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This whole “Teach Obama a Lesson” thing is working so perfectly, isn’t it?

By on March 10, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

Epic rant to follow. This might leave a mark.

In Wisconsin. In Ohio. In Michigan. In Florida.

All across the country, the True Liberals’ efforts to teach Barack Obama a lesson are paying off in spades. Their plan could not have worked out more perfectly. After a year of shouting to the highest heavens about how much they were disappointed in President Obama and the Democrats, after a year promising to withhold their support during the 2010 Midterm campaign and, more importantly, at the ballot box, they got their wish: Democrats stayed home in droves. Huge numbers of Democrats across the country, many of whom had voted for the very first time in 2008, got up and went to the fridge instead of the polls that late Fall Tuesday.…


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Homebrew at the White House? How do I get invited???!

By on March 5, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

This story from Obama Foodorama is truly awesome: The Obamas Make History With Homebrewed White House Honey Ale

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama made culinary history when they served homebrewed White House Honey Ale, made with a pound of honey from the White House Beehive, to guests at last month’s Super Bowl party. They are the first presidential couple to ever charge their chefs with the ancient–and now wildly popular–art of homebrewing, according to White House Curator Bill Allman.

~SNIP~

Yes, President George Washington was a well-known homebrewer. President Washington is also the only president who never lived in the White House.

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President Obama appropriately chooses NOT to be the anti-Reagan

By on March 3, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama, unions

In 1981, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), the national union representing air traffic controllers, went on strike. After talks collapsed, President Ronald Reagan permanently fired 11,000 of the union members.

The President of the United States of America intervened in a labor dispute in a heavy-handed move that, in many ways, defined Reagan’s legacy and shaped the Republican Party and how it is perceived for decades to come. The labor turmoil in Wisconsin today is a direct result of Governor Scott Walker’s desire (obsession?) to be viewed as the next coming of Ronald Reagan and busting unions fits quite nicely into the frame.…


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Help Wanted: President of the United States

By on March 1, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

Imagine if Barack Obama had received a true-to-life, realistic job preview of the job he was about to take on. Imagine if, in February 2007, when he decided to throw his hat into the ring in the run for president, he had read the following HELP WANTED ad, one that accurately reflects the road ahead of him.

Imagine…
February 2007 – HELP WANTED – Seeking: President of the United States

PLEASE POST UNTIL NOVEMBER 2008

Seeking a qualified individual to act as the President of the United States from January 2009 until at least January 2013. Employment contract may be extended for an additional four years upon successful completion of first term.…


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Will President Obama get credit for this? Unlikely.

By on March 1, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

Yesterday, President Obama indicated that he would be willing to modify some conditions of the Affordable Care Act to please some governors out there, many of them Republicans:

President Obama sought to defuse criticism of the new health-care overhaul Monday by saying he is willing to give states an earlier opportunity to opt out of certain key requirements – but only if they can find their own ways to accomplish the law’s goals.

~SNIP~

If Congress approves the plan, states could gain exemption by 2014 rather than 2017 from some central and controversial elements of the law: that most Americans carry health insurance, that many employers offer their workers coverage, and that states create insurance marketplaces to help individuals and small businesses buy health plans that meet federal rules.

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Quote of the Day

By on February 26, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

Obama is not a brown-skinned, anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You’re thinking of Jesus.

— John Fugelsang, stand-up comedian

I’m just sayin’…

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It’s only news if it hurts President Obama

By on February 25, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

There have now been FIVE federal court rulings on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Of this, only two of them have gone against the ruling and one of them was only against part of it (the federal mandate).

So, how has the media discussed these rulings? Here’s the answer in graphical from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:

Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly has more:

As a legal matter, none of these ruling is more important than the other — they’re all at the federal district level, they’re all dealing with the same law, and they’ll all be subjected to an appeal.…

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“No Drama Obama” threads the needle both foreign and domestic

By on February 21, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

This past month has been a case study in how President Obama’s steady and measured approach to upheavals is exactly the right one to navigate through sticky issues both in our nation’s foreign policy and in our domestic scene, as well.

In Egypt, the Obama administration received not-unexpected criticism from both sides. One group claimed he was acting too aloof, too distant when he should have taken a far more proactive role in showing overt USA support for the protesters in these countries. Others would have had him stay out of the internal politics of other countries entirely. This latter group, I would suggest, were those that were searching desperately for anything to criticize the President about and this was all they could offer.…


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President Obama in Michigan today – Snowbama!

By on February 10, 2011 in Barack Obama, Michigan, President Obama

President Obama is in the far northern reaches of Michigan today to kick off his drive to extend high-speed internet to 98% of the country.

President Barack Obama’s visit to Marquette today is intended to highlight the benefits of widespread access to broadband service and promote his plan for a National Wireless Initiative to make high-speed wireless Internet services available to 98% of all Americans, the White House said in a briefing Wednesday.

The cost of the latter will be borne by proceeds from the sale of 500 MHZ of wireless spectrum, estimated to net about $27.8 billion over the next decade, administration officials said.

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Rep. Steve King: Criticism of Obama’s religion has “accelerated his church-going”

By on February 9, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

Congressman Steve King, Republican conservative from Iowa, has spent an enormous amount of time casting doubt on President Obama’s religion. Tonight, on Lawrence O’Donnell’s Last Word, O’Donnell played a clip where Representative King said that the President doesn’t have an “American experience”. Then, during the interview, King dropped this unbelievable bit of insulting idiocy:

“The President stood in Cairo and spoke to the Muslim world and professed to be a Christian. If he will stand in front of the Muslim world and make that statement I take him at his word. I don’t question his religion. I will say that the criticism of his religion seems to have accelerated his church-going and I think that’s a good thing.…

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