Quote of the day, “Irony is lost on Chris Mattews” edition
From Hot Air:
Chris Matthews talks with Eugene Robinson and Susan Page about Sarah Palin’s speech and hyperventilates about “secession”, which is where Robinson picks this up, attempting to keep up with Matthews’ paranoia. At the end, Matthews actually warns Robinson that “Charismatic leaders have done this country and this world a lot of harm,” apparently oblivious to his own track record over the last two years in being Barack Obama’s number-one fanboy.
Seriously…did Leg Tingles just lecture anyone on the dangers of charming leaders with charisma?
Here’s guessing that both of Matthews’ viewers got a “thrill down their leg” listening to Matthews get slapped by irony and not even noticing.
Murtha dead at 77
Details here.
I’m not going to wax eloquent about the guy, now or anytime in the foreseeable future. However, I would be less than a compassionate human being if I didn’t wish the best for his family and friends. May they turn to God for strength and comfort in this dark season of theirs.
Quote of the day, “Why the MSM is failing” edition
Andrew Breitbart with a word of advice for the dinosaur media and why it’s dying:
It’s not your business model that sucks, it’s you that sucks.
Heh.
Obama: How’s about a shout out to ol’ whats-her-name who died of cancer not having a good health plan? She did get a sweet t-shirt, though!
What a horrid, shameful man this narcissistic empty suit is! Quoting The One:
I got a letter — I got a note today from one of my staff — they forwarded it to me — from a woman in St. Louis who had been part of our campaign, very active, who had passed away from breast cancer. She didn’t have insurance. She couldn’t afford it, so she had put off having the kind of exams that she needed. And she had fought a tough battle for four years. …
As Tom Maguire points out, she did have health insurance. Granted, it was a high-deductible plan, but she opted to use the money to invest in a business instead of in her health. I am very sympathetic, but if the left chooses to make an example of the need for socialized medicine at her expense, it’s a battle they will lose (again).
Anywho, continuing with B.O.’s quote:
… All through the campaign she was fighting it, but finally she succumbed to it. And she insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt.
If only she had access to a “corpse-man“, right? Byron York observed thusly:
Many observers have noted that the president often seems extraordinarily self-referential. It’s all about him, they say. But even those critics might be a little taken aback by the “buried in an Obama t-shirt” remark. Is it really that much about him? (Is Ed “Too Tall” Jones…too tall? – Ed.)
He never mentions her name, not once. But he sure mentions himself and his branded t-shirt. To quote John Hinderaker, “But enough about me: what do you think about me?”
Global warming movement is dead
To quote Bones from Star Trek: “It’s dead, Jim.”
Awesome column here, but the takeaway quote:
“The global warming movement as we have known it is dead,” the brilliant analyst Walter Russell Mead says in his blog on The American Interest. It was done in by a combination of bad science and bad politics.
In other news, DC is digging out from about three feet of global warming right now.
Night and Day, “Pelosi blames the president for job losses” edition
The fact is that President Bush’s misguided economic policies have failed to create jobs. Since President Bush took office, the country has lost 3.2 million jobs, the worst record since President Hoover. And today we learned that in July nearly half a million people gave up looking for a job.
Job losses are taking a real toll on the financial security of American families. While Democrats are fighting for opportunity, jobs, and economic security for working families, Republicans continue to focus on helping those who need help the least.
According to today’s survey, while the national unemployment rate dropped slightly, it still stands at a near record high. In addition, the unemployment rate for African Americans was still over 11 percent in July, and the unemployment rate for Hispanics was 8.2 percent in July.
With today’s unemployment numbers making 2003’s look like a Sunday picnic, here’s what San Fran Nan is saying today:
(crickets chirping)
You know, if I didn’t know any better, I’d swear that she’s quieter than Monica Lewinsky in her kneepads simply because the current president is of the same party that she is.
Video: Democrats find humor in quadrupling the deficit
Oh, the hilarity! The sheer, unparalleled hilarity! Bankrupting the nation is a freakin’ hoot, no? 
