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Play stupid pedophile movie games and win stupid stock market prizes. We canceled Netflix this morning. Toss in the Obamas on there and Susan Rice on their board of directors and canceling is winning.

Greg Craig, ex-Obama White House counsel, indicted for alleged false statements

Greg Craig, ex-Obama White House counsel, indicted for alleged false statements. Nice to see Mueller didn’t just go after Trump people. Up next Tony Podesta?

The Washington-based lawyer was indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for allegedly falsifying and concealing “material facts” and making false statements to the DOJ National Security Division’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit, which is responsible for enforcing foreign lobbying laws.

Separately, another Mueller-referred investigation into Clinton-linked Washington insider Tony Podesta related to his overseas lobbying work is also reportedly heating up.

Barack Obama: ‘We are and always will be a nation of immigrants’

Barack Obama: ‘We are and always will be a nation of immigrants’: America has always been a nation of immirants, true enough. This fiat rule by an imperial president that answers neither to the people nor their democratically elected representatives in congress . . . that part is new.

Charles Blow: Suddenly it’s a name and not a sexual demand

Charles Blow, the New York Times columnist who seems to spend his fantasy time fellating Barack Obama, surprised the world by writing something critical about The One.

Charles Blow, the New York Times columnist who seems to spend his fantasy time fellating Barack Obama, surprised the world by writing something critical about The One.

Of course, force of habit required that he spend the first 2/3 of his column setting up the criticism by comparing Republicans to robots but then he did the unthinkable and concluded by nothing Obama’s cold, aloof robotic personality:

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Charles Blow, perhaps the most appropriately named man in the world

Blow, Charles, blow:

But one person I never thought would fall into this valley was Barack Obama, the charismatic candidate who electrified the electorate in 2008 and whom many saw as the fulfillment of the dream of the even-more-electrifying Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Yet here Obama is, down in the valley, struggling to connect with the American people and failing, increasingly coming across as dispassionate to some and outright revolting to others.

A robotic Sustainer-in-Chief with an eerie inhumanity will not satisfy.

And we know from countless previous columns that Charles likes to be satisfied by President Obama.

Source: New York Times

Can’t tell if it’s too hot outside? OSHA has an app for that.

Believe if or not, OSHA now has a new app for your smart phone that will tell you when it’s too hot outside.

We’ve always thought that many government workers were dumber than a rock, but this takes government mandated you can’t fix stupid to a whole new level.

Believe if or not, OSHA now has a new app for your smart phone that will tell you when it’s too hot outside.

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Doesn't need an app to know when it's too hot outside

But the problem is the workers have to be in the area they’re trying to measure, which means they’re already outside — and therefore already know it’s hot.

Hell, even the IHTM dog knows enough to come inside when it’s too hot outside and he’s not even a very smart dog. If you’re so friggin’ stupid that you can’t tell if it’s too hot outside or not, how do you even hold a job to begin with? Well, considering some of the bureaucrats we’ve dealt with, we retract that question.

The government already gives out free cell phones via the Safelink Wireless program. We suppose this app will be an excellent excuse for them expand that program to give out smart phones to minimum wage workers and welfare queens nationwide.

We can hear King Obama now. “Vote for me and I’ll put a smart phone in every pocket and an EBT card in every wallet.” Can you think of a better way to maximize the use of your new Obama Twitter account to send out campaign messages to those poor voters?

Note to government workers: If you’re getting wet that probably means it’s raining.

– Written by CO2Insanity

Source: Fox News

And after President Obama finished killing the economy, he killed an NBA star’s shooting percentage

Shaq’s new autobiography tells the story of how Barack Obama’s impact on the NBA has been just as impressive as his impact on the economy.

