" shout out during President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress about Obamacare.
In the skit, SNL has Republicans conspiring to "You lie!" in unison during Obamacare speech, then changing' [...]
Below I have republished my first written remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks as well as a piece my son wrote. There are a few other pieces I have posted about 9/11 that I recommend:
The falling man Victims The AP's today in history for [...]Van Jones, President Obama's so-called "green jobs czar," resigned. In order to limit the news coverage, and the damage to Obama, the resignation came in the dead of night over Labor Day weekend.
In his resignation statement Jones falsely claims he was smeared:
I am resigning my post at the Council [...]
The Labor Department reports the unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent in August, from 9.4 percent in July.
According to the Washington Post, the expanded unemployment rate -- a broader measure of joblessness that includes people who have given up looking for a job out of frustration and who are working part [...]
After a fierce controversy over what many perceived as an effort to indoctrinate students, the White House says it will rewrite the government recommendation that teachers nationwide assign students a paper on how to "help the president."
According to the Washington Times, Obama aides acknowledged the White House helped the [...]
The Republican National Committee launched this new television ad highlighting its Seniors' Bill of Rights -- protections the GOP insists be part of any health care reform:
THE SENIORS' BILL OF RIGHTS
No Cuts to Medicare to Pay for a New Program House Dems' Bill Will Cut More Than $500 Billion From Medicare' [...]Add George Will to those calling for a new strategy for Obama's war in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In a column entitled "Time to Get Out of Afghanistan," Will expands upon comments he made on ABC's "This Week" and argues we should reduce our forces in Afghanistan and "do" [...]
President Obama's campaign organization, Organizing for America, goes way, way too far.
Team Obama wants to use 9/11 to push back against protesters, referred to as "Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists" by calling Senators in support of the Obamacare public government option.
Today, the Obama campaign folks sent out a notice to “grassroots” supporters [...]
