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Getting it Backwards

President Obama misunderstands the very nature of his job

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/getting-it-backwards

Which Way, Not How Far

The difference between liberals and conservatives is far deeper than most believe

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDY3ZjZjNDU1ZTcwNzRhNWFhN2JhZmFkYTI2MWY0OGQ=

Big Government’s Cronies

Capitalism, Democrat-style

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/03/big_governments_cronies_100143.html

It’s been just over a year since the President took office.  How’s the Obama administration doing compared with your expectations?

The Great Peasant Revolt

The Democrats continue to run full-throttle towards a cliff

http://article.nationalreview.com/423992/the-great-peasant-revolt-of-2010/charles-krauthammer

Olbermann, Matthews, Maddow

The 3 stooges compete for Obama’s affection

http://townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2010/02/03/matthews_and_olbermann_now_openly_fighting_over_obama

Creepy!

Google teams up with the NSA

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020304057_pf.html

You Call This A Budget?

A week after the SOTU address, the President unveils his largest spending plan yet

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/02/01/debt-deluge-here-comes-the-1-6-trillion-flood-of-red-ink/

more on the Obama-sized government

http://article.nationalreview.com/423603/an-obama-sized-government/the-editors

Roger Ailes vs. Arianna Huffington

A lesson in “tolerance”

He’s No Bill Clinton

A look at the failings of the Idealogue and Chief

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/ideologue

A Republic, If You Want It

Centralized government = despostism

http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=NTNkMjM0ZTAwMDQ4MmRmYmUwODc0YjRmMTlhNGEyNGM=

What’s Provocative the Tebow Ad?

This controversy shows why pro-choice really means pro-abortion

http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2010/02/01/whats_provocative_about_the_tebow_super_bowl_ad

This State of the Union Address was one of the more anticipated speeches in recent politics.  Wednesday night, the President had an opportunity to win back some of the support he has lost over the last year.  The Massachusetts election was just one of the many examples of the public’s growing unrest with the Obama Administration.  President Obama needed to show that he was aware of the voters anger, that he understood the reason for it, and that he was prepared to take action on these concerns.  Unfortunately for him, he missed the mark.  Instead of reassuring the American people, the President managed to insult our intelligence and make us doubt the notion that he is even capable of discerning fact from fiction.

Arrogance Beyond Measure - The President makes the case that he’s smarter than us.

• One thing that I can say with all certainty, is that the Massachusetts voters did not vote for Scott Brown because they were still angry with George W. Bush.  That is possibly the most ridiculous theory I have ever heard and yet, it is one that the President and his staff have tried to convince us true.  Are we supposed to believe that people were so upset with the leadership of “the last decade” that they voted for a republican in protest?  He seems to think the same culprit is responsible for his dismal approval rating.  “Let me be clear,” Mr. President, your falling poll numbers are not in response to some other president.  We may not all be ivy league grads, but I think Americans are perfectly capable of answer the question “Do you approve of President Obama’s job performance so far?”  Trust me, they’re talking about you.

• Next, we come to health care.  The American people have overwhelmingly rejected the President’s push for “health care reform.”  Everyday, less and less people support the plan and many have grown angry over the administration’s attempts to force it through anyways.  So when the President says he will accept responsibility for “failing to explain” the health care proposal to the public, it is a huge slap in the face. We are sick and tired of having it “explained” to us.  We’ve had an entire year of our favorite programs being interrupted for another “explanation” from the White House.  We understand the health care bill just fine.  That’s why we don’t like it!  Is it really so difficult for him to accept that someone may not like his ideas?  Does he believe that implying that we are just too thick to appreciate his legislative brilliance will help his popularity?

• If the attacks on the intelligence of the voters were not insulting enough, the President save some of his sharpest digs for the Supreme Court.  I firmly believe that we have a right to criticize all branches of government, but the manner in which he did it was inexcusable.  Good rule of thumb: Anytime you need to use a disclaimer like “with all due deference to separation of powers,” you are probably preparing to show anything but “due deference.”  Without making any attempts to explain the case or provide context, President Obama chided the Justices for turning elections over to corporations, special interests, and foreign powers.  First of all, the case was primarily about free speech issues.  To say that free speech equals unfair elections is a stretch to say the least (Now whose practicing the politics of fear?).  Secondly, isn’t this the President who was put into office by labor unions, ACORN, and George Soros?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The members of the Court were guests for the President’s speech.  They were seated in the front, in full view of the cameras, and had no opportunity to respond.  After the President insulted them, Democratic leaders sitting directly behind the Justices stood up and clapped in their direction, Chuck Schumer went so far as to lean forward over Alito while he clapped. Alito, who has been a constant target for the left, quietly mouthed the words “not true,” and for this he has been slammed by the press.  I hate to think of what most of us would have mouthed at that point.  President Obama behaved like a school-yard bully. He put his victim on display, had him restrained, and punched him in the stomach.  For a man so sensitive to criticism, he sure knows how to dish it out.

