This commercial – aimed at independents – directly confronts the Democrat claim that Republicans are extremists.
In a year when everything is going their way, the Republicans seem to be helping themselves out by putting out much better commercials than they have in the past. Maybe they hired a new ad agency.
This commercial – aimed at independents – directly confronts the Democrat claim that Republicans are extremists.
Barney Frank knows a sinking ship when he’s on one. He actually used the word “dumb” while describing President Obama.
Portrait of a rat deserting a sinking ship
Barney Frank knows a sinking ship when he’s on one. He actually used the word “dumb” while describing President Obama.
The Hill has the money quote:
“President Obama, whom I greatly admire … when the economic recovery bill — we’re supposed to call it the ‘recovery bill,’ not the ‘stimulus’ bill; that’s what the focus groups tell us — he predicted or his aides predicted at the time that if it passed, unemployment would get under 8 percent,” Frank said Tuesday evening during an appearance on the Fox Business Network. “That was a dumb thing to do.”
It was dumb. Remarkably dumb. Perhaps even as dumb, Barney, as admitting on national television that Democrats allow focus groups to craft their message.
Two robots with surveillance, tracking, firing and voice recognition systems were integrated into a single unit, by South Korea to patrol the North Korean border.
Not just any old robots, mind you, but South Korean killer robots.
The Telegraph UK has the robotic report:
Bang! You're dead! South Korea's new high tech robot is reportedly based on an earlier American design.
Two robots with surveillance, tracking, firing and voice recognition systems were integrated into a single unit, a defence ministry spokesman said.
The 400 million won (£220,000) unit was installed last month at a guard post in the central section of the Demilitarised Zone which bisects the peninsula, Yonhap news agency said.
It quoted an unidentified military official as saying the ministry would deploy sentry robots along the world’s last Cold War frontier if the test was successful.
The robot uses heat and motion detectors to sense possible threats, and alerts command centres, Yonhap said.
If the command centre operator cannot identify possible intruders through the robot’s audio or video communications system, the operator can order it to fire its gun or 40mm automatic grenade launcher.
We’re picturing an army of these robots patrolling the Mexican border. Our version will kill jackrabbits for fuel so it can operate indefinitely. And it will have a voice chip that allows it to say, “¡Alto! Inmigración y Naturalización!
When Poor Ed began raving about Government Motors positive earnings, he surely expected a good progressive like Huffington Post’s Leo Hindery to agree. No so fast, Ed.
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz lives in some kind of alternate universe where Obama’s economic program is working.
When Poor Ed began raving about Government Motors positive earnings, he surely expected a good progressive like Huffington Post’s Leo Hindery to agree.
No so fast, Ed. Hindery quickly brought Ed back to reality.
“I love being on this show,” Hindery said. “But I’m going to push back a little bit on your accolade for GM. There will be more jobs created in Mexico by the Big Three automobile manufacturers than will be created here in the United States.”
Note the way the smile disappears from Ed’s pudgy little face.
Just when you thought Thomas Friedman and Paul Krugman had permanently retired the New York Times’ Idiot of the Year award, along comes Maureen Dowd to say something so remarkably stupid that it puts even Friedman and Krugman to shame.
Just when you thought Thomas Friedman and Paul Krugman had permanently retired the New York Times’ Idiot of the Year award, along comes Maureen Dowd to say something so remarkably stupid that it puts even Friedman and Krugman to shame.
Maureen Dowd's photo may be 20 years old, but her nonsense is brand new
Some critics have said the ultimate victory for Osama and the 9/11 hijackers would be to allow a mosque to be built near ground zero.
Actually, the ultimate victory for Osama and the 9/11 hijackers is the moral timidity that would ban a mosque from that neighborhood.
No, Maureen, you’re wrong. Very wrong. Osama’s ultimate victory would be the subjugation of every Christian, every Jew, every Hindu, every non-Muslim. Falling short of that, his back-up goal would be to slice their throats.
The ultimate victory here at IHTM would be for Maureen Dowd to use a photo on her column that was taken in the last two decades.
Uh-oh. Looks like Nancy Pelosi’s campaign to investigate those who are against the Ground Zero mosque won’t be getting any support from former DNC head Howard Dean.
Uh-oh. Looks like Nancy Pelosi’s campaign to investigate those who are against the Ground Zero mosque won’t be getting any support from former DNC head Howard Dean.
