Under fire, for dancing

The way I look at it: if you are wearing Kevlar as part of your normal everyday job of representing my country, you are entitled to occasionally blow off steam.

Some of our troops in Afghanistan, performing Lady GaGa's Telephone.

The rumor is that these men are now receiving some criticism for this. I hope that isn't true.

I also hope that Lady GaGa goes over there and performs in person for them. They have a great sense of humor.
Stay safe guys.

Did Barack tell the truth?

When the Blagojevich scandal broke, the White House went into full spin mode about how they were 'investigating' everything, and that they'd let us know right away what they came up with.

Of course, they never found any evidence that the WH did anything wrong. Go figure.
From Time magazine:

This all seemed rather open and shut. Since the press had no information suggesting otherwise, President Obama was allowed to move on from the scandal. But recent testimony in the Blagojevich trial suggests that Craig's report and Obama's effort at transparency failed to tell the entire story.

On Tuesday, an Illinois union leader, Thomas Balanoff, testified that he received a phone call the day before the election from President Obama to discuss Valerie Jarrett and the Senate seat. Balanoff would serve as a go-between, connecting the Obama inner circle to the Blagojevich inner circle.

Remember how there was no one at all, according to the WH, that had any knowledge of any deal? Well, that's if you don't include the president's attempt to get a friend into a senate seat.

This is typical Chicago politics. Which means that its corrupt, for those of you who are not from Chicago.

Health Care Bill makes ERs more crowded

Thus, another fallacy of the health care bill falls to pieces. From USA Today:

People without insurance aren't the ones filling up the nation's emergency rooms. Far from it. The uninsured are no more likely to use ERs than people with private insurance, perhaps because they're wary of huge bills.

The big question for me is:
Why didn't any of the press say this BEFORE the health care bill was passed? This was a huge fallacy that was presented by the president to sell health care. Shouldn't someone have called bullshit on him?

No, the health care bill will not make things cheaper for everyone. In fact, we'll be putting our grandchildren in debt.
Yes, you will be taxed if you do not buy insurance. Its a government mandate.
It will not promote cost savings. Nothing that is mandatory will create savings.

This is a giant boondoggle, and the quicker its killed, the better.

Beck connects Soros to our current oil crisis

I hate conspiracy theories. But this administration gives me pause. Particularly when I see things like this...

Hannity summing up Barack's unemployment incompetence

With guest Newt Gingritch, the two talk about how the stimulus bill was completely ineffective.

CBS completely nails Obama on his commissions

I love how many things the president criticized before he became president.
CBS caught him in this big double standard. Barack established a new financial commission in February. He did this after complaining about the many commissions during the campaign:

"Folks, we don't need a commission to spend a few years and a lot of taxpayer money to tell us what's going on in our economy," he continued. "We don't need a commission to tell us gas prices are high or that you can't pay your bills. We don't need a commission to tell us you're losing your jobs. We don't need a commission to study this crisis, we need a President who will solve it - and that's the kind of President I intend to be."

Congrats to NPR for being the first one to notice this, and CBS for picking it up. That's actual journalism, folks. Research and stuff. Holding politicians accountable for their promises.

Reminder: Obama opposed the surge, then said the impact was 'relatively modest'

From a HotAir report on what Barack said back then.
Barack calling Iraq a disaster, and saying that we are not kicking ass in Iraq. He said there was a modest decline, and that it was unsustainable.

Santelli sums it all up, politely

Okay, maybe not politely.
But he's saying what I've been screaming for about 2 years now, ever since a Democratic congress passed the first TARP:



Thank you, Santelli, for not being polite about it anymore. Since the dumb idiots in office won't listen anymore, maybe you can get the point through.

Barack spent $787 Billion dollars, and then said that he couldn't cut the budget. He passed a health care bill that cost roughly a trillion, and then said that he was going to be a deficit hawk.
C'mon man.
The debt is now 2.5 Trillion more then it was when he came into office.
Stop spending.

Barack's all time gaffes

Recently, someone was telling me about what a lightweight they thought Sarah Palin was.
Of course, I challenged them to bring up examples, and of course, they blanked.

So I decided to give them examples of what a lightweight might say.

With that in mind, here are my favorite Obama gaffes of all time.

Number 6 - Isn't that special:
Barack, on Jay Leno, says that his bowling was like the Special Olympics.

Number 5 - Time to add some stars to that flag


"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

Number 4 - A Tribute to the movie "Sixth Sense"


"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."


