Bend over America, there are three more years to come…

Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents

Your country is in good hands…

Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk

But as president, Mr. Obama has neglected the court. He has played only seven known games of basketball since taking office, compared with 25 rounds of golf, a sport he picked up about a decade ago when he was an Illinois state senator. That’s more golf than former President George W. Bush played in two terms, according to CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who tracks presidential trivia.

And Nero fiddled while his empire burned and his people suffered and died…

Big Government owns ACORN

Check out all the posts on the idiots at ACORN being taken down one office at a time by Andrew Breitbart and company. This is beautiful to see stupidity finally rewarded – ACORN document dump

Just like the jobs created or saved and just about everything else….

Economy’s rebound not as strong as first thought

Take some more, Jews. Obama guts Hannakhah party, but throws most lavish state dinner in YEARS for his Hollywood friends

That’s the story we’re thinking of today as we see the White House announce a lavish state dinner with a Hollywood Who’s Who of liberaldom in attendance, at a time when not only most Americans are struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads, but when Dr. Utopia and his fashion icon wife have decided that Jews are not worth spending the normal Hannakhah budget on.

The White House gutted the annual Hannakhah party by half.

They claimed they needed to cut costs and could not afford to throw a lavish party with that many guests.

Yet, the Utopias are throwing one of the most lavish, extravagant, spendthrift celebrations Washington has seen in YEARS to delight the multimillionaire spoiled children of Hollywood (which will have more guests than the Hannakhah party would have). The premise is a state dinner for India; the reality is that it’s an overblown, Mrs. Utopia-inspired, “let them eat curry”, tented bougie affair using India as an excuse to have all of Hollywood fly in on private jets, carbon footprints be damned.

Normally, a state dinner like this would be held inside the White House itself, without a tent. But, what’s a big Hollywood party without a tent? Oprah always has a tent at her parties in Montecito, and that’s just the Muumuu she wears to the breakfast trough hours before the actual party begins.

via HillBuzz

Quote of the Day: Change is Novelty

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You have less than 48 hours to contact your senators and tell them to oppose Harry Reid’s Health Care Abomination:

I knew that there is a manifest, marked distinction, which ill men with ill designs, or weak men incapable of any design, will constantly be confounding, that is, a marked distinction between change and reformation. The former alters the substance of the objects themselves; and gets rid of all their essential good, as well as of all the accidental evil, annexed to them. Change is novelty; and whether it is to operate any one of the effects of reformation at all, or whether it may not contradict the very principle upon which reformation is desired, cannot be certainly known beforehand. Reform is, not a change in the substance, or in the primary modification, of the object, but, a direct application of a remedy to the grievance complained of. So far as that is removed, all is sure. It stops there; and, if it fails, the substance which underwent the operation, at the very worst, is but where it was. – Edmund Burke

via Quotes « DPGI – the aftermath.

Better vote on this health care abomination fast!!!

This may explain why the Statists in the government are in such a rush to take over health care in our country:

As Congress debates a possible major expansion of health insurance in the United States, Gallup finds 38% of Americans rating healthcare coverage in this country as excellent or good, the highest by eight percentage points in the nine-year history of this question, and 12 points above last year’s level.

There’s a lot more via Greater Optimism About U.S. Health System Coverage, Costs.

Quote of the Day: Healthcare Debate FAIL

As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I’d give it a failing grade…

There are important lessons to be learned from recent experience with reform in Massachusetts. Here, insurance mandates similar to those proposed in the federal legislation succeeded in expanding coverage but—despite initial predictions—increased total spending. – JEFFREY S. FLIER

via Health ‘Reform’ Gets a Failing Grade – WSJ.com.

Obama’s leaks

So, leaking characterizations is bad? Someone call the New York Times, The One does not approve of leaks. I am sure they don’t have anything in the works but it would be wise to warn the allies in the MSM.

Can anyone show me where Obama was ever concerned about the leaks during the Bush administration that actually put people in danger and compromised national security? I can wait.

Obama, speaking to CBS in Beijing, says he’s “furious” about the stream of leaks characterizing the Afghanistan deliberations.

THE PRESIDENT: “I think I am angrier than Bob Gates about it, partly because we have these deliberations in the Situation Room for a reason – because we are making decisions that are life-and-death, that affect how our troops will be able to operate in a theater of war. For people to be releasing information during the course of deliberation — where we haven’t made final decisions yet — I think is not appropriate.”

