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A few months or so ago, Obama hit the beach and started delivering his “economy is recovering, but not enough” message. Some think this was in response to the rather catastrophic forecast of the first Tuesday in November. Personally, I do. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Simple message, hard to debate. The message then was that [...]

The prevailing story that liberals have hung their hat on for the last couple of years is Obama can’t win because he was strung with funding two wars.  No economy can sustain that.  Case closed.  Sounds simple enough.  Numbers should back that one up, right? Look close at that again.  Make sense?  Try again.  Without [...]

7/22/2010: “Now that the heavy lifting is over, we can go out and make our case,”, Joe Biden.  The legislative season is over.  The big stuff is all done.  No more contentious votes for a fwe months.  Nancy Pelosi even went so far as to completely skip the funding process because of the increbible issue [...]

If you can smile when things go wrong , you have someone in mind to blame.

We got the news that unemployment claims have risen this week. That’s in July.  That’s as in traditionally one of the busiest months of the year.  That puts Obama on a course of distinction: President Avg Unemp Obama 9.5 Ford 7.8 Reagan 7.5 Carter 6.5 GHW Bush 6.3 Kennedy 6.0 GW Bush 5.3 Clinton 5.2 [...]

The Senate passed the finance reform package.  They’re sending it to Congress.  It’ll pass.  It’s 2,300 pages.  It’s 390,000 words.  When I asked a finance person what the impact would be on my personal bank, and my investments, he said “very little, if any”.  Obama’s advice was a little more direct: “Unless your business model [...]

A federal judge in Massachusetts tossed out the federal Defense of Marriage Act. His logic, get this, is it encroaches on states. Here’s Federal Judge Joseph Tauro’s Ruling On DOMA: Federal Judge Joseph Tauro’s Ruling On DOMA Now, this is where being conservative gets fun for me. I’m with Judge Tauro 100%. First, let’s clear [...]

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As expected, the United States Department of Justice is apparently filing suit againt the state of Arizona over its immigrant law.  Apparently Eric Holder will be running with a pre-emptive supremacy clause.  The way I understand it is Holder will be arguing that federal law trumps state law. And it does. And Holder will lose. [...]

Charles Bolden took bold new steps in pushing NASA in its new direction today.    What was discussing the hottest known planet in the universe will now simply be referred to as an infidel planet being destroyed per Allah’s will.  Or, moreso Barack Obama and Charlie Bolden’s will.