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I had this to say a while back: Fair warning here folks, the next couple of years will suck if you’re an independent business owner That was in reference to Ted Kennedy wanting to raise the minumum wage because Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took over Washington.  He got what he wanted.  Unemployment increased more [...]

“And without getting into procedure and timing and process, what we’re going to do is to say at the end of the day, the extension of the Obama middle-income tax cuts will take place, and that’s what I have to say on the subject.”  -  Nancy Pelosi OK, so the lady who has vehemently opposed [...]

“There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded,” In my case, unfortunately, it’s not been funded.  2/3′s of the country has issues with this project.  That’s why [...]

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 [...]

This is precious. I displayed my prophecy skills adeptly a couple of days ago in predicting General McChrystal’s departure.  OK, the whole country did too.  What I don’t think too many people did was predict the replacement.  Here’s a discussion Obama had with Petraeus in 2007:   He opposed everything Pestraeus was wanting to do.  [...]

There’s campaign rhetoric, and there’s reality.  The campaign rhetoric was “change you can believe in”.  The reality looks something like this: Simply, 3 of the 7 states that have clear Republican majorities on the national level are in the Top 10 biggest pork losers.  Nancy Pelosi controls the House, who sets the budgets ( appropriations [...]

Seriously: It just amazes me that all these people are fighting over whether to pass this health care reform and no one, including Nancy Pelosi, has any clue what’s in it. But, regardless of the fact no one knows what this thing will do, or not do, Obama has staked his presidency on it at [...]

OK, quit laughing.  Paul Krugman, the guy who won a Nobel prize for economics for criticizing George Bush ad nauseum, still lives on that one trick.  Citing a laundry list of bizarre claims, he criticizes Bush even though Bush had nothing to do with any of the issues.  But, the issues are complex and many.  [...]

Obama laid blame to the entire financial meltdown to the finance industry.  He trashed their bonuses as an example of why people don’t like banks right now. He sang a different tune last year.  He gladly accepted parts of their bonuses as the economy was melting down. Lehman Brothers $ 344,609 Bear Stearns $ 60,754 [...]

OK, here’s what I’m dealing with: A conservative filmmaker in Hollywood thought he had developed a worthwhile iPhone app: a telephone directory listing every U.S. senator and congressman, with caricatures of the legislators drawn by an artist. The story comes with an example: Now, the story ASSUMES that Apple pulled the app because a stockholder [...]