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Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, 44th president of the United States — socialist, radical, and enemy of Americans who believe in the constitution. Here are hundreds of articles on this man.

Jack Cafferty looks into Obama’s future. It ain’t pretty.

Jack Cafferty has a couple major screws loose. But this is interesting because the CNN-er has turned increasingly hostile to President Obama in the last few months.

Don’t get us wrong. We think Jack Cafferty has a couple major screws loose. But this is interesting because the CNN-er has turned increasingly hostile to President Obama in the last few months.

NewsBusters.org reports Cafferty’s look into the crystal ball:

Cafferty: President Obama is taking a lot for granted. Politico is reporting that top White House advisers are quietly working on plans for the 2012 reelection campaign. For now, the planning is made up of private closed door meetings among aides at all levels.

I guess when you have the economy and health care reform and the deficits under control, then you can spend your time worrying about the next election — even if it’s almost three years away.

The article’s sources say the president has given every sign he plans to run again, wants the next campaign to look a lot like the last one.

Well, my guess is it won’t turn out quite the same way.

It’s believed the re-election campaign would be managed by the White House deputy chief of staff, Jim Messina, and possibly be run out of Chicago, which is a good way to remove it from beltway politics and locate it, instead, in that bastion of good government.

The planning still in its early stages, but some say it would likely launch in about a year. Nonetheless, there’s still a long way to go. President Obama’s approval rating hovering at around 50 percent. And a majority of Americans say he doesn’t deserve to be re- elected. The American people were promised change and a lot of them think this administration is just more of the same.

And if the jobs don’t start coming back soon, well, he may want to see if that community organizer job is still open.

From ashes to ashes, from dust to dust, from community organizer to community organizer.

The circle of life. And death panels.

Source: NewsBusters.org

John Boehner sums up ObamaCare for the President

Republican House leader John Boehner summed Obamacare it all up for the President prior to this morning’s much-anticipated Healthcare Summit.

To paraphrase John Boehner, "Now wait just a darn minute, Mr. President."

Republican House leader John Boehner summed it all up for the President prior to this morning’s much-anticipated (hey, Katie Couric described it that way, so it must be true) Healthcare Summit:

Opinion: Who’s Listening to the American People?

For his part, President Obama comes to the table with the same massive government takeover of health care that the American people have already rejected. In effect, the president’s proposal actually takes the 2,733-page bill that the Senate passed on Christmas Eve and manages to make it worse. Even more Medicare cuts. Even more tax hikes. Plenty of special-interest deals still in place. A trillion-dollar price tag.

This latest Democrats-only backroom deal snuffed out any chance that this summit could serve as the starting point for a bipartisan consensus. Democrats are instead hoping that this media event can be the gateway to a final push that involves circumventing the will of the people and jamming a bill through using parliamentary tricks.

This is the same arrogance and overreaching that the American people are so fed up with. It’s why Massachusetts happened. It’s why Americans waited for hours in the August heat to get into town hall meetings and make sure their voices were heard.

Indeed, we’ve been here before. Shortly after Labor Day, the president gave an address to Congress designed to resuscitate his proposed government takeover of health care. That speech was followed by an all-out media blitz. It was described as a “last-ditch effort,” “an opportunity to take back the initiative.” Nearly six months later, still no health care bill has been signed into law, tens of thousands more have lost their jobs and unemployment is still near 10 percent.

All this uncertainty is hurting small businesses, the engine of job creation in our country, while Americans are rightly asking: “Where are the jobs?”
The president’s health care media blitz was based on the notion that the more the American people learn about his plan, the more they would come to like it. Now that just the opposite has occurred, the president has chosen to limit participation in the Thursday summit to administration officials and congressional leaders. America’s governors and state legislatures have been excluded. Their perspective from the front lines about the damage this massive government takeover of health care would do to cash-strapped states is apparently not welcome. That’s greatly disappointing, considering that measures have been introduced in at least 36 state legislatures opting out of a federal takeover of health care.

Also excluded from today’s summit is Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., co-author of a House-passed amendment barring federal funding of abortion. The Stupak-Pitts amendment — which reflects the will of the American people on the issue of federal funding of abortion — is supported by a bipartisan majority in the House, but was excluded from the president’s proposal. Pro-life Democrats in the House have already pledged to vote against this provision. Health care reform should be an opportunity to protect human life — not end it. This fundamental issue isn’t even listed as a topic for discussion at the summit.

