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Bad policy.
For the last three years, domestic politics in the US has centered around the concept and application of mandates in health care. Barack Obama made that the key to his health-care reform; the Tea Party got fueled in large part over its inclusion. Obama argued at the time and to this day that his mandate [...]
Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect ... not that it will do you much good.
Michael Ramirez’ work at Investors Business Daily is always brilliant, but yesterday’s editorial cartoon may be one of his best ever. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner takes on the Church of Government, as my friend John Hinderaker calls it at Power Line, and skewers Barack Obama’s pretensions of being a faith leader while shredding the [...]
Whoa.
Some have suggested that Republicans could nominate a syphilitic camel in 2012 and still beat Barack Obama. (Hey, I’m willing to hear the camel out; what’s his position on taxes?) That sounded like hyperbole until Scott Rasmussen released this video today, discussing the internals of his head-to-head matchups in weekly tracking polls. Mitt Romney now [...]
"His brother is back in Kenya living on $12 a year."
In the midst of espousing Biblical principles at the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday, Barack Obama made a point to say, “We are our brother’s keeper.” Interesting that he used the collective “we” — and made no mention of his actual brother or of his responsibilities to him. Yesterday evening, author Mark Steyn filled in the [...]
Math is hard.
That Google+ “hangout” at the beginning of the week produced its share of goofy moments on employment. First, Barack Obama seemed totally nonplussed by the fact that a semiconductor engineer couldn’t find work — even though jobs had fallen off in that industry by 5.25% over the last three years. Next comes this moment, in [...]
But don't take our word for it ...
Three years ago today, while Barack Obama demanded almost $800 billion in stimulus funds, he told NBC that the money would generate millions of net new jobs and a new period of growth in short order. “If I don’t have this done in three years,” Obama told NBC, “then there’s going to be a one-term [...]
Okaaay.
This morning, at the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama cited Scripture as justification for his policy agenda — from reforming health care to ensuring that financial institutions play by fair rules to taxing the rich. BuzzFeed’s Zeke Miller reports: The president said he often falls to his knees in prayer, and emphasized the role of [...]
Fantasy.
Today, Politico’s Jim VandeHei reports that economic indicators should have Barack Obama worried about his re-election prospects, not more sanguine. VandeHei relies heavily on this week’s economic and deficit projections from the CBO, but perhaps not heavily enough: A new CBO report grabbed lots of headlines for projecting the deficit will top $1 trillion this [...]
Buying votes?
We got a big hint of this new proposal from Barack Obama in last week’s State of the Union message, and now Obama has rolled out his proposal to accelerate mortgage refinancing to bolster the housing market. However, it has at least one poison pill that will make it nearly impossible to get Congress to [...]
"Infused with politics at every level."
While Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich savage each other and just as Rick Santorum releases his own hard-hitting ad against Gingrich, Karl Rove’s nonprofit Crossroads GPS keeps the focus on Barack Obama with a $500,000 weeklong ad buy on national cable. As Ed wrote when the group released its first ad, anybody interested to defeat [...]
The Vote Pump.
Simply put, this is one of the best videos I’ve watched in quite some time. If you think Barack Obama will spend just $1 billion on his reelection effort, think again. This president — like the president before him and the president before him — has at his disposal “The Vote Pump,” the elegant but [...]
Georgia off his mind.
Remember the concept of “smart power”? That was Barack Obama’s promise, along with strengthening our friendships with allies abroad. It’s generally helpful for both approaches to get the names straight: President Obama mistakenly referred to the nation of Georgia as “Russia” after a bilateral meeting with the Georgian president — an unfortunate slip-up, given that [...]
"He wanted me to hush about it."
I hit this today in my Obamateurism feature, but the GOP runs much farther with a new web ad hammering Barack Obama and his “interesting” response to a question on unemployment. To set this up once again, President Obama took a question from a woman during his Google+ “hangout” about why his administration hasn’t limited [...]
CBO projects GDP growth of 2.0% in 2012, 1.1% in 2013.
I assume the answer to that question is, well, everyone. After all, no one thought that cutting less than $40 billion in spending would reduce a $1300 billion deficit by more than a third, did they? The federal budget deficit will top $1 trillion for a fourth straight year, congressional budget analysts said Tuesday, the [...]