If the condescension and arrogance weren’t enough, the President proceded to dish out one lie after another.

“You Lie!” - Where’s Joe Wilson when you need him?

• “We face a deficit of trust — deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years.  To close that credibility gap, we have to take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue — to end the outsized influence of lobbyists.”…”That’s why we’ve excluded lobbyists from policy making jobs or seats on federal boards or commissions.”  Well, except for 12 cabinet appointees including the Attorney General.  And, a few radical czars.  And, labor leader Andy Stern was the most frequent visitor to the White House. In fact, both Stern and the President have admitted to his influence in the healthcare bill as well as other legislation.  Oh, yeah and that time he promised to “paint the nation purple with SEIU,” and help them to build power.  And that other time he boasted about working with community organizing groups like ACORN on policy decisions.  Well, you get the point.
• We promise to “do our work openly.”  Except when they locked Republicans out of the room for negotiations, refused to televise health care procedures (despite 8 promises to put negotiations on C-SPAN), and then refused to post bills online for public viewing.
• “My Administration posts our White House visitors online.”  This one is actually true.  Except the visitor list was only posted online after team Obama refused to release it and journalists filed a Freedom of Information Act complaint.  But with visitor like George Soros and Bertha Lewis, who can blame them for wanting to keep it a secret?
• The President also spoke of continuing to eliminate earmarks.  Continuing?  Isn’t this the man that signed an Omnibus bill with 9,000 earmarks?  The one who’s pushing for a health care bill laden with bribes for certain states and goodies for unions?  The guy who is on track to spend more money than every U.S. president combined.  He is actually trying to make the case that Congress is failing him on the war against reckless spending!!
• The letters!  Oh, the letters!  Ok, I admit I can’t prove that he made these up, but come on!  The glass maker who hired a second crew thanks to the stimulus bill.  Someone connect the dots for me there, please (by the way, the glass industry is in serious decline right now).  The little children who write to him asking “why, oh why” is there so much greed and corruption in the world.  I want someone to find me the 8 year old who spends his days pondering the failings of Wall Street.  The list went on and on.  He wanted to make sure that we knew that there were plenty of people out there (anonymous people) who still think he’s awesome.

The President’s speech was, for the most part, nothing new.  He made the usual vague promises, pleas for bi-partisanship, and shifted the blame to his predecessor.  The only aspect of the Address that I saw a change in was the often aggressive tone of the speech.  There was no doubt of which people are on the President’s enemies list.  The media, the Supreme Court, Republican Senators, political pundits, bank executives, corporations, and the wealthy topped the list (but he only seems somewhat miffed at Iran).  Those of who have carefully watched his policies have known for some time that he is no friend of conservatives, businesses, or free speech, but he has shied away from admitting this bias outright.  Now, he’s pulling out all the stops.  Leading up to the State of the Union Address, many people assumed that President Obama would react to his slipping poll position by moving to the center.  Instead, he has gone in the other direction.  This speech made one thing clear, the President will not be deterred from his super-liberal agenda.  He doesn’t care if the American people support him.  He doesn’t care what the Supreme Court thinks.  He doesn’t care how many of his fellow Democrats lose their jobs.  It’s his way or no way.  Let’s hope it’s “no way.”

Obama Takes on College Football

Isn’t there something more important for him to do?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/01/29/obama.bcs.ap/index.html?xid=si_ncaaf

The Joke Ban

How to fight back against university “speech codes”

http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2010/01/28/the_joke_ban

Obama Gets an F

State of the Union Address fails to wow the UK

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100024086/state-of-the-union-obama-gets-an-f-for-world-leadership/

Obama: The Era of Big Government is Eternal

He still doesn’t get it

http://townhall.com/columnists/LarryElder/2010/01/28/obama_the_era_of_big_government_is_eternal

Can’t We At Least Get a Toaster?

