It’s Bush’s fault.Click to EnlargeI-Casualties Team Obama blames Bush for recent Afghan woes.Reuters reported, via Drudge: The United States and its allies must change strategy and boost cooperation to turn around the war in Afghanistan, the top U.S.
Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was given a hero’s welcome when he arrived back in Libya.Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, (right), who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, is greeted by Libyan leader Gaddafi in Tripoli.
Today, Chevron provided authorities in Ecuador and the U.S.
More Hope and Change…Founding s found this at Obama Website–“Critics of Obamacare are Heirs of Bin Laden”Click on Truncated Image to EnlargeVia Little Green LinksHere’s the latest line on those who oppose government rationing of health care:—* RECLAIM OUR LAND FROM THE HEIRS OF, YES: BIN LADEN *—* YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE *—In case you haven’t seen it in the News: Republican Representatives, Senators, GOP Party Leader, GOP Political Machine top personnel (e.g., Gingritch), etc etc etc — they’re ALL every one of them applauding and encouraging their zealot-horde by merrily referring to them as “Proud Right-Wing Terrorists”.
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Dear Leader’s approval rating hit a new low today.Hat Tip RodOnly 46% of Americans approve of Barack Obama’s performance down 19 points since the start of the year.Rasmussen reported:The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.
Do it for Teddy– Pass socialized health care.Sharp Elbows took this at the IBEW St.
It figures.Ridge now says– “I was never pressured.”Tom Ridge backtracked from accusing the Bush White House of pressuring him to raise the threat level before the 2004 election.USA Today reported:Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, speaking for the first time about accusations made in his new book, says he did not mean to suggest that other top Bush administration officials were playing politics with the nation’s security before the 2004 presidential election.”I’m not second-guessing my colleagues,” Ridge said in an interview about The Test of Our Times, which comes out Tuesday and recounts his experiences as head of the nation’s homeland security efforts in the first several years after the Sept.
It’s come to this.New for toddlers–Now your little toddler can own her first tassle T-shirt (I’m assuming it’s for girls?).Stroller Derby reported:Would you buy a shirt for your baby that had nipple tassels on it?
Organizing For America held a rally in support of Obama’s Health Control Bill tonight at the IBEW Hall in St.
More Hope & Change–Barack Obama gave his marching orders:Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!” Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger.
A pro-Obamacare thug was arrested after threatening tea party patriots in Georgia this past week.Click on the photo for video–The violent tea party crasher was later arrested after he threatened the police.The Tea Party Patriots had a permit for their protest.First Coast News reported:A man has been arrested in downtown Brunswick after disrupting a Tea Party protest against the Democrats’ healthcare reform plan.Around 20 members of the Golden Isle Tea Party Patriots and other participants were holding signs and waving at passing cars in front of the main post office.First Coast News was there when Zack Lyde from Brunswick walked up shouting at the group and started a verbal confrontation with protesters.When a Brunswick police officer asked Lyde to leave, he refused.
Barack Obama’s close family friend Bill Ayers dedicated his 1960’s communist manifesto Prairie Fire to Robert F.
“I hope you go out of business.”The Democratic Majority Leader of the US Senate Harry Reid told a Nevada businessman this week at a luncheon, “I hope you go out of business.”The Review-Journal reported, via FOX Nation:On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber’s board members for a meet-‘n’-greet and a photo.
Kooks for ObamacareLooking at the Left has a report on the manufactured Organizing for America rally in Denver on Friday.
On 21 December 1988, the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed as a result of a terrorist bomb.
The Associated Press released excerpts from Senator Kennedy’s letter to Pope Benedict and Pope Benedict’s response to the Far Left pro-abortion senator.Please note: This AP release only includes excerpts and is not the full correspondence:Excerpts of the letter from Sen.
Birds of a feather…(Michael Ramirez)The news that President Obama will cut off aid to our ally Honduras did not make many headlines this week but it should have.
Don’t tell Dear Leader–Waterboarding not only worked…It was a great success.The Washington Post admitted this today:After enduring the CIA’s harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency’s secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S.
Of course, they couldn’t help it.Nothing is sacred.Dems pushed for Obamacare at Teddy Kennedy’s funeral today: Not even a funeral is off limits for pushing their socialist agenda.Duchess Rebecca offers the counter prayer.And, AllahPundit prayerfully adds this spiritual meditation:I’ve been informed by liberal amateur theologians that it’s perfectly kosher to pray for universal health care — on TV, in the middle of a national debate, at a funeral service ostensibly devoted to grieving over someone, by exploiting an innocent child — because, um, Jesus would have supported it.
