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Why Trump leads the polls: Calls Obama “the worst president ever”

BECAUSE HE HAS THE BALLS TO SAY THING THINGS EVERYONE IS THINKING, BUT NONE OF THE OTHER COWARDLY REPUBLICANS WILL SAY!

Want to know why Donald Trump does so well in all the polls of Republican voters?

BECAUSE HE HAS THE BALLS TO SAY THING THINGS EVERYONE IS THINKING, BUT NONE OF THE OTHER COWARDLY REPUBLICANS WILL SAY!

Excuse us for screaming, but we get incredibly frustrated with the gentlemanly behavior of this year’s crop of spineless, gonadless Republicans.

Here’s Trump being Trump during an interview with Sean Hannity:

Trump: (Starting at about the 1:50 mark) He’s been a horrible president. I always said the worst president was Jimmy Carter. Guess what? Jimmy Carter goes to second place. Barack Obama has been the worst president ever. In the history of this country, Barack Obama is number one.

OF COURSE, HE’S THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY. WHY ISN’T EVERY REPUBLICAN SAYING THIS?

Excuse our screaming again.

The whole interview is worth watching, but if you only watch the segment with that quote, it’ll enough to make you scream, too.

Jameela, our officlal Muslim troll, threatens Congressman, makes national headlines

You may remember Jameela, the Muslim troll who graced us with her presence a few weeks ago. Jameela has upped her game and gone from trolling IHateTheMedia.com to threatening a United States Congressman.

You may remember Jameela, the Muslim troll who graced us with her presence a few weeks ago. She left long, rambling, vile anti-Semitic comments on countless articles until we finally banned her for boring the hell out of us.

Jameela has upped her game and gone from trolling IHateTheMedia.com to threatening a United States Congressman.

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Is Jameela, Messenger of Allah, who sent a bloody pig's foot to a Congressman, sane? In a pig's ass.

Lohud.com reports the sudden rise in Jameela’s profile:

A Georgia grandmother who says she sent state Sen. Greg Ball a Curious George monkey with a label saying it was bound for Auschwitz, cheap perfume and an anger-filled, anti-Semitic letter also laid claim Wednesday to mailing a bloody pig’s foot to Rep. Peter King of Long Island.

Jameela Barnette, a radical Muslim blogger, said Wednesday she mailed Ball a box containing the plush monkey pinned with Stars of David and the letter (which addressed Ball as “Dead Man Walking”) because he is “using Muslims to further his career.”

“I sent it to let him know I am extremely displeased for his declaration of war on Muslims, which is what I regard those hearings as,” said Barnette, a medical records consultant…

…Barnette, who has posted anti-Jewish, pro-Muslim writings on blogs and websites, said Wednesday “no one gets upset if someone burns a Quran” but everyone is offended if Jews are disparaged.

How we envy Congressman King. He got a bloody pig’s foot, but all we got was annoyed.

Source: Lohud.com

Neil Cavuto says, “It’s time to dig out.” Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson says, “It’s time to pig out.”

Cavuto says, “We’re quickly becoming a banana republic.” Johnson replies, “I love to shop at Banana Republic.”

OK, perhaps those weren’t the Democrat Congresswoman’s exact words, but our paraphrase isn’t that far off.

Cavuto says, “We’re going to hell in a hand basket.” Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson replies, “Let’s buy matching shoes.”

Neil Cavuto says, “We have to try something different.” Johnson replies, “We have to try the same thing.”

Cavuto says, “Let’s raise hell.” Johnson replies, “Let’s raise taxes.”

Cavuto says, “We’re quickly becoming a banana republic.” Johnson replies, “I love to shop at Banana Republic.”

Good lord, we’re screwed. Really, really screwed. Greece, here we come.

Gallup: Obama’s now doing poorly even among those who are doing poorly

President Barack Obama’s approval among the poorest Americans dropped to an all-time low of 48 percent last week, according to the Gallup poll.

He’s been abandoned by independents, whites, the young and the elderly, but President Obama can rest assured that he can always count on the poor.

