Harry Reid has apparently turned his back on the Democrat Party and is now campaigning for Republicans. How else can you explain his very odd comments about Chris Coons, Christine O’Donnell’s Democrat opponent?
Harry Reid has apparently turned his back on the Democrat Party and is now campaigning for Republicans. How else can you explain his very odd comments about Chris Coons, Christine O’Donnell’s Democrat opponent?
The Hill reveals Harry’s devious plan to lose the Biden seat in Delaware:
Being Harry Reid's pet is bad enough, but don't let him pet you.
Reid said Coons would have won even if Rep. Mike Castle (R) had prevailed over O’Donnell.
“I’m going to be very honest with you — Chris Coons, everybody knows him in the Democratic caucus. He’s my pet. He’s my favorite candidate,” Reid said.
“Let me tell you about him: A graduate of Yale Divinity School. Yale Law School. A two-time national debate champion. He represents two-thirds of the state now, in an elected capacity. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen him or heard him speak, but he is a dynamic speaker. I don’t mean loud or long; he’s a communicator. So that’s how I feel about Delaware. I’ve always thought Chris Coons is going to win. I told him that and I tried to get him to run. I’m glad he’s running. I just think the world of him. He’s my pet.”
My pet? Reid is one “cara mia” away from sounding like Gomez Addams cooing to Morticia. Reid is one of the most reviled politicians in Washington, DC. This can’t help Coons.
The President is out there touting an electric car that uses a battery that is, all by itself, more far expensive than the average car. And this is what he uses as an example of the success of his stimulus program.
You get to attend a lot of nice parties when you’re the President. For example, President Obama traveled to Michigan the other day to get down and get funky at the opening of a high tech battery factory. Of course, he touted the factory’s products as evidence of the success of his stimulus program.
The Associated Press reports his electrifying comments:
In case you've ever wondered what a $33,000 battery looks like
“This is about the birth of an entire new industry in America, an industry that’s going to be central to the next generation of cars,” Obama said Monday in a phone call broadcast at the opening of A123 Systems Inc.’s lithium ion battery plant in Livonia, Mich.
“And it’s going to allow us to start exporting those cars, making them comfortable, convenient, and affordable. …. When folks lift up their hoods on the cars of the future, I want them to see engines and batteries that are stamped: ‘Made in America,’” Obama said, according to a transcript of the call released by the White House…
Buried waaaaaaay down in the story was this little gem:
Costs are high. The government has estimated that a battery with a 100-mile range costs about $33,000, although stimulus money could bring that down to $10,000 by the end of 2015.
Got that? The President is out there touting an electric car that uses a battery that is, all by itself, far more expensive than the average car. And this is what he uses as an example of the success of his stimulus program.
Mr. Donald Charles Unsworth of Rome, Georgia, may have assumed room temperature, but he’s still hot under the collar about what Obama’s done to his country.
Mr. Donald Charles Unsworth of Rome, Georgia, may have assumed room temperature, but he’s still hot under the collar about what Obama’s done to his country.
Of course, the dead in Chicago are still 110% behind the Democrats. And they’ll prove it in November.
You know, a life of non-stop photo shoots, fashion shows, partying and $75,000 a day vacations takes a toll on a woman. Just ask poor Michelle Obama.
You know, a life of non-stop photo shoots, fashion shows, partying and $75,000 a day vacations takes a toll on a woman. Just ask poor Michelle Obama.
The Daily Mail UK has the details of the First Lady’s life in hell:
This photo says it all: One grimaces, the other smiles
Michelle Obama thinks being America’s First Lady is ‘hell,’ Carla Bruni reveals today in a wildly indiscreet new book.
Miss Bruni reveals that Mrs Obama replied when asked about her position as the U.S. president’s wife: ‘Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!’
Details of the private conversation, which took place at the White House during an official visit by Nicolas Sarkozy last March, emerged in Carla And The Ambitious, a book written in collaboration with Miss Bruni.
We feel your pain, Michelle. So we promise to do everything we can to get you out of that job as soon as possible. And a lot of other Americans are going to join us in that effort.
Back when President Obama gave his Cairo speech (you remember, the one that ushered in a new era of warm, cordial relations with the Muslim world), he promised to ensure that Muslims could fulfill “zakat.”
Back when President Obama gave his Cairo speech (you remember, the one that ushered in a new era of warm, cordial relations with the Muslim world), he promised to ensure that Muslims could fulfill “zakat.”
The Senate Majority Leader made a grand entrance to the Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas last week in a caravan of fuel-inefficient SUVs.
Harry Reid is (a) clean, (b) green and (c) a moron.
