Does President Barack Obama believe that the greatest threat to progress resides in Rush Limbaugh? Earlier this week while trying to sell his Trillion Dollar Debt Plan to Republican leaders, Obama said, “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” Thankfully House Republicans listened to the hundreds of constituents calling their offices [...]
Archive for January, 2009
30 Jan
Putting the “Hip” in hypocrisy
Cataloging Washington hypocrisy would be a full-time job for a political blogger, but these two nuggets are worth thinking about as our elected betters preen over the hot topics du jour. As Henry Waxman prepares to burden Americans with a carbon taxation scheme, President Obama is shirking his responsibility to use the bully pulpit and [...]
30 Jan
The Catholic Church’s Heavenly Burden
I’ve often pondered why the Catholic Church gets a bad rap when it comes to commenting on issues of societal, or even politically important matters. There’s always some group or groups out there which will express outrage at some stance taken by the Church, and the usual secular condemnation comes spewing forth from their one [...]
30 Jan
I Feel Stimulated Already
Well, the pork-stuffed, slow working “stimulus” plan has been passed in the House and has hit the ground crawling. Don’t you feel all “hopey and changey” already? When one examines some of the items that constitutes the proposal, one has to wonder : “Was Obama smoking crack?” Most of his proposals are meant for placating [...]
30 Jan
Blago and Al Qaeda: A Question of Rights
According to press reports, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has a popularity level in the polls somewhere in the neighborhood of 4%. Al Qaeda, one would hope, has an even more serious popularity problem, although in certain quarters of the American left don’t bet the ranch on it. But the real question that needs to be [...]
30 Jan
Good Morning, Suckers
Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are playing the voters for fools with the so-called stimulus package. The massive $825 billion package is not even targeted on programs to stimulate the economy. Instead, it is laced with runaway government spending for increased welfare, overgrown bureaucracy, pork, political payoffs, and other waste. That runaway spending is causing [...]
30 Jan
Holder the Hater
If President Obama is hoping to change the tone in Washington, it’s hard to imagine how having Eric Holder onboard as his attorney general will help accomplish that goal. Much has been written about would-be Attorney General Holder’s support for liberal positions, but little has been written about his visceral contempt for conservatives. His public [...]
30 Jan
Deep in Debt, and Now Deep in Worry
Ben Stein devotes his latest column to the subject of profligacy. It’s a subject he knows a lot about: he has filled previous columns with paeans to expense-account temples like Morton’s and Mr Chow, and he regularly talks lovingly about his Cadillac STS-V. He even published an essay under the headline “It Ain’t Easy Being [...]
30 Jan
Obama’s Katrina
In the midst of what Al Gore and his environmental Green Shirts claim to be a cycle of global warming, the Midwest of the United States is experiencing some of the coldest weather that it’s had in recent history. Massive ice storms have shut down entire cities in the Midwest. Some cities in Arkansas have [...]
30 Jan
Soot in the White House
There is an interesting moment that I talked to you about yesterday on the Savage Nation. Barrack Obama was in the Oval Office talking about how terrible it was that Wall Street was still giving out huge bonuses. Next to him was the new Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who had just received a huge severance [...]