Crush Liberalism Radio to begin Sunday, February 14
I put together a “dry run” this past Sunday to see if I could navigate successfully, upload sound clips, etc. I think I know enough to be dangerous!
Anywho, the first real show will be Sunday, Feb. 14, at 10:00 pm EST. I would have started it this upcoming Sunday, but like many of you, I’ll be tuned in to the Super Bowl.
Shows are all archived, so you can always listen later at your convenience. My intention is to broadcast every Sunday for 30 minutes, beginning at 10:00 pm. If conditions determine that I need to bump it up to an hour or start it at a different time, I will, but that’s down the road a bit. Also, I don’t think I’ll be accepting call-ins for the first show, only so I can try to put together a full show first. After that, I will determine who I will allow on the air and how I will arrange that (so as to prevent the moonbat stalkers from invading the show). If you don’t like the rules, then you are free to get your own show going with your own rules.
Thanks for the encouragement, friends, and I’ll see you (figuratively speaking, of course) on Valentines evening!
Charlie Crist supports counting criminal immigrants in census
Friggin’ brilliant, Charlie. You’re tanking now in a poll that you led by 30+% a couple of months ago, so you figured the best way to regain the lead in a conservative primary is…to shill for illegal immigrants? Really?
I’m going to love casting my vote for Marco Rubio this summer.
Quote of the day, “I’m REALLY not a leftist!” edition
This is a real knee-slapper! Excerpt:
“I am not an ideologue,” President Obama insisted at his truly refreshing confab with the Republican caucus in Baltimore last Friday. When he heard some incredulous murmurs and chuckles from the audience in response to the idea that the most sincerely ideological president in a generation is no ideologue, he added a somewhat plaintive, “I’m not.”
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The evidence offered that Obama is no ideologue rests almost entirely on two contentions: He has annoyed some members of his ideological base, and because he says so.
That’s what chapped my posterior more than anything about the 2008 election. Any sentient being could look at B.O.’s skimpy voting record (the votes that weren’t “present”) and see that virtually every single position he took was not just on the left, but on the far left. He had no proof whatsoever that he had ever been “pragmatic”, bipartisan, or anything other than a leftist ideologue.
Yet when he was speaking his flowery rhetoric (and, as Reid pointed out, “without a Negro dialect”) on the campaign trail about reaching out, finding the proper answers and not the left or right answers, about purple states and not red or blue ones, normal Americans like myself howled in incredulous laughter. He had never been a pragmatic politician, and his record conveyed that clearly. Yet because he was such an unknown, people could project their ideals on him without a frame of reference.
Well, guess what? You have a frame of reference now, America, and it is the Marxist in the Oval Office. How’s that Hopenchange working for you now, huh?
Reid’s “light-skinned” pal with “no Negro dialect” trashes Vegas…again
Yes…again. Way to win friends and influence people, Barry.
Reid did gently chastise B.O., and D’oh-bama has tried to clarify his statement (“inartful”, I’m guessing). But I’m guessing that bringing in his “clean, articulate” pal for campaigning is still a go.
Canadian province’s premier: Socialized medicine is so wicked awesome here in Canuckistan that I’m flying to the U.S. for my heart surgery
Dude’s been a huge proponent and defender of socialized medicine, but when it comes to his own health, it’s a totally different tune he’s singing. Beauty, eh? Details:
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is set to undergo heart surgery this week in the United States.
CBC News confirmed Monday that Williams, 60, left the province earlier in the day and will have surgery later in the week.
The premier’s office provided few details, beyond confirming that he would have heart surgery and saying that it was not necessarily a routine procedure.
Single-payer for thee, but not for me…eh, Canuckistan?
Here’s guessing that this won’t be in Mikie Moore’s next mockumentary.
