Posts Tagged ‘obama’
From Coincidence of the Day: President Barack Obama met with the President of the National Treasury Employees Union Colleen Kelley, on March 31, 2010. The NTEU is “the 150,000 member union that represents IRS employees along with 30 other separate government agencies.” The Inspector General’s report, blandly titled “Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt [...]
Tags: colleen kelley, corruption, internal revenue service, IRS, NTEU, obama, union
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This is just nuts: White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday Republicans owe Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an apology for alleging she played a part in formulating the White House’s response to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed four Americans. Pfeiffer said on ABC’s “This Week” [...]
Tags: apology, benghazi, clinton, cover-up, Dan Pfeiffer, lie, obama, susan rice
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Vice President Biden said Monday that President Obama is not “bluffing” about his willingness to use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/04/biden-on-iran-threat-obama-is-not-bluffing/?test=latestnews#ixzz2MbHnK1bb Whew! LOL! Then I told Joe, “Pull the other one!”. The people in the United States have already given up on Obama trying to outwit Iran. [...]
Tags: bluffing, Iran, joe-biden, obama
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Not too long ago we had this flap: State workers made repeated shopping trips to Albany-area Walmarts to purchase supplies for the Executive Mansion, spending about $300 in recent months, according to billing records reviewed by the Daily News Wednesday. “A conscious effort is being made to spend as little money as possible,” said Franklin [...]
Tags: budget director, obama, sylvia burwell, walmart, white house
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Can this man not sink any lower? If you don’t get it, don’t ask!
Tags: jedi, meld, mind, obama
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More of the hopey-changy stuff: Which side of sequestration are you on? Public OpinionPoll Results
Tags: change, flip flop, obama, sequestration
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According to Nancy Pelosi: “Independent reports confirm that speculators are driving up the cost of oil, hurting consumers and potentially damaging the economic recovery. Wall Street profiteering, not oil shortages, is the cause of the price spike. In fact, U.S. oil production is at its highest level since 2003, and millions of acres have been [...]
Tags: gas, independent report, nancy pelosi, obama, price, speculator
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February 4th, 2013 | 1 Comment
Nothing Obama does seems to go without some element of confusion, crossed signals, or flat out apparent “misinformation”. This week is no different. On August 4, 2012, Reuters ran a LONG description of Obama’s birthday events. Down to the fact that no details would be given of what he and Mrs. Obama planned to do [...]
Tags: august 4, birthday, golf, gun-control, obama, pfeiffer, shooting, skeet, skeeters, white house
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Within one day after President Obama was sworn in for his second term, Harry Reid was putting in motion the vote to eliminate most filibusters. Here is the list of the Senators that think this is such a good idea they chose to co-sponsor it: Sen Baldwin, Tammy [WI] – 1/22/2013 Sen Begich, Mark [AK] [...]
Tags: 4, alaska, Amy Klobuchar, angus king, Barbara-Mikulski, bernard sanders, bernie, biden, brian schatz, change, christopher murphy, Connecticut, elizabeth warren, filibuster, hawaii, hope, iowa, jeanne shaheen, Jeff Merkley, Jon Tester, Kirsten Gillibrand, maine, mark begich, mark warner, Martin Heinrich, Maryland, Minnesota, montana, Nevada, new jersey, New Mexico, new york, new-hampshire, obama, oregon, reid, resolution, rhode-island, Robert-Menendez, Senate, Sheldon Whitehouse, tammy-baldwin, Tom-Harkin, vermont, virginia, Wisconsin
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Once again, I can agree with President Obama on something: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from [...]
Tags: 2006, ceiling, congress, debt, democrat, eliminate, gun, hank-johnson, hostage, jan shakowsky, jarrod nadler, jim moran, keith-ellison, obama, peter welch
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