The president can hold all the summits he wants, but the toothpaste is out of the tube: The American people don’t want this massive government takeover of health care. No summit or speech or sales pitch can fix a fundamentally flawed 2,000-plus-page health care bill that spends money we don’t have and kills the jobs we need to get our economy moving again.

Let’s listen to the American people and let’s start over.

Any questions, President Obama?

Source: AOL News

Obama was opposed to passing the buck before he was in favor of it

During the presidential campaign, Candidate Obama condemned John McCain for saying he would appoint a commission to solve the deficit problem. Oops. Now President Obama is all in favor of, you guessed it, appointing a commission to solve the deficit problem.

During the presidential campaign, Candidate Obama condemned John McCain for saying he would appoint a commission to solve the deficit problem. Oops. Now President Obama is all in favor of, you guessed it, appointing a commission to solve the deficit problem.

Olympic committee takes back American skier Lindsey Vonn’s gold medal

The International Olympic Committee announced Monday that it has taken back the gold medal previously awarded to American skier Lindsey Vonn and given it to U.S. President Barack Obama.

The International Olympic Committee announced Monday that it has taken back the gold medal previously awarded to American skier Lindsey Vonn and given it to U.S. President Barack Obama.

Olympic officials said Obama deserved the medal more than Vonn because no one has ever gone downhill faster than he has.

When Harry met Barry: No wonder these guys want “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Obama and Reid plan to cling to each other through the storm. The two politicians will be by each other’s side at three events in less than 24 hours.

Have you ever seen The Tao of Steve? Apparently Harry Reid has. The film’s protagonist lives by a strict set of rules that enhance his potential for sexual conquests.

The first rule is “Women can smell an agenda.” In other words, by pretending you’re not buying what they’re selling, they’re yours. For example, maybe you could disagree with something they say.

Hmm. Politico reports:

Obama irked Reid when for the second time he used Las Vegas to highlight poor economic decisions, saying, “You don’t blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.” Reid fired back, telling Obama to “lay off Las Vegas.”

The second rule is to do something great, “thus demonstrating your…worthiness.”

At times Obama questioned Reid’s approach, but he ultimately trusted that he knew his caucus better than the president did. And Reid ultimately got the job done, passing a health care bill in a dramatic Christmas Eve vote hours before Obama jetted off to Hawaii with his family for the holidays.

And the third rule is “play hard to get.” So it’s not surprising that we would find Obama

…blindsided last week by Reid’s decision to abort a bipartisan jobs bill…

So just how effective is the message of “The Tao of Steve?” According to Politico:

Obama and Reid plan to cling to each other through the storm.

The two politicians will be by each other’s side at three events in less than 24 hours.

Cling all you want, gentlemen. It’s a don’t-ask-don’t-tell-world and in the immortal words of Sgt Shultz, we zee nozhing.

Source: Politico.com

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O’Reilly: “Is Obama a socialist?”
Newt: “Of course, he is.”

Bill O’Reilly seems absolutely dumbfounded by the answer to the question he asked Newt Gingrich: Is Obama a socialist?

Our moms always said, ”Don’t ask the question if you can’t handle the answer.” Maybe Bill O’Reilly should have followed that advice, because he seems absolutely dumbfounded by the answer to the question he asked Newt Gingrich.

O’Reilly: So the question becomes, “Is the president a socialist?” Let’s remember the definition of socialism that the government controls property and commerce. Does Mr. Obama want to seize your house? I say no others say yes but there’s no question the president wants income redistribution and more government control over things like health care… Talking Points believes the fed should have some oversight on health care companies but the price can be driven down if the companies are allowed to compete nationwide. Why doesn’t the president try that before he sets up another big brother operation in Washington? Look these things are complicated. To call Obama a socialist or communist is over-simplifying. Americans need healthcare relief. There’s no question about it. But, it can be done using competition in the free market place and common sense like tort reform where lawsuits against medical personnel are scrutinized. As we said last week, name-calling gets us nowhere. Good solutions to complicated problems will rule the day. Or, am I wrong? And, that’s a memo and now for the top story, joining us from Washington FOX News analyst Newt Gingrich. He has a free newsletter that you can sign up for at Newt.org. So do you think President Obama’s a socialist?