Caption contest!
If this is any indication of the skill level David Axelrod will bring to the fall campaign …. Republicans have less to worry about than they think. Barack Obama’s campaign mastermind tweeted out this photo of the President and his dog Bo as a thinly-veiled attack on Mitt Romney and a very old story about [...]
Maybe her husband acted stupidly.
We interrupt our parade of SOTU fumbles to bring this curious moment from yesterday, in which Barack Obama engaged voters in a Google+ “hangout,” ie, a video town hall. One voter asked Obama to explain why he has not curtailed the issuance of H1B visas in the engineering field, as her husband has not been [...]
"It was an analogy of leadership."
In case you missed it, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus yesterday compared President Barack Obama to Captain Francesco Schettino, who abandoned the Costa Concordia cruise ship as it was sinking, even though the evacuation of passengers had barely begun. In an appearance Sunday morning on CBS, Priebus said, “We’re going to talk about our [...]
Re-elect red flag?
Mitt Romney edges Barack Obama among registered voters in swing states, according to a new Gallup/USA Today poll. By “edge,” I mean barely edges — by a single point. Even with that, though, Romney fares far better than his competitors in the same polling: Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney essentially ties Barack Obama in the nation’s key battlegrounds, a [...]
Coordination.
We’re still working off of last week’s SOTU, which unsurprisingly turned into a cornucopia of OOTDs. CNS News catches this moment from the White House’s “enhanced livestream” of Barack Obama’s speech, in which the administration tried to emphasize Obama’s claims by adding charts and data on the screen. That would have been impressive — had [...]
Shortening a second term?
Grover Norquist is a busy guy, what with heading up Americans for Tax Reform and making regular media appearances around the country in support of tax sanity. He normally remains focused on that one key (and admittedly important) issue, but on occasion he can wander off into brief bouts of hyperbole. That may be what [...]
"I am usually accused of not being intense enough, too relaxed."
In an interview with Diane Sawyer set to air tonight, the president unsurprisingly downplayed the tarmac tiff with Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer that equally unsurprisingly led to a boost in sales for her book. WaPo reports: The president smiled when Sawyer brought up the photo taken during the exchange and Brewer’s comments in follow-up interviews that Obama was [...]
Say it! SAY IT!
Say, do you remember the President giving some sort of speech on Tuesday night? Me neither… I was going to watch it, but I’d DVR’d the last three weeks of Full Throttle Saloon and simply had to catch up. But I did manage to catch the text and the replay the next day. And like [...]
Answering Occupiers' demands.
Since his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama has been campaigning in touring five battleground states. His final stop on that tour comes today. At a rally at the University of Michigan, the president plans to unveil a plan to increase federal “investment” in the Perkins loan program — from $1 billion to $8 [...]
"He really has no good options..."
The Green Warriors turned out to have a fairly short lived celebration after Barack Obama kicked the Keystone XL can down the road yet again. What looked like a victory for the environmental lobby was quickly thrown into a tailspin when the President gave his State of the Union address. In it, he spoke some [...]
Funny you should pick that word...
The president took time out of his busy campaign schedule to do some more campaigning yesterday in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer. In this wide ranging, hard hitting examination of why Obama is just so gosh darned wonderful, the intrepid journalist asked the question we’ve all been waiting for: what will Obama do during [...]
At least he got the rate right.
When Barack Obama gives a speech, whether it’s a State of the Union address or a campaign pitch, an unfavorable fact check is practically de rigueur. However, Obama’s effort to make his point on corporate taxes got so badly botched on so many points that actually negated his entire argument that taken together they make [...]
Expected.
You knew it was coming. Barack Obama had to have known it was coming, too – and pretty much from the minute he opened his mouth to whine about Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s treatment of him in her book Scorpions for Breakfast. You almost have to wonder whether the president wanted this to happen. Is there something else [...]
The SOTU kiss of death?
In last year’s State of the Union speech, Barack Obama hailed the great investment he made with taxpayer dollars in the manufacturer of advanced solar panels, only to have Solyndra go down the tubes — taking more than a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money with it. In this year’s SOTU speech, Obama bragged about having [...]
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