“I gotta believe there has to be a compromise here,” Dean told WABC Radio. “This isn’t about the rights of Muslims to have a worship center or Jews or Christians or anybody else to have a place to worship anywhere near Ground Zero. This is something we ought to be able to work out with people of good faith. And we have to realize that it is a real affront to people who lost their lives – including Muslims. That site doesn’t belong to an particular religion. It belongs to all Americans and all faiths. So I think a good, reasonable compromise could be worked out without violating the principal that people out to be able to worship as they see fit…I think another site might be a good idea.”
The topic was the Ground Zero mosque and Ratigan – surprise – supports the structure. He opined that New Yorkers like himself who walk past ground zero every day have no problem with the mosque.
Granted, pointing out hypocrisy on MSNBC is like shooting fish in a barrel, but sometimes it’s even easier than that. Sometimes the fish are already dead and just floating on top. Like on Monday’s Dylan Ratigan Show.
Dylan Ratigan gives Michelle Obama's resume a little "enhancement" here and there
The topic was the Ground Zero mosque and Ratigan – surprise – supports the structure. He opined that New Yorkers like himself who walk past ground zero every day have no problem with the mosque. It’s the people outside of the city, “like people from Alaska that say, ‘Oh my God, the sky is falling, the Muslims are going to kill us’ who stand against the building.”
After the cheap attempt to slag a quote on Sarah Palin for something that she never said, Ratigan offered no proof showing residents of the area agree with the building of the mosque. But this is MSNBC, where truth is irrelevant and facts are merely bothersome.
Ratigan suggested that people outside of NYC are clueless, that their opinions are uninformed and thus matter less than local residents’.
Contrast this with the same network’s coverage of Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law. Are the voices of the Arizona residents who live in danger because of elevated crime rates more relevant than the collective voices of the MSNBC hosts, all of whom stand in support of the federal government’s opposition to the Arizona law?
Will Ratigan’s network stop calling Arizonans who support the bill racists, since they live there and thus know better than outsiders?
Oooh, that was unfortunate. But in CNN’s defense, perhaps they were referring to the shit storm that’s erupted over President Obama’s contradictory comments about the mosque.
Oooh, that was unfortunate. But in CNN’s defense, perhaps they were referring to the shit storm that’s erupted over President Obama’s contradictory comments about the mosque. Or perhaps they’re referring to the shits who want to build the mosque. Or maybe the people at CNN are just a bunch of dumb shits.
Rather than trying to describe the Blow Up Barack blowup doll ourselves, let’s just go with a censored version of the product description found on the seller’s website.
This is a real product and you can buy it via the link at the bottom of this story. So rather than trying to describe it ourselves, let’s just go with a censored version of the product description found on the seller’s website:
Blow-Up Barack presidential love doll. He f**ked the economy, now you can f**k him back! He’ll batter your bush. Visit his oval orifice. He’s got a presidential-sized power tool! He’s the clear winner in this year’s presidential erection. He’s got the biggest presidential staff ever!
They left out three things:
“Like the original, it’s completely full of hot air”
“Endorsed by Barney Frank.”
And “For a small additional change, MSNBC host Chris Matthews will deliver your Barack Obama Blow-Up Love Doll and personally inflate it.”
Picture the pitch meeting. The ad agency account executive stands up and says, “Everyone knows that Sarah Palin got a lot of attention by producing a commercial about mama grizzlies. What you need to do is leverage the success of that commercial by showing that a lot of mama grizzlies oppose Palin.
Picture the pitch meeting. The ad agency account executive stands up and says, “Everyone knows that Sarah Palin got a lot of attention by producing a commercial about mama grizzlies. What you need to do is leverage the success of that commercial by showing that a lot of mama grizzlies oppose Palin. And how do we do that? By having Palin’s opponents deliver their messages while dressed up as grizzlie bears. It’s genius. Genius, I tell you.”
Now at this point, the client should have said, “That’s the worst idea I’ve ever heard.”
Instead, SarahDoesNotSpeakForMe.com produced this remarkably awful piece of crap.
It really is amazing that Nancy Pelosi represents a “safe” Democrat seat, because the woman is positively Orwellian. She thinks anyone who opposes the Ground Zero mosque should be investigated.
It really is amazing that Nancy Pelosi represents a “safe” Democrat seat, because the woman is positively Orwellian. She thinks anyone who opposes the Ground Zero mosque should be investigated.
