Rush Limbaugh has been saying that Democrats are trying to wreck the economy on purpose to justify government take overs of pretty much everything. But who knew Harry Reid would come right out and admit it?
Endearing in its naivety:
My favorite quote:
There’s an interesting kind of restraint that you find. I mean, there’s not a lot of cursing or swearing. There’s not a lot of personal cuts. There’s not a lot of put downs that one would expect to find. There’s not screenfulls of ‘Go to [...]
In a predictably condescending and long-winded review of her book, Sam Tanenhaus of The New Yorker suggests that Sarah Palin left college in Hawaii when she was 18 because she was turned off by the number of Asians and Pacific Islanders there:
She is equally circumspect on [...]
The Obama administration has told us to ignore the directions of a government panel advising no at-home self screenings for breast cancer and no screenings for women under 50, but it looks [...]
One of the brilliant new ideas being put forth by Democrats in their quest for government-run health care is to turn the operation of a “public option” over to the federal Office of Personnel Management as opposed the Health and Human Services. The OPM already manages health insurance plans for [...]
Do as they say, not as they do:
On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.
“We [...]
I’ve been avoiding the Tiger Woods story because, frankly, I don’t really care. But this headline and “analysis” from the Associated Press caught my eye.
Tiger’s troubles widen his distance from blacks
‘Two layers of suspicion ... one is the pattern in the race of his partners’
Amid [...]
Sure, when you do the math, the “stimulus” deficit spending is an utter failure. But who needs math with the lapdog media can run anecdotal stories about some people being employed by that massive amount of spending?
How many tax dollars did these jobs cost us? What happens to these jobs [...]
Earlier this week when it was reported that the unemployment rate when down slightly (prompting gleeful cries about the recession being over) I pointed out that it had gone down not because people were going back to work but rather because people were giving up looking for work and thus [...]
During the campaign it became a running joke that all of Obama’s pronouncements came with an expiration date. He’d say something, and then someone who works for him would come along and explain what he really meant to say.
Just four days ago in his much-hyped Afghanistan speech Obama said that [...]
I don’t like reality shows and avoid them like I avoid the loud, brassy fat woman who lives around the block, and for the same reasons. They both annoy me.
So, I have never seen the “reality” show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here in which (I presume) [...]
Okay, here we go. My picks for the week:
Saints over Redskins. After the spanking the 11-0 Saints gave the Patriots last Monday night I don’t think the Redskins will get the job done. There is one small caveat, though. The Skins have been playing tough and if the Saints go [...]
It would be funny, except that screwing up this badly and in such a fundamental way in a mission that isn’t just costing us billions of dollars but the lives of our sons and daughters isn’t really funny at all.
In June, McChrystal noted, he had [...]
Apparently the modeling program used to tell us all how humans were causing the earth to warm itself into an apocalypse (unless we allow the government to tax and regulate every aspect of our lives, naturally) had built into its code a “skip” that would ignore problematic data.
From the BBC:
Damning [...]
Welcome to America, where we’ll turn anyone into a celebrity.
The party-crashing couple that embarrassed the Secret Service and brought scrutiny to protocol at White House social events by getting into a state dinner may be in on the joke.
According to The Washington Post blog The [...]
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One of the principle defenses deployed by chief perpetrator of the 4.3 million acre national heritage area land grab (my previous posts on the subject here), state Senator Tracy Potter, is to claim that his group will have no authority outside of the narrowly-defined national heritage area.
Of [...]
A few weeks ago this wouldn’t have been news. Just another big government type demonizing resisters to the use of global warming alarmism as an excuse for massive expansions of government. But after climategate this sounds more like the pleadings of a desperate [...]
Or, more specifically, the government can’t fix the economy by doing things. But the government can allow the economy to fix itself by refraining from doing things.
President Obama has another speech about the economy lined up, announced at the end of his recent [...]
And of course they are. Whether we’re talking about borrowing to fund “stimulus” spending, borrowing to bail out banks and auto companies, borrowing to fund “cash for clunkers” or borrowing to bail out state budgets the point is that we’re trying to fix our problems by running up enormous amounts [...]
Recently Senator Byron Dorgan and some of his fellow Democrats have been pushing to allow Americans to buy prescription drugs re-imported from Canada. See, Canadian prescription drug prices are controlled by the government so they’re cheaper than American drug prices. In theory, allowing Canadian drugs [...]
According to Greg Scandlen, the House version of the government health care take over bans co-insurance in health insurance policies requiring that only fixed co-pays be used:
“In establishing cost-sharing levels for basic, enhanced, and premium plans under this subsection, the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent possible, [...]
A six year old joins the Cub Scouts. He’s excited about all the new camping equipment he got as a result. So he takes one piece of his equipment, a knife/fork/spoon utensil, to school to use at lunch and no doubt show off for his friends.
The result? The school bureaucrats [...]
And the “scientific consensus” around global warming continues to crumble:
The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.
The new analysis of the data will take three [...]
There’s been a lot of political outrage in North Dakota over Blue Cross Blue Shield. The company has been accused of paying executives too much and buying too many performance perks for employees who do well. More recently, efforts by BCBS to inform the public about Democrat health care “reform” [...]
At 3:09:
“We’ve gotta make sure that each and every one of us is working as hard as we can...”