CHIP REID: “Firing offense??”

THE PRESIDENT: “Absolutely”

What’s odd about this is that many of the leaks (though certainly not all) have seemed deliberate, in tandem with Flickr photo releases from the meetings and in line with a message that Obama is considering deeply. And indeed, leaking has been a signature of the transition from the Plouffe/campaign era to a governing era run by Rahm Emanuel, who talks frequently to the press and whose hiring was one of the first major Obama leaks. Leaks from more senior officials make lower-level staffers, in turn, feel that it’s not actually a firing offense.

via Ben Smith – POLITICO.com.

Obama: Providing grounds for a mistrial already

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More Obamateur Hour

In a meeting with the press in China, President Obama said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be “convicted” and had “the death penalty applied to him” . . . and then said he wasn’t “pre-judging” the case. He made the second statement after it was pointed out to him — by NBC’s Chuck Todd — that the first statement would be taken as the president’s interfering in the trial process. Obama said that wasn’t his intention. I’m sure it wasn’t — he’s trying to contain the political damage caused by his decision — but that won’t matter. He has given the defense its first motion that the executive branch, indeed the president himself, is tainting the jury pool. Nice work.

via Andy McCarthy – The Corner on National Review Online

Obama fails America again

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The KSM Trial Will Be an Intelligence Bonanza for al Qaeda:

‘This is a prosecutorial decision as well as a national security decision,” President Barack Obama said last week about the attorney general’s announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda operatives will be put on trial in New York City federal court.

No, it is not. It is a presidential decision—one about the hard, ever-present trade-off between civil liberties and national security.

Trying KSM in civilian court will be an intelligence bonanza for al Qaeda and the hostile nations that will view the U.S. intelligence methods and sources that such a trial will reveal. The proceedings will tie up judges for years on issues best left to the president and Congress.

Whether a jury ultimately convicts KSM and his fellows, or sentences them to death, is beside the point. The treatment of the 9/11 attacks as a criminal matter rather than as an act of war will cripple American efforts to fight terrorism. It is in effect a declaration that this nation is no longer at war…

Now, however, KSM and his co-defendants will enjoy the benefits and rights that the Constitution accords to citizens and resident aliens—including the right to demand that the government produce in open court all of the information that it has on them, and how it got it.

Prosecutors will be forced to reveal U.S. intelligence on KSM, the methods and sources for acquiring its information, and his relationships to fellow al Qaeda operatives. The information will enable al Qaeda to drop plans and personnel whose cover is blown. It will enable it to detect our means of intelligence-gathering, and to push forward into areas we know nothing about.

This is not hypothetical, as former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has explained. During the 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman (aka the “blind Sheikh”), standard criminal trial rules required the government to turn over to the defendants a list of 200 possible co-conspirators.

In essence, this list was a sketch of American intelligence on al Qaeda. According to Mr. McCarthy, who tried the case, it was delivered to bin Laden in Sudan on a silver platter within days of its production as a court exhibit.

Bin Laden, who was on the list, could immediately see who was compromised. He also could start figuring out how American intelligence had learned its information and anticipate what our future moves were likely to be…

KSM’s lawyers will not save the government from itself. Instead they will press hard to reveal intelligence secrets in open court. Our intelligence agents and soldiers will be the ones to suffer.

Then again, that may be exactly what the President and his Attorney General wish to happen.

It’s not as if the President has been truthful or consistent during his occupancy of the White House on these serious matters. Just look at his previous comments on trying terrorists:

Here’s more:

Bush AG Mukasey rips Obama over KSM decision

Video: Giuliani goes nuclear on Obama over KSM’s trial

Obama: Can’t you just feel the HOPE® for our country, military and Afghanistan?

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. – Dwight David Eisenhower

President Obama and his merry band of Statists idiots have failed. They have failed – again and again, and it will continue.

At some point you chowder-heads who voted for this amateur are going to see the damage he is doing to the country. He’s created more debt than EVERY PRESIDENT WHO CAME BEFORE HIM COMBINED.

I don’t expect you O-bots to understand the damage he is doing to our military, maybe because you don’t care. I don’t know.

I know the president doesn’t really care about our service men and women and their mission. He doesn’t care the same way other presidents cared about our men and women in uniform at home or abroad. He showed it before the campaign. He pretended to be something else during the campaign. He has faked and postured his way from Dover to Arlington to Fort Hood attempting to convince the nation that he has their best interests in mind and supports their mission.

