Obama Loses His Nuts!

ACORN to Shut Down in Wake of Scandal

AP

The liberal group's financial situation and reputation went into free fall within days of the release of undercover videos.

CHICAGO -- The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues -- six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.

"It's really declining revenue in the face of a series of attacks from partisan operatives and right-wing activists that have taken away our ability to raise the resources we need," ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said. (Hello? George Soros? MoveOn.Org? Daily Kos? Reap what you sow, f**kers!)

Several of its largest affiliates, including ACORN New York and ACORN California, broke away this year and changed their names in a bid to ditch the tarnished image of their parent organization and restore revenue that ran dry in the wake of the video scandal.

ACORN's financial situation and reputation went into free fall within days of the videos' release in September. Congress reacted by yanking ACORN's federal funding, private donors held back cash and scores of ACORN offices closed.

Anything for a Vote,....

Huff, huff, pass?

Amanda Simpson, Transgender Candidate, Appointed To Commerce Post

President Obama has appointed Amanda Simpson, a transgender woman, to be the Senior Technical Adviser to the Commerce Department.

"I'm truly honored to have received this appointment and am eager and excited about this opportunity that is before me," Simpson said in a statement. "As one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others."

Simpson -- a former test pilot and 2004 YWCA "Woman On The Move" -- has been active in the aerospace and defense industry for the past 30 years. She most recently served as Deputy Director in Advanced Technology Development for Raytheon, where she transitioned from male to female.

In the past decade, Simpson has been highly active in GLBT issues. In 2005, she successfully worked to have Raytheon adopt gender identity into its Equal Employment Opportunity Policy. That same year, she ran unsuccessfully for the Arizona House of Representatives.

Another Global Failure

Emperor Akihito, I apologize that the United States is STILL the greatest country in the world, but I'm working on that problem as we speak.

Out of the Mouths of Babes,...

An attempt to showcase another OY (Obama Youth) gone awry??

Little Boy Asks Barack Obama, 'Why Do People Hate You?'

President Obama went to New Orleans for the first time as president Thursday to visit a charter school and to hold a town hall meeting. While there, he told the people of the city that he is committed to helping them continue to rebuild, more than four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal attended, as did Sen. Mary Landrieu, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, and Tyren Scott, a 4th-grade boy who asked the president the last question during the question and answer session of the program.

"Why do people hate you? And why, aren't they supposed to love you, if God is love?" Tyren asked the commander-in-chief.

Wow!!! No Freudian slip there, eh? God is love and we're to love the Obamessiah? Yeah,...and Big Brother loved us, too!

Fools,...Fools,...Fools,...

This is the "change" America was "hoping" for?? Can we give Minnesota to the Canadians??

HT to Wyatt at Support Your Local Gunfighter:

Rose-Colored Glasses Covering Thorny Reality

Some economists warn Barack Obama's economic predictions too optimistic

President Barack Obama’s economic forecasts for long-term growth are too optimistic, many economists warn, a miscalculation that would mean budget deficits will be much higher than the administration is now acknowledging.

The White House will be forced to confront the disconnect between its original, upbeat predictions and the mainstream consensus about how the economy is likely to perform in a new budget forecast to be unveiled next month.

Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, said in a POLITICO interview that the administration — like many independent economists — did not fully anticipate the severity and pace of this recession. She said the White House will be updating its official forecasts.

The new numbers will come as part of a semiannual review that, under ordinary circumstances, is the kind of earnest-but-dull document that causes many Washington eyes to glaze over.

This time, however, the new forecasts — if they are anything like what many outside economists expect — could send a jolt through Capitol Hill, where even the administration’s current debt projections already are prompting deep concerns on political and substantive grounds.

Higher deficit figures also would arrive at a critical moment in the health care debate, as lawmakers are already struggling to find a way to pay for the president’s nearly $1 trillion reform package.

Alternately, if Obama clings to current optimistic forecasts for long-term growth, he risks accusations that he is basing his fiscal plans on fictitious assumptions — precisely the sort of charge he once leveled against the Bush administration.

Finally, An Obama Magazine Cover I Like,...

HT To Tony Phyrillas at THE CENTRIST:



Recession: when your neighbor loses his job

Depression: When YOU lose your job

Recovery: When Obama loses HIS job!

More Opportunity Lost

HT to Bill Shaw's Pappy at Philthy-Delphia:

OBAMA CONCEDED TOO MUCH

by Eric Trager and published in the Philadelphia Inquirer June 9, 2009

President Obama's speech at Cairo University last week constituted the most direct public diplomatic outreach to the Muslim world in U.S. history. As such, Obama should have focused squarely on the one issue that Muslim publics most directly control: the widespread acceptance, if not embrace, of violent extremism.

In this respect, the president failed tremendously. To be sure, Obama spoke in no uncertain terms about the evils of violence, calling it contrary to Quranic teachings that decry the killing of innocents. But he stopped there.

