What rotten luck. Now it looks like Hurricane Bill may blow ashore ion Martha’s Vineyard at about the same time the President touches down for his sorely needed vacation. Weather forecasters say this double onslaught of hot air is unprecedented.
What rotten luck. Now it looks like Hurricane Bill may blow ashore on Martha’s Vineyard at about the same time the President touches down for his sorely needed vacation.
Weather forecasters say this double onslaught of hot air is unprecedented.
Anthony Weiner: “Medicare has actually been a pretty successful program. It’s got some financial problems, but as far as consumers are concerned, they like it.” Some financial problems? That’s like saying the Titanic had some ice problems.
Anthony “pronounce my last name any way you want and it’s still appropriate” Weiner, the liberal Democrat congressman from New York, is a piece of work. Here are a couple quotes from a recent CNBC interview that show just how out-of-touch he is with the average American:
“Medicare has actually been a pretty successful program. It’s got some financial problems, but as far as consumers are concerned, they like it.” Some financial problems? That’s like saying the Titanic had some ice problems.
“The real question is not, in my mind, should there be a public plan? I’m not quite sure what private insurance companies are bringing to the table. $200,000,000 a year go into overhead and profit that should be going into healthcare.” You tell ’em, Tony. We certainly wouldn’t want the purity of healthcare to be tainted by the profit motive, would we?
He also said that 100 other libs will vote against any plan that doesn’t include the single payer plan. Has anyone told President Obama that he can’t be a leader if he doesn’t have any followers?
Turns out Minnesotans don’t particularly care for the guy they just elected as their senator. A mere 43% of Minnesota adults approve of his job performance, one of the lowest approval ratings ever among newly elected senators.
United States Senator Al Franken. Don't blame us, Minnesota. You voted for him.
There must be something in water in the Land of Sky Blue Waters. Something that leads them to elect lunatics like Jesse Ventura and now Al Franken.
Turns out Minnesotans don’t particularly care for the guy they just elected as their senator. The honeymoon, if there was one, was mercifully short.
United States Senator Al Franken (we still have trouble typing those words) has one of the lowest approval ratings ever among newly elected senators. A mere 43% of Minnesota adults approve of his job performance.
Franken’s not just disliked, he’s disliked across the board. Pick a group in Minnesota and they probably dislike their new senator. He can’t muster a majority among any age demographic. Homeowners dislike him. Students dislike him. Homemakers dislike him.
As HotAir.com points out, “The lesson here is that Franken is an extraordinarily weak incumbent even before he’s cast enough votes to alienate his constituents. If the GOP can make 2014 a two-candidate race, Franken should be easy to beat.”
Why would the United States government give $2 billion of your tax dollars to fund off-shore oil exploration by Brazil’s state-owned oil company, but make it virtually impossible for American companies to explore for oil here? Sarah Palin flat out nails the hypocrisy on her Facebook page.
$2 billion to help Brazil's government explore for oil, not a penny for American oil
We’re used to some strange decisions on the part of the Obama administration, but this one is a doozy.
Why would the United States government give $2 billion of your tax dollars to fund off-shore oil exploration by Brazil’s state-owned oil company, but make it virtually impossible for American companies to explore for oil here?
Sarah Palin flat out nails the hypocrisy on her Facebook page:
Today’s Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.
For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.
So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That’s all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.
Palin’s inescapable logic continues:
Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can’t say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.
Cowardly but oh-so-refined Democrat Congresswoman Betsy Markey has announced that she will schedule a series of mini-town halls with no more than 20 constituents per meeting and each attendee will receive a book on etiquette.
Betsy Markey, the ultra-refined congresswoman from Colorado
Cowardly but oh-so-refined Democrat Congresswoman Betsy Markey, who’s run out of excuses not to hold town hall meetings, has announced that she will schedule a series of mini-town halls with no more than 20 constituents per.
Apparently the little princess is so afraid that her constituents will channel their inner mob that each attendee will receive a copy of “Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” supposedly written by George Washington.
Poor, deluded Betsy. If she thinks this angry mob needs lessons in civility, perhaps she needs to recall some of the protesters who challenged President Bush. You know, the ones about whom she said not a word.
Click “next page” below to see some of the truly incivil (translation: remarkably vile) protests against President Bush. But be warned: Graphic language and nudity is par for the course. Otherwise, we’d have posted them right here on page one.
The Greatest President In History recently said that ObamaCare could end up just like the post office. That he should use the post office as a success story boggled the minds of even his supporters.
Take a number. Get in line. Shut up. We'll get to your heart attack when we're good and ready.