The Senate Majority Leader made a grand entrance to the Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas last week in a caravan of fuel-inefficient SUVs.
The Detroit News has, as its name would imply, the news:
The Heartland Institute reports that while the Senate Majority Hypocrite “and other high-profile environmental activists blasted carbon-based fuels at the Reid-sponsored summit, Reid and other bigwigs were caught on film driving to and from the summit in several SUVs.”
“I was absolutely astonished, not to mention appalled, that Harry Reid would retain a fleet of gas-guzzling SUVs so that he and a few aides would not have to walk the mere 100 yards to address environmental activists,” said Heartland Institute Senior Fellow James M. Taylor, who took the attached photo. “If greenhouse gas emissions are such a problem, you would think Reid might have actually made the short stroll through the parking lot, or at least retain Priuses rather than large SUVs for the summit,” said Taylor.
Read your own words, Taylor. The man would have had to walk 100 yards. One hundred yards. Have you seen Harry Reid lately? We’re not sure the decrepit old curmudgeon could actually walk that far under his own power.
President Obama’s losing independents. He’s losing men. He’s losing Hispanics. Now he’s even losing liberal women’s rights groups because his circle of economic advisers is about as women-friendly as the Augusta National Golf Club.
President Obama’s losing independents. He’s losing men. He’s losing Hispanics. Now he’s even losing liberal women’s rights groups because his circle of economic advisers is about as women-friendly as the Augusta National Golf Club.
The Hill gives voice to these poor, unfortunate women:
President Obama has wiped the smile off Terry O'Neill's face
Women’s rights groups — including the National Organization for Women (NOW) and The New Agenda — have sharply criticized the White House for not including more women in prominent positions overseeing the economy and financial policy. The groups are pressuring the president to nominate Elizabeth Warren as the inaugural head of a new consumer financial protection office.
“It’s very disappointing. You can’t say unexpected but very disappointing that the president is content to build a boy’s club in the White House in many areas,” Amy Siskind, head of The New Agenda, said Friday after the president named Goolsbee to the job.
“The problem with the president insulating himself with the old boys around him is that he is really not getting information about how people are struggling, how women are struggling,” Terry O’Neill, head of NOW, said earlier last week.
You have to admit that the women have a point. They couldn’t screw this economy up any more than Obama’s boyfriends have.
Denish ran an attack ad featuring a New Mexico teacher, but unfortunately, her campaign people hadn’t done their homework and the commercial featured the wrong teacher.
Republican Susana Martinez is the first Hispanic woman nominated for governor in any state by either major party. She’s running against current Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish.
Denish ran an attack ad featuring a New Mexico teacher, but unfortunately, her campaign people hadn’t done their homework and the commercial featured the wrong teacher.
Turns out Martinez knew this particular teacher very well and responded with this commercial that not only made Denish look foolish, but helped Martinez tout her tough law-and-order background.
Martinez, by the way, leads Denish 48-43 in the latest Rasmussen poll.
We love “The Harry Reid Soundboard”, a funnier-than-hell website created by the Angle campaign. And it didn’t really take much work – all they had to do was collect some of the stupidest things Reid has ever said.
We like Sharon Angle, the Republican who’s running against Harry Reid. But quite honestly, Wile E. Coyote would have our vote if he were running against Harry Reid.
So, naturally, we love “The Harry Reid Soundboard”, a funnier-than-hell website created by the Angle campaign. And it didn’t really take much work – all they had to do was collect some of the stupidest things Reid has ever said.
So spend a view moments listening to Reid be Reid. Then let us know if you’d cast your vote for Angle or Reid or Coyote.
Karl Rove trashed Delaware’s new GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell on Sean Hannity’s show last night. And it’s painful to watch. No congratulations for O’Donnell, no job well done, just petulant whining and mocking from The Architect.
Karl Rove trashed Delaware’s new GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell on Sean Hannity’s show last night. And it’s painful to watch.
Rove proved he’s a member in good standing of the Official Inside the Beltway Republican Establishment. No congratulations for O’Donnell, no job well done, just petulant whining and mocking from The Architect.
Isn’t Karl Rove the architect of the Republican strategy that led directly to the election of Barack Obama?
This one’s a classic. Matthews loses it – really loses it – when MSNBC Analyst David Weigel chuckled while answering Matthews’ interminably long question.
The worse the polls get, the crazier Chris Matthews gets. Now he’s even attacking his own network’s political analysts.
This one’s a classic. Matthews loses it – really loses it – when MSNBC Analyst David Weigel (well known extreme leftist David Weigel) chuckled while answering Matthews’ interminably long question.