Gingrich: Sure. Of course he is.

Why are we not surprised that O’Reilly is surprised at Newt’s answer?

Source: Gateway Pundit

Obama and Democrats condemned reconciliation in 2005 when Republicans threatened to use it

First, here’s a 2005 video in which Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid says Republicans should stop complaining about the Democrats’ plan to force ObamaCare into law via the reconciliation process. Now here’s another video recorded this week in which poor old feeble-minded Harry doesn’t seem to remember what he and his cohorts said way back to 2005. If you haven’t time to watch it nor read the transcript, let us summarize it for you.

First, here’s a 2005 video in which Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid says Republicans should stop complaining about the Democrats’ plan to force ObamaCare into law via the reconciliation process.

Now here’s another video recorded this week in which poor old feeble-minded Harry doesn’t seem to remember what he and his cohorts said way back to 2005. If you haven’t time to watch it nor read the transcript, let us summarize it for you.

“Waaaaaaaaaa! Waaaaaaaaa!”

Looks like the Dems didn’t like the concept of the nuclear option until they and their lackeys in the media gave it the kinder, gentler name of reconciliation.Obama: He hasn’t gotten his way. And that is now prompting, you know, a change in the Senate rules that really, I think, would change the character of the Senate forever. And what I worry about would be that essentially you have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the Founders intended.

Hillary: So this President has come to the majority here in the Senate and basically said, “Change the rules. Do it the way I want it done.” And I guess there just weren’t very many voices on the other side of the aisle that acted the way previous generations have acted and said, “Mr. President, we’re with you, we support you, but that’s a bridge too far. We can’t go there. You have to restrain yourself, Mr. President.”

Schumer: We are on the precipice of a crisis. A constitutional crisis. The checks and balances which have been at the core of this republic are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances which say that if you get fifty-one percent of the vote you don’t get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing. It is almost a temper tantrum.

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Ax not what your country can do for you, ax what you can do for your country.

“Just be specific on some things we’re looking to do this year,” Obama said. “First, as a condition for receiving access to Title 1 funds, we will ‘ax’ all states to put in place a….”

Looks like Harry Reid was wrong. Obama does have a negro dialect.

“Just be specific on some things we’re looking to do this year,” Obama said. “First, as a condition for receiving access to Title 1 funds, we will ‘ax’ all states to put in place a….”

We watched it five times. He really does say “ax.”

Juan Williams predicts Obama landslide. Is he insane or clairvoyant?

Really? Well, the Presidential election is still two-and-a-half years away. Maybe Obama will be able to turn on the charm, mouth those platitudes again and win re-election. But right now, Juan Williams prediction sounds a bit…shall we say…crazy.

Really? Well, the Presidential election is still two-and-a-half years away. Maybe Obama will be able to turn on the charm, mouth those platitudes again and win re-election. But right now, Juan Williams prediction sounds a bit…shall we say…crazy.

There’s a sucker born every minute

P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” In appears that he underestimated it, because there were 69,456,897 suckers born back on November 4, 2008.

However, after one miserable year in office, you may now consider this sucker officially licked.

P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” In appears that he underestimated it, because there were 69,456,897 suckers born back on November 4, 2008.

However, after one miserable year in office, you may now consider this sucker officially licked.

Obama treats the Dalai Lama like garbage

President Obama actually made the Dalai Lama leave through the back door of the White House in hopes the Chinese wouldn’t notice. Now the Dalai Lama knows how Monica Lewinsky felt.

President Obama actually made the Dalai Lama leave through the back door of the White House in hopes the Chinese wouldn’t notice.

Now the Dalai Lama knows how Monica Lewinsky felt.

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Barack Obama’s closest living relative is a conservative blogger and physician. And he doesn’t like ObamaCare.

Irony of ironies. The president’s closest living relative, other than his sister, is Dr. Milton R. Wolf. He’s Obama’s second cousin, a physican, a conservative and a blogger. Cousin Barack will not like his opinion of ObamaCare.

Dr. Milton R. Wolf, America’s second black president’s white second cousin

Irony of ironies. The president’s closest living relative, other than his sister, is Dr. Milton R. Wolf. He’s Obama’s second cousin, a physican, a conservative and a blogger.

