Category: President Obama
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Prioritization
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Damn that Fernandez, he always says things so much better than I could. This time, it’s about why Obama isn’t stopping Putin. Best paragraph: “One of the most ironic things about the Obama presidency is that Yes We Can hasn’t even been replaced by No We Won’t. It has…
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Puff
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We’re winning. The Obama administration is repealing Obama-care for us, one rule at a time. Pretty soon, it’ll almost be like there was nothing really there all these years. Like…an empty suit or something. Yeah. That’s it.
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Slash And Burn
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: New thinking for the military. We’re keeping the fantastically expensive and kludgy F-35 plus all 11 Carrier Battle Groups but we’re going to cut the A-10 Warthog, since we’ll never again need a tank-buster. And the U-2 is obsolete in the satellite era. Oh, and we don’t need 100,000 people.…
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Our Loathsome Elites
Julie Boonstra, in the middle of being treated for Leukemia, had to go chasing after alternative health insurance. Because of Obamacare. The WaPo’s “fact check” column, “Politifact”, leaped into action and did what it’s paid to do; uphold the Democrat narrative: Media organizations investigating the ad’s claims note that Boonstra was able to find comparable…
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Soon We’ll All Be Rogues
Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed: Congress foolishly passed laws that allow payday lenders to help poor people make it from one paycheck to the next. President Obama – who vowed before God to faithfully execute the laws enacted by Congress – doesn’t like that one (never has; when he was in the Illinois legislature,…
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Democrats: This Is Your Mess
Obamacare is going to eliminate 2.5 million jobs over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office: It said the equivalent of 2.3 million workers would be lost by 2021, compared to its previous estimate of 800,000, and that 2.5 million workers would be lost by 2024. It also projected that labor force compensation…
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State Of The State Of The Union
I watched President Obama’s 5th State of the Union out at the Cinema Grill in New Hope last night, at a party thrown by Americans For Prosperity, hosted by Siri Freeh and some guys. Main observations? Well, first things first; this was the first time in a long time I’ve sat through an entire speech…
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Why’s Johnny So Depressed?
Youth Misery Index – a combination of unemployment rate, college loan debt and each youth’s share of the national debt – breaks all prior records under Obama: The index, released Wednesday, was calculated by adding youth unemployment and average college loan debt figures with each person’s share of the national debt. While it has steadily grown…
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It’s Almost As If They Don’t Consider Perverse Incentives Perverse…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Federal officials claim crude oil from North Dakota has a lower flash point, so it’s more dangerous to transport by rail than crude oil from other sources. Federal officials continue to block the Keystone Pipeline, which would transport crude oil safely underground. Federal officials maintain their policy of refusing to issue permits to pump…
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The Thing About Obama Supporters
You go into these tastefully-appointed homes in Crocus Hill and Highland Park, and, like a lot of comfy urban-but-not-too-urban neighborhoods full of college-educated middle-aged academics and non-profiteers and mid-to-upper-level government and institutional employees, the sense of their historical invincibility has been gone now for 2-3 years and nothing’s replaced it. And they felt invincible, like…
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Faint Damnation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Report finds no evidence of widespread sexual misconduct in Secret Service. Good to know. Of course, that depends on what “sexual misconduct” means. We all remember “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” And what “widespread” means (get your mind out of the gutter, we’re talking about sexual…
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Coincidence Is Your Comedian
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The fact that she was the only person who died in the crash is not the least bit suspicious, there’s nothing to see here, move along, you racist haters. Joe Doakes Even if you cordially detest conspiracy theory (as I do), the Obama Administration is a dog’s breakfast of head-shaking fun.
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Lack Of Sound And Fury Signifying Nothing
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: People are claiming the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s funeral was a fake because “. . . the man communicated nothing with his hand and arm movements.” Maybe he accurately interpreted Barak Obama’s speech. The man basically said nothing so the interpreter said nothing. The real complaint shouldn’t…
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Public Versus Private
Robert Stacy McCain has the quote of the day from Twitter: Obama has a web site that doesn’t work and drones that kill people. Amazon has a functioning web site and drones that deliver gifts. Maybe that Galt fellow was onto something…
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36 Encores
Let’s go to the primary sources: Ambiguity?
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The Left Hand Doesn’t Know What The Farther-Left Hand Is Doing
It was one of the stories that got no play last session, in spite of the fact because it highlights the bizarre schizophrenia of using politics to allocate human capital, but while on the one hand AFSCME was working to unionize home-child-care providers – who are independent contractors and don’t have “management” – it was instituting…
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NSA Snooping Explained
They’re not spying on us. They’re scouring the nation for evidence of any form of Obamcare succes story. Soon, they’ll be turning the Hubble Telescope toward the US…
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When Obama Loses The Late-Night Comics…
Jimmy Kimmel: “The only time President Obama comes to LA for money. He’s like the college student who only comes home to do his laundry and steal leftovers….”
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Poll Cats
Toronto’s crack-addict mayor Chris Farley Rob Ford is many things. Among them; “more popular than Obama“: According to a new Forum Research survey of 1,049 Toronto voters, Ford, who admitted to using crack in a “drunken stupor” on Nov. 5, has an approval rating of 42 percent. The Telegraph notes that though this is “a two…
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American Poobah
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: It’s nice to have a modern leader in office. In the olden days, Congress passed the laws and the President faithfully carried them out. Nowadays, Congress passes laws and the President does as he chooses. He faithfully carries out those parts of the law that he likes, when he…
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What If…
…the President’s “fix” were to throw the entire insurance market into complete chaos?: The debacle threatens to swamp Obama’s entire second-term agenda, raising questions about his competency and credibility. Polls released this week show the president’s job-approval rating at a historic low and a majority of voters saying, for the first time, that he isn’t…
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This Is What Incompetence Looks Like
In my native North Dakota, 35,000 people have lost or will be losing their insurance so far. Against that, 30 have successfully signed up. Hint to the national GOP; “hope for change” might be a good tack to take. If you can actually offer either, naturally.