Quote of the day, “Gibbs said WHAT?” edition
BEVERAGE WARNING! If you are imbibing at the moment, you are hereby warned to cease…lest you spew your drink all over your monitor after reading this gem from B.O.’s spokestool, Robert Gibbs:
We are where we are today partly because of this economic downturn, but partly because for a long time we had two wars that we weren’t paying for. We had tax cuts that we weren’t paying for. And we had a prescription drug benefit that, although very worthy, we never paid for.
We have to return to some very common-sense principles that everyday Americans live by every time they go to the grocery store or want to go to the movies or cash their paycheck, and that is you can’t spend more than you have.
Seriously? Did the mouthpiece for President Trillion-Plus Deficit just say that?
Oh, yes…yes he did.
Crist flaming out in Florida Republican Senate primary
The primary is still about seven months from now, but it looks like Gov. Charlie Crist was a bit premature in his decision not to run for re-election as Florida’s governor.
He instead wanted to take his brand nationally, to the U.S. Senate. Trouble is, though, that despite being well-funded and having a well-recognized name, his bromance with President Training Wheels has been his undoing. As of today, Crist trails primary opponent Marco Rubio by 12%.
Obviously, a lot can change between now and then. Crist is loaded with cash and notoriety. However, Rubio has decided that RINO-hunting can pay off big time for him. Regardless of who wins between Crist and Rubio, though, the seat looks to stay red, barring any unforeseen circumstances.
Obama “slashes” budget, which results in…$1.6 trillion deficit
My head hurts. Excerpt:
The $3.8 trillion budget blueprint President Obama plans to submit to Congress on Monday calls for billions of dollars in new spending to combat persistently high unemployment and bolster a battered middle class. But it also would slash funding for hundreds of programs and raise taxes on banks and the wealthy to help rein in soaring budget deficits.
To put people back to work, Obama proposes to spend about $100 billion immediately on a jobs bill that would include tax cuts for small businesses, social-safety-net programs, and aid to state and local governments. To reduce deficits, he would impose new fees on some of the nation’s largest banks and permit a range of tax cuts to expire for families earning more than $250,000 a year, in addition to freezing non-security spending for three years.
Despite those efforts, the White House expects the annual gap between spending and revenue to approach a record $1.6 trillion this year as the government continues to dig out from the worst recession in more than a generation, according to budget documents released Sunday by the White House. The red ink would recede to $1.3 trillion in 2011 but remain persistently high for years to come under Obama’s policies.
Look at the comPost: O’s “slashing” his way to ballooning deficits. Nope…no liberal media bias!
So President Deficit Tackler’s idea of “spending freezes” and “deficit reduction” plans will result in a bigger budget deficit than this country’s ever experienced?
OK, I see how that works: I will “slash” 20 lbs. off my frame by adding 5 Big Macs a day to my caloric intake. That oughta work the same way as B.O.’s deficit strategy. My approach will flat-out taste better, too, no?
Obama: Yeah, I lied about that whole “you get to keep your health plan and doctor” thingy
Flashback to My Cousin Vinny: “Everything that guy just said was bull$h!t.”
For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.
Oh, I get it now. It’s as if this totally perfect bill that matched all of B.O.’s rhetoric existed, and then unbeknownst to The One, this language that “violated that pledge” just mysteriously popped up into the current Senate bill…turning it into the “Bolshevik product” we all said it would turn into. I mean, come on…it’s not like any attempt to prevent you from “keeping your current plan/doctor” was by design or anything, right?
You know, if I didn’t know any better, I’d swear the dude’s a shameless leftist liar or something!
Obama bows to another head of state
And by “another head of state”, I obviously mean…the mayor of Tampa.
Seriously, B.O.? Seriously???
bin Laden parrots left’s global “warming” talking points
Let’s see here:
Blame America. “Must act now.” Bush’s fault. Must sacrifice the economy in order to avert environmental catastrophe.
Yep, sounds like the usual pablum we’d expect out of Obama.
Hmmmm? I’m sorry, what was that? Oh, my bad. Gotta get my hearing checked. That was Osama, not Obama.
Seriously, though, isn’t ObL simply echoing the same sentiments we’ve heard ad nauseum from the left for years now?