Cousin Barack will not like his opinion of ObamaCare:

Our nation laid to rest this week Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha whose death was the result of a surgical error at a government-run hospital. In the same week of this ill-fated surgery, Canadian Premier Danny Williams escaped the clutches of his nation’s socialized medicine system to seek heart surgery in the United States.

These episodes, while anecdotal, underscore the distinction between free-market and government-run health care. And we need look no further than our own country to see both. Fourteen years into my medical career, I have worked and trained in both the free-market and government run sectors of our health care system. I’ve been in the trenches. I’ve seen lives saved. And lost.

Entering a Veteran’s Administration Hospital is a rite of passage for most medical students. It’s a different world. Gurneys in hallways, crowded multiple occupancy patient rooms, waiting lists, nursing shortages, paperwork … these are the norm. Gone are the niceties of most hospitals and, too often, so is the compassion.

There was a running joke during my training days that all the code blue’s of the VA occurred at 7 AM which was the worst possible time for a frantic medical student already trying desperately to finish an endless list of tasks before morning rounds. Why 7 AM? Because an unattended patient — an American war veteran — died quietly sometime earlier in the night and 7 AM is when the poor tech assigned to the morning blood draws would come across the remains. “Cold codes” we called them. These were exercises in futility whose only purpose was to allow a system to pretend that what had just happened hadn’t.

Our veterans deserve better. My patients deserve better. And so do you. There’s a reason why veterans with means will avoid the VA system just as seniors with means will avoid Medicare. The free-market medical care is simply better. So instead of expanding the government-run portions of our health care system, we should be doing exactly the opposite. We should embrace free-market reforms that will abolish junk lawsuits, rein in government insurance commissioners and allow patients to become empowered consumers.

President Barack Obama may be my cousin, but I consider standing in opposition to ObamaCare to be a call to duty. And while it is this assault on America’s health care that has forced me from the sideline to join the fight, I recognize that health care is but one arena where our liberties are under assault by this administration and others.

Nice to see that socialism doesn’t run very deep in the Obama gene pool.

Check out the good doctor’s website.

Source: Wolf Files

Obama blows $1.5 billion in Vegas after telling you not to blow your money in Vegas

Sure, those states are hard hit. But Obama announced his largesse in Las Vegas was to help the hardest hit of all, poll-challenged Nevada Senator Harry Reid.

Last week President Obama warned Americans not to spend money like the federal government does. Specifically, don’t go to Las Vegas and bet it all on one spin of the roulette wheel.

Then this week he traveled to Las Vegas and said, “We’re going to spend another $1.5 billion on another wacky liberal scheme to save your house. And by the way, vote for Harry Reid.” OK, perhaps that’s not an exact quote, but it’s a reasonable approximation.

Obama’s move, detailed by aides in advance of his town hall here Friday, is the latest by a White House determined to show it is helping families rebound from a deep recession. The downturn is taking an election-year toll on Obama’s party as voter frustration builds.

Obama was to announce that housing finance agencies in the five hardest-hit states in the housing crisis will receive $1.5 billion to help spur local solutions to the problem. Those five are Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan and Nevada.

Sure, those states are hard hit. But Obama announced his largesse in Las Vegas was to help the hardest hit of all, poll-challenged Nevada Senator Harry Reid.

This guy has poll numbers that make Obama’s look positively robust. And $1.5 billion of your tax dollars is a mere pittance if it will help keep one Democrat in office.

Source: Associated Press

Word police attack Glenn Beck. Will they also attack Ed Schultz?

A few weeks ago Glenn Beck said that Obama was slaughtering the American people and the left went crazy. Olbermann immediately began frothing at the mouth and Zsa Zsa Huffington quickly followed suit.

A few weeks ago Glenn Beck said that Obama was slaughtering the American people and the left went crazy. Olbermann immediately began frothing at the mouth and Zsa Zsa Huffington quickly followed suit.

Now we have a beautiful opportunity to see the left’s hypocrisy in action.

Low-rated radio talk show host Ed Schultz and socialist Senator Bernie Sanders were discussing healthcare insurance when Schultz said:

“You can’t have it both ways and hold credibility with the people who are getting gouged. How can Evan Bayh sit there as an honest player for health care reform when his wife works for an industry that is just absolutely butchering the American people, raising rates 100 percent on some people, and Anthem Blue Cross is a subsidiary of WellPoint.”