And now as ‘His Ditherness’ struggles to find the lint in his bellybutton, our finest, our bravest, our most patriotic sit, wait, bleed, and die while the “smart power” you voted in as your new ‘American Idol’ makes a f’ing decision about the “necessary war”, the central front on the War on Terror, that he chided President Bush and John McCain over. You know the war that Candidate Obama thought was sooo important:

“His plan comes up short. There’s not enough troops, not enough resources and not enough urgency. What President Bush and Senator McCain don’t understand is that the central front in the War on Terror is not in Iraq and never was. The central front is in Afghanistan and Pakistan where the terrorists who hit us on 9-11 are still plotting attacks seven years later.”

I am sure the ripples of HOPE® and CHANGE® are reaching our troops here and across the ocean in the dusty military posts, forts, and bases knowing that Barack Hussein Obama – mmm, mmm, mmm – is on his way to save the day with his own plan.

Oh wait, maybe I’m wrong about that:

Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war, while those in Iraq show much improved mental health amid much lower violence, the Army said Friday…

Though findings of two new battlefield surveys are similar in several ways to the last ones taken in 2007, they come at a time of intense scrutiny on Afghanistan as President Barack Obama struggles to craft a new war strategy and planned troop buildup.

Obama “struggles” because he has no f’ing backbone and no clue about fighting for anything more than a community center or the Olympic Games.

He struggles because he doesn’t trust his military leaders. The people in our country who have led lives of substance, sacrifice, and purpose for decades already.

Obama’s never done anything of substance beyond be a lawyer and politician – two of the lowest professions possible falling in right next to prostitutes and thieves, but wait, I repeat myself.

It takes more to be a member of today’s military and face the uncertainties of war than it does to demagogue to the likes of SEIU, ACORN, Organizing for America, Egyptians, Germans, and guilty white Americans, when you yourself have stated you have not done anything of measure.

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So, it comes as no surprise our Commander-in-Chief is already looking to run away instead of fighting against evil ruthless radical religious zealots who torture and terrorize innocents in the name of Allah:

President Barack Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan will include a plan for “how we’re going to get folks out” after a secure environment can be passed to the Afghan government, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday.

“We have been there for eight years. And we’re not going to be there forever,” Gibbs said. “It’s important to fully examine not just how we’re going to get folks in but how we’re going to get folks out.”

Gibbs spoke en route to Alaska, where the president stopped at an Air Force base in Anchorage before traveling on to Tokyo for his maiden trip to Asia, which will take him to Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea.

The president “has asked for, and will want, benchmarks to evaluate our progress,” Gibbs said. “That’s part of his desire to get a sense of where we are rather than committing to an open-ended conflict.”

But whatever the reason, this man is making a mockery of our country and our military. He is destroying our economy. He is destroying our way of life. He is rewarding failure and taking away our liberty. He is destroying 230+ years of real human progress. And he intended to do it ever since he fell in with the pathetic refuse that surrounds him.

Osama bin Laden was right when he called the America a “Paper Tiger” in his declaration of war against our nation, he knew more about the majority of us than we would like to believe.

The impressionable useful idiots in our nation who believe HOPE® and CHANGE® are actually something more than novelty.

As long as the Democrats, Statists, Liberals, Progressives, and sheep of this nation lead us, a paper tiger is all we will be and we will continue our decline because of them.

The blood of those who die while Obama dithers and waffles are on his hands and those who put him into the White House.

Have a nice weekend.

Fort Hood: Another Obama Fail?

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Yep, another Obama fail.

Claudia Rosett explains: Fog Of War

There’s been plenty of debate about President Barack Obama’s omission of the word “terrorism” when he spoke Tuesday at Fort Hood to honor the 13 Americans shot to death and dozens wounded last week by a Muslim army psychiatrist, Nidal Hasan. More broadly troubling to my mind is a word that Obama did use: “incomprehensible.”

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“These Americans did not die on a foreign field of battle. They were killed here, on American soil, in the heart of this great state and the heart of this great American community. This is the fact that makes the tragedy even more painful, even more incomprehensible.”

That might be language appropriate for a private conversation with the bereaved, whose interests may well center on the unfathomable ways of death and loss. But Obama was not holding a private conversation. Onstage at Fort Hood, he was speaking not only to the immediate survivors, but to the nation.