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“There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded,” she said. “How is this being ginned up that here we are talking about Treasure Island, something we’ve been working on for decades, something of great interest to our community as we go forward to an election about the future of our country and two of the first three questions are about a zoning issue in New York City.”
Poor Nancy. After throwing trillions of tax dollars in a misguided attempt to save the economy, she seems to a bit confused by the concept of opposition that’s funded privately.
This video, produced by the Republican Study Committee, hows the remarkable contrast the philosophy of Ronald Reagan and the band of socialist bandits who now (temporarily) run the country.
Oh, my God, how we could use another Ronald Reagan right now.
This video, produced by the Republican Study Committee, which is chaired by Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, is a joy to behold.
This shows the remarkable contrast the philosophy of Ronald Reagan and the band of socialist bandits who now (temporarily) run the country.
Even a liberal stalwart like ABC’s Cokie Roberts isn’t buying Obama’s conflicting spin on his Ground Zero mosque comments. She’s not buying any of it.
Even a liberal stalwart like ABC’s Cokie Roberts isn’t buying Obama’s conflicting spin on his Ground Zero mosque comments. She’s not buying any of it.
On This Week, she said she believes President Obama “very clearly” endorsed the Ground Zero Mosque in his remarks at last week’s White House Ramadan Dinner. Then she called his clarification of those remarks “silly.”
“He’s already taken all the flak for having said it,” Roberts said. “It’s silly.”
That’s where Cokie is wrong. He hasn’t even begun to see the flak yet. And neither has his party.
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm called Rush Limbaugh “un-American” because he had the nerve to call the Chevy Volt a lemon.
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm is delusional. Completely delusional.
She went off on Rush Limbaugh yesterday, calling him “un-American” because the talk show titan had the nerve to call the Chevy Volt a lemon.
Actually, it was the New York Times that called it “General Motors Electric Lemon”, but why quibble about facts when you’re defending a $41,000 car that will only go 40 miles on a charge?
Savior-In-Chief Barack Obama mandated on Saturday that the Gulf Coast is now “open for business.” So just how “open” is it?
Savior-In-Chief Barack Obama mandated on Saturday that the Gulf Coast is now “open for business.” So just how “open” is it?
Good news! President Obama says the Gulf Coast is "Open for Business."
Well, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar still has his boot on the throats of America’s evil oil barons and offshore drilling is still illegal, so it seems that that the President may be overstating his case.
The White House should refer back to a Yahoo News story from July 27 that cites some very interesting economic predictions.
According to AFP:
A study by Louisiana State University finance professor Joseph Mason estimates the six-month moratorium, which ends in late November, would cost more than 8,000 jobs in Gulf states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Nearly 500 million dollars in wages will be wiped out by the deepwater drilling ban, as will be 2.1 billion dollars in economic activity and some 100 million dollars in state and local tax revenues.
But the impact of the moratorium would not stop there, the study warned.
At least 12,000 jobs could be lost nationwide, and with them would go around 200 million dollars in federal tax revenues.
We’re eagerly awaiting the President’s explanation of his comments. But we’re pretty sure the “business” he refers to is probably nothing more than another government-sponsored bailout program.
Just in case there’s anyone left out there who doesn’t think South Caroline senate candidate Alvin Greene is, shall we say, different, this video clip should change your mind.
Just in case there’s anyone left out there who doesn’t think South Caroline senate candidate Alvin Greene is, shall we say, different, this video clip should change your mind.
Alvin turned away a TV reporter at his front door, so the reporter began talking to his brother in the front yard. Alvin’s response? He began howling from inside the house.
“Noooooooooooooooooooo. Noooooooooooooooooo.”
Far as we’re concerned, this makes Alvin Greene a leader. He’s merely demonstrating the mournful sound so many other Democrat candidates are going to be making on the night of November 2.
Republican candidates have jumped out to a record-setting 12-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, August 15, 2010.
Tsunami alert! Tsunami alert! All Democrats should immediately move to higher ground.
Rasmussen has the ugly details:
There's a tsunami coming in November and it's going to sweep away a lot of Democrats
Republican candidates have jumped out to a record-setting 12-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, August 15, 2010. This is the biggest lead the GOP has held in over a decade of Rasmussen Reports surveying.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely Voters would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate, while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Support for Republicans is up two points from the previous week, while support for Democrats dropped three points.Republicans have led on the Generic Congressional Ballot since June of last year, and their lead hasn’t fallen below five points since the beginning of December. Three times this year, they’ve posted a 10-point lead. Prior to this survey, GOP support since June 2009 has ranged from 41% to 47%. Support for Democrats in the same period has run from 35% to 40%.