Near as we can tell, Weigel didn’t show the proper level of Obama adoration that the MSNBC host expected, so Matthews reamed him. He was seriously pissed. Or crazy. Take your choice.
The closer we get to November, the loonier Matthews is going to get. This should make for some good TV.
Think of it as President Obama’s Mission Accomplished moment. The moment, that is, when he announced that the American combat mission in Iraq was over thanks to his decisive leadership.
Think of it as President Obama’s Mission Accomplished moment. The moment, that is, when he announced that the American combat mission in Iraq was over thanks to his decisive leadership.
Reuters – left wing Reuters, of all places – has the details:
President Obama says combat is over in Iraq. The troops beg to differ.
U.S. Staff Sergeant Kendrick Manuel swung his rifle over his shoulder and grumbled about being viewed as a “non-combat” soldier in Iraq.
“When NBC talked about the last combat troops are gone, they made it sound like everything is basically over,” he said, after escorting a 19-truck convoy through a part of northern Iraq where roadside bombs and mortar attacks are still a danger.
“To us it was like a slap in the face, because we are still here … we are still going in harm’s way every time we leave out of the gate,” Manuel said at a U.S. military base, Camp Speicher, near Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit.
On August 31, the U.S. military formally declared an end to its combat mission in Iraq, 7-1/2 years after the invasion that removed Saddam and led to sectarian warfare and a fierce insurgency in which tens of thousands of Iraqis were killed.
More than 4,400 U.S. soldiers have been killed since 2003.
U.S. networks such as NBC showed what the U.S. military labeled the last combat brigade rumbling into Kuwait. Soldiers whooped and shouted on camera that the war was over.
Yet, there are still six brigades made up of 50,000 troops in Iraq, ahead of a full withdrawal at the end of 2011. Their focus is to assist and advise their Iraqi counterparts, not lead the fight against insurgents, but they remain heavily armed and face frequent threats.
Well, what the hell. We say cut the Obama administration a little slack on this one. It’s as close to the truth as they’ve come in many months.
Don’t let Sugar Mama find out about this. John Kerry was for tax cuts for the rich before he was against them. Flip, meet flop.
Don’t let Sugar Mama find out about this. John Kerry was for tax cuts for the rich before he was against them.
Flip, meet flop.
The New York Post has the details:
John Kerry made his money the old-fashioned way - by marrying a rich, unattractive widow
Last week, the member of the Senate Finance Committee told the Boston Globe, “Under no circumstances do I believe we should give a blanket extension to the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans — it won’t fix our economy and it will add billions to the long-term structural deficit.”
But in a late July committee meeting, Kerry said he would support a one- to two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts for the rich, if it was part of a bill that also extended middle-class cuts for a longer period, according to person familiar with the situation.
As it happens, that is precisely an idea that committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana is floating, the person said.
Kerry spokeswomen declined to comment on whether he supported a limited extension.
For them in July. Against them in September. Definitely for them again on April 15.
What the hell, Mr. President, it’s not like you’re on the campaign trail, visiting five states a day. You were in Ohio. O-H-I-O. Write it on the palm of your hand.
What the hell, Mr. President, it’s not like you’re on the campaign trail, visiting five states a day. You were in Ohio. O-H-I-O. Write it on the palm of your hand.
And when we say “stuff,” we’re not talking about their shoes and sox and Kobe Bryant jerseys. We’re talking about their junk. Their packages. Oh, what the hell, let’s not beat around the bush any more. We’re talking about their genitals.
And when we say “stuff,” we’re not talking about their shoes and sox and Kobe Bryant jerseys. We’re talking about their junk. Their packages. Oh, what the hell, let’s not beat around the bush any more. We’re talking about their genitals.
CNSnews has the details from the baloney pony express:
Rub-a-dub-dub, bud
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo voluntary HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing study received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The washing portion of the study is set to end in 2011.
“NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications,” the grant abstract states. “We propose to evaluate the feasibility of a post-coital genital hygiene study among men unwilling to be circumcised in Orange Farm, South Africa.”
Before you rush to judgment, please remember that this program created or saved 1,000,000 jobs. Maybe more.
Poor Inez Sainz. She just cannot understand why anyone on the New York Jets could possibly get a bit excited by the way she dresses. The outfit she chose for her interview with Fox News Anchor John Scott proves her point, doesn’t it? Doesn’t every woman show up for morning news interviews with her breasts on full display. Scott deserves a medal for his composure.