Recently retired NBA star Shaquille O’Neal has always understood the value of a good story. He’s kept fans, reporters and other players entertained for a couple decades.

shaquille-onealShaq’s new autobiography, Shaq Uncut, was just released and he tells the story of how Barack Obama’s impact on the NBA has been just as impressive as his impact on the economy:

In early March some of the guys went to the museum of Fine Arts for a fund-raiser and got to hang with President Barack Obama. Everyone was a little bit in awe. The President turns to Ray [Allen], points at Rondo, and says, “Hey, Ray, why don’t you teach this kid how to shoot?” Everyone starts laughing.

… KG told me he saw the look on Rondo’s face and the kid was devastated, embarrassed. Dissed by the President, even though I’m sure Obama didn’t mean any harm. Rondo smiled and went along with all of it, but KG told me he could see it in his eyes. It bothered Rondo. It killed him.

The next day Rondo shot the ball horribly. He stopped taking shots after that. He’s so sensitive. I think it was a real jolt to hear the outside perception of a basketball fan who happens to be the President of the United States. It messed with his mind. I’m sure of it.

Rondo’s monthly shooting percentages from November to February were 54%, 58%, 50% and 48%.

After hearing the President’s comments it dropped to 41% in March and 40% in April.

Nice work, coach.

Source: Yahoo Sports

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Yet another Obama success story at Bank of America

Yes! President Obama’s new jobs plan seems to be producing amazing results already, even though it’s still not out.

Yes! President Obama’s new jobs plan seems to be producing amazing results already, even though it’s still not out. More proof that he’s the smartest president ever! What’s the anointed one done now, you ask?

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Looks like they'll be needing less space at the Bank of America Tower

This week’s success is Bank of America, which just made the following announcement:

Bank of America Corp. is cutting 3,500 employees this quarter and working on restructuring plans that will ax several thousand more jobs, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported citing people familiar with the situation.

The reports Friday said that the job cuts at the biggest U.S. bank by assets might exceed 10,000 or about 3.5 percent of its current work force.

This must be part of the President’s new jobs stimulus plan that he’s still working on after 2 ½ years in office. We’re sure his new plan will soon produce billions, millions, thousands, hundreds, OK so 20 jobs, after he’s done partying with those rich folks he hates at Martha’s Vineyard and gives another speech about his new jobs program.

Way to go, Mr. President! Way. To. Go. With successes like your Downgrade Bus Tour, where you talked about American jobs while riding in a Canadian-built bus and the B of A job success, we should all be in soup lines in no time at all.

And that just means you’ll soon be taking credit for saving and creating all those jobs in the kitchen making the soup.

– Written by CO2Insanity

Source: My Fox LA

John Maynard Keynes died in 1946, but this story puts another nail in his coffin.

The real reason that we recovered was that once WWII was on, FDR was too distracted by it to continue to tinker with the economy.

Conventional wisdom (commonly known as “the wrong explanation”) proffers the Keynsian theory that the government deficit spending required to wage WWII stimulated the economy and eventually ended the depression of the 1930s.

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John Maynard Keynes can't help but smile while thinking, "I can't believe they bought the load of crap I was selling."

Rand Simberg presents an alternative explanation:

The real reason that we recovered was that once the war was on, FDR was too distracted by it to continue to tinker with the economy, as he had during the thirties, keeping it continually sick (much like a medieval doctor continuing to bleed a patient). He had to get arms production up and could no longer afford all of his random pet nostrums.

Had Roosevelt lived, after the war, he probably would have returned to his damaging tinkering, and in fact Truman wanted to, but the new Republican Congress that came in in 1946 wouldn’t let him, and so finally, after a decade and a half of disastrous Democrat policies, the economy finally recovered, and even boomed. But it doesn’t mean that the solution is a war, or even the “moral equivalent” of one. It means that the solution is sane government.

“Sane government” is an oxymoron. Politics is the path to power and riches for otherwise talentless people. A typical politician is like a hot air balloon: a big bag of gas with a little man underneath.

The first Great Depression ended when WWII forced FDR to get out of the economy’s way. This should be food for thought for the severly malnourished Barack Obama.