Eighty-three percent (83%) of Republicans back their party’s candidate, while 75% of Democrats support the candidate of their party. Voters not affiliated with either party prefer the GOP candidate by a 52% to 21% margin.Fifty-four percent (54%) of white voters favor the Republican, but 77% of African-Americans prefer the Democrat.
Say goodnight, Nancy. Say goodnight, Harry. Say goodnight, Barack.
Here’s lunatic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (S-Tx) sleeping like a baby during a speech by Keith Ellison (M-Mn), America’s first Muslim Congressman. Ssssssh. Don’t wake her up. She does far less damage when she’s asleep.
Here’s lunatic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (S-Tx) sleeping like a baby during a speech by Keith Ellison (M-Mn), America’s first Muslim Congressman.
Ssssssh. Don’t wake her up. She does far less damage when she’s asleep.
The latest Gallup poll. It shows that every – repeat, every – income group now gives President Obama an approval rating of less than 50%.
Gulp.
That’s the sound being heard in the White House as they review the numbers in the latest Gallup poll. It shows that every – repeat, every – income group now gives President Obama an approval rating of less than 50%. Even those making less than $2,000 per month have finally tired of the guy.
This is the first time Obama that all four income groups in Gallup’s weekly survey gave Obama less than 50 percent approval.
Imagine how heartbreaking it must be when you finally realize that Obama’s not going to pay for your house and your gasoline.
Spain’s government-backed REVE electric car and wind power project said 15 cars had been sold so far this year, in addition to one last year.
Its power source is electric, but its sales are anemic
There was an old Cold War joke about a two-man footrace staged between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. JFK won the race handily and the next day Soviet newspapers reported, “Khrushchev defeated all but one competitor in the big race, Kennedy finishes next to last.”
Consider that the inspiration for the headline on this story about sales of electric cars in Spain. The BBC reports that:
Spain’s plans to have 2,000 electric cars on the road by the end of 2010 have been dealt a blow as figures showed just 16 have been sold.
The government-backed REVE electric car and wind power project said 15 cars had been sold so far this year, in addition to one last year.
They’ve sold 16 electric cars in the whole country in two years. At this rate, Spain’s electric car owners club could hold its annual convention one good-sized, gas-guzzling SUV.
If electric car sales are this anemic in an enlightened European country like Spain, what are the odds that a big car lovin’ country like the United States will be able to meet President Obama’s goal of having 1,000,000 plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015?
There’s a rebellion brewing in state houses across the country. To paraphrase Network, people are mad as hell about illegal aliens and they aren’t going to take it anymore.
There’s a rebellion brewing in state houses across the country. To paraphrase Network, people are mad as hell about illegal aliens and they aren’t going to take it anymore.
Now Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, who’s running for governor, has proposed an anti-illegal alien law that’s even tougher than Arizona’s.
Reuters reports the anti-illegal immigration information:
Wimpy-looking guy introduces tough bill
“Florida will not be a sanctuary state for illegal aliens,” McCollum, who was accompanied by state Representative Will Synder, said in a statement that also gave details of the proposed law.
The legislation would require law enforcement officials to check a suspected illegal immigrant’s status in the course of a stop, or a violation of another law.
This goes beyond the existing situation in the state where officers are allowed to check for immigration status, but not required to.
Florida, especially its southern portion, is a major U.S. migration destination for nationals from the Caribbean and Latin America, making it a cultural and racial melting-pot.
McCollum’s office said the proposed Florida immigration legislation goes “one step further” than a similar law recently introduced in Arizona, which has triggered protests and a constitutional challenge from President Barack Obama’s administration.
The Major League Baseball Players union has protested the Arizona law and some players say they may boycott next Sumer’s all-star game in Phoenix. They may want to rethink this, because at the rate states are proposing Arizona-like laws, they may run out of places to play.
It’s always reassuring to have your beliefs validated by the masses. So IHateTheMedia.com was pretty damn happy to see this Gallup poll which proves that 3 out of 4 Americans also hate the media.
It’s always reassuring to have your beliefs validated by the masses. So IHateTheMedia.com was pretty damn happy to see this Gallup poll which proves that 3 out of 4 Americans also hate the media.
