** Earlier it was reported that the Obama Administration may have targeted GOP donors in deciding which Chrysler dealerships would have to close their doors.** Last night it was discovered that a Big Dem Donor Group was allowed to keep all 6 Chrysler dealerships open….
Are we looking at the biggest political scandal since Watergate?Big Dem Donor Group allowed to keep all 6 Chrysler dealerships open….
Today’s Hope and Change–Doug Ross looked at the possibility that the Obama Administration may have targeted GOP donors in deciding which Chrysler dealerships would have to close their doors.Doug noted that every single dealer he checked out except one were either GOP donors or donated to Obama’s rivals in the democratic primary.UPDATE: Chrysler Dealership owner Jim Anderer was on with Neil Cavuto.
The Mac Is Back!John McCain was on Greta tonight and declared “waterboarding is torture.”He just erased all of the that Dick Cheney had built up this week against the dangerous Obama Administration national security positions in about 2 minutes.Once again, just when you think Republicans have something going…
Nevada politicians have had enough change– “negative economic change.”Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Congresswoman Dina Titus and Governor Jim Gibbons blasted Barack Obama for the “reckless comments” he made during the campaign that “have caused economic damage to convention business and tourism business in the Silver State.”KTNV has video.Governor Jim Gibbons said he was disappointed at the hypocrisy shown by the Obama administration.The Las Vegas Sun reported:Gov.
This took around 100 days…Republicans are now tied with Democrats in party identification.
Once again the Obama Administration warns Israel and not Iran.Haaretz reported, via :U.S.
Miss California Carrie Prejean was on Hannity tonight.Earlier today Donald Trump held a press conference and announced that Miss California would be allowed to keep her crown after some seminude photos were released of her to the liberal media.Prejean told Hannity that she would like to model for Victoria’s Secret.
The House GOP illuminates the folly of Team Obama’s approach to Gitmo:Frank Gaffney at The Center For Security Policy applauded the GOP for exposing the the shallow and dangerous security decisions by the Obama Administration:The Center for Security Policy applauded the release, by leaders of the House Republican Conference, of a video reminding every American of the dangers of the unlawful enemy combatants currently being securely detained at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba.”This video raises the central questions,” Center President Frank Gaffney asked.
Today’s Hope and Change…The Obama Administration threatened Chrysler creditors into acquiescing to plans to restructure Chrysler or face the wrath of the White House press corps.Neil Cavuto interviewed attorney Tom Lauria today who represents creditors to Chrysler.
Hope, Change and Blackmail!…
I am attending the Offshore Technology Conference this week in Houston, Texas.
Do you feel safer today?Do you believe Team Obama is doing all it can to protect you from the next “man-caused disaster?”Republican Leader John Boehner and Intelligence Committee Ranking Republican Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) released a new ad today on the national security free fall in the last 100 days:The Republican Leader Boehner reported:The American people are growing increasingly concerned about the Administration’s strategy – or, more precisely, lack of strategy – when it comes to confronting and defeating the terrorist threat.
In a report last week that the Obama Administration was still insisting that GDP growth in 2010 would be a strong 3.2%.International Business Times reported:Taking a closer look at how the President arrives at his rosy projection of cutting the deficit to “just” $530 billion by the end of 2013 you find he accomplishes it not by keeping expenditures off budget, like his processor, but by utilizing grossly unrealistic economic growth assumptions.Mr.
The Obama Administration Currently Has No Plan to Close the Border–The virus has killed up to 60 people in Mexico so far.Spreading potentially lethal pathogens, influenza virus particles (brown) invade cilia (blue) in the airways of the human lung.
Finally, some change you can believe in…The Obama Administration is dead set on releasing the al-Qaeda trained Uighur terrorists from Gitmo.These terrorists were trained at terror training camps in Tora Bora.
A President Must Keep His Priorities StraightYesterday…
Before President Obama decides to prosecute Bush Administration officials for “torture” he better read this document or at least airbrush it from the internet.Doug Ross discovered this CIA memo from 2005 that discussed the enhanced interrogation tecniques (EIT) used by the CIA on high level Al-Qaeda detainees.
Obama Administration Will Not Rule Out Prosecuting President Bush For Torture!Today Barack Obama announced that he may prosecute Bush officials who wrote harsh terrorists interrogation policies.According to a former intelligence agent, waterboarding of terrorist Abu Zubaydah got him to talk in less than 35 seconds.
Sean Hannity interviewed former Vice President Dick Cheney tonight.They discussed the interrogation techniques used during the Bush years.
Real Clear Politics reported: ABC’s Jake Tapper questioned Gibbs why the Obama administration was making a large deal over saving $100 million in his proposed budget when the administration pooh-poohed $8 billion in an appropriations bill several weeks ago.In response, Robert Gibbs attacked them both.Figures:Link: The AP scolded the Obama Administration today for the miniscule budget cuts:The thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal agencies are the equivalent of asking a family that spends $60,000 in a year to save $6.The president gave his Cabinet 90 days to find $100 million in savings to achieve over time.For all the trumpeting, the effort raised questions about why Obama set the bar so low, considering that $100 million amounts to:–Less than one-quarter of the budget increase that Congress awarded to itself.–4 percent of the military aid the United States sends to Israel.–Less than half the cost of one F-22 fighter plane.–7 percent of the federal subsidy for the money-losing Amtrak passenger rail system.–1/10,000th of the government’s operating budgets for Cabinet agencies, excluding the Iraq and Afghan wars and the stimulus bill.
Rush Limbaugh: Report on “Right-Wing Radicals” Timed for Tea PartiesRush Limbaugh said today that the Obama Administration is diverting attention away from the Tea Party Protests that are scheduled for April 15th.
The Vatican blocked the Obama Administration’s appointment of Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador.The Telegraph reported:The Vatican has blocked the appointment of Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador, according to reports.
The Obama Administration announced on Friday that they were planning on releasing “non-threatening” Gitmo detainess inside the US.
The Obama Administration is currently negotiating the ACTA Agreement with several international partners.The proposed agreement would empower security officials at airports and other international borders to conduct random ex officio searches of laptops, MP3 players, and cellular phones for illegally downloaded or “ripped” music and movies.Russia Today warned about this controversial agreement:From the video- The personal computer may soon be not-so-private, with the U.S.
Obama has promised the world a new approach in dealing with global warming junk science.
The Soros-funded Far Left think tank Center for American Progress helped shape the Obama Administration’s agenda.This group is led by former Clinton and current Obama advisor John Podesta.George Soros, the man who broke the Bank of England, warned today that England may need to seek assistance from the IMF to bail it out of its current crisis.Soros also warned of a global depressionThe Times Online reported, via LGF:Britain may have to go to the IMF for a huge financial bailout, the influential investor George Soros warns today.
In his latest faux pas Obama managed to pi$$ off France…
It looks like the Obama-Pelosi-Reid deficit will reach worse case scenario less than 100 days into the administration.
While the Obama Administration has already held talks with the brutal Syrian Regime and extended a hand out to Iran and the Taliban, America’s allies in the region have gotten a cold shoulder from Team Obama.Amir Taheri at The New York Post reported:Well, if your enemies won’t talk to you, why not talk to your friends?
Jonn Lilyea reported last week on the new VA proposed system to force veterans to buy insurance to treat their service-connected injuries.Today The American Legion weighed in on the issue and is not pleased with what the Obama Administration is doing to this nation’s veterans, via This Ain’t Hell:The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he is “deeply disappointed and concerned” after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries.
There was a huge turnout at the Cincinnati tea party protest on Sunday:Glenn Reynolds has several photos from the protest where 4,000 to 6,000 people showed up to protest the historic spending and debt by the Obama Administration.The Virtuous Republic attended the protest and has a great roundup.Michelle Malkin has more on the Cincinnati protest.Here is more information on the Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party protests scheduled around the country on April 15th.Doug Ross– It’s tea party time, Obama.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said the Obama Administration is raising the risk of terrorist attack on America by overhauling several Bush Administration policies.This follows his warning from last month when Cheney said that Obama officials, “Are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States.” FOX News reported:Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that the Obama administration will “raise the risk” of a terrorist attack by overhauling his predecessor’s approach to the War on Terror.
The FBI raided the former office of Obama administration official Vivek Kundra in a corruption probe on Thursday and arrested 2 employees in a sting operation.Obama named Kundra, 34, to be the federal government’s chief information officer last week, responsible for overseeing the government’s computer systems.WTOP reported:WASHINGTON – A D.C.
Feminist icon Camille Paglia skewered the Obama Administration over the many fumbles and gluttony of their first 50 days in office.Salon reported, via Drudge:Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing series of flubs that have overshadowed President Obama’s first seven weeks in office and given the scattered, demoralized Republicans a huge boost toward regrouping and resurrection.
So much for that, “You’re either with us or against us” nonsense.
Obama keeps racking up those records…** The stock market had its worst January in 113 years.** This was followed by the worst February for the stock market since 1933.** Don’t forget the record unemployment rate.** Obama’s budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, and adds more to the debt than all previous presidents — from George Washington to George W.
Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979.The oceans have been cooling since 2003.Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record.Greenland’s glaciers are stabilizing.There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age.Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years.And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, cooling…
This is really sad.Team Obama is already blaming Bush for their record $1.75 trillion budget deficit.And, just like how Obama and the democrats lied about the the last 8 years of economic growth, they are hoping that the media will play along with them and blame Bush for the dangerous deficit they have already racked up in Obama’s first 40 days on the job.To be clear– those failed Bush policies dropped the deficit 4 of 8 years, held an average unemployment at 5.2%, saw the strongest productivity growth in 4 decades and witnessed robust GDP growth.Bush was able to do this despite the recession he inherited, 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.As you can see from this chart, after the Bush tax cuts were implemented the budget deficit was reduced 3 of the last 4 years:CBO chart via RedStateThe deficit was reduced in 2005, 2006 and 2007 even with war and implementation of the successful Bush surge of troops in Iraq.It wasn’t until the mortgage crisis struck the economy, a crisis Bush warned the democratic Congress about 17 times in 2008 alone, that the deficit climbed to $459 billion.USA Today published an interactive chart on the the Obama Administration’s significant increase in spending this year.
Pot meet kettle…Tax cheat Timothy Geithner said today that Team “O” will focus on international tax dodgers.Breitbart reported:President Barack Obama’s Treasury secretary says the administration will unveil a series of rules and measures in the coming months to limit the ability of international companies to avoid U.S.
Obama Popularity Joins Stock Market In Free FallThe stock market had its worst January since 1896 followed by its worst February since 1933 due largely to the historic spending and tax initiatives proposed by the Obama Administration.President Obama is not doing any better.
USA Today published an interactive chart on the the Obama Administration’s significant increase in spending this year.
The most powerful businessman in Boston, Fidelity’s Edward Johnson blasted the Obama Administration’s handling of the financial crisis.Johnson warned that Obama is taking steps that will most likely prolong the recession.The Boston Herald reported:Fidelity’s Edward “Ned” Johnson jumped into the controversial debate over President Obama’s “New Deal II” and what Johnson called government “make-work projects.”Without naming names, Johnson praised the administration’s effort to make economic recovery its top priority, saying it was “admirable.”But Johnson, sounding like he’s never been a big fan of the original New Dealers from the 1930s, warned of too much government involvement in the economy and indicated Fidelity is beefing up its government-affairs unit to fend off possibly burdensome new regulations.“We can only hope that the government’s cure doesn’t further sicken the patient,” Johnson wrote in his annual update on Fidelity’s performance over the past year.“During the ’30s, Congress – with guidance from the president and the same kind of good intentions – shifted the country’s cash flow away from productive businesses to government make-work projects, which most likely prolonged the Great Depression,” wrote Johnson, arguably Boston’s most powerful business executive.As for the financial-system crisis, Johnson also took a somewhat anti-government conservative view toward its causes, saying “this climate was caused by many well-intentioned policies – stimulated by individuals at high levels in government and sanctioned by regulatory structures.”Those policies helped make “money ridiculously easy to obtain and business people eager to comply with the policies,” Johnson wrote.
An 1896 Henry Ford Quadricycle Thanks to the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats, this year was the worst January performance in the stock market since 1896.Obama and the Democrats are off to a roaring start.They’ve already succeeded in pulling off the worst January in the stock market in 113 years.Real Clear Markets reported:The Bush Economy went up in smoke in September-October 2008.
Bush praised political dissidents.Obama praises regimes.In the last month the Obama Administration has already:** Waived sanctions on Syria.** Considered opening travel to Cuba.** Announced plans to drop sanctions against the murderous junta in Burma.** Approved(?) Sharia Law in the tribal regions of Pakistan.** Discussed holding talks with the regime in Iran.** Accepted China’s human rights abuses!But, this is just sick…Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Venezuela just elected a Marxist into office for life this past week.This week the Obama State Department broke precedent and congratulated the Marxist regime for the “democratic” elections.IBD Editorials reported:On the surface, Chavez’s referendum to lift all term limits — which he won 55% to 45% — had the lifelike look of demo-cracy.
Someone may want to pass this on to the Obama Administration and the Treasury Department.KSLA and reported:An IRS survey finds that nearly nine in 10 Americans think it is “not at all” acceptable to cheat on your taxes.The annual survey released Monday by the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board found that only 9 percent of respondents thought it was ever OK to cheat on their taxes.
More hope and change…Rahmbo will be the 2010 Census czar.The Obama Administration moved the census out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House:Here’s another sign that democrats intend to keep their majorities in Congress.No Quarter wrote about this political development:LisaB, earlier today, asked a lot of sharp questions about the Obama administration’s move of the census out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House.
James Carville, Rahm Emanuel, Paul Begala and George Stephanopoulos have been holding daily phone conversations for nearly 17 years.Stephanopoulos has held these calls throughout his tenure at ABC.Emanuel and Begala are both top officials in the Obama Administration.(The Politico)The Media Research Center is demanding that ABC address and resolve the clear violation of journalistic ethics by ABC’s Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos.Charles Johnson reported on this from the Media Research Center:Media Research Center (MRC) President L.
“Rangel Rule” introduced…All U.S.
Dearest A’jad.(ISNA)Halleluiah!
Al Gore braved snow and ice storms to tell Congress, “We’ve arrived at a moment of decision,” on manmade global warming/climate change today in Washington DC.Today’s snow and ice storms was blamed for the deaths of 20 Americans.Here is the Goracle’s opening statement to the gullible senators who were not snowed-in and able to make it to the hearing.Look out for man bear pig.Former Vice President Al Gore testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan.
Snow fell in the United Arab Emirates for only the second time in recorded history this week.
He’s baaack….Osama Bin Laden released another audiotape today.
The Parade of Thugs continues…Cuba, Venezuela and Saddam Hussein’s Baathist Party Leaders have already lined up to hold talks with the Obama Administration without preconditions.Now, the Obama Camp is preparing to hold talks with Hamas killers.Et tu, Izzy?Even Saddam Hussein’s henchmen are wanting to hold talks with Obama and hope to take Iraq off his hands with a premature withdrawal.The Guardian reported:The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon President Bush’s doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say.The move to open contacts with Hamas – which could be initiated through the US intelligence services – would represent a definitive break with the Bush presidency’s ostracising of the group.The Guardian has spoken to three people with knowledge of the discussions in the Obama camp.There is no talk of Obama approving direct diplomatic negotiations with Hamas early on in his administration, but he is being urged by advisers to initiate low-level or clandestine approaches, and there is growing recognition in Washington that the policy of ostracising Hamas is counter-productive.A tested course would be to start contacts through Hamas and the US intelligence services – similar to the secret process through which the US engaged with the PLO in the 1970s.
Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations chaired a blogger conference call today.
Laura Bush says the liberal media has “absolutely not” been fair to her husband.The First Lady believes that the president will be vindicated for keeping America safe and for liberating 50,000,000 Muslims:Obviously, Michelle Obama has some big shoes to fill.President George W.
A TOP MISSOURI GOON SQUAD MEMBER MAY BE PROMOTED BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONMissouri top prosecutors announced in September that they would threaten and prosecute critics of Barack Obama.St.