The Greatest President In History recently said that ObamaCare could end up just like the post office. That he should use the post office as a success story boggled the minds of even his supporters.
Ray, who frequently comments on stories here at IHateTheMedia.com, lives in Orange County, California. He sat down and dashed off this email after visiting the post office in his upper middle class planned utopia:
“Went to the post office today. Took a number. There were about 20 people in front of me. Only two windows open out of five. One person behind a kiosk to sell postal paraphernalia with no one buying. The local postmaster was out front asking people if he could help. One employee standing behind the two windows just watching (he looked totally stoned). People with lots of little packages, lots of questions, or couldn’t speak English, so each person took loads of time.
“Tempted to go “postal” and ask why they just didn’t open up more windows. Took 35 minutes of standing around before I could mail my package. Should have gone to UPS or FedEx and paid the additional charge.
“Another time I was in line at the main Irvine post office on Sand Canyon. Standing in a long line when all but two clerks decided to go on break at the same time. Then one of the remaining clerks closed her window and proceeded to change the ink cartridges in all the pens which are attached by little chains.
Hundreds of auto dealers in the New York area have withdrawn from the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, citing delays in getting reimbursed by the government, a dealership group said Wednesday.
Want to know how badly things are going for the Obama administration? Thanks to the Cars-for-Clunkers fiasco, people probably trust car dealers more than they trust the government.
Hundreds of auto dealers in the New York area have withdrawn from the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, citing delays in getting reimbursed by the government, a dealership group said Wednesday.
The Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, which represents dealerships in the New York metro area, said about half its 425 members have left the program because they cannot afford to offer more rebates. They’re also worried about getting repaid.
“(The government) needs to move the system forward and they need to start paying these dealers,” said Mark Schienberg, the group’s president. “This is a cash-dependent business.”
“Well, what’s the big deal,” the President responded. “Why don’t they just print more money like we do.”
More people died Monday in a horrible accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya than died at Chernobyl. So why hasn’t it been the lead story on every newspaper and every network newscast. Simple. Chernobyl was nuclear energy plant, which made it bad.
More people died Monday in a horrible accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya than died at Chernobyl. So why hasn’t it been the lead story on every newspaper and every network newscast?
Simple.
Chernobyl was nuclear energy plant, which made it bad. Sayano-Shushenskaya was a hydroelectric plant, which made it good. Good and renewable and green.
There’s one important lesson to be learned from this awful accident: Don’t expect consistency from an eco-wacko.
When the NASCAR’s top drivers show up for a photo op at the White House today, The One will undoubtedly attempt to convince them that he’s the sport’s number one fan. On second thought, perhaps the Obama administration does have a lot in common with them.
NASCAR may be the architect of the entire Obama administration
Who does the president think he’s kidding? He knows more about bowling than he knows about NASCAR. And he’s already demonstrated that he knows nothing about bowling.
Nevertheless, when the sport’s top drivers show up for a photo op at the White House today, The One will undoubtedly attempt to convince them that he’s the sport’s number one fan.
On second thought, perhaps the Obama administration does have a lot in common with NASCAR drivers:
They both go as fast as possible. They both consistently turn to the left. And they both crash and burn far too often.
It must be some sort of constitutional requirement that Illinois’ elected leaders be both corrupt and stupid. Jesse jackson, Jr. actually thinks the President made sense when he compared ObamaCare to the post office.
It must be some sort of constitutional requirement that Illinois’ elected leaders be both corrupt and stupid.
Jesse jackson, Jr. actually thinks the President made sense when he compared ObamaCare to the post office.
To quote a popular bumper sticker, “Where are the jobs, you lying pile of excrement?” OK, we didn’t really see that last part on a bumper sticker. But we wish we had.
Where are the jobs, Joe? Where are the jobs?
And we quote from a White House press release dated May 13, 2009:
The Vice President today submitted his first quarterly report to the President detailing progress implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The report shows early progress providing immediate financial relief for American families and jump-starting billions of dollars in job-creating projects in the first quarter, with both the pace of spending and job creation expected to accelerate significantly in the coming months.
Looking ahead, an additional 600,000 jobs are expected to be created or saved under the Recovery Act in the next 100 days and billions of dollars in contracts and grants are expected to be awarded in the coming months. The report finds that the anticipated funds are already having an effect on economic and job growth as private sector companies staff up to meet expected demand for their products under Recovery Act programs and state and local governments adjust their spending plans ahead of receiving additional Recovery Act funds.
And to quote a popular bumper sticker, “Where are the jobs, you lying pile of excrement?”