Exit question: Will bin Laden be considered for a Nobel Prize next time? I mean, Al Gore got one for his commitment to fighting global “warming” and Arafat got one for his commitment to blowing up as many Jews as possible. ObL has now done both.
Obama getting his historical documents mixed up
Yessirree, that Constitutional law scholar currently wasting oxygen at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. had this nugget in his STFU SOTU speech the other night:
We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution, the notion that we’re all created equal…
I don’t know how to break this to you, James Madison, but there is nothing about us being “created equal” in the Constitution. That’s in the Declaration of Independence. The closest thing that the Constitution comes to discussing “equally” is the 14th Amendment, which says that the laws of the land will be applied equally to all. That is not the same thing as being “created equal”, now is it? You’d think a Constitutional law scholar would kinda know that and stuff.
In fairness to Chairman Zero, he’s not the first liberal constitutional law scholar president to be hamhanded about it. Remember this from Bubba during a campaign rally in 1996?
The last time I checked, the Constitution said, “of the people, by the people and for the people.” That’s what the Declaration of Independence says.
Well, which was it: the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence? Actually, neither: it was the Gettysburg Address.
You know, if I didn’t know any better, I’d swear that liberals only pretend to know and honor the Constitution!
Quote of the day, “Obama doesn’t get it…or get us” edition
Rich Lowry sums it up best:
The public thinks Obama doesn’t get it; Obama thinks the public doesn’t get it.
Of course not. Obama thinks that America has a feevuh, and the only prescription is more cowbell Obama.
Notes from Obama’s SOTU address
1. Chris Matthews says he forgot B.O. was a black man “for and hour”. Awaiting howls of racial condemnation from the left in 3…2…1…
2. B.O. criticized the recent Supreme Court decision that allows businesses and organizations to exercise their First Amendment rights. Justice Alito dissented, publicly. Rep. Joe Wilson just called to tell Justice Alito that he could have been a little more vocal about it. Anywho, you would figure that a constitutional law professor like Uhhhh-bama would be a little more familiar with the Constitution and with Supreme Court precedents.
3. Not content with the negative fallout from his unpopular socialized medicine plan, B.O. thought trying to implement another massively unpopular policy (allowing gays to serve openly in the military) would be just the thing to get America back on his side.
4. Here’s our DHS Secretary, putting the “nap” in “Napolitano”. Reid apparently forgot to take his 5-Hour Energy shot, too.
5. Fact check: You know, Obama’s kinda full of bovine feces on a bunch of things he said last night, huh?
6. Russ (via Ace) said that the big winner from the SOTU speech was…Jimmy Carter. How? Because now, Carter is no longer the official worst president we’ve seen in our lifetime. B.O. now has that dubious distinction. After all, can you ever recall a president that was a lame duck after just ONE year?
Quote of the day, “Robert Reich sees time-traveling Republican mouthpiece” edition
Bubba’s former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, is teaching impressionable young minds at Berserkeley how the GOP won both chambers of Congress in 1994:
Even worse, by that time the Dems had lost the House and Senate. Washington was riding a huge anti-incumbent wave. Right-wing populists were the ascendancy, with Newt Gingrich and Fox News leading the charge.
That’s a pretty neat trick…considering that Fox News didn’t start until October of 1996. For those of you on the left, that’s two years after the Republicans won Congress.
But see, that’s just further proof as to how diabolical Fox News is. Yessirree, FNC was actually able to start up in 1996, teleport back two years prior so as to give unflattering coverage to Democrats, then warp back to 1996. All undetected. Just like Timecop, except Jean-Claude Van Damme’s character is played by Sean Hannity. That’s just scary genius right there.
For those of you on the left, the prior paragraph was an example of sarcasm.
Quote of the day, “Obama lies about health care bill bribes” edition
So sayeth The One:
“Let’s just clarify. I didn’t make a bunch of deals [on health care]. … There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked.”