-by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Transterrestrial.com

Obama lands the coveted Fidel Castro endorsement

Poll after poll spells out bad news for President Obama’s reelection bid, but now Obama has landed the coveted Castro endorsement.

Poll after poll spells out bad news for President Obama’s reelection bid, but now the beleaguered president can breathe a giant sigh of relief thanks to some news that’s sure to reinvigorate his rabid left wing base.

Obama has landed the coveted Castro endorsement.

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Castrobama: It's tough to tell where one ends and the other begins

The Real Cuba reported:

Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban dictator Raul Castro, asked three US congressmen who are currently visiting Cuba, to support Barack Obama for a second term to allow him the “opportunity to make things better,” according to a statement posted at her website on Thursday.

Mariela Castro “expressed the view that President Obama should be excused the failures of his first term and support him for a second term, which would give him the opportunity to make things better,” said a statement from the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), which she leads, on its website www.cenesexualidad.sld.cu/

Castro also asked the three pro-Castro congressmen visiting Cuba, Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey and Sam Farr to “make a bigger effort” to obtain the freedom of the five Cuban spies who are currently in US jails.

Congratulations to President Obama! With all the bad polling news he’s heard lately, it’s reassuring to know that he still has the full support of the murderous Communist dictator.

Source: The Real Cuba

Two photos, one inescapable conclusion

July 24, 2008: Candidate Barack Obama attracts hundreds of thousands for his speech in Berlin. August 21, 2011: Not so much.

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July 24, 2008: Candidate Barack Obama attracts hundreds of thousands for his speech in Berlin

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August 21, 2011: President Barack Obama attracts dozens for his arrival at Martha’s Vineyard

Conclusion: This goose is cooked.

Racism takes a vacation (it followed Obama to Martha’s Vineyard)

One comment stated (before it mysteriously disappeared), “If he’s tanking in uber-liberal Cape Cod, he’s tanking everywhere.” Good.

If he weren’t such a dick, we could almost pity Barack Obama. All he wanted to do is take a low-profile taxpayer-paid vacation at the getaway of the rich and famous on Martha’s Vineyard and still he is subjected to the vile raaaaacist attacks which have bedevilled his promising presidency.

sharkysCapeCodOnline.com reports:

There seems to be a bit of a sea change regarding President Obama’s popularity, as judged by the offerings of businesses along Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs.

Obama said he was going to fix the sea change.

In past years, shops displayed mainly supportive stuff, like t-shirts extolling Obama’s virtues. However, this year a smirking George W. Bush t-shirt is getting laughs from window shoppers. It reads: “Miss Me Yet? How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for ya?”

A t-shirt extolling Obama’s virtues? That list would fit on the price tag. But on Martha’s Vineyard, the shoppers are laughing AT the Bush shirts, not with them, right?

Also, Sharky’s Cantina, a Mexican joint on Circuit Avenue has discontinued their Barack-O-Taco and Barack-O-Guaco (guacamole) “due to the tough economy,” according to a sign outside the restaurant. The Obamarita still survives on the drinks menu, but it has been joined by a Perry Berry Tea-ni, a martini named for the Texas governor and Republican presidential nominee.

Sure, the “tough economy”. And the Iraqis removed all of Saddam’s pictures due to a nail shortage. The Obamarita survives probably because it’s made with kool aid.

One comment stated (before it mysteriously disappeared), “If he’s tanking in uber-liberal Cape Cod, he’s tanking everywhere.” Good.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: CapeCodOnline.com

Vaya con Dios, pendejo: Obama’s support among Hispanics down to 44%

That sound you just heard is Hispanic support for Obama crashing through the floor.

That sound you just heard is Hispanic support for Obama crashing through the floor.

