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Smart Girl Politics Action launches “They Don’t Speak for Us” asking women to put the conversation back on real issues important to women. Women are forced everyday to make sacrifices and its time that we put pressure on Congress and this Administration to stop playing games and get back to work for the American people. … Read more
(H/T: The Looking Spoon)
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”
– President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09
In October of 2010, The U.S. Government Services Administration spent over $835,000 on a four-day “training” conference for 300 GSA employees…held at a luxury hotel outside Las Vegas.
This was in a post from The Corner that was in response to the same news:
Howdy–
Skip Murphy just asked me this: “Well, it seems that Obama is coming out swinging against the Supremes. Blogosphere is all atwitter about it. Mr. Lawyer, Tim – what’s your take on his baiting the Supremes to declare it unconsitutional?”
Dammit. I foolishly rose to the bait. Here’s what I said in response:
A #1 honor that is does not bode well: On Sunday, the United States gets a distinction no nation wants — the world’s highest corporate tax rate. Japan, which currently has the highest rate in the world — a 39.8% rate on business income between national and local taxes — cuts its rate to 36.8% … Read more
The Post-It® note revolt is gaining steam. People are making it habit of leaving little messages at the gas pump, portable little blog posts for fellow consumers who might need something else for their eyes to settle on aside from the climbing-scrolling-rising cost of their fill-up. So here’ s a free stock tip. Buy some … Read more
So, where is all that electricity going to come for Obama’s million electric cars?
The proposed rule — years in the making and approved by the White House after months of review — will require any new power plant to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced. The average U.S. natural gas plant, which emits 800 to 850 pounds of CO2 per megawatt, meets that standard; coal plants emit an average of 1,768 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt.
Legislation? What the heck does our Monarch Obama wants to do with that?
Imagine what the left would do if the Koch brothers offered $10,000 dollars for the capture of George Zimmerman because he had shot a white teenager. George is Hispanic. He is a registered Democrat. Paint your own picture of the 24/7/365 echo chamber of outrage this would produce from the left and the media. Imagine … Read more
Heh! Obama’s campaign, in addition to being “Captain Obama America” (need I say more: really, a comic book character??), has decided that “Obamacare” is no longer racist, no longer hate speech, and no longer to simply be uttered by birthers, fanatics, TEA Partiers, and extremists. Now, the Obama campaign has decided to pull a page out of the SlutWalker movement (Really, you really are copying the SlutWalker movement? As in “Let’s take back SLUTS”)? Really? Rich…well, must be as Sandra Fluke is supporting Obama! Anyways, “Obamacare” is to be embraced!
Well, in the tradition of AttackWatch, Conservatives sallied forth, joining with Progressives and Obamessiah accolytes, in preaching the worth of #ILikeObamacare:
10.) @jimmiebjr: #ILikeObamacare because I trust the same people who wrote the tax code to keep things simple, understandable, and transparent for me.
9.) @EWErickson: #ILikeObamacare because I think responsibility is giving free condoms to our kids while we bankrupt their future.
8.) @brostap: #ilikeobamacare because…oh wait it’s terrible…
7.) @joshgreenman: #ILikeObamacare because “love” is too strong a word.
Seriously – the Obama Campaign put this up. Really? Captain America? Doesn’t that helmet clash with the Mom Jeans? The URL says how desperate they are to reproduce 2008: http://barackobama.tumblr.com/post/19697699954/today-in-cool-the-obama-poster-project
Today in cool? Really? They REALLY think he looks cool in this “poster”? Worse yet, does HE think he’s cool looking?