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The poor have reached the end of the line with President Obama

Wait. Not so fast.

CNS News has the results of a new Gallup poll:

President Barack Obama’s approval among the poorest Americans dropped to an all-time low of 48 percent last week, according to the Gallup poll, leaving the president with less-than-majority approval among all income brackets reported in Gallup’s presidential approval surveys.

Each week, Gallup publishes the president’s average approval rating for the previous week among four income brackets: those who earn $2,000 per month or less, those who earn between $2,000 and $4,999 per month, those who earn between $5,000 and $7,499 per month, and those who earn $7,500 per month or more.

For the week of April 4-10, Obama’s approval rating was 48 percent among those making $2,000 or less per month, and 46 percent among those in each of the three higher income brackets.

This was only the second time in his presidency that Obama’s average weekly approval rating among the poorest Americans had dropped below 50 percent. The first time was three weeks ago—in the week of March 21-27—when his approval dropped to 49 percent among Americans who earn $2,000 per month or less.

Obama = Titanic, reality = iceburg. And you know how that story ended.

Source: Gallup via CNS News

Taliban catch & release: Is the Defense Department outsourcing the Afghan war to Fish & Game?

The Defense Department has come up with a new policy that’s sure to amuse and amaze our enemies and kill our troops. They’re treating the Taliban like trout, catching them and then releasing them.

The kinder, gentler Defense Department has come up with a new policy that’s sure to amuse and amaze our enemies and kill our troops. They’re treating the Taliban like trout, catching them and then releasing them.

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Taliban Catch and Release: Winner of the title Stupidest Policy of 2011

The Washington Examiner has the stunning story:

Several Taliban detainees who had been captured in February after being observed placing bombs in the culverts of roads used by civilians and military convoys near Kandahar were fed, given medical treatment, then released by American troops frustrated by a policy they say is forcing them to kick loose enemies who are trying to kill them.

Despite what American soldiers say was a mountain of evidence, which included a video of the men planting the bomb and chemical traces found on their hands, there was nothing the soldiers who had captured them could do but feed and care for them for 96 hours and then set them free.

Surely these were isolated incidents. It’s too insane to be policy, isn’t it? Unfortunately, no.

In another incident, members of a unit attached to 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment survived an attack by a suicide bomber on their convoy when his device failed to detonate. Soldiers managed to capture the would-be martyr, but he too was released after being held for four days.

“We put our lives on the line to capture the enemy,” a soldier with the Stryker regiment told The Washington Examiner. “Since my deployment, every insurgent we’ve captured has been released.”

International Security Assistance Forces officials contacted by The Examiner admitted that releases like these were common. The officials said ISAF forces can hold detainees for up to 96 hours, during which time detainees are “screened and a decision is made whether to release the individual, transfer them to appropriate Afghan authorities, or to the detention facility in Parwan [at Bagram Air Base].”

…American troops say the policy is a morale killer. They say the inability to hold suspected insurgents is one of the reasons why the U.S. has been unable to suppress the Taliban.

Morale killer? Our troops should consider themselves damn lucky if morale is all that gets killed as a result of this insane policy.

Just when you think this administration can’t get any crazier…

Source: Washington Examiner

Get the Led out: Rep. Thaddeus McCotter quotes Led Zeppelin in House speech

Thaddeus McCotter is, apparently, a big fan of Led Zeppelin. Is this the first time the Zep’s been quoted on the floor of the House?

Thaddeus McCotter, our favorite congressman this side of Paul Ryan, doesn’t look like a guy who’d be a big rock ‘n roller. But he plays lead guitar in the Second Amendments, a rock band composed of five current Congressmen and is, apparently, a big fan of Led Zeppelin.

Is this the first time the Zep’s been quoted on the floor of the House?

High speed trail: Texas may raise speed limit to 85 mph

A bill has been introduced into the Texas legislature that would raise the speed limit to 85 miles per hour.