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Awwww, Hispanic voters are deserting Obama

CNS has details of the latest Gallup poll:

In the same week that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department was going to review the cases of 300,000 illegal aliens in deportation proceedings and allow “low priority” cases to stay in the country and receive work permits — a move House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith called a “back door amnesty” — President Barack Obama’s approval dropped to an all-time low of 44 percent among Hispanics, according to Gallup polling data released today.

That is a drop of 41 points from the spring of 2009, when Obama’s approval among Hispanic Americans peaked at 85 percent (in the weeks that ended April 26, 2009 and May 17, 2009).

Obama’s approval among Hispanics dropped 5 points last week alone, falling from 49 percent in the week that ended Aug. 14 to its new low of 44 percent in the week that ended Aug. 21.

Down 41 points? That doesn’t sound like a poll, it sounds like the halftime score at a Los Angeles Clippers game.

Source: CNS News

Facebook doesn’t like posts critical of Obama. Not at all.

Those looking to remove their data from Facebook have been provided with a rather novel solution. Just be critical of the President.

Recently poor little billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has been the target of more than a little derision and just about as much criticism. Now some of this avarice is, no doubt, the result of jealousy. After all nobody likes the fact that the geek they regularly pantsed back in middle school can now buy and sell them.

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"So, Mark, would it be too much to ask you to censor any negative comments about me?"

But an awful lot of it is legitimate.

The laundry list of Facebook problems, however, has just been shortened. Those looking to remove their data from the cyber behemoth – a task sometimes impossible in the past – have been provided with a rather novel solution. Just be critical of the President.

News Radio 550 KFYI gets a thumbs up from us for breaking this story:

Facebook said Friday it mistakenly removed a post in which Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer criticized a controversial policy decision by President Barack Obama’s administration to limit deportations of illegal immigrants.

Mistakenly? Yeah, right.

The Republican governor had said in a post Friday that Facebook censored the item she posted Thursday because it apparently violated Facebook’s community standards.

Brewer didn’t elaborate in her post, but she said Friday in an interview that an email she received from Facebook said the post was removed because of an included illustration.

The email, which she read aloud, didn’t specify how the illustration violated standards.

“I’d like to know why it happens,” she said of the removal.

Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes responded to a query by The Associated Press by saying in a brief email that Brewer’s post was removed in error and that Facebook was sorry.

Any one up for an invitation to Google+ ?

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress

Source: KFYI.com

Coming Monday, August 29: The new, improved IHateTheMedia.com 2.0

Next Monday, August 29 we will introduce IHateTheMedia.com 2.0. More stories. More snark. More focus. Quicker. Shorter. More stuff, less fluff.

We’ve been banging out this ravenous monster known as IHateTheMedia.com for two and a half years now. We got so excited about hitting 10,000,000 page views that we went off our meds and now our Attention Deficit Disorder is out of control.

We decided it’s time to shake things up, to try something different, to do the unexpected.

So next Monday, August 29 we will introduce IHateTheMedia.com 2.0. More stories. More snark. More focus. Quicker. Shorter. More stuff, less fluff.

We’re going dark this Saturday and Sunday (August 27 and 28) to work out all the bugs and then we’ll go live again on Monday morning.

Everything else will be the same. The same sense of community we’ve built up with our readers. The same trolls. The same semi-amusing commentary (on a good day). The same twisted outlook on the day’s events.

We think you’ll like it. Well, we hope like hell you like it.

Now he’s Martin Luther Obama

At a small, exclusive New York City fundraiser Thursday night… Obama compared himself and his agenda to that of Martin Luther King Jr.

James Thurber’s masterpiece “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is about a milquetoast who daydreams about doing heroic things. We mention this because, like “1984” and “Das Kapital”, it’s apparently another piece of fiction Obama seems intent on acting out.

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Barack Obama is just like Martin Luther King. Except for that "content of their character" thing

The White House Dossier relates the bizarre tale:

At a small, exclusive New York City fundraiser Thursday night… Obama compared himself and his agenda to that of Martin Luther King Jr.