In that context, the death dealt out on a routine day, in deepest America, by the hand of someone yelling “Allahu Akbar,” is not only comprehensible, but a predictable feature of this war against the United States. [emphasis added - jcrue] We may not know exactly where or on which day the next attack will occur, or with what weapons. But this is a war of many dimensions, in which ideas preached in one part of the globe can translate swiftly into murder–more aptly known as terrorism–in another…

If that truth seems too obvious to bear repeating, then why, at a freighted emotional moment, in a speech watched by the world, does it elude the president of the United States? [I have an opinion on that but if you have ever been here before, I don't need to explain it - jcrue]

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President Bush understood this, and during his first term pushed the frontlines of this war back from New York, Washington and skies over Pennsylvania to the home turf of America’s enemies. He toppled two of America’s most aggressive and brutal foes–Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the al-Qaida-hosting Taliban in Afghanistan. He cowed and harassed their despotic brethren with his push to promote their worst nightmare: freedom for their own people.

Quote of the Day: Enemies foreign and domestic…

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on. – Joseph Heller

via DPGI – the aftermath.

Quote of the Day

How can there possibly be liberty and justice for all, when, in the name of justice, people claim rights to income, food, housing, education, health care, transportation, ad infinitum? We can’t. Positive rights to receive such things, absent an obligation to earn them, must violate others’ liberty, by taking some of their income without their consent. They are really just wishes, convertible into benefits for some only by employing the government to violate others’ rights not to have what is theirs taken. –Prof. Gary Galles of Pepperdine University

via DPGI – the aftermath

Obama calls you names for being opposed to government totalitarianism.

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Lawmakers Detail Obama’s Pitch

According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”

With all due respect to the Office of President of the United States, Mr. Obama, F*ck you!

This nation was founded as a rejection of totalitarian government like the one you encourage and lead.

I intend to fight you and yours and to retain my liberty and those God giving rights our Founders believed in.

SEIU members of Team Obama beat up an adversary, again

State Worker Beat Up At SEIU Meeting For Speaking His Mind

A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose allegedl corruption within the union.

Ken Hamidi is a state worker at the California Franchise Tax Board. Last night he walked into a union hall in Sacramento for an SEIU local 1000 meeting.

“We had every right to be here, very simple; it wasn’t anything private or anything exclusive,” said Hamidi.

But Hamidi says the union members did not want him there.

“Three, four people jumped at me, wrestled with me, then did all that,” said Hamidi. “I was covered in blood and then over to the emergency room.”

Photos of Hamidi in the hospital show him bloodied from the brawl. So why did this happen? Besides being a state worker, Hamidi says he’s an unpaid reporter for a cable access show and a vocal critic of the SEIU. He calls the state workers’ union corrupt.

Can’t you just feel the HOPE® and CHANGE®?

O-bots are salad-tossers? Sounds good to me.

Big Hollywood: Obama Nation: His Defenders Earned a Name

Trickle-down government? Now the idiots believe in “trickle-down”…?

Via Megan McArdle: Worst. Talking Point. Ever.

Team Obama fails to notice the REAL bad guys because they go after political enemies instead

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Democrats have never been good at going after the important threat:

November 7, 2009
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DROP THE BALL: “While DHS was busy putting tea parties and anyone who dares fly the official military Gadsen flag on the domestic terrorist watch list, a real terrorist was spouting off online, glorifying suicide bombings and our mission in Iraq. I mean, I’m sure if I drink enough I might be able to understand the perception that a bunch of middle-class people peacefully dissenting with certain Washington policies are way more dangerous than a dude who talked about terrorist stuff on social sites and had gotten authorities’ attention six months ago.”

Yeah, Napolitano, et al. seem to have had their priorities misplaced. Here’s more on what they missed. And don’t forget what NPR reported.

UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch emails: “Ah, but those middle class protesters are a threat to politicians’ power. Terrorists are just a threat to their constituents’ lives. See the difference?” Such a cynic.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Washington Post: Officials may not have heeded warning signs. “Law enforcement officials also faced questions about whether they had missed possible warning signs. Six months ago, investigators came across Internet postings, allegedly by Hasan, that indicated sympathy for suicide bombers and empathized with the plight of Muslim civilians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a federal official briefed on the situation. The official, and another source, said investigators never confirmed whether Hasan was the author of the postings and did not pursue the matter.” Too busy worrying about Glenn Beck viewers, military veterans, and Tea Party organizers, I guess.