Gentlemen, start your pick-up trucks. High speed rail is out in the Lone Star State, but high speed trail may be in. A bill has been introduced into the Texas legislature that would raise the speed limit to 85 miles per hour.

Please note that ABC News frames this as an anti-conservation story, not a states rights story:

Consumers will see an “increase in demand for petroleum because as we go faster our cars get a lot less fuel efficiency,” says Patrick DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com, a gas price sharing website.

The bill, introduced by Texas Rep. Lois W. Kolkhort, would make the 85 mph limit the highest in the country, according to the Dallas Morning News. A similar plan is being considered by the state Senate, according to the AP.

But first the measure, which is part of a larger transportation bill, must pass engineering testing and other studies before the Texas Department of Transportation authorizes it.

It’s almost guaranteed that the Feds are going to hate this law almost as much as they hate Arizona’s illegal alien law. Why, how dare those damn cowboys flaunt their disrespect for President Obama’s Department of Transportation.

Good luck getting your electric pick-ups up to 85 mph, buckeroos.

Source: ABC News

Tom Coburn’s blunt assessment of 2012 budget negotiations: “Send me some senators with gonads.”

In this clip syndicated radio talker Hugh Hewitt talks to Coburn about the problems he faces in 2012 budget negotiations. He’s looking for senators with balls.

In The Wizard of Oz, the scarecrow wanted a brain, the Tin Man wanted a heart and the Cowardly Lion wanted courage. In the U.S. Senate, Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn is looking for something far more difficult to find:

Senators with balls.

In this clip syndicated radio talker Hugh Hewitt talks to Coburn about the problems he faces in 2012 budget negotiations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMzZY9hMF0Y

Top 25 reasons Joe Biden fell asleep during President Obama’s deficit speech

Yup. Ol’ Joe chose what some extremist Republicans are calling an inappropriate time to catch a catnap – right in the middle of his boss’ speech on the debt and the deficit.

Yup. Ol’ Joe chose what some extremist Republicans are calling an inappropriate time to catch a catnap – right in the middle of his boss’ speech on the debt and the deficit.

But the Vice President had a really good excuse. Twenty-five of them, in fact.

  1. Up late last night trying to come up with something incredibly stupid to do while President spoke.
  2. In his dreams, the President is serious about deficit reduction.
  3. He made the mistake of counting members of the mainstream media lining up like sheep to back Obama’s plan.
  4. All those zeros… Zzzzzzeros.
  5. Hey, Gore slept through the 90s and nobody said anything about it.
  6. He was tired from a long day of making sure that only China could have coal plants.
  7. He stayed up all night trying to figure out a good comeback for that smartass at the ice cream shop.
  8. The way the government has been spending money, taking a 20-minute map is like stickin’ it to the man for $4 million.
  9. It’s the Biden Sleep Deficit plan.
  10. That’s not just a nap, that’ fucking serious sleep!
  11. “Barry told me to go ahead, take a nap, and he’ll wake me up when he needs me to add something intelligent.”
  12. Being a word genius is tiring work.
  13. Even the dimmest of bulbs need to be turned off to cool down once in a while.
  14. Up late last night making up phrases that rhyme with “Boehner.”
  15. Nice sunny day, gentle breeze from Barry’s mouth, the endless droning on and on of Barry’s speech … you do the math.
  16. His son Beau put music on Joe’s MP3 player and he fell asleep listening to the unofficial lib lullaby: Ten Years After’s I’d Love To Change The World:

    “Everywhere is freaks and hairies
    Dykes and fairies, tell me where there is sanity
    Tax the rich, feed the poor
    Till there are no rich no more

    I’d love to change the world
    But I don’t know what to do
    So I’ll leave it up to you

    And it’s somehow Bush’s fault.”