Poor Inez Sainz. She just cannot understand why anyone on the New York Jets could possibly get a bit excited by the way she dresses. The outfit she chose for her interview with Fox News Anchor John Scott proves her point, doesn’t it? Doesn’t every woman show up for morning news interviews with her breasts on full display. Scott deserves a medal for his composure.
You might want to play this video in full screen display.
We mentioned oxymorons in the closing line of a story the other day. One reader suggested another one. So we put together this list of the media’s 30 favorite oxymorons.
We mentioned oxymorons in the closing line of a story the other day. One reader suggested another one. So we put together this list of the media’s 30 favorite oxymorons.
Surely, there are others. Feel free to add your favorites in the comments section.
If you saw it in a movie, you’d say it was so preposterous that it was a fatal flaw in the plot. It’s just so unbelievable that it’s…well…unbelievable.
If you saw it in a movie, you’d say it was so preposterous that it was a fatal flaw in the plot. It’s just so unbelievable that it’s…well…unbelievable.
Of course, Fox News reported the story that the other networks couldn’t be bothered with:
Mexican oil, sí! American oil, no!
Despite President Obama’s moratorium on U.S. deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Export-Import Bank intends to guarantee $1 billion in loans to PEMEX, the Mexican state oil company, to bolster the company’s oil drilling in the region.
The bank, which is the official American export credit agency, loaned more than $1 billion to PEMEX in 2009 — when the company was the bank’s largest borrower — in support of its drilling activities. That year, the bank also guaranteed two loans totaling $300 million made by a commercial lender.
The latest request comes during a drilling moratorium that was first imposed by Obama in May to find out what was the cause behind the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and led to 206 million gallons of oil spewing from BP’s undersea well.
After a federal court struck down the ban amid complaints that it threatened thousands of jobs in the offshore oil industry, the Obama administration issued a new moratorium in July on most deep-water drilling activities that is in effect until Nov. 30.
The Export-Import Bank said the moratorium doesn’t affect its pending deal with PEMEX.
Here’s a knife. Stab me. Here’s a gun. Shoot me. Here’s a rope. Hang me.
Another day, another scandal for the Congressional Black Caucus. Now Sanford Bishop, a Georgia Democrat, has been accused of awarding scholarships from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to family members.
Another day, another scandal for the Congressional Black Caucus.
Now Sanford Bishop, a Georgia Democrat, has been accused of awarding scholarships from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to family members. Specifically, his stepdaughter and wife’s niece. And no one can scream racism on this one, because the details come straight from the records of the non-profit group itself.
Politico.com has the details:
Sanford Bishop wants to educate America's youth. Especially if they're his relatives.
Bishop is the second Democrat found to have funneled Congressional Black Caucus Foundation scholarship funds to relatives, threatening to turn the program into a larger political problem for the party. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) recently paid back $31,000 to the foundation for scholarships that she improperly awarded to various relatives and children of a top staffer.
Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.), chairman of the CBC Foundation, has promised an “extensive audit of the scholarship program” run by the organization.
Bishop, though, also appears to have favored family members with CBC scholarships.
In 2003, Emmaundia Whitaker, the niece of Vivian Creighton Bishop, who is Bishop’s wife, was awarded an education scholarship. She was also given a similar award in 2005.
And in 2003, Aayesha Owens Reese, the congressman’s stepdaughter, was granted an education scholarship as well.
As much as we enjoy condemning Congressman Bishop, we figure this is just the tip of the iceberg. He’s probably no more corrupt than the rest of the leeches in Congress – black, white, yellow, brown, green and purple.
There’s just too much money floating around Washington, DC. And too much temptation for these little gods to skim a little off the top for themselves.
We’re not implying that the New York Times would not recognize the truth if it bit them in their collective journalistic asses, but we are inferring it.
John Boehner takes lobbyist money equals New York Times headline. Barack Obama takes same lobbyist money equals sound of crickets.
The New York Times has boldly broken the news that “Mr. Boehner, the House minority leader and would-be speaker if Republicans win the House in November … maintains especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former aides representing some of the nation’s biggest businesses, including Goldman Sachs, Google, Citigroup, R. J. Reynolds, MillerCoors and UPS.”
What the rag fails to mention is the fact that The Most Honest and Righteous President In History also received a wee bit of help from these same groups.
According to Opensecrets.org, Obama collected a cool $994,795 from the evil Goldman Sachs, $695,132 from the nefarious J.P Morgan and a whopping $701,290 from the untrustworthy Citigroup.
According to the same website, during the 2009 – 2010 campaign cycle Boehner collected a grand total of $238,300 from Securities and Exchange and $164,000 and change from Commercial Banks. So who is tied to who exactly?