Conservative says Obama is slaughtering the American people and the libs go crazy.

Yet somehow we doubt that Zsa Zsa will show up on ABC’s This Week to condemn Ed Schultz.

Source: NewsBusters.org

ObamaMania fading: Obama T-shirts, kitsch, tsotchkes and other crap not selling anymore

Now that the American people aren’t buying President Obama’s line of crap anymore, they’re not buying the line of crap with his picture on it anymore, either.

Good prices now available on Obama athletic shoes: perfect for running roughshod over the Constitution

Now that the American people aren’t buying President Obama’s line of crap anymore, they’re not buying the line of crap with his picture on it anymore, either.

U.S. News reports the over-stocked details:

One sign that Washington, D.C., had been home to Obama Mania was the number of independent retailers selling all sorts of Obama merchandise. Every street corner, it seemed, had Obama wares (or Obama wear) for sale. Now, however, most of the winter caps for sale are not emblazoned with the Obama logo. T-shirts depicting our president as a dunking Michael Jordan, a victorious Muhammad Ali, or saber-baring Luke Skywalker (yes, these shirts all existed) are nowhere to be found.

This time last year, the Obama Store was teeming with customers. Ideally situated in the basement of Washington’s Union Station, the store was filled with consumers eager to buy anything with Obama’s likeness while others took pictures of the life-size cut-outs of the president and first lady. Now, the Obama Store is boarded up. 

How quickly things change in a year.

The Obama Store was capitalism at its most brilliant rawness; find a market and exploit it quickly. The store made possible one-stop shopping for all of your tacky Obama merchandise needs. T-shirts! Hats! Calendars! Hand-warmers! Keychains! It was like something out of Spaceballs (“Obama: The Flame Thrower! The kids love this one.”). The store carried every imaginable product with the words “Obama” and “Commemorative,” except, notably, the Obama Chia Pet.

Just a wild, unsubstantiated guess, but we bet the Chia Pet Obama may be the only Obama product that’s still selling.

C’mon, man, it’s a clay head that looks like Obama and it grows a green afro. Who wouldn’t want one of those?

Source: US News

Brave Senator Evan, an Ode

As time goes by, Obama’s Camelot resembles the Monty Python version of the fabled kingdom more than the Kennedy-era Camelot. One of the knights of Obama’s round table, Senator Evan Bayh, announced Monday that partisanship has caused him to give leave of Washington D.C.

As time goes by, Obama’s Camelot resembles the Monty Python version of the fabled kingdom more than the Kennedy-era Camelot.

One of the knights of Obama’s round table, Senator Evan Bayh, announced Monday that partisanship has caused him to give leave of Washington D.C.

(According to the mainstream media, “partisanship” is any time that conservatives refuse to go along with liberal initiatives. When liberals thwart conservatives, it’s called “gallant opposition.”)

We have composed a little ode and dedicated it to Brave Sir Evan. With apologies to Monty Python.

Brave Sir Evan ran away.
(“No!”)
Bravely ran away away.
(“I didn’t!”)
When politics reared it’s ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
(“No!”)
Yes, brave Sir Evan turned about
(“I didn’t!”)
And gallantly he chickened out.

Bravely taking (“I never did!”) to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
(“All lies!”)
Bravest of the braaaave, Senator Evan!
(“I never!”)

– Gallantly composed by Sven Waring, DotPenn.com

52% say Obama doesn’t deserve reelection. That means 48% are deaf, dumb and blind.

52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll.

44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect the president in two and a half years, less than the slight majority who said they would prefer to elect someone else.



Keep talking, President Obama. It's really working out well for you.

According to a new CNN/Opinion Research survey, 52% of Americans think Obama’s doing such a lousy job that they wouldn’t vote for him for dogcatcher. We paraphrase, of course, but that’s the gist of the survey.

Specifically, it said, “52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll.

44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect the president in two and a half years, less than the slight majority who said they would prefer to elect someone else.



“Obama faces a 44-52 deficit among both all Americans and registered voters, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Tuesday. Four percent had no opinion.”

Unbeknownst to most media outlets, ACORN conducted a simultaneous survey. It found that 103% of all voters would vote for Obama twice, maybe three times, and that 108% of all conservatives are racists.