  17. Honoring those Latino citizens who made this country great by partaking in the traditional siesta!
  18. He lost a significant amount of sleep worrying over the results of Barrack’s AIDS test.
  19. The inside of Biden’s eyelids look just like the long, dark chasm that has been the Obama presidency.
  20. The anesthesia hadn’t completely worn off after an earlier trip to the hair clinic.
  21. His alien radio control implant was temporarily blocked by the lead paint in the rotunda.
  22. Late night panty raid in the Freshman dorm.
  23. He couldn’t get any coffee that morning because he didn’t have an Indian accent.
  24. Brainwashing Side Effects include: drowsiness, prolonged grinning, hair loss, and delusions of grandeur.
  25. Time for a nap – I’ve heard this all before from that peanut farmer guy … what the hell was his name? His brother made some great beer … where am I?

Contributors: Sven Waring, Perlcat, JJJRO

Good news: We now have so much money that Obama’s spending it to repair Mexican trucks

President Obama decided that the solution to the problem isn’t to ban Mexican trucks from the United States, it’s to spend American tax dollars to upgrade the Mexican trucks.

Problem number one: Thanks to the geniuses who negotiated NAFTA, Mexican trucks are allowed to deliver their payloads in the United States.

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Protest all you want, suckers, the Obama administration ain't listening

Problem number two: Mexico doesn’t have our strict pollution regulations, so its trucks spew ungodly amounts of toxic gasses.

Problem number three: President Obama decided that the solution to the problem isn’t to ban Mexican trucks from the United States, it’s to spend American tax dollars to upgrade the Mexican trucks.

Judicial Watch reports the madness:

In the latest effort to accommodate its cherished trade partner in the south, the U.S. government is paying to upgrade outdated Mexican trucks that hemorrhage illegal amounts of exhaust on their trips north to deliver merchandise.

The Mexican trucks enter the U.S. under a 17-year-old international trade pact known as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and they’ve created an air pollution crisis. The air quality in border towns has been especially impacted by the exorbitant levels of exhaust released by the Mexican trucks, which also fail to meet American safety standards.

Since the Mexican truckers have no intention of fixing the problem, Uncle Sam has stepped in to save the environment. U.S. taxpayers have picked up the cost to replace old mufflers on dozens of trucks and many more are scheduled to be upgraded by the middle of this year. The unbelievable story was reported this week by an Arizona newspaper that says replacing the old mufflers with new catalytic converters will reduce harmful diesel emissions by up to 30%.

There’s only one thing that would make this story more ludicrous: If we find out that the American government is now paying Mexican truck drivers the difference between what they would make in Mexico and what union truck drivers make in the United States.

Sadly, you wouldn’t be surprised, would you?

Source: Judicial Watch

Three months are up: Has Jerry Brown solved California’s budget crisis yet?

Last October, gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown told a crowd of leftist lunatics, “I’m not going to sign any bills until we get the budget solved and that may take me a couple of months.”

Jerrry Brown was sworn in as California governor on January 3. So it’s time to check in on the Honorable Governor Moonbeam.

Last October, gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown told a crowd of leftist lunatics, “I’m not going to sign any bills until we get the budget solved and that may take me a couple of months.”

As we said at the time, “Note that he said it may take him a couple of months. This guy’s such an economic wizard that he may just get the whole thing wrapped up in a couple weeks. With a little luck, maybe just a day or two.”

How’s that little budget problem going, Jerry? Solved it yet? What’s that? You want to raise taxes to solve the problem but can’t get the Republicans to cooperate? And you want to cut spending but can’t get the Democrats to cooperate?

Maybe you should California residents an exit fee at the Arizona, Nevada and Oregon borders as they flee the state. That should balance the budget in no time at all.

You elected him, California. You’re getting what you deserve.

http://youtu.be/ftZq6lnvH6o

Good news: Iceland’s penis museum finally gets its hands on a human specimen

We’re not sure which news is the most disturbing – the fact that Iceland has a penis museum or that someone donated their organ to it.

We’re not sure which news is the most disturbing – the fact that Iceland has a penis museum or that someone donated their organ to it.

The Associated Press has the flaccid facts:

In life, Pall Arason sought attention. In death, he is getting it: The 95-year-old Icelander’s pickled penis will be the main attraction in one of his country’s most bizarre museums.

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This is either Iceland's penis museum or Iceland's hat rack museum. We're not sure which.

Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Husavik, said Arason’s organ will help round out the unusual institution’s extensive collection of phalluses from whales, seals, bears and other mammals.

Hjartarson should be glad he lives in Iceland. If the museum were located in a warmer climate, he’d need a larger erection…uhhh…facility for his penises. Shrinkage, you know.

Highlights of the museum’s collection include a 170-centimeter (67-inch) sperm whale penis preserved in formaldehyde, lampshades made from bull testicles and what the museum described as an “unusually big” penis bone from a Canadian walrus.

Hjartarson, 69, said his interest in what he calls “phallology” began when, as a youngster in rural Iceland, he was given a whip made from a bull’s penis to help him herd cattle. Later, when he worked at a school near a whaling station, colleagues brought him whale penises as gifts.

“That was how it started. I opened this museum 15 years ago with 62 specimens,” he said. Now, with the addition of Arason’s organ, he has 276, many suspended in formaldehyde or dried and mounted on the walls.

If we’re not mistaken, this is the world’s largest collection of dicks outside of the United States Congress.

Source: Associated Press

Rand Paul invokes Ayn Rand at Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing

What’s not to like about Rand Paul? Here’s 2:56 of the newly-minted senator expressing the libertarian point of view on the nation’s idiotic new light bulb restrictions.

We admit we’re not the smartest guys in the world, which is why this thought never occurred to us until we watched this video clip. Ron Paul, a follower of Ayn Rand, obviously named his son after the libertarian philosopher and author. Duh.

What’s not to like about Rand Paul? Here’s 2:56 of the newly-minted senator expressing the libertarian point of view on the nation’s idiotic new light bulb restrictions.

“I would propose that we spend more time expanding our choices and less time banning light bulbs,” he concludes. “My amendment would make the energy efficiency standards consistent with choice and with a free society and would make them voluntary.”

Right wing extremist!!!!!!!!

Slowly they turned: Missouri’s Democrat attorney general joins lawsuit against ObamaCare

Missouri’s Democratic attorney general broke with his party on Monday and urged a federal judge to invalidate the central provision of the new health care law.

71% of the state voted against implementing ObamaCare last year. And the attorney general is running for reelection next year. Far be it from us to suggest that he jumped ship to preserve his own career, but…

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Republican turned Democrat Chris Koster felt a little ill as he watched the election results in November

The New York Times ruefully reports the story:

Missouri’s Democratic attorney general broke with his party on Monday and urged a federal judge to invalidate the central provision of the new health care law.

The filing of the brief by Attorney General Chris Koster, a onetime Republican state legislator who switched to the Democratic Party in 2007, underscores the act’s political tenuousness in a critical Midwestern swing state.

Mr. Koster’s action followed months of pressure from state Republicans that he join attorneys general from other states who are challenging the constitutionality of the law.

Rather than join the litigation, however, Mr. Koster chose to file a “friend of the court” brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, which is reviewing one of five challenges to the act that have moved into the midlevel appellate courts.

Koster felt the earthquake in November, now he’s simply trying to get out of the way before the tsunami hits.

Source: New York Times

International Monetary Fund says Obama lacks “credible strategy” to stop mounting public debt

The IMF is worried that the geniuses in the Obama administration have no rational strategy to stop our piling up public debt that may trigger another worldwide economic crisis.

When the profligate leftists at the International Monetary Fund start to worry about a nation’s economy, you know there’s a problem.

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The black hole that is the American economy

But worried they are. Worried that the geniuses in the Obama administration have no rational strategy to stop our piling up public debt and that the policies they do have may trigger another worldwide economic crisis.

Financial Times has the depressing details:

In an unusually stern rebuke to its largest shareholder, the IMF said the US was the only advanced economy to be increasing its underlying budget deficit in 2011 at a time when its economy was growing fast enough to reduce borrowing.