The number of Americans who have a positive opinion of First Lady Michelle Obama has fallen in the last 16 months, according to the new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
Is it her hideous sense of fashion? Her imperious attitude? Or just the fact that her last name is Obama?
Byron York reports in the Washington Examiner:
Michelle's approval rating dropped about 3% just for wearing this dress
The number of Americans who have a positive opinion of First Lady Michelle Obama has fallen in the last 16 months, according to the new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. In April, 2009, 64 percent of those surveyed by the Journal/NBC said they had a positive impression of Mrs. Obama; today, the number is 50 percent. That 50 percent personal approval is just slightly above President Obama’s personal approval figure, which stands at 46 percent in the new poll.
It’s Bush’s fault. Laura Bush, that is.
Mrs. Obama’s personal popularity is lower than former First Lady Laura Bush’s ratings in the same poll by the same pollsters. In December, 2001, 76 percent of those surveyed had a positive opinion of Mrs. Bush. In February 2005, that number was 65 percent. In October 2006, with her husband’s job and personal approval ratings plummeting, Mrs. Bush’s personal approval rating was 56 percent.
Hey, Obamas, here’s an idea. Just forget these pesky polls and go on another fancy schmancy vacation. That’ll make everyone love you again.
Kudos to CBS News, of all places. They noticed that President Obama has a tendency to say everything is a top priority. And we mean everything.
President Obama hard at work on his real top priority
Kudos to CBS News, of all places. They noticed that President Obama has a tendency to say everything is a top priority. And we mean everything.
Perhaps that’s why he’s flailing and failing. No focus.
ECONOMIC RECOVERY: “Our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American.” (6-15-10) Address to the Nation
JOB CREATION: “Creating jobs in the United States and ensuring a return to sustainable economic growth is the top priority for my Administration.” (3-11-10)
FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS: “…that’s something that’s going to be a top priority.” (4/27/10)
ENERGY SECURITY: “And that’s why my energy security plan has been one of the top priorities of my Administration since the day I took office.” (4/28/10)
EDUCATION REFORM: “To train our workers for the jobs of tomorrow, we’ve made education reform a top priority in this Administration.” (2/24/10)
STUDENT LOAN REFORM: “This is something that I’ve made a top priority.” (2/1/10)
EXPORTS BY SMALL BUSINESSES: “This is going to be a top priority.” (12/3/09)
HEALTH ASSISTANCE TO 9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS: “I’m not just talking the talk, we’ve been budgeting this as a top priority for this Administration.” (2/3/10)
END HOMELESSNESS AMONG VETERANS: “I’ve also directed (Veterans Affairs) Secretary Shinseki to focus on a top priority: reducing homeless among veterans.” (8/17/09)
HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS: “Our top priority is ensuring the public safety. That means appropriate sheltering in place or if necessary, getting as many people as possible out of harm’s way prior to landfall.” (5/29/09)
H1N1 FLU VACCINATIONS: “And throughout this process, my top priority has been the health and the safety of the American people.” (5/1/09)
SUPPORT FOR MILITARY FAMILIES: “These military families are heroes too. And they are a top priority of Michelle and me. And they will always have our support.” (5/30/09)
STRENTHENING TIES WITH CANADA AND MEXICO: “We’re going to make this a top priority…” (10/16/09)
CONSUMER PROTECTION: “During these challenging times, the needs of American consumers are a top priority of my Administration.” (2/11/09)
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: “So this is going to be a top priority generally improving our environmental quality.” (11/5/09)
Fact is, President Obama, if everything is a top priority, nothing is a top priority.
Perhaps you should follow one of the rare pieces of advice given by the IHTM Editor’s illustrious farmer father — “Pick one thing and do it well.”
One thing other than socializing the American economy, that is.
President Obama threw a big pre-Ramadan dinner at the White House on Friday night for an A-List of Muslim diplomats and supporters of terrorism.
Just because Islam has always been part of Barack Hussein Obama doesn't mean it's always been part of America
President Obama threw a big pre-Ramadan dinner at the White House on Friday night for an A-List of Muslim diplomats and supporters of terrorism. Among his wacky comments was this one:
“And here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country.”
Say what?
It may seem like an outrageous, ignorant statement until you remember that in Obama’s mind, America wasn’t really founded until 19 months ago.
You know there’s a problem when Joe Biden starts to sound like the intelligent one in this administration.
