Good thing we slapped together that debt deal, just in the nick of time to avoid a debt downgr… Ah, forget it. (Reuters) – The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit . . .
Author: Dan Cleary
Ouch! HuffPo rips Obama’s hollow rhetoric on jobs
You know Obama’s bid for re-election is in serious trouble when the the folks at the Huffington Post (of all places) start piling on like this. Could they be trying to get . . .
Embarrassing: Harry Smith’s fawning birthday tribute to Barack Obama
Think Harry Smith is reading this straight from his personal diary? I wouldn’t doubt it. Via Newsbusters: Speaking of cringe-worthy, how ’bout we bust out this Harry Smith classic from a couple . . .
Unhinged lib on FAA budget dispute: “Republicans are certainly willing to crash an airplane”
Well, this is certainly a new wrinkle in the Left’s vitriolic “Republicans are terrorists” narrative. I’m not even sure how to respond to it. Just, wow. This guy’s audience must be an . . .
Stocks plunge, Dow drops 513 points
Draw your own conclusions. NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is finishing its worst day since the financial crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 500 points Thursday. Investors . . .
Chris Christie defends Sohail Mohammed nomination; says “this Sharia law business is crap”
Chris Christie held a press conference yesterday, during which he answered a few questions about his controversial nomination to the New Jersey Superior Court, Sohail Mohammed. Not surprisingly, he strongly defended the . . .
Gore: “We need to have an American Spring”
Until we are living under a full-blown tyranny in America, there will always be disgruntled lefties among us who just aren’t satisfied with anything less. Which brings us to Al Gore. Here . . .
Rep. Joe Walsh responds to Joe Biden: “I am not a terrorist”
Sadly, the tea party has now been referred to as “terrorists” or “hostage-takers” by so many leftists, I’ve lost track of who said what and when. I just assume that pretty much . . .
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-One Satan Sandwich Short of a Picnic) now talking about ingredients and “demon drinks”
Is this guy out to lunch, or what? Via Politico. How much you wanna bet all the D.C. burger joints are scrambling to add Satan sandwiches to the menu – especially now . . .
NYT: Hey, this debt deal actually doesn’t reduce federal spending at all
Surprise, surprise. Even the New York Times is pointing out that President Obama got his historic $2.4 trillion dollar increase in the debt ceiling, in exchange for…barely noticeable spending cuts that will . . .
Open Thread: The crushing weight of our national debt
This video was one of the entries in Powerline’s recent multimedia contest to come up with the best representation of the size of our nation’s crushing debt. As you watch, consider the . . .
Biden welcomes Gabrielle Giffords to the “Cracked Head Club”
Just what every woman wants to hear, Mr. Vice President. Via Breitbart. —
A little music for your ears: Dick Morris sees landslide loss in Obama’s future
Lay it on us, sir. Many of us could use a pick-me-up right about now. Never mind the fact that Morris supports this hot mess. Just enjoy the poll data, for what . . .
Issa: GOP pledge to post bills online for 72 hours before voting was kept in “spirit”
Dude, come on. Washington (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) says voting on the debt-ceiling legislation the same day the bill was posted online does not violate the “spirit” of the 2010 . . .
FreedomWorks’ Matt Kibbe patiently endures a boneheaded lecture from Chris Matthews
This is a pretty entertaining “Hardball” segment, featuring FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe and host Chris Matthews. And by “entertaining” I mean a “maddening reminder of why none of us actually watch the . . .
Gallup poll shows 41% self-identify as conservative vs. only 21% liberal
No wonder Paul Krugman wants us to think of President Obama as a “moderate conservative.” Yes – he actually said that. The numbers in the chart below have been fairly consistent over . . .
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) elaborates on “sugar-coated Satan sandwich” analogy
By now most of you have probably heard Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s bizarre description of yesterday’s debt deal as a “sugar-coated Satan sandwich.” Here he is on MSNBC last night explaining what he . . .
Al Sharpton can’t string two sentences together on ‘The Ed Show’
The first listen through this you might not notice anything out of the ordinary. Just Al Sharpton, blathering on again about this or that. Ho-hum. But listen to it a second time. . . .
Fabulous: Hugo Chavez plans on clinging to power ’til at least 2031
The people of Venezuela must be so thrilled. Good thing in America we have a thing called the 22nd Amendment in our Constitution. That ought to keep Obama from getting any crazy . . .
Van Jones describes Republicans as terrorists putting “a gun to the head of 310 million people”
Van Jones is at it again. Yesterday at the “Rebuild the Dream” kookfest in Washington, D.C. he chimed in on the debt ceiling negotiations, comparing Republicans to hostage-taking terrorists and accusing them . . .