Yeah. I remember another person who had a helmet on, too:
“This Business is now closed because of Obama’s economics” I put this post up July 10th, 2010 – this once thriving Jeep dealership was one of those suddenly closed by Obama’s Auto Task Force that restructured Chrysler and GM by screwing the bondholders and giving much of the left over companies to the Unions (and … Read more
Mini-whine: Well, I was out last nite acquiring another interview and will start processing that video tonite. And I just completed an audio interview a little bit ago this evening, so I have that to do. The whine? Steve beat me to the post I wanted to do on the Bristol Palin post (good on him!) – but I found it via another source: The Corner and David French, whose wife runs the Patheos website Steve quoted. David relays a bit of the back story – showing the power of social media as well as the Palin name:
Last week she added a young, single-mother blogger to the site, a person who could reach a wide audience and was experiencing life as a mother in the glare of unusually harsh publicity: Bristol Palin.
As an editor, Nancy often lives in the more mundane world of Internet punditry — posting blogs, correcting typos, monitoring traffic, and managing a group of talented and eclectic writers. But some days are less mundane than others.
Over the weekend, Bristol wrote a post that asked a simple question: “Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call?” Noting that President Obama had called Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh’s now-famous insult, Bristol reminds the President that she’s been the target of much worse:
And he quotes what Bristol wrote, replicated in part by Steve’s post (yes, go read his and the actual post). Then he adds this:
…After Bristol sent the post in, Nancy put it up shortly after midnight on Sunday night.
Nancy tweeted it to her few hundred followers (she and I have a rather pathetic contest for twitter followers; right now I’m barely in the lead with a whopping 776), and Bristol facebooked it. Within hours, it had been shared 8,000 times. Already it was taking off.
And then it exploded (emphasis mine):
Then Sarah Palin tweeted.
The real issue that should be foremost in all taxpayer minds when they go to the polls in November. (H/T: CBS News )
I’ve been warning people about ONE Campaign, hapless New Hampshire Republican politicians in particular, for years now. While they were lining up like fools for photo-ops, I outlined the global government agenda for ONE campaign. I linked ONE to the UN’s corrupt, anti-liberty, anti-American Millennium development goals. I even connected ONE to Senator Obama’s shared objective of a mandated tax on American GDP to fund the ONE campaign agenda and others like it (All of that can be found here).
One is just one of many corrupt, global, social justice frontmen for the same old socialist song and dance-the redistribution of other people’s wealth. Just ask Bono. He helped found ONE, asks other people to donate to it in large sums, supports those mandated taxes on all GDP to fund that agenda, then runs off to seek a tax haven to avoid…paying twice as much in taxes.
But we are not here today to talk about Bono’s tax hypocrisy. Left-wing hypocrites are like pigeons in the park. They are everywhere. All they do is sh*t on you, and surround you, look at you sideways and squawk at you until you cough up the free stuff, and then they sh*t on you some more. (The #Occupy Wall Street freaks are just big pigeons, by the look of things.)
What we are here to talk about today is the corruption of ONE Campaign, and there is more than enough of that to go around.
As the Democrats fabricated War on Women® continues to unravel under the weight of their own hypocrisy, another salvo has hit their defenses. Bristol Palin, another casualty of the lefts abuse (with emphasis on Bill Maher the Misogyny Czar) want’s to know “When Should I expect Your Call?” You don’t know my telephone number, but … Read more
I missed this on Friday, and although I generally don’t repost an entire post by someone else, it loses something if I don’t. From The Campaign Spot (I have reformatted it slightly): Nearly one-third of the nation’s drivers now fork out $4 or more for a gallon of gasoline. The cost of living is suddenly … Read more
Obama said this about Civil War General (and hero) during a campaign speech: One of my predecessors, Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone, ‘It’s a great invention, but who would ever want to use one?‘ That’s why he’s not on Mount Rushmore. Reality? Stephen A. Hayes, a great-great-grandson of the former president and … Read more
Margret Sanger, the founder of planned parenthood, cut her eugenic teeth on encouraging the use of contraction–giving it out herself if I’m not mistaken–for the purpose of wiping out inferior classes of people. Lesser persons would be able to have sex without having babies and would eventually fall below replacement rates of fertility and simply … Read more