In an act of clear concession to Islamists, Obama declined to call these acts by their proper, morally descriptive name: terrorism. Incredibly, that word appeared nowhere in his speech.

Moreover, when it came to addressing the specific issues that contribute to public support for terrorism in the Muslim world, the president overwhelmingly conceded to the Islamists' version of history.

First, Obama placed the blame for U.S.-Muslim tensions squarely on the West. He declared that this standoff "has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims" - an argument Islamists have used to justify their anti-Western ideology since the late 19th century.


Second, in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Obama drew heavily from the standard Islamist dictionary. He referred to the Palestinians' pursuit of statehood as "resistance," which will be translated in Arabic as muqawama - a politically loaded word that Islamist terrorists frequently employ to defend violence. (The M in Hamas stands for muqawama, and Hezbollah's military branch is called al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya.)

Third, Obama echoed some of the key arguments that Islamists have employed to justify violence against the United States since Sept. 11, 2001. In declaring he had "unequivocally prohibited the use of torture," Obama implicitly accused the previous administration of criminal activity, corroborating terrorist claims.

Sadly, rather than making the case for American leadership and the global fight against terrorism, Obama apologized for it. It was the kind of display that would have befitted the Dixie Chicks, not the president of the United States.


Article available on The Philadelphia Inquirer website here.

The Obama Scorecard

Courtesy Bill at Writemarsh!:


Looks like his administration is one faux pas after another...imagine:

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Tony Blair a set of inexpensive and useless (to Tony Blair's UK video formatting) DVDs, when Tony Blair had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in less than 6 months--- so you'll have 3 years and 6 months to come up with an answer.

What's Klingon for WTF??

Sacrilege of sacrileges!!!



What next? Michelle Obama as Uhura, the great communicator? Or an Orion Slave Girl?

Funny but True

HT to BobG at Sweet Spirits of Ammonia:

100 Days, 100 F-Ups

What? Me worry?

Let's hope liberal New Yorkers remember his fly-by stunt in 2012!

Other than that, Rich Lowry has a great essay on the coming hell of days 101 and beyond:

100 Days — a Success, But . . .
It’s the next 1,361 days that should be the worry.

Know Him By the Company He Keeps

HT to long-lost HS friend, Trubador, and his Arbiter of Common Sense blog:

Obama is going to cut national defense, while also boosting his "Youth Brigade". With ACORN funding, no less. In fact, "The Obamessiah" is having so much fun palling around with communist dictators like Chavez, Ortega and Castro, yet won't meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The Obamistake's Ship of Fools Sails Again!

Obama Nominee Compares Being Pregnant To Slavery

By Joe Murray, The Bulletin
Friday, April 03, 2009
When candidate Barack Obama was on the campaign trail last fall, he promised Americans he would find “common ground” concerning the controversial issue of abortion.

But just over two months into his administration, Mr. Obama has nominated two individuals — one who has connections to an infamous late-term abortionist and another who has compared pregnancy to slavery — for key positions inside his administration.

The nominations of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to be Health and Human Service Secretary and abortion rights attorney Dawn Johnsen to head the Office of Legal Counsel have called in to doubt Mr. Obama’s credibility on abortion. And they have many in the pro-life community crying foul.

“Dawn Johnsen does not represent mainstream America or the type of common ground abortion policy President Obama promised this nation,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List.

Throughout her career Ms. Johnsen has penned a number of radical legal briefs and articles pro-life advocates claim expose her controversial views on abortion.

Some of most controversial quotes come from a friend of the court brief she penned in the case Webster v. Reproductive Health Services.

“Abortion restrictions ‘reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers,’” the brief read.

“The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies reality... and others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more ‘consent’ to pregnancy than pedestrians ‘consent’ to being struck by drunk drivers.”

She also added, “The experience [of abortion] is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.”

But her radical views on abortion go even further, as she has compared pregnancy to slavery.

“Her bizarre characterizations of pregnancy as ‘slavery’ and mothers as ‘losers in the contraceptive lottery’ expose an unacceptable disdain for commonsense abortion restrictions and motherhood in general. Furthermore, Johnsen’s opposition to existing federal restrictions like the ban on partial-birth abortion casts doubt on her ability to perform her duties faithfully as the head of the Office of Legal Counsel,” Ms. Dannenfelser said.

Pro-lifers are also upset with the treatment Ms. Sebelius has received from a number of Senate Republicans who they feel are not doing enough to expose the Kansas governor’s affinity to extreme abortion measures, such as partial-birth abortion. During her Thursday hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, not one Republican asked Ms. Sebelius about her pro-abortion record.

“Today’s Senate Finance Committee Hearing was an important opportunity to enlighten public debate about Governor Kathleen Sebelius’ egregious record on abortion in her home state of Kansas,” Ms. Dannenfelser said.