“And now that King has his own memorial on the Mall I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times. There was a decade that followed the great successes of Birmingham and Selma in which he was just struggling, fighting the good fight, and scorned, and many folks angry. But what he understood, what kept him going, was that the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. But it doesn’t bend on its own. It bends because all of us are putting our hand on the arc and we are bending it in that direction. And it takes time. And it’s hard work. And there are frustrations.”

Sounds like the arc of moral universe also bends toward non-sequiturs. Or maybe a metaphor delivery truck slammed into a roadside gibberish stand.

We hate to rain on the president’s vacation, but just because someone is vilified, controversial and despairing doesn’t mean he will eventually be vindicated.

Some people are vilified for good reason and Barack Obama is one of them.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: White House Dossier

Days of whine and neuroses: Obama says things were going swimmingly until we hit a streak of bad luck

No Barry, we have the bad luck of having a fool as president and dealt with it by erecting roadblocks to his destructive agenda.

How the mighty have fallen: the man who once said he could lower oceans and heal planets now carps about “bad luck” like some busted Vegas gambler calling mom for a loan. The old saw says it’s better to be lucky than good, but you’re really screwed if you ain’t either one.

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"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! It's not my fault."
Byron York explains the latest Presidential excuses:

“We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again,” Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa.

Obama gave the zombie economy a quick fix of “Stimulus” meth, already wearing off when he dosed it with the Obamacare downer.

“But over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.” Obama [blamed] the Arab Spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crises – [for setting] the economy back.

There are uprisings and natural disasters somewhere every year. The European “bad luck” has been unfolding since Fall 2009. Their impact increased proportionally with Obama’s need for excuses.

“Now, those are things that we can’t completely control. The question is, how do we manage these challenging times and do the right things when it comes to those things that we can control?”

We could try electing people who know what the hell they’re doing.

“The problem,” Obama continued, “is that we’ve got the kind of partisan brinksmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country, that is more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win.”

No Barry, we have the bad luck of having a fool as president and dealt with it by erecting roadblocks to his destructive agenda. The problem should be rectified by 2013, with any luck.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Washington Examiner

Perception is reality: Does Obama look like a President?

It occurs to us that more people might approve of Obama as president if he actually attempted to look presidential.

President Obama plumbed the depths of Jimmy Carter popularity Sunday when Gallup measured his approval rating at just 39%.

It occurs to us that more people might approve of Obama as president if he actually attempted to look presidential. Has any occupant of the Oval Office ever done more to look unpresidential?

The only time you saw Ronald Reagan out of a suit was when he was chopping wood or riding horses at the Western White House. He never took off his suit coat while in the Oval Office.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, often seems to be auditioning for the next Abercrombie & Fitch catalog.

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Even when he’s in the Oval Office, Obama manages to look unpresidential, feet thrown up on priceless desk as if it’s a footstool in a cheap hotel.

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Police bust 30 for sex and drugs, but no rock ‘n roll at “Yes We Can” Social Club

Thirty residents of St. Louis County, Missouri – members of the Yes We Can Social Club – were busted last week for getting drunk and screwing everyone.

Thirty residents of St. Louis County, Missouri – members of the Yes We Can Social Club – were busted last week for getting drunk and screwing everyone.

How could Barack Obama’s empty slogan possibly be summed up better than that?

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Anything goes at the Yes We Can Social Club

KSDK-TV has the details:

St. Louis County police will release more information this afternoon about 30 people were taken into custody from a home in Bel-Ridge last week.

They were taken into custody shortly before midnight on August 11.

Police said they went to a home in the 8800 block of Snowhill Court to execute a search warrant for prostitution, drugs and alcohol.


According to the Missouri Secretary of State’s website, the business, Yes We Can Social Club, is run out of that home.

Based on the name Yes We Can Social Club we assume that’s where you come in with $100, you spend $150 and you have sex, but everyone else gets screwed.

Source: KSDK.com

How bad is the economy? Obama’s no longer wants a daily economic briefing.