It must be very difficult being a parent of a young child today.How do you explain to a young child why the state-run media is running nonstop coverage of Teddy
Iraqi shoe-chucker Mantadhar al-Zeidi who assaulted President Bush in Baghdad will be released early.Muntadhar al-Zeidi detested the US and planned the attack on President Bush for months.Al-Zeidi also loved Muqtada al-Sadr.The AP reported:An Iraqi journalist jailed after hurling his shoes at former President George W.
BUYCOTT to support Whole Foods Market and Free Speech!After the recent attacks on Whole Food Markets by leftist thugs and hippies the St.
The Vatican’s silence spoke volumes this week.There was no official comment from Pope Benedict on the death of Teddy Kennedy.The Examiner reported:The late Ted Kennedy was brother to the United States’ only Catholic president.
One Free Korea reported that the UAE intercepted a ship carrying “arms” to Iran.Diplomats at the UN identified the vessel as the Bahamian-flagged ANL-Australia.
LA Representative and Communist Diane Watson (D-CA) racebaits and praises Fidel Castro and the Cuban health care system at an Obamacare debate.The people of California must be very proud to have such an esteemed Marxist representing them in Congress.KABC reported:Via Breitbart”They are spreading fear and they’re trying to see that the first president who looks like me — fails.”What an absolute disgrace.Let’s hope she didn’t ask for extra T-P while she was dining with Fidel.
Desmond Tutu would make a great democrat.He hates Jews and Bush.Another friend of Obama.This racist anti-Jew windbag is really getting annoying.Tutu attacked the Jews again today.Haaretz reported:The lesson that Israel must learn from the Holocaust is that it can never get security through fences, walls and guns,” Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa told Haaretz Thursday.
This revelation here probably best describes today’s Democratic Party…One of Prince Teddy Kennedy’s closest friends, former editor of Newsweek and New York Times Magazine Ed Klein, told Diane Rehm on her show today that Teddy Kennedy’s “favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself.”Here’s Klein on the liberal saint:Via HotAirHe will be missed.UPDATE: Ace posted an appropriate comparison.
The Democratic Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee forgot to disclose millions of dollars of business transactions on his taxes.The New York Post reported:Rep.
A local union leader was booed out of Rep.
These flyers were found on cars outside the Moran-Dean town hall meeting this week:Marooned in Marin, via , has more on these flyers that were found on cars outside the South Lakes High School in Reston on Tuesday night.The cartoon was created by Mike Flugennock who is another another disturbed Far Left political cartoonist.
The Left’s leading blog hits a new low–Click to Enlarge(This screengrab was trimmed down)From yesterday’s Huffington Post Melissa Lafsky reflects on the death of Mary Jo Kopechne:We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history.
Nancy Pelosi was reportedly told in February 2003 by her intelligence aide, Michael Sheehy, that waterboarding was used on CIA terror detainee Abu Zubaydah.She later lied about it and said she did not know that the Al-Qaeda terrorists had been waterboarded.Then at her next press conference in May the Speaker said the CIA were the liars, not her.Unbelievable.On Thursday Jennifer Rubin pointed this out from the Wall Street Journal’s report earlier this week:The IG report belies House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claims that she wasn’t told about all this.
Obama continues to set records.Only 4% of Israelis see Obama as Pro-Israel.
Coach Dave Daubenmire football coach at Fairfield Christian Academy will be sleeping outside Zack Space’s office until the Congressman agrees to hold a Public Town Hall meeting.Coach Dave parks it outside Congressman Space’s office.WhizNews reported:A local football coach is sleeping outside Congressman Zack Space’s Zanesville Office and says he won’t leave until Space holds a public meeting.Dave Daubenmire of Pass The Salt Ministries and coach at Fairfield Christian Academy in Lancaster, says he’s wants Congressman Space to hold a meeting in Licking, Knox or Muskingum County so that his constituents of the 18th district can ask questions about his policies.”They are putting a burden of debt upon our grandchildren, kids that aren’t even born yet and I think if Zack Space is going to represent the people of the 18th district he ought to have the courage to tell us why they’re doing it, what his policies are and where he stands so we can figure out if he is for us or against us,” says Daubenmire.Congressman Space’s chief of staff Stuart Chapman says that in the midst of outreach to tens of thousands of people this month the Congressman went out of his way to meet with Daubenmire, but he says Daubenmire does not want a meeting he just wants to grandstand.