To meet the 2010 pledge by the Group of 20 countries for all advanced economies – except Japan – to halve their deficits by 2013, the US would need to implement tougher austerity measures than in any two-year period since records began in 1960, the IMF said. In its twice-yearly Fiscal Monitor, the IMF added that on its current plans the US would join Japan as the only country with rising public debt in 2016, creating a risk for the global economy.

Carlo Cottarelli, head of fiscal affairs at the Fund, said: “It is a risk that if it materialises would have very important consequences … for the rest of the world. So it is important that the US undertakes fiscal adjustment in a way sooner rather than later.”

The only problem with the IMF’s assessment is that it ignores the distinct possibility that the Obama administration wants to trigger another global meltdown.

No?

Source: Financial Times

Formerly well-known actress Kathleen Turner angry that Republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood

Our first thought on watching this video was, “Who?” Then we remembered when a young, slim, hot Kathleen Turner starred in movies like Body Heat and Romancing the Stone.

Our second thought was, “Wow. Get fat, lose career.”

Our third thought was, “Lay off the cigarettes, honey.”

Our fourth thought was, “We’re having trouble placing Kathleen’s accent. What country is she from?”

And our fifth and final thought was, “What’s with the hostess bimbo ending the interview with, ‘Love you’?”

But putting all that aside, turns out Kathleen Turner is very upset that those dastardly Republicans want to strip federal funding from that well-know abortion mill, Planned Parenthood. So she showed up on Good Morning America to explain what “most women in America” believe.

You’re excused now, Kathleen. Please return to obscurity.

http://youtu.be/GLFf2Dx1bRA

Harry Reid talks about how much he enjoys hearing the version of the Pledge of Allegiance that omits God

Harry Reid, Nevada’s senile Democrat Senator, really enjoys hearing the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each Senate session. Interestingly, Harry’s version doesn’t include the words “under God.”

Harry Reid, Nevada’s senile Democrat Senator, really enjoys hearing the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each Senate session. Interestingly, Harry’s version doesn’t include the words “under God.”

Senility or intentional? What’s your opinion?

http://youtu.be/as-AEdEgvlM

Bobby Ghosh and Chuck Todd: Ignorance x ignorance = another typical day at MSNBC

Turns out mainstream journalists aren’t fighting the Judeo-Christian worldview – they simply don’t have a clue what “Judeo-Christian” means.

Many people wonder why mainstream journalists seem to be at war with Western civilization. Now we have the answer. Turns out they aren’t fighting the Judeo-Christian worldview – they simply don’t have a clue what “Judeo-Christian” means.

Chuck Todd, filling in for Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball, interviewed Time Magazine’s World Editor Bobby Ghosh, who tried to make excuses for Muslim murder rampages in the wake of the Florida Koran burning by explaining that burning the Koran is more “inflammatory” than burning a Bible:

“The Bible is a book written by men. It is acknowledged by Christians that it is written by men. It’s the story of Jesus.”

Actually, only the New Testament is the story of Jesus, Bobby, and the Bible is considered the Word of God, although Christians and Jews are open-minded enough to admit physically putting the words on paper. And by the way, Bobby, the Muslims apparently agree about the Word of God thing, because they borrowed most of the Old Testament for their Koran.

“If you’re a Muslim, the Koran is directly the word of God, not written by man. It is transcribed, it is directly the word of God. That makes it sacred in a way that it’s hard to understand if you’re not Muslim. So the act of burning a Koran is much more… potentially much, much more inflammatory than than if you were to burn a … burn a Bible.”

Naturally, the brain-dead Chuck Todd enthusiastically agreed, repeatedly interjecting the phrase “Directly attacking God, uh-huh, uh-huh” while Ghosh spoke.

While it’s mind-boggling that Time’s World Editor could be this ignorant about Christianity, the religion of one third of the world’s people, and that an American MSNBC reporter could be so uneducated about his own culture, even more mind-boggling is that they used the word “inflammatory” in a discussion about burning Korans and Bibles and didn’t laugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOnsHYwkqw

– Written by J.P. Travis of JPAttitude.com

Source: Mediaite.com

Monday: Obama announces reelection bid. Thursday: Poll says only 28% say they share his political views

President Obama this week declared his intention to seek reelection, but just over one-quarter of voters say they share the same political views as the president.