This is the Presidential equivalent of a kid blocking out bad news by putting his hands over his ears and saying, “Blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.”

This is the Presidential equivalent of a kid blocking out bad news by putting his hands over his ears and saying, “Blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.”

President Obama’s been simultaneously abandoned by his crack team of economic advisors (otherwise known as the clowns who got us into this mess) and by his courage.

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Ahhh, the good ol' days when President Obama had a full team of so-called economic advisors

The Los Angeles Times has the details:

“When you ask about the economic team, it’s kind of like, ‘What economic team?’” said Edward Mills, a financial policy analyst with FBR Capital Markets. “They are very thin at a very critical time.”

The administration needs all the firepower it can muster, experts said. Yet the team is missing a key messenger in selling Obama’s policies. The post of chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors — an influential position — is vacant and is likely to remain so at least into the fall.

Perhaps more telling, there no longer is a formal economic briefing in the Oval Office every morning, a gathering in which Summers, Romer, Geithner and other key advisors assessed the data and batted around ideas with Obama.

We believe there was an error in the transcript. Instead of “batted around ideas” it should have read “discussed batty ideas.”

Source: Los Angeles Times

You know things aren’t going well for Obama when the Huffington Post slams his job record

Here’s a Huffington Post-produced video that attacks President Obama’s so-called laser-like focus on jobs. And a tasty little morsel it is.

You don’t have to go to the highlands of New Guinea to find contemporary cases of cannibalism. No, you simply have to go the pages of the Huffington Post, where liberals are now consuming other liberals.

For example, here’s a Huffington Post-produced video that attacks President Obama’s so-called laser-like focus on jobs.

And a tasty little morsel it is.

Obama now blaming Congress for his mess

Andy Warhol once said that someday everyone will have fame for 15 minutes. Barack Obama’s version seems to be that everyone will get blamed for 15 minutes.

Andy Warhol once said that someday everyone will have fame for 15 minutes. Barack Obama’s version seems to be that everyone will get blamed for 15 minutes. After Bush, tsunamis, earthquakes, Greeks bearing debts and Tea Parties, the Scapegoater-in-Chief pointed his nicotine-stained fingers at the Congress his party half controls.

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Make no mistake, Obama isn't upset with all of Congress

We get the story from Commentary Magazine:

President Obama blasted Congress from the road on Thursday, saying things would be worse if lawmakers returned to Washington.

“From the road” reminds us of the punk kid who used to call us names from inside his house.

“There is nothing wrong with our country,” Obama said in a speech at a Holland, Mich., plant. “There is something wrong with our politics.”

Sure, and that something is Barack Obama.

Obama did not single out Republicans or Democrats, but blasted Congress for what he said had been “the worst part of partisanship, the worst part of gridlock.”

The White House is the better part of the partisanship and gridlock.

“There are some in Congress right now who would rather see their opponents lose than America win,” Obama said. “And that’s got to stop.”

Straw men take cover, false choices incoming!

“That’s why people are frustrated,” Obama said. “Maybe you hear it in my voice. It’s why I’m frustrated. Because you deserve better.”

Barry’s frustrated because he’s not getting his way. We’re frustrated because he won’t get out of the way.

Deserve better you do, but unfortunately Obama’s president until January 2013 unless Congress can overcome stupid partisanship and gridlock and get rid of him.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Commentary

“A president that cannot control 45 backbenchers in the opposing party .. is too weak to be president”

Joe Scarborough may be a jack Republican, but he occasionally suffers flashbacks to his life before MSNBC and inexplicably sounds like a conservative. Or at least a realist.

Joe Scarborough may be a jack Republican, but he occasionally suffers flashbacks to his life before MSNBC and inexplicably sounds like a conservative. Or at least a realist.