The Times also attempted some character assassination by describing Boehner as a “…a 60-year-old, perpetually tanned, sharply tailored, chain-smoking golfer.” Hey, take ten years off the age and that sounds like a certain president we know.
In regards to lobbyists, the Wall Street Journal reports that, “New campaign finance data shows that Democrats now receive far more campaign cash from lobbyists and corporate fund-raising arms than Republicans.
Lobbyists have donated twice as much to Democrats as Republicans this year -– and corporate PACs have sent 60% of their money to Democrats, according to the data.”.
We’re not implying that the New York Times would not recognize the truth if it bit them in their collective journalistic asses, but we are inferring it.
Luke Angel, a 17-year old British teenager has been banned from America for life for calling President Obama “a prick” in an email to the White House.
Barack Obama’s supporters have called him The Greatest President In History, The Most Intelligent President In History, and now they can add The Most Thin-Skinned President In History.
Luke Angel, a 17-year old British teenager has been banned from America for life for calling President Obama “a prick” in an email to the White House.
The Sun UK has the details:
17-year old Luke Angel is a bad boy. An honest bad boy.
The FBI asked local cops to tell college student Luke Angel, 17, his drunken insult was “unacceptable.”
Angel said he fired off a single email criticizing the U.S. government after seeing a TV program about the 9/11 attacks.
He said, “I don’t remember exactly what I wrote as I was drunk. But I think I called Barack Obama a p***k. It was silly — the sort of thing you do when you’re a teenager and have had a few.”
Angel, of Bedford, in central England, said it was “a bit extreme” for the FBI to act. “The police came and took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever. I don’t really care but my parents aren’t very happy.”
A Bedford Police spokesman confirmed they had spoken to Angel about the email. Officers will take no criminal action.
We say shame on Angel. He should not have called President Obama a prick. The proper terminology is socialist prick.
Just a little advice for young Luke: If you ever change your mind and decide you do want to visit the United States, no problem. Just fly to Mexico first and walk across the border illegally. President Obama will then greet you warmly, offer you free medical care, a job and citizenship.
Federal workers across the fruited plain owe more than $1 billion in back taxes. That’s bad enough. But now comes the news that congressional employees owe more than $9.3 million.
Federal workers across the fruited plain owe more than $1 billion in back taxes. That’s bad enough. But now comes the news that congressional employees owe more than $9.3 million.
The Washington Post has the deadbeat details:
A fish rots from the head down: Tax cheat Tim Geithner apparently sets the tone for all of Washington
The debt among Hill employees has risen at a faster rate than the overall tax debt on the government’s books, according to Internal Revenue Service data. It comes at a time when some Republican members are pushing for the firings of government workers who owe the IRS and President Obama has urged a crackdown on delinquent government contractors.
The IRS information does not identify delinquent taxpayers by name, party affiliation or job title and does not indicate whether members of Congress are among the scofflaws. It shows that 638 employees, or about 4 percent, of the 18,000 Hill workers owe money.
The average unpaid tax bill is $12,787 among the Senate’s delinquent taxpayers and $15,498 among those working in the House.
And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it does. Poke into any corner in Washington, DC and you’ll find deadbeats:
41 White House employees owe the government $831,055 in back taxes. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis’ runs a department in which 463 employes owe $7,481,463. Eighty-one people working for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors owe $1,076,733. And Eric Holder’s Justice Department has a remarkable 1,971 employees who have stiffed the government for $14,350,152 in overdue taxes. Janet Napolitano, Director of Homeland Security, has 4,856 employees who owe the IRS $37,012,174.
Fact is, they all owe us an apology. With penalties and interest.
Obviously, Michelle and Barack’s marriage is over. He’s left her for the only thing he loves as much as he loves himself – his Teleprompter.
Suspicions were first raised when the First Lady flew to Spain instead of celebrating the President’s birthday at home. Then, last week the media was all atwitter when Obama showed up at his press conference without his wedding ring.
Obviously, Michelle and Barack’s marriage is over. He’s left her for the only thing he loves as much as he loves himself – his Teleprompter.
No, seriously, now the guy brought his damn Teleprompter to a press conference.
We feel very badly for Riches. But in Obama’s world, anyone who disagrees with him is a radical and racist and bigot.
Jim Riches is a former deputy with the New York City Fire Department and father of a fallen 9/11 firefighter. His son Jimmy died the day before his 30th birthday.
“I am very upset, you know. I think Obama was lecturing to us yesterday, talking down to us like, you know, like everybody is a radical and a racist and a bigot.”
We feel very badly for Riches. But in Obama’s world, anyone who disagrees with him is a radical and racist and bigot.