“Yet despite the deep bench of pro-life heroes serving on the Senate Finance Committee, not one senator could manage to ask a single question publicly about Sebelius’ blind eye toward women’s health and regulating abortion clinics.”

Ms. Sebelius has connections to Dr. George Tiller, a notorious late term abortionist, and vetoed a Kansas law that would have implemented measures to increase women’s safety in abortion clinics. Ms. Dannenfelser, however, hopes Republicans will wake-up before it is too late.

“Fortunately, pro-life senators have one last chance. They can raise the issue of Governor Sebelius’ blind eye toward women’s health tonight when her nomination comes to the Senate floor for her final confirmation vote,” she said.

Joe Murray can be reached at jmurray@thebulletin.us

Brits Peer Behind the TelePrompter,...

The question that flummoxed the great orator

o John Crace
o The Guardian, Friday 3 April 2009
o Article history

Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ...


Read along,..its absolutely hilarious!

STILL Clueless, Classless,...

Following up on a post by Lisa Mossie at Bluftooni:




If this picture doesn't make you ill, you have serious issues,...


Michelle Malkin says it best here:

I have expressed my disgust many times over the years with the Bush administration’s kowtowing to Saudi Arabia. That notorious image of Bush holding hands with Saudi royalty in 2005 and doing sword dances with Wahabbists in 2008 sparked outrage on both the left and the right. The hand-holding has gotten us nowhere — and in fact, has made us less secure.

So I hope all the lefties who tore into Bush over his Saudi prostration will express equal disgust with President HopeAndChange’s literal bowing and scraping to King Abdullah. When JWF sent a link to the photo with Obama bent down like a serf (further than either he or Michelle dipped for Queen Elizabeth, by the way), I tried to give the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he dropped a contact lens or penny?


So true. It wasn't enough to have the symbolism of America being led by the hand by Wahhabist tyrants for the better part of 8 years, now we have a president who, perhaps once again forgetting political protocol, is BOWING to the same dictatorial monarch in a clear sign of fealty!! Now, we're being led by the nose! At least with the Japanese, BOTH parties bow in a sign of mutual respect and, if carried out properly, looking each other right in the eye.

Is this moron EVER going to get it right???

One a Day,....and Not a Vitamin in Sight!

Atlas Shrugs,...and makes perfect, hilarious sense:

C'mon, he's worse than we even imagined.
Don Surber has this over at the Daily Mail (hat tip Larwyn):

52 days, 52 mistakes

Let me count them up, in no particular order. Some are big. Some are small.

We all make mistakes. Here’s his:

1. A do-over on the oath of office.
2. Tim Geithner.
3. Bill Richardson.
4. Tom Daschle.
5. Eric “Nation of Cowards” Holder.
6. Leon Panetta.
7. Arne “Cappuccino” Duncan.
8. Hilda Solis (OK, her husband has the tax liens).
9. Nancy Killefer.
10. Charles Freeman Jr.
11. Ron Kirk.
12. Adolfo Carrion.
13. Banning offshore oil again.
14. Letting Nancy Pelosi write the $787 billion “stimulus’ plan.
15. Relying on Tim Geithner to explain it.
16. It is a $13-a-week stimulus, or as his wife said of Bush’s plan: “You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month.”
17. Going to a press conference without a TelePrompTer. I… Uhh… Umm… Could you repeat the question?
18. Using a TelePrompTer at a press conference. Big boys don’t need training wheels.
19. “Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Before I take your questions tonight, I’d like to speak briefly.” 1,228 words later he took his first question.
20. Going after Rush Limbaugh.
21. Going after Rick Santelli.
22. Going after Jim Cramer.
23. “Never waste a good crisis.”
24. Obama supporter Warren Buffett: “I don’t think anybody on December 7th would have said a ‘war is a terrible thing to waste, and therefore we’re going to try and ram through a whole bunch of things and — but we expect to — expect the other party to unite behind us on the — on the big problem.’ It’s just a mistake, I think.”
25. Writing a love letter to Vlad and Dmitry.
26. Putting Poland under the bus.
27. Putting Tibet under the bus.
28. Putting Israel under the bus.
29. Taking Cuba out from under the bus.
30. Having his tax cheat go after the tax cheats in Switzerland. Cognitive dissonance.
31. “Karzai has a bunker mentality.”
32. Iran has plans to Marine One helicopters.
33. “I won.”
34. BlackBerry singing in the middle of the night/ Take these golden secrets and learn to fly…
35. Obama: “If Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” CEO: No. There will be more layoffs.
36. DVDs to Gordon Brown.
37. “You can’t take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.” Vegas convention bookings nosedive.
38. Wagyu.
39. Reset/overcharge button given to Russia.
40. Taking a 4-day holiday weekend before signing “emergency” legislation.
41. “I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement — the prescription drug plan — without a source of funding. And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word ’socialist’ around can’t say the same.”
42. Stiffing Chicago for nearly $2 million for that Election Night par-tay.
43. Caroline Kennedy.
44. Bombing Pakistan.
45. Sending the bust of Sir Winston Churchill back to the British.
46. “President Obama has accomplished more in 30 days than any president in modern history.”
47. A window is not a door.
48. Doctors must perform abortions.
49. Signing earmarks while denouncing them.
50. Adding signing statements while denouncing them.
51. Quadrupling the deficits, while denouncing them.
52. Missing the Gridiron Club dinner.