MORE: Obama targets “teabag people” as extremists.

via Instapundit.

Lying, unethical, hypocritical, vapid idiot Nancy Pelosi on “reading the bill”, UPDATE: It passed!?!?

I love the democrat’s double standard, is it always on display.

UPDATE: Here is the result of Saturday night’s vote:

The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress.

Did the bill get posted for everyone to read this weekend? NO.

Is this legislation being crammed down our throats in the middle of the night? YES.

I guess Nancy lacks the principles she claimed to have had in the video above, no surprise there. She’s a f’ing hypocritical, lying, evil tool with no ethics or values representative of the American people. San Fran-syphilis maybe, but not the nation as a whole.

We deserve this if we keep sending these shysters back to DC.

Team Obama knows better than the generals….

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…how to fight a war I guess.

Via Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan:

The plan would fall well short of the 80,000 troops that Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, suggested as a “low-risk option” that would offer the best chance to contain the Taliban-led insurgency and stabilize Afghanistan.

It splits the difference between two other McChrystal options: a “high-risk” one that called for 20,000 additional troops and a “medium-risk” one that would add 40,000 to 45,000 troops.

Democrats continue to lead by example

The best thing about all these stories about the Democrat Party and their idiocy is that it gives the chance for me to post a new bumper sticker idea I have. It’s after the jump below.

Let’s get started with the vapid chowder-heads from California:

SEN. BOXER BREAKS SENATE RULES… Passes Cap-&-Tax Out of Committee Without Single GOP Member in Attendance

This is against the rules and the first time it has ever happened.

Pelosi Breaks Pledge– Will Not Post Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Voting to Nationalize Health Care

The House Democrats will vote on Saturday to swallow one-sixth of the nation’s economy.

Next, let’s admire our Community-Organizer-in-Chief’s and Team Obama’s stellar work:

Hello, Tipping Point – The Obama presidency was always a race against time

‘We don’t look at either of these gubernatorial races . . . as something that portends a lot for our legislative efforts,” insisted White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Tuesday, as New Jersey and Virginia voters gave Democrats a thumping. Unfortunately for the White House, its opinion no longer counts.

The Rose Garden Path – The White House has gotten bad at listening, and now it’s paying the price

First thought on Tuesday’s elections: There’s a lot of firing going on in America, and now that includes politicians. Seems only fair and will likely continue. I don’t think voters in New Jersey and Virginia were saying, “Oh the Democrats are awful, and we hate them,” nor were they saying, “Republicans are wonderful, and we love them.” The voters were being practical, and thinking policy: “Will he raise my taxes?” In Jersey, they fired the incumbent governor because they couldn’t imagine the state getting off its current trajectory (high unemployment, high taxes, high spending) with him there. And they’re certain they have to get off their current trajectory or they’re sunk.

Both states hired new governors. The good news for the GOP is that they hired Republicans. The bad news is that if the Republicans don’t make progress, they’ll fire them too.

Second, it’s too simple to say this was a vote against Obama. Yes, he went to Jersey three times and draped himself like a shawl around the Democratic incumbent. But the crowds showed and nobody booed and everyone had a good time. What happened actually is more interesting. They just didn’t listen to him. Mr. Obama told Jersey to vote for Jon Corzine, and they didn’t. They don’t hate him, they’re just not hearing him. That’s new. They’re warning him: Hey you with the health-care obsession, shape up or you’ll get shipped out!

Administration missteps hamper Mideast efforts

President Obama came into office insisting that his administration would press hard and fast to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But after nine months, analysts and diplomats say, the administration’s efforts have faltered in part because of its own missteps.

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And finally we have this comment from the president regarding the crazed man who killed and injured dozens while yelling ‘ALLAHU AKBAR’ at Fort Hood yesterday:

“We don’t know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts,” Obama said in a Rose Garden statement otherwise devoted to the economy.

I feel so much better with this guy leading our nation.

So, in closing, remember when voting in the next few years, we can begin to fix all our nation’s problems by remembering to do the following…

Let’s do the happy dance on ACORN’s grave as it is dug

Big Government: BREAKING: ACORN’s New Orleans Office Raided by Louisiana Attorney General