OK, we didn’t really see that last part on a bumper sticker. But we wish we had.
Brad Pitt showed up on Bill Maher’s show the other night to show the world that you don’t have to be stoned to be incoherent. He seems to have taken diametrically opposed positions on the same issue – pot.
Brad Pitt showed up on Bill Maher’s show the other night to show the world that you don’t have to be stoned to be incoherent. He seems to have taken diametrically opposed positions on the same issue – pot.
Early in the interview, Maher asks Pitt about the rumors that he’s going to run for mayor of New Orleans.
“They were asking about running for mayor, which has been a T-shirt in New Orleans,” Pitt responded, “and I said something to the extent of, ‘No religion, legalization and taxation of pot and pro-gay marriage.’ Which is basically the Bill Maher going straight to hell campaign.” (1:10 to 1:48)
Later, Maher asks Pitt why he gave up pot and the movie star replied, “I’m a dad now and you want to be alert.”
(Time: 3:51 to 5:15)
The way we understand this genius’ position, it’s OK to smoke yourself senseless up to the moment you become a father. Maybe even light up a fatty and pass it around the delivery room while you’re becoming a father.
Yup, looks this guy’s dumb enough to succeed Ray Nagin as mayor of New Orleans.
The number of Americans expecting a tax cut has fallen to 6%. During Election 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. When he was elected, 22% expected a tax cut.
Three American voters who still believe President Obama will cut their taxes
Hmmmm. How best to sum up the results of the latest research from Rasmussen Reports. How’s this?
The latest research from Rasmussen Reports seems to indicate that 6% of American voters are possibly deaf, dumb and blind. And morons. They’re likely morons, too.
Just six percent (6%) of voters nationwide now expect their own taxes to go down during the Obama years. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 42% expect their taxes to go up while 40% expect little change. Another 12% are not sure.
This is the first time since last November’s election that the number expecting a tax cut has fallen to single digits. During Election 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. When he was elected, 22% expected a tax cut. That number has been trending down ever since.
In keeping with the administration’s philosophy of never accepting the blame for anything they do wrong, Macon Phillips absolved himself of blame for the White House email snaufu and put the blame for the screw up squarely at the feet of “outside groups of all political stripes.”
What lesson can be learned form this episode? Never trust a guy who looks like that guy from SuperBad
After warning that mysterious third-party groups could have been responsible for the snafu in which White House e-mails were sent to people who never signed up for them, President Obama’s new media director decided to clear up the confusion. Personally. Right there on the WhiteHouse.gov website.
However, in keeping with the administration’s philosophy of never accepting the blame for anything they do wrong, Macon Phillips absolved himself and put the blame for the screw up squarely at the feet of “outside groups of all political stripes.”
“An ironic development is that the launch of an online program meant to provide facts about health insurance reform has itself become the target of fear-mongering and online rumors that are the tactics of choice for the defenders of the status quo,” he wrote on the official White House blog. “Despite reports by some bloggers and others in the media that have invoked a variety of sinister conspiracy theories, more people signed up for updates last week than during the entire month of July.”
Quick. Close the drapes and take cover, Macon. Those black helicopters are circling the White House again.
Fashion icon in shorts vs. ignorant Nazi whore in shorts. Michelle Obama versus Sarah Palin. Our vote goes to the ignorant Nazi whore. We’re just sayin’. What do you say?
Our vote goes to the ignorant Nazi whore. We’re just sayin’.
Turns out car dealers can’t pry money out of the federal government to pay for the clunkers they took in trade. So Democrat congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania is demanding “immediate action” from President Obama to correct the problem that Democrats themselves caused by rushing the Cash-for-Clunkers fiasco into law.
Joe Sestak paused while trying to ram ObamaCare through Congress to complain about the last program the Democrats rammed through congress
Cash-for-Clunkers is so messed up that even a liberal Democrat is calling it messed up.
Turns out car dealers can’t pry money out of the federal government to pay for the clunkers they took in trade. So Democrat congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania is demanding “immediate action” from President Obama to correct the problem that Democrats themselves caused by rushing the Cash-for-Clunkers fiasco into law.
According to Sestak, only 2% of claims have been paid and 80% of the applications have been “rejected for minor oversight.”
Auto dealers across the fruited plain are pissed that the government’s Cash-for-Clunkers reimbursement payments are taking far longer than had been promised. Sestak says those complaints aren’t isolated incidents.
One billion dollars down. Another two billion to go. Ain’t big government great?
Koko Warner, a senior U.N. researcher at the loftily-named UN University Institute for Environment & Human Society, claims 25-50 million people will be become refugees as climate change unleashes more natural disasters and slashes farm output.
