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Gee, when you put it that way Obama sounds like a big loser

WizardPC: To recap: In 2009 we were told that if we didn’t pass Obama’s stimulus, unemployment would exceed 8%. After two years of 9.5%+ unemployment, we were told if we didn’t raise the debt limit by yesterday, the market would … Continue reading

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Obama: “Gimme your taxes or I’ll take away Grandma’s check”

Washington Examiner – Washington gets $200 billion a month, Social Security costs $50 billion a month, and Obama is threatening to starve Grandma? Karl Denninger at the Market Ticker has an interesting take on this. For decades Social Security run … Continue reading

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After the Birthers comes … the Afterbirthers!

The Onion – Afterbirthers Demand To See Obama’s Placenta: WASHINGTON – In the continuing controversy surrounding the president’s U.S. citizenship, a new fringe group informally known as “Afterbirthers” demanded Monday the authentication of Barack Obama’s placenta from his time inside … Continue reading

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I Completely Agree with Barack Obama on the Debt Ceiling

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend … Continue reading

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Biden in 2007: Impeach a president who goes to war without Congressional approval

Biden and Obama both thought war without Congressional authorization would be unconstitutional, but they did it anyway. Say what you will about Bush, but he got Congressional approval for both of his wars. Newsbusters: Networks Stressed Importance of Congressional Approval … Continue reading

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Obama said what about oil?

Hot Air – Obama’s Curious Claims on Oil Production: “We can’t escape the fact that we control only 2% of the world’s oil.” This is a common refrain among anti-drilling Democrats and environmentalists, and it’s repeated enough that many people … Continue reading

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And here I’ve been worried about inflation

Obama: “We’re not seeing a broad-based inflation trend.” I guess inflation hasn’t reached the arugula market.

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Your Daily Economic Nut Punch: the Deficit

Reason – The President’s Brain is Missing! (When it Comes to the Budget) President Barack Obama’s 2012 budget proposes to spend $3.48 trillion on everything except interest on the national debt. That’s a 7 percent increase over what the government … Continue reading

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Presidential Candidate Barack Obama on Health Insurance Mandates

“If a [health insurance] mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house.” – Barack Obama, 2008

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Ear leader pushes light rail in SOTU – “this time for sure!”

During the state of the union address Obama proselytized for more light rail. Modern rail projects are a proven economic failure and Amtrak wouldn’t exist for 10 minutes if the government wasn’t subsidizing every single ticket. Some rail posts from … Continue reading

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Google searches for “buy a gun” near record highs

Via Zero Hedge. The current uptrend is presumably due to the Tucson, Arizona shooting – either out of concern for violence or concern that new gun control laws might be pushed through Congress after the incident. The #1 city searching … Continue reading

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Rush Limbaugh on Hu Jintao’s White House Dinner

“The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner hosted a dinner for the guy holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner in prison and the media does not get the irony of this at all.” – Rush Limbaugh I’m not a big … Continue reading

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2006 Obama on federal debts

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend … Continue reading

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Obama, Republican Congress to Plunge Nation Deeper into Debt

If the latest plan goes through, the Bush tax cuts will be extended as per the Republican Congress, but unemployment benefits will be extended and payroll taxes cut as per Obama. Result? Almost a trillion dollars in additional deficits over … Continue reading

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Democrats aren’t the party of science, either

The Obama Administration’s War On Science.

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Wikileaks Show Team Obama Was Clueless on Middle East

Wikileaks: Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia, Other Arab Countries 100% Backward On Iran Attack: Under this theory King Abdullah expected to talk about militarily confronting Iran, and he couldn’t believe it when Obama kept reciting bromides about the … Continue reading

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Obama Clings to His Religion?

So you remember the dustup over Obama’s bitter clingers comment: Barack Obama was forced onto the defensive at the weekend over unguarded comments he made about small-town voters across the midwest. Obama was caught in an uncharacteristic moment of loose … Continue reading

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Project much?

Dems take in twice as much “foreign” money as Republicans. Via Instapundit, who reminds everyone that in 2008 Obama famously took international credit cards online after disabling address verification. Here’s his roundup of the foreign money claims.

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Obama: no shovel-ready projects, should have let Republicans cut taxes

NY Times – President Obama Looks Forward — and Back: In the magazine article, Mr. Obama reflects on his presidency, admitting that he let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat,” realized too late that “there’s no … Continue reading

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Obama Added More National Debt than Washington Through Reagan

Christian Science Monitor – Obama Added More to National Debt in First 19 Months Than All Presidents from Washington Through Reagan Combined, Says Gov’t Data: In the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the … Continue reading

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