On Monday, President Obama officially threw his hat in the reelection ring and it sounded suspiciously like an old joke.

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Moonbats? Zombies? Doesn't matter. Both blocs vote solidly Democrat.

Man: Ask me what makes me so funny.
Woman: What makes you …
Man: Timing.

Because on Thursday Rasmussen released a new poll that made the reelection bid seem a bit quixotic:

President Obama this week declared his intention to seek reelection, but just over one-quarter of voters say they share the same political views as the president.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 57% believe the president is more politically liberal than they are, while just nine percent (9%) say he is more conservative. Twenty-eight percent (28%) of voters say their political views are about the same as the president’s.

Of course, that’s just 28% of living voters. Democrat polls show that Obama’s political views are shared by 100% of dead voters, so he’s expected to cruise to an easy reelection victory.

Source: Rasmussen

Another reason to support Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan: Chris Matthews says it will kill half his viewers

Chris Matthews told regular guests Howard Fineman and Richard Wolffe that Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan “is going to kill half the people who watch this show.”

Here’s Chris Matthews at his spittle-spewing best. Or worst. Take your choice.

He told regular guests Howard Fineman and Richard Wolffe that Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan “is going to kill half the people who watch this show.”

That’s the best endorsement for Ryan’s plan that we’ve heard so far.

Is John Boehner flashing a subtle “V for victory” sign?

Not all conservatives agree that the budget deal was a victory for conservatives, but considering how many liberals are damn near suicidal about it, we’re willing to give Boehner the benefit of the doubt.

Not all conservatives agree that the budget deal was a victory for conservatives, but considering how many liberals are damn near suicidal about it, we’re willing to give Boehner the benefit of the doubt. At least it’s one step – albeit a small step – forward.

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Obama: “You know those things I said against raising the debt limit back when Bush was President? Never mind.”

A very John Kerry-like Barack Obama was against raising the debt limit before he was in favor of it.

A very John Kerry-like Barack Obama was against raising the debt limit before he was in favor of it. It’s all excusable, of course, because he was against it when George Bush was for it, which is like a Papal dispensation to Democrat flipfloppers.

The Associated Press tells the story of the President’s press secretary twisting himself into knots in an attempt to explain away the Presidential contradiction:

The White House says President Barack Obama regrets his vote as a senator in 2006 against raising the debt limit.

A fight over raising the debt limit is looming, and the White House is trying to explain away the apparent contradiction between Obama’s previous opposition, and his position now that it must be increased.

Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that Obama believes his vote was a mistake. He said Obama now realizes that the debt ceiling is too important to be trifled with.

Can we all accept this as an admission that he trifled with it back in 2006?

Source: Associated Press

Seeing through liberal hocus pocus: 61% say enforcing immigration laws would cut poverty

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% of Adults say if immigration laws were enforced, there would be less poverty in America.

On one hand, liberals demand that we spend more money on education because they say that is the only path out of poverty. On the other hand, they refuse to enforce border laws and allow the nation to be flooded with poor, uneducated illegal aliens. And on the other other hand, they bemoan the fact that poverty is a terrible problem.

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This is what liberals call "climbing out of poverty." It's what conservatives call "skewing the stats."

Yet somehow our morally and intellectually superior liberal cousins never see the inherent conflict between those three issues.

The good news is that the American people see the issues very clearly:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% of Adults say if immigration laws were enforced, there would be less poverty in America. Only 19% disagree with that assessment, while 20% are not sure.

The number of adults who feel there would be less poverty is up 16 points from early July 2007 when only 45% of Americans felt that way. At that time, 32% disagreed.

Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans and 58% of adults not affiliated with either political party feel there would be less poverty if immigration laws were enforced, a view shared by just 48% of Democrats.

… Despite the billions of dollars spent on government anti-poverty programs, a majority of Americans nationwide still believe there are more poor people in the country today than there were 10 years ago. In fact, a plurality (45%) of adults thinks the current government anti-poverty programs actually increase poverty in America.