"Damn it. Where's my car? I know I parked it around here somewhere."
Quick. Call Bekins. Because a whole lot of people need to move in the next 16 months.
Koko Warner, a senior U.N. researcher at the loftily-named UN University Institute for Environment & Human Society, claims 25-50 million people will be become refugees as climate change unleashes more natural disasters and slashes farm output.
The Thaindian reports Koko’s dire predictions from the heart of the subcontinent:
“Climate change will displace 25-50 million people by next year. The situation will be the worst in the poorer countries.”
The Thaindian continued:
“Most people will seek shelter in their own countries while others (will) cross borders in search of better odds.
A new Gallup Poll shows that people who call themselves conservative outnumber those who call themselves liberal. Not just in one state, not just in two states, but in all 50 states. This is what we call hope and change.
Back from the dead: It's party time for conservatives
Bad news for James Carville, the liberal pundit who predicted that Barack Obama’s election had ushered in a 40-year era of Democrat rule:
A new Gallup Poll shows that people who call themselves conservative outnumber those who call themselves liberal. That’s not just in one state, not just in two states, but in all 50 states. The conservative advantage holds true even in 30 states where Democrats lead Republicans in party identification.
We know for sure that Barbra Streisand and Alec Baldwin never left like they promised they would. But 2,000,000 other Americans did pack up and hightailed it for other countries in the last twelve months.
Maybe they're all emigrating to Hollywood. It's not just another country, it's another planet.
We know for sure that Barbra Streisand and Alec Baldwin never left like they promised they would. But 2,000,000 other Americans did pack up and hightailed it for other countries in the last twelve months.
In 2008, over two million US citizens fled the United States for greener pastures, and while this figure still represents less than 1% of the total US population, the trend is astounding. Between 2006-2008, the average number of US permanent resident filings stood at roughly 1.1 million/year, placing the legal inflow at negative 900,000 people. In a country of immigrants, the trend is emigration, not immigration.
Zack Lane, a polysci major at asked the University of Colorado Bolder not only hit the President with a tough question, but challenged him to go mano-a-mano in an Oxford-style Debate.
If you’re President Obama, you show up at a town hall event confident that your people have packed the audience with friendly faces. And then some damn college kid stands up and asks an Econ 101 question that exposes you as the fraud you are.
That’s exactly what happened at President Obama’s Town Hall Meeting in Grand Junction, Colorado when Zack Lane, a polysci major at asked the University of Colorado Bolder not only hit the President with a tough question, but challenged him to go mano-a-mano in an Oxford-style Debate.
“President Obama is making great progress on climate change. He’s changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.” – Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty
Applause please for Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.
It’s been a bad week or so for MSNBC’s grating, obnoxious host substitute Lawrence O’Donnell. A really bad week. Guest Republican Congressman John Culberson of Texas came out with all barrels blasting.
It’s been a bad week or so for MSNBC’s grating, obnoxious host substitute Lawrence O’Donnell. A really bad week.
He recently conducted what has been widely called “the worst interview in history” while filling in for Ed Schultz.
Apparently O’Donnell didn’t see the reviews, because he tried the same obnoxious, pushy tactics while filling in for Chris Matthews on Friday.
But this time the result was different. Republican Congressman John Culberson of Texas came out with all barrels blasting:
“You know, Lawrence, for your listeners, you’re illustrating why MSNBC’s viewership is in the tank. Because you don’t allow your people you’re interviewing to answer questions. And, you know, Lawrence, this is why Katie and everybody else is going to Facebook, everyone’s going to the Internet because why listen to MSNBC when you won’t even let the people you’re interviewing answer the question?”
Letting Republican congressmen make you look bad is no way to get a regular gig, Lawrence.
49 percent of Americans say they would like to see less of Obama on television, up from 36 percent who felt that way previously. We fear that the brain trust at the White House will read that 49% want to see less of Obama and interpret it to mean that 51% want to see more of him.
The results of a new Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll cannot be encouraging for The Cult of Obama:
“With the president traveling the country to discuss health care and the economy, almost half of Americans (49 percent) say they would like to see less of Obama on television, up from 36 percent who felt that way previously (3-4 March 2009).”
Unfortunately, we fear that the brain trust at the White House will read that 49% want to see less of Obama and interpret it to mean that 51% want to see more of him.
What rotten luck. Now it looks like Hurricane Bill may blow ashore on Martha’s Vineyard at about the same time the President touches down for his sorely needed vacation.
Our vote goes to the ignorant Nazi whore. We’re just sayin’.