Um, Mr. President? Would that include working longer hours,maybe doing more overtime? Okay… At least you’re consistent! /sarcasm
Earlier in the tape, around 1:15, [...]
This guy is really out of his depth!
At 2:00 in the video, Obama says:
Part of what’s happened also among a lot of companies, is they figured out how to squeeze more productivity out of the workers that they’ve got. They’re working people longer hours, they’re doing more overtime… or [...]
President Obama in Allentown, PA trying to make silk purses out of sow’s ears!
At about 5:20 into the video, Obama says this:
The unemployment rate ticked down instead of up. The report also found we lost about 160,00 fewer jobs over the last two months than we previously thought. So, [...]
This looks a little sick to me, rather than “cool”. There is one my friends in North Dakota would probably like, though:
Somehow, the phrase, “Damn, dirty apes!” comes to mind [...]
If it ain’t one thing it’s another:
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg)—About 40 years of health improvements from declining numbers of smokers may be undermined because too many U.S. adults are obese, researchers said.
Under one scenario of obesity and smoking trends, by 2020 the future life expectancy of a [...]
Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a key player in the progress of Democrat health care “reform”, admitted late Friday to havimg nominated his mistress to the position of US Attorney for Montana.
Senate Finance [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota, like many insurance companies across the nation, does not like what it’s seeing in the Democrat health care bill in Washington DC. So the company has been communicating its concerns with the public. And Democrats in North Dakota don’t like that and are [...]
The CLASS Act is an amendment in the Democrat health care bill which sets up a program like Medicare except for assisted living specifically. You pay throughout your whole life into a government fund that is then used to pay [...]
I can’t say that Mike Huckabee reads Proof Positive or Say Anything, but when I heard Tuesday morning’s Huckabee Report, it sounded strangely familiar! I was finally able to get a copy tonight. I’ll give my advice (from Monday) followed by Huckabee’s statement
Proof:
How about a [...]
Insurance giant Aetna is being forced to raise its premium prices due to rising health care costs. They’re estimating that they’ll lose hundreds of thousands of customers due to these increases in premiums, but without the price increases the solvency of the company would be at risk.
How do the liberals [...]
Because that’s the real crime here, right? The whistle blower who exposed the malfeasance of the “scientific consensus” behind global warming is the real criminal. Not, you know, the scientists who have been manipulating data and using intimidation to silence critics.
Americans honor the courageous informant, the gutsy citizen who stands [...]
We could no doubt save a significant number of tax dollars currently being spent on law enforcement in those two areas, and we all know the federal government (and most of our state governments) need spending cuts desperately, but The One isn’t biting.
[...]A lot of people seem to be complaining about the mega Comcast/NBC Universal merger that’s about to happen, even to the point of demanding that the government block the merger.
Personally, I think the merger reflects a necessary move by Comcast. One that [...]
Given that we’re talking about the organization that puts nations like Cuba, Venezuela and China on its Human Rights Council I’m not expecting much. But hey, it’s a start.
A top UN panel is to probe claims that British scientists sought to suppress data backing climate change [...]
Kent Conrad, Byron Dorgan and Earl Pomeroy all helped raise money for Minnesota governor candidate Matt Entenza in a posh Washington DC event last night:
Several well known politicians, including Senators Evan Bayh (IN), Tim Johnson (SD), Byron Dorgan (ND) and Kent Conrad (ND), hosted a fundraiser for [...]
A problem that’s particularly acute in California (adding mightily to their already awful budget woes), but certainly a problem nation wide.
The economy is struggling, the unemployment rate is high, and many Americans are struggling to pay the bills, but one class of Americans is doing quite well: government workers. Their [...]
If that’s true, then why does he keep expanding the size of the government the private sector has to support while simultaneously employing people and generating prosperity?
From the transcript of Obama’s speech yesterday:
But I want to be clear—while I believe that government has a critical role in creating the conditions [...]
Those on the left desperate for any hint of positive economic news to justify the spending spree - in the name of “economic rescue” - the Obama administration has been on since taking office are growing about the .2% drop in the unemployment rate today.
The problem, of course, is that [...]
Remember the flight last month from Atlanta to Houston that got turned around because a passenger wouldn’t get off his cell phone? It turns out that that may only be part of the story:
One week ago, I went' [...]
And apparently someone wants to make a 1st amendment issue out of this:
A Hazen, North Dakota man was visited by the chief of police this evening, and apparently chief Chuck Dahl wasn’t buying into the holiday spirit. The resident exhibited 2 reindeer fornicating in his front lawn, [...]
Because that’s what we need, right? More hurdles between Americans and cheap, foreign-made products at a time when the buying power of their dollar ebbs lower with the only alternative being more expensive US-made products made by the unionized companies which would benefit from this protectionism.
If you think the climategate scandal isn’t getting to the upper-echelons of the alarmists and hucksters that lead the global warming movement, think again.
Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday abruptly canceled a Dec. 16 personal appearance that was to be staged during the United Nations’ Climate [...]
When I first heard him say it I thought he was joking. No way anyone involved in politics, right or left, is unfamiliar with Bush Derangement Syndrome. But listening to it, he’s apparently sincere. Either because he’s lying, or because he’s hopelessly clueless.
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