Posts Tagged ‘pelosi’

Looking back on minimum wage

December 14th, 2010 | No Comments

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 [...]

Obama’s middle class tax cuts?

September 17th, 2010 | No Comments

“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 [...]

That vast right-wing anti-mosque conspiracy

August 18th, 2010 | 3 Comments

“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 [...]

Cutting corners is a very bad thing

July 16th, 2010 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Throwing Petraeus under the Moveon bus

June 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment

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.  [...]

Real Change you can believe in – Pork

April 15th, 2010 | No Comments

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 [...]

Pass a trillion dollar piece of legislation and you will get to see what’s in it?

March 11th, 2010 | No Comments

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 [...]

A dangerously dysfunctional liberal

December 21st, 2009 | No Comments

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.  [...]

Pay to Play – Obama’s fat cats

December 14th, 2009 | No Comments

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 [...]

Apple stockholder finds Nancy Pelosi objectionable

November 13th, 2009 | No Comments

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 [...]