A majority of Likely U.S. Voters feel that the policies and practices of the federal government encourage illegal immigration. Most voters continue to favor strong sanctions on employers who hire illegal immigrants and landlords who rent to them. Voters also feel strongly that police should check the immigration status of drivers during routine traffic stops.

Fifty percent (50%) of adults say it’s too easy to qualify for welfare in the United States. At the same time, 41% of Americans think it’s too easy to get food stamps in this country now.

Obviously, if you remove 20,000,000 illegal aliens from the poverty rolls in the United States, the stats start to look a lot different and liberal positions on poverty, education, crime and welfare quickly begin falling apart.

Congratulations to Rasmussen for asking the question liberals don’t want asked to the American people for seeing through years of liberal hypocrisy.

Source: Rasmussen

Osama the Grouch: U.S. to spend $20 million on Pakistani version of Sesame Street

On the same day that Congress agreed to cut $39 billion in spending in an attempt to stave off national bankruptcy, it was announced that we would spend $20 million of your tax dollars to produce a Pakistani version of Sesame Street.

On the same day that Congress agreed to cut $39 billion in spending in an attempt to stave off national bankruptcy, it was announced that we would spend $20 million of your tax dollars to produce a Pakistani version of Sesame Street.

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Your tax dollars at work: $20 million to produce Sesame Street in Pakistan

How do you say WTF in Urdu?

The BBC has the details:

In a new effort to win hearts and minds in Pakistan, USAID — the development arm of the US government — is donating $20m (£12m) to the country to create a local Urdu version of the show.

The project aims to boost education in Pakistan, where many children have no access to regular schooling.

The show is to be filmed in Lahore and aired later in the year.

“The programme is part of a series of ventures that is aimed at developing the educational infrastructure in the country,” Virginia Morgan, a spokesperson for USAID, told the BBC.

“Education is one of the vital sectors that need help in Pakistan.”

The show will be set in a village in Pakistan — rather than the streets of New York — with roadside tea shop and residents sitting on their verandas.

The remake will star a puppet called Rani, the six-year-old daughter of a peasant farmer, with pigtails and a school uniform, according to Britain’s Guardian newspaper.

We can’t wait to see the hilarious antics of Osama the Grouch, The Zionist Cookie Monster, Bert & Emir, and Kermit the Suicide Bomber.

Source: BBC

Alec Baldwin frets: The financial crisis has “crippled” Obama and kept him from “doing any new spending”

You won’t believe this one. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) invited Alec Baldwin to Washington, DC to talk about campaign finance reform.

You won’t believe this one. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) invited Alec Baldwin to Washington, DC to talk about campaign finance reform. (Unbeknownst to us, the actor has apparently developed an expertise on that subject in between screaming at his young daughter and shooting a ratings-challenged sitcom.)

Baldwin was asked if President Obama has lived up to his expectations. That’s when we learned that poor ol’ Obama just hasn’t been able to spend enough money.

CNS News reports Baldwin’s bizarre theory:

“Well, I mean, I think so because I think that when you come into office and you want to put your mark on things — this is just my opinion, when you want to put your mark on things, you want to be able to spend. And what’s crippled Obama’s administration, as far as I’m concerned, is the financial crisis and it’s prevented him from doing any new spending,” said Baldwin, who publicly supported Obama in the 2008 Presidential election.

“He’s not able –- if the country was as flush as it was under Bill Clinton and he had money — these things cost money — he could have made more of a mark,” said Baldwin. “I think right now he’s had to do a lot of counter-punching; a lot of back peddling. He inherited this crisis from Bush and Paulson. He had to extend the TARP. I think it’s been very difficult for him to spend his whole first term trying to, you know, correct our course financially. I think a second term of Obama, we’ll see a lot more of what we want to see from him.”

Obama and Baldwin are perfect together. One can’t speak without a Teleprompter, the other shouldn’t speak without a script.

Source: CNS News

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