But be of good cheer. He has 1,409 days left to make up for his stumbles out of the starting gate.

Obama's Porkulus - Easy as A-B-C

That's,.....

Avoid responsibility, blame Bush

Burden us with more taxes

Cut the spending on defense



Simple, ain't it?

Here We Go Again!

Sen. Gregg Withdraws as Commerce Secretary Nominee
Republican Sen. Judd Gregg has withdrawn his nomination for U.S. commerce secretary.

Republican Sen. Judd Gregg withdrew his nomination to be President Obama's commerce secretary on Thursday, citing "irresolvable conflicts" over issues like the economic stimulus package and the census.

"It has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have found that on issues such as the stimulus package and the census there are irresolvable conflicts for me," Gregg of New Hampshire said in a written statement.

Republicans have been largely unified in their opposition to an economic stimulus bill that now totals $789 billion. They say it is full of government waste and won't create enough jobs to turn the economy around.

And in the past week, the GOP has stoked controversy over Obama's plan to share oversight of next year's census, which is carried out by the Census Bureau, part of the Commerce Department -- though Gregg said that was only a "slight" factor in his decision to withdraw.

Obama called Gregg's withdrawal "something of a surprise," and the White House issued a statement saying it regrets Gregg's "change of heart." Other Cabinet nominees have dropped out of the process, but Gregg was the first to do so in protest.

Gregg, who was first elected to the Senate in 1999, says he doesn't intend to run again in 2010. He didn't give specifics on why he didn't plan to seek another term, saying to reporters Thursday, "Sometimes, there's other things to do in life."

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said it was Gregg who first "reached out to the president" and offered to be commerce secretary. Gibbs said in a written statement that Gregg made it "very clear throughout the interviewing process" that he could "support, embrace and move forward" with Obama's agenda, despite "past disagreements about policies."

But it became clear after Gregg was nominated, Gibbs said, that Gregg could not support some of Obama's "key economic priorities."

"I said yes. That was my mistake," Gregg told reporters Thursday on Capitol Hill. He said he'd always been a strong fiscal conservative. "It really wasn't a good pick."

Gregg said he has followed his own path for 30 years but felt, after joining the Obama team, that he couldn't be himself. After agreeing to become the commerce chief, Gregg said he began to feel uncomfortable with his role and feared this would hinder his success. He did not go into specifics.

A senior Obama administration official confirmed to FOX News that Gregg met with Obama at the White House Wednesday to notify him of his decision to withdraw.

Asked why they met, the official said, "It's kind of tacky to break up with your girlfriend over the phone."

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew his name for the same position of commerce secretary in January amid an ethics investigation in his state. And Tom Daschle withdrew his name for health and human services secretary over criticism about his failure to pay taxes on unreported income.

Gregg said his and Obama's policy views are too different.

"We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy," he said in his written statement. "Obviously the president requires a team that is fully supportive of all his initiatives."

In referencing the stimulus, Gregg made clear his distaste for the package, echoing his fellow Republicans..

Only three Republican senators have supported the spending and tax-cut plan. They were the lone members of their party who pushed a compromise bill expected to cost $789 billion and be on the president's desk in a matter of days. Gregg didn't vote on the package in the Senate.

As for the Census Bureau, Republicans have accused the Obama administration of trying to politicize the once-in-a-decade event by having the bureau's director report directly to White House senior staff members, as well as the Commerce Department.

The outcome of the census has deep political implications, since congressional districts are drawn based on population. Many federal funds are distributed on the basis of population, as well.

But Gregg said at the news conference that the census was only a "slight catalyzing issue. It was not a major issue."

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Gregg "made a principled decision to return and we're glad to have him. He is among the smartest, most effective legislators to serve in the Senate -- Democrat or Republican -- and a key adviser to me and to the Republican Conference. It's great to have him back."

A day after Gregg's nomination was announced, The Associated Press reported that a former staff member was under criminal investigation for allegedly taking baseball and hockey tickets from a lobbyist in exchange for legislative favors while working for Gregg.

The former staff member, Kevin Koonce, has been identified in court papers only as "Staffer F" in the sprawling corruption probe stemming from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Gregg said at the time that he had been told he was neither a subject nor target of the investigation, and would cooperate fully.