Numger 3 - The tragedy that dwarfed 9/11 in Kansas
Of course, we all missed out on hearing about it, but Barack updated us:



“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.”

Number 2 - The main problem with the Middle East is, eh, the Middle East?

"The Middle East Is Obviously An Issue That Has Plagued The Region For Centuries"

Number 1 - It might be a challenge, but we will bring greater inefficiency

"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system"

Our president now has the power to kill the internet

I hate when my government outdoes anything that a conspiracy theorist can come up with.

A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack.

You can read more about it at the website for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Watch a drunken whore complain about the prostitute problem

Barack, telling us that "people should learn that lesson about me", that he's actually going to 'call the bluff' of people who want to reduce the deficit.

I want to play the president at Poker.

Where's the golf course?

Not gulf. Golf.
Sometimes when I read something about the president, I want to believe its not true. Like this:

When U.S. President Barack Obama stepped off his helicopter in Huntsville on Friday, the first thing he said was, “You’ve got a lot of golf courses here, don’t you?” Industry Minister Tony Clement told the National Post in an exclusive interview.

I'd like to believe that he's not that dense when it comes to his current image. But I demur.

Of course, he knew.

In Blago's trial, here in Chicago, a witness has said that Obama knew about Blagos attempts to get favors in exchange for Barack's old senate seat.

From the Chicago Sun Times:

"The president understands that the governor would be willing to make the appointment of Valerie Jarrett as long as he gets what he's asked for. . . . The governor gets the Cabinet appointment he's asked for," Harris said, explaining a recorded call.

You see, Obama wanted Valerie Jarret to have that seat. He even passed along a list of 4 senate candidates that he wanted in. Which means, at the very least, that Obama knew that a crime was being committed.
Of course.

What the left said about Patraeus, pre- June 23rd

Before June 23, 2010, this is how the left portrayed General Patreaus:

Think Progress:

Email correspondence from the Pentagon document dump reveals Gen. David Petraeus was “happy to” participate in its “puppet” TV military analyst program in 2005. The “talented” military officer was promoted by President Bush to lieutenant general in 2004, with the public mission of training Iraqi military forces.

MoveOn (via Weasel Zippers) had their ad that portrayed him as General Betray us.

Please, let's not forget the Daily Kos:

Without honor, he is not a soldier but a fraud, a scandal, a dishonest civil servant with a gun. His medals are lies - particularly and especially any medal for "valor".

I invite you to find the way that your favorite liberal website portrayed Patraeus Before June 23rd. You know, before Barack decided that Patraeus was great.

Obama Parkway

Oh man. They are already naming highways after him.

It’s official: An 800-foot stretch of Orlando road is now named “President Barack Obama Parkway.”

The City Council voted Monday to rename a short section of Mission Road between Cason Cove Drive and Conroy Road in Obama’s honor.

This, according to the Orlando Sentinal. The saddest part? Its being paid for with stimulus money, so that some day, some grandfather can tell his grandkid: "You paid for this with money that you haven't even made yet."

Employers: Health care costs to jump

But... I thought that health care was going to be cheaper?
Oh boy.
From AP:

Companies that offer employee health insurance expect another steep jump in medical costs next year, and more will ask workers to share a bigger chunk of the expense, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

Strange... that's what all of us Tea Party folks were saying. Huh.

MSNBC twinkie admits to WH talking points

No, not that she read them.
But that she's actually worked on them with the WH???
I'm hoping that at some time, someone comes forward to clarify this. I hope that at that time, it turns out to be much more innocent then it sounds:

Illegals, in Chicago, tied to gangs???

What???
Oh yeah, we all kinda knew that.
From the Sun Times:

Immigration agents and local police departments this week arrested 26 people in eight area communities in a sweep targeting illegal aliens with ties to street gangs.

Hmmm. So some of the people who want to enforce immigration laws may want to do so because of street gangs?
Who would have guessed.

Bush vs. Obama, Katrina vs. BP

According to the public policy center, Bush wins.
Our new Louisiana poll has a lot of data points to show how unhappy voters in the state are with

Barack Obama's handling of the oil spill but one perhaps sums it up better than anything else- a majority of voters there think George W. Bush did a better job with Katrina than Obama's done dealing with the spill.

Oh, hilarious.

50% of voters in the state, even including 31% of Democrats, give Bush higher marks on that question compared to 35% who pick Obama.

Thank you Democrats for at least some consistency.

"Obama Scholar"

Although not as creepy as previous videos of students praising their leader.. its still pretty creepy.

From Eyeblast Tv, via RealClear Politics: