Archive for February, 2009
Chicago Sun Times: “Obama offers no housing fix, little hope”
The nearly $800 billion stimulus bill will be signed, sealed and delivered in a day or so. Even those of us with doubts about its priorities, its big spending and its non-stimulus agenda of liberal goals hope it will deliver a much-needed jolt to our staggering economy. We’re all in this leaky boat together.
Still, doubts […]
Americans Not Afraid Of Layoffs, Oppose Nationalizations Of Banks, Tax Cuts Are Top Priority
Issue Polls: Economy Americans Oppose Nationalizations Of Banks, 2/11 Overall, 75% Oppose Nationalization of banks Americans Not Afraid Of Layoffs, 2/10 68% of those polled are not worried of being layoffed Buying A House Is Still Best Bet, 2/9 73% Say Buying A House Is The Best Investment For Families Unemployment Rate Likely To Increase, […]
Obama is headed for a one-term presidency
Less than a month ago, Barack Obama was sworn-in as chief executive amid historic promises of “change we can believe in.” But there won’t be a second Obama term if he doesn’t admit that, no matter how adroitly he wraps himself in Reaganesque rhetoric, Leviathan is no better suited for 2009 than it was in […]
Stimulus package and the Census Backlash: Republican Senator Gregg Withdraws Nomination for Commerce Secretary
[Via Senator Gregg’s website]
Sen. Gregg stated, “I want to thank the President for nominating me to serve in his Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce. This was a great honor, and I had felt that I could bring some views and ideas that would assist him in governing during this difficult time. I especially admire his […]
Missing: 67 computers from Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab
The Department of Energy confirms a public-watchdog’s investigation that 67 computers are missing from the Los Alamos Nuclear National Laboratory, the AP reports. Of those, 13 have been lost or stolen in the past year.
The New Mexico lab, which is run by the Energy Department, says no classified information has been released. Computers with classified […]
Trillion-dollar giveaways: Barack Obama and Tim Geithner rob Main Street of $3 trillion
[Via Daily Telegraph] “The sparkle has gone from his eyes already,” an American acquaintance said to me yesterday, referring to Barack Obama. “He doesn’t know what to do.” Obama’s performance at his press conference confirmed that impression, with the rhetoric of the campaign trail, fluent and banal as piped musak, replaced with long hesitations not […]
Obama Misreads His Mandate
[Via WSJ.com] - Reagan didn’t assume his landslide was a license for whatever he wanted.
President Barack Obama’s honeymoon period seems to have ended quickly. That’s because Mr. Obama doesn’t grasp the essentials of presidential leadership. Rather than making a compelling case for his economic policies, he has resorted to curt rebuffs, such as telling House […]
Secretary of State? - Hillary’s incredible, shrinking role
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is finding that her job description is dissolving under her feet, leaving her with only a vestige of the power she must have thought she acquired when she signed on to be President Obama’s chief Cabinet officer.
Since her designation:
• Vice President Biden has moved vigorously to stake out foreign […]
Your great grand children will pay for this: $3 trillion with a T! — Senate, Fed, Treasury attack crisis
[Via ABC News]. According to ABC News, the Senate approved President Barack Obama’s giant economic stimulus measure on Tuesday, part of a string of powerful government steps that could marshal close to $3 trillion in taxpayer and private money to revive the collapsing national economy. The 61-37 vote by the Senate was a key victory […]
Obama: I’d Have a Beer With Hannity
[Via Times.com Blog] The president responds to a questioner in Elkhart who said Sean Hannity would like to have a drink with him.
“I will take that under advisement … Generally his opinion of me does not seem to be very high, but I’m always good for a beer.”
Barack Obama is a novice - and it shows
[Via The Telegraph] After a rocky start, the new President knows he has to seize back the political agenda, says Toby Harnden. During last year’s epic election campaign, Hillary Clinton said that in the White House “there is no time for on-the-job training”. Joe Biden, too, remarked that the presidency was “not something that lends […]
Obama’s approval ratings are dropping like a rock
According to the latest Rasmussen polling, President Obama’s approval ratings are headed south. The concern voters have over the stimulus bill seems to be taking a toll on his popularity. The very partisan way he is conducting business can not help. There is also the issue of many of his nominees being outed as tax […]
Disturbing and Disgusting: Women Are Dreaming of Having Sex With Obama (Via NYT Blog)
The other night I dreamt of Barack Obama. He was taking a shower right when I needed to get into the bathroom to shave my legs, and then he was being yelled at by my husband, Max, for smoking in the house. It was not clear whether Max was feeling protective of the president’s health […]
Biden: 30 Percent Chance We’ll Get It Wrong
Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged Friday that Democrats could face political repercussions in 2010 for their support of the economic stimulus package, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“But when we do [approve it], I’m sure you’re going to be nailed in ads, ‘Well they voted on that’ 30 second ads,” Biden told roughly 200 members of […]
Shocking News:President Obama Likely to Order Military Commission Charges Dropped Against Terrorist Suspect Al-Nashiri Friday
[Via ABC News] ABC News has learned that on Friday, President Obama will likely order the Department of Defense’s Military Commission to withdraw charges against terrorist suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The charges may later be reinstated in a military commission or pursued in a civilian court. Al-Nashiri will remain in custody.
The announcement will not be […]
Iran says US must accept nuclear programme
A senior adviser to Iran’s president says dialogue with the US will succeed only if the Obama administration accepts Tehran’s right to have a nuclear programme.
Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi, right-hand man to Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the fundamentalist president, said, in an interview with the Financial Times, Tehran was studying its options, just as the new US administration was […]
Just How Much is $1 Trillion: “$1 Million A Day Since Jesus Was Born”
Here is a CNN Report on just how big $1 Trillion is, the expected size of President Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan. It includes the quote from Republican Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell saying that if we started spending $1 Million the day Jesus Christ was born, and spent $1 Million every day since then, we […]
Say good bye to cheap gas:Obama administration says it will cancel 77 drilling leases near Utah parks
[Via The Salt Lake Tribune] Barely two weeks after pushing the federal government into a corner over a chaotic oil- and gas-lease sale, conservation organizations threw more punches Tuesday, hoping to overturn a Bush administration quest to maximize drilling in Utah’s redrock country.
Eleven conservation and historic-preservation groups amended a lawsuit that already has resulted in […]
Jimmy Carter the second:President Obama seeks Russia deal to slash nuclear weapons
President Obama will convene the most ambitious arms reductions talks with Russia for a generation, aiming to slash each country’s stockpile of nuclear weapons by 80 per cent.
The radical treaty would reduce the number of nuclear warheads to 1,000 each, The Times has learnt. Key to the initiative is a review of the Bush […]
Pentagon: Iran’s Domestic Satellite Launch Is Grave Cause for Concern
[Via FoxNews.com] Iran’s launch of its first satellite into space is a grave cause for concern to the U.S. as the Islamic Republic continues to work toward developing long-range missile capability, the Pentagon and White House said Tuesday.
Tuesday’s launch of its first domestically made satellite “does not convince us […]