Enjoy this moment of clarity:

Joe: A president that cannot control 45 backbenchers in the opposing Party in the House of Representatives is too weak to be President of the United States. It is that simple. Lyndon Johnson would have eaten these people up for breakfast and spit them out before lunch.
Mika: Okay. These people though are the very people that I think don’t care…
Joe: Ronald Reagan wouldn’t put up, I mean, a strong leader doesn’t put up with it.
Mika: …about…
Joe: It doesn’t matter whether they care or not. You make them irrelevant to the process if you’re strong enough to do that.

You’re forgiven if you made the mistake of thinking that an experienced community organizer would have done a better job organizing the opposition.

Testy Bob Schieffer to David Axelrod: “Is this going to be a one term presidency?”

Will wonders never cease? Bob Schieffer almost acted like a impartial journalist Monday during an interview with Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod.

Will wonders never cease? Bob Schieffer almost acted like a impartial journalist Monday during an interview with Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod.

Schieffer started by playing a three-year old clip of Obama saying that he’d be a one-term president if economic conditions are still bad three years later. In other words, now. He followed up by asking Axelrod, “Is this going to be a one-term presidency?”

Mediaite spells out that Axelrod was visibly uneasy during the back-and-forth:

Axelrod: “We are in a different place than we were the day he did that interview.”

Schieffer: “We are, things are worse than they were.”

And after Axelrod elaborated with a meandering answer, Schieffer interrupted his “extended response” and respectfully suggested he “stop talking about what the election is going to be about.” Instead Schieffer focused on what could be done now, and wondered whether he was wrong to think that nothing would get accomplished before the election. Axelrod politely informed him that yes, he was wrong, and that big things can still be accomplished. However, Schieffer’s visible skepticism and agitation with some of Axelrod’s long-winded responses suggest that Schieffer, like many Americans, may be eager for results.

Eager? Bob Schieffer eager? That’s an understatement. He’s as invested in Obama as any journalist and he sees his investment going down the drain faster than Bank of America stock.

H/T: Mediaite.com

Perlcat rants: The New York Times thinks Barry is becoming Jimmy

Frequent IHateTheMedia.com commenter and occasional contributor Perlcat once again hops up on his soapbox and vents his spleen:

Frequent IHateTheMedia.com commenter and occasional contributor Perlcat once again hops up on his soapbox and vents his spleen:

I just ran across a fascinating donk article in the New York Times that seemed worried about Barry becoming the new Jimmy.

No shit, Sherlock, in so many ways. There are just so very many great lines in this article:

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What you see is what you get: Barry has become Jimmy

Democratic lawmakers worry that the Tea Party freshmen have already ‘neutered’ the president, as one told me.

No, Moochelle already did that.

They fret that Obama is an inept negotiator.

Howling with laughter, that’s me!

More and more, 2008 looks like the tulip mania.

She means the “tulip mania” that left Holland devastated, not the nasty place Barry put his two lips on that trip.

They yearned to see the president beat the political suicide bombers over the head with the Constitution.

That would be the only possible use the “constitutional lawyer” has for it. He certainly hasn’t made himself familiar with its contents.

These paragraphs delight me:

Consider what the towel-snapping Tea Party crazies have already accomplished. They’ve changed the entire discussion. They’ve neutralized the White House. They’ve whipped their leadership into submission.

They’ve taken taxes and revenues off the table. They’ve withered the stock and bond markets. They’ve made journalists speak to them as though they’re John Calhoun and Alexander Hamilton.

Obama and John Boehner have been completely outplayed by the “hobbits,” as The Wall Street Journal and John McCain called them.

I especially love the last paragraph of the article:

What if this is all a cruel joke on us? What if the people who hate government are good at it and the people who love government are bad at it?

The essence of good government is summed up by one of their own, Thoreau: “That government is best which governs least.” So, yes, by that definition, the TEA party members are the ones best at government.

No shit, Sherlock. I never thought I’d ever read a Dowd column that wasn’t fit only to wipe my a** with.

Blind sow, meet ACORN.

Source: New York Times

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