FOX News trounced its cable news competitors with limited coverage of Senator Teddy Kennedy’s death.The LA Times reported:Fox News maintained its top ranking among the cable news channels Wednesday as its competitors turned most of their coverage over to the death of Sen.
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ABC and NBC have refused to run an anti-Obamacare ad.This is after ABC aired an Obamacare infomercial from the White House earlier this year and refused any response from conservatives.The networks refuse to run this ad by League of American Voters:FOX News reported:The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama’s health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot — particularly in light of ABC’s health care special aired in prime time last June and hosted at the White House.The 33-second ad by the League of American Voters, which features a neurosurgeon who warns that a government-run health care system will lead to the rationing of procedures and medicine, began airing two weeks ago on local affiliates of ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS.
Here’s something for the flyover crowd…The astroturfed Nazi mobsters are attacking hayfields in Texas now:Via BreitbartWashington Examiner: One Texas farmer is going to the extreme to protest President Barack Obama, creating a sign that spans several acres — but you’ll have to be in the sky to see it.
ABC News asked readers today:What Do the Kennedys Mean to You?Is there a single memory of a member of the Kennedy clan that sticks out in your mind?
53% of Americans OPPOSE Obamacare.Rasmussen reported:As August winds down, the good news for President Obama and congressional Democrats is that support for their proposed health care legislation has stopped falling.
FOX News reported that 1,700 convicts were mistakenly sent stimulus checks this year:The inspector general’s office for the Social Security Administration is looking into the problem as part of its broader audit on stimulus spending.
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Unreal!Democrat Jim Moran called a town hall attendee “a plant” and demanded to see his license before he could ask his question:Via BreitbartThe Corner has more on Moran’s hypocrisy:Earlier this week, Rep.
Today’s Hope and Change—The Obama Justice Department killed an investigation into pay-for-play allegations against Democratic Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico.Richardson was being investigated by a federal grand jury in his home state for possibly steering state bond business from the New Mexico Financial Authority toward David Rubin, a significant campaign contributor.FOX News reported:New Mexico Gov.
Big Government–Pro Obamacare–Pro Cap-&-Tax Senator Claire McCaskill and fellow Missourians may not agree on much but she did get cheered wildly after she told the Jefferson City town hall attendees that “You have every right to fire me.”She sure knows how to work a Missouri crowd:Missourinet has the full audio from the town hall meeting and a balanced report.
Statist Senator Claire McCaskill held a town hall meeting in Jefferson City, Missouri last night.She was cheered loudly.Especially after she said, “If we the people of Missouri didn’t agree with the way I’ve represented them they can vote me out of office.”She received a standing ovation for that line.Usually 2 the Right has a report.McCaskill also told the audience she supports a “public option,” noting that “doing nothing” (the liberal straw man) would be too costly.The AP reported that the capacity audience of about 400 people “began heckling during the opening prayer” of Wednesday night’s event in Jefferson City.PLEASE– If someone has video from this rally and opening prayer let me know.
Rush Limbaugh joined Glenn Beck this afternoon to talk Obama and the dismantling of America:Via Patriot RoomFrom the Rush Limbaugh website:RUSH: I find the whole administration breathtaking, Glenn.
Here we go…The messiah and the saint.AP source: Obama to deliver eulogy at Kennedy’s funeral Mass on Saturday.
The regime asked him embarrassing questions.
The democrat-media complex is piling on Andrew Breitbart today for tweets like this:As usual, Andrew asks the tough questions.As usual, the media refuses to answer the tough questions and attacks Breitbart instead.Related…
(Updated & Bumped)The young vandal who smashed windows at the DNC headquarters in Denver on Tuesday worked for a democratic politician, was paid by a SEIU-related front group, and was arrested at the RNC convention last year in St.
Tax Cheating 101–Via Instapundit:SUCH DEFENSES ARE NOT FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Tax Court Rejects Taxpayer’s Attempt to Use Geithner’s TurboTax Defense.
Ambassador Dore Gold, discussed his latest book, The Rise of a Nuclear Iran in a blogger conference call today sponsored by One Jerusalem.