Source: The Hill

Top ten ways the real Obama is just like the carnival balloon Obama

“A float called ‘Yes we can be ecologist’ depicting U.S. President Barack Obama, parades during the 126th edition of the Nice Carnival, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Nice, southern France. The carnival’s theme this year is ‘King of the Blue Planet.’”

The Associated Press reports, “A float called ‘Yes we can be ecologist’ depicting U.S. President Barack Obama, parades during the 126th edition of the Nice Carnival, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Nice, southern France. The carnival’s theme this year is ‘King of the Blue Planet.’”

To tell the truth, we can’t tell if that damn thing is a balloon like you see in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade or something more akin to a Rose Parade float. But we’re going with balloon because the other answer screws up our entire premise.

So now, without further delay, the top ten ways the real Obama is just like the balloon Obama

  1. Both rose to the top as a result of a lot of hot air
  2. Both look down upon the masses
  3. Both come with strings attached.
  4. Both are willing to accept massive inflation
  5. Both are traveling an ill-conceived path toward an ill-defined destination.
  6. Both have very thin skin.
  7. Both are being cheered by third-world rabble.
  8. Both have swelled heads.
  9. Both act as if they’re above it all.
  10. It’s arguable as to which will be the bigger let-down.

Source: Associated Press

– Written by Sven Waring

White House making voodoo doll that looks like CBS correspondent Mark Knoller?

CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller actually worked up the courage to speak the truth about President Obama’s “outreach” to Republicans, observing that while the President says he wants bipartisan solutions, what he really wants is Republican surrender.

Blasphemy! Heresy! Sacrilege!

CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller actually worked up the courage to speak the truth about President Obama’s “outreach” to Republicans, observing that while the President says he wants bipartisan solutions, what he really wants is Republican surrender.

Mr. Obama said he “won’t hesitate to embrace a good idea from my friends in the minority party.” But he wants his way. He wants his energy policy enacted along with his jobs bill, his financial regulatory reform and his health care plan.

And if the opposition continues to block his objectives, he said he “won’t hesitate to condemn what I consider to be obstinacy that’s rooted not in substantive disagreement but in political expedience.”

When a sitting president calls for bipartisanship by the opposition – he really means surrender. And if they block his proposals, its “obstinacy” and not political views they hold as strongly as he holds his.

This, of course, begs that question, why shouldn’t Obama expect them to surrender? The Republican party has a long, proud history of capitulation that makes them the envy of Frenchmen everywhere.

We can only hope that this time will be different.

Source: CBS News

President talks about middle class tax increases. And why he doesn’t go to church anymore.

President Obama says he is now “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making under $250,000 a year to help cut budget deficits, signaling a possible retreat from a campaign pledge.

After all those years listening to Reverend Wright’s inspirational sermons, President Obama is now agnostic. Which explains why he’s willing to break his campaign pledge and consider tax increases for the middle class. And, we assume, why he hasn’t chosen a new church in Washington, D.C.

The New York Daily News explains:

President Obama says he is now “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making under $250,000 a year to help cut budget deficits, signaling a possible retreat from a campaign pledge.

In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek on newsstands Friday, Obama said a presidential budget commission needs to look at all options for deficit reduction – including tax increases and cuts in spending on such programs as Social Security and Medicare.

“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” Obama said. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”
Obama repeatedly vowed during the 2008 campaign to spare households earning less than $250,000 a year from tax increases.

Please join us now in this heartfelt prayer:

Lord, we beseech thee. Please save us from eternal taxation.

Source: New York Daily News

When you’re done reading George Bush’s lips,
read Barack Obama’s

First, here’s George Bush’s infamous tax pledge. And now here’s Obama’s soon-to-be-infamous tax pledge.

First, here’s George Bush’s infamous tax pledge:

And now here’s Obama’s soon-to-be-infamous tax pledge:

Learned professor Barack H. Obama should study a little ancient history. A brief look back at the late 1980s would teach him what happens when a president breaks his pledge not to raise taxes.

Business Week reports Obama’s historic (but not unprecedented) misstep:

President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.

Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office interview, said that a presidential commission on the budget needs to consider all options for reducing the deficit, including tax increases and cuts in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” the president said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”

To ask a question that is asked more and more often these days, how’s that hope and change working out for you?

Source: Business Week

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