More Banker Bailouts

http://townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2010/01/27/cant_we_at_least_get_a_toaster?page=1

Great Scott!

Thomas Sowell’s take on the Massachusetts election

http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/01/26/great_scott!

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

The Democrats have two options… and neither is good for their political future

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/damned-if-they-do-%E2%80%89%E2%80%89%E2%80%89%E2%80%89

Tim Tebow

football star to be featured in a pro-life Super Bowl ad

http://blogs.abcnews.com/campuschatter/2010/01/univ-of-florida-anticipates-tim-tebow-ad.html

Freezing Conditions

Be wary of the President’s spending “freeze”

http://article.nationalreview.com/422862/freezing-conditions/the-editors

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/26/fill-in-the-blank-obama-proposing-spending-freeze-is-like/

I must admit it.  I was doubtful that a Republican could take Ted Kennedy’s seat in liberal Massachusetts.  I too, feared that sentimentality and party loyalty would win out in the end.  Thankfully, the people of Massachusetts came through and may have just thwarted one of the greatest economic mistakes that has ever faced this nation. The question we are now faced with is, “Can we safely assume that ObamaCare is dead in the water?”.   I think that the answer is, “almost.”

The Scott Brown victory secured the GOP’s ability to filibuster any health care proposals.  While this eliminates the Democrats’ primary avenue for passing the bill, they still have a few options left.  One, would be to force the House into voting on the already passed Senate bill.  The problem with this strategy, is that representatives in favor of ObamaCare held only a slight lead in the House.  Many of those votes were contingent upon tough restrictions on abortion funding and the absence of a “public option.”  Since both aspects of the bill were changed in the Senate version, many center-right Democrats have sworn to vote against it.   On the other side, many liberal lawmakers believe that any restrictions on abortion funding is too much, and they also want a stronger push for a single-payer system.  They too, have sworn to vote down any piece of legislation which they have not been allowed to amend.  Virtually any defection of the “yea’s” to the “nay’s” would guarantee the defeat of this bill.

The second option, would be to try for a “reconciliation” vote.  This would allow the Democrats to pass health care reform with a simple majority (51 votes) and limited time alloted for floor debate.  This would be an incredibly risky tactic for the left to attempt.  The “reconciliation” vote is only supposed to be used as a last resort to pass a basic operating budget.  This way, the minority party could not stop the day-to-day business of governing by refusing to approve a budget.  To use this method for the purpose of passing a controversial piece of legislation would be political suicide.  The Republicans could challenge the move in court.  There is little doubt that the decision would go against the Democrats, but even if the judges allowed it, it could delay the bill for some time.  The perception would be that the Democrats had used dirty tricks and made a mess of things.  It would be nearly impossible to clean things up before mid-term elections.  At a time when many are questioning the tactics of the party in power and groups like ACORN who helped to get them there, it would be foolish to add fuel to the fire.

This election should put the final nail in the coffin for ObamaCare.  While it’s true that the Democrats still have a few options, most of them are thinking ahead to their own election battles.  At a time when public support for the bill is at an all time low, it would be unwise to force the issue.  The more liberal Senators will need to make at least a half-hearted effort in order to save face, but most congressman will begin to back away from the plan.  If we can keep even a small amount of pressure on our representatives, we should be able to stop this thing.  The tide may finally be turning in our favor.

Arlen Specter Is A Jerk

Can you imagine if someone said this to a liberal woman?

That Old Obama Magic is Back

Ever wonder why Democrats can’t hold on to victory?

http://townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2010/01/20/that_old_obama_magic_is_back

Gary, Gary, Quite Contrary

A perfect example of why many people consider the phrase “sociology professor” an oxymoron

http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2010/01/21/gary,_gary,_quite_contrary?page=1

Who is the Society of Professional Journalists?

And why do they lie to us?

http://bigjournalism.com/pgeller/2010/01/18/the-society-of-professional-journalists-why-we-never-get-the-straight-story-on-islamic-jihad/

The Roots of Obama Worship

A look at the bizarre Messiah syndrome of the President

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/roots-obama-worship

Colossal Miscalculation

It’s hard to pinpoint Obama’s greatest mistake so far, but could it be the focus on “health care reform”

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cr_20100116_6798.php

Choices

Who is really “anti-choice”?

http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2010/01/19/ive_had_choices?page=1