Thanks for the clarification, Champ. There’s just one problem with your statement, though: it’s a friggin’ lie. Details:
Schumer, who spent more than 13 hours in Reid’s office Friday, said the Medicaid issue was settled around lunchtime, and the final eight hours of the talks focused on the abortion language. Boxer estimated she spent seven hours in Reid’s offices — without ever once sitting in the same room, even though they were all of 25 steps apart.
Reid and Schumer kept up the “shuttle negotiation” between the leader’s conference room and his top aide’s office, Boxer said. Keenly aware how tense the talks were, the White House dispatched two aides who together have decades of experience in the Senate — Jim Messina and Peter Rouse — to work with Nelson. They relayed their intelligence to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who monitored the talks from a dinner in Georgetown.
You know, if I didn’t know any better, I’d swear that B.O. plays fast and loose with the truth!
Quote of the day, “Obama’s delusions of electoral grandeur” edition
Another Dem sees the writing on the wall for the midterms this year and is, in a purely coincidental move, retiring. Rep. Marion Berry (not to be confused with the crack-smoking former D.C. mayor who keeps getting re-elected to DC public office) of Arkansas is hanging it up.
But why worry, asks B.O.? Details:
“They just kept telling us how good it was going to be. The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, ‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’ We’re going to see how much difference that makes now.”
Well, heck, why didn’t you say so? I mean, it’s not as if that strategy didn’t work in VA, NJ, and MA. Oh, wait…
I stand by my belief that dude suffers from a severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Night and Day, “Obama’s position on spending freezes” edition
B.O. was against spending freezes…before he was for them.
Oprompter while campaigning in 2008:
OBAMA: The problem with a spending freeze is you’re using a hatchet where you need a scalpel.
Uhhhhhh-bama today:
President Barack Obama intends to propose a three-year freeze on spending that accounts for one-sixth of the federal budget—a move meant to quell rising voter concern over the deficit but whose practical impact will be muted.
John F’ing Kerry just called to say “Hey, I thought that was a brilliant approach by Obama…before I didn’t.”
Dems: To blame Bush, or not to blame Bush?
Some Dems: Hey, this “blaming Bush” thingy isn’t working too well these days, is it?
Carville and other Dems: You know what I’d do right about now to reverse our current decline? I’d do something really clever, unique, and totally unforeseen. Something like, oh I dunno, and I’m just kinda spitballin’ here…maybe blaming Bush or something?
Pass the popcorn!
How to Obama prepare to address school kids? With a teleprompter, of course!
Via JWF, and no, it is not a Photoshop.
Exit question: Wouldn’t this have been a little easier to handle if he had just gone to the school where the kids were singing “Mmmm, mmmmm, mmmmmm“?
Air America goes off the air, files Chapter 7
Pure heartache for both of their listeners, who will now have to emerge from their mothers’ basement and search for that elusive “life” thingy.
Reid getting campaign help from his “light-skinned” friend with “no Negro dialect”
In Reid’s warped mind, he thinks the best way to prop up his failing campaign is to call in a guy who is now massively unpopular in Reid’s own state? Hey, not that I’m the least bit opposed to the strategy, mind you! Let’s recap some things, shall we?
Obama goes to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago getting the Olympics. Result: Fail.
Obama goes to Copenhagen again, to lobby for global warming during Arctic conditions “climate change” agreements. Result: Fail.
Obama goes to VA to lobby for Creigh Deeds’ gubernatorial bid. Result: Fail.
Obama goes to NJ to lobby for Jon Corzine’s gubernatorial bid. Result: Fail.
Obama goes to MA to lobby for Marcia…Marla…Martha…whatever the heck her name is…Coakley’s senatorial bid. Result: Fail.
Obama pushes his caucus hard to get socialized medicine…er, “health care reform”, by September … State of the Union Speech … any day that ends in the letter “y”. Result: Fail.
Obama pushes his caucus hard to get cap-and-tax through both houses of Congress. Result: Fail.
Then by all means, sir…go build upon that consistent track record!
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