All posts tagged "Obama"

(Rob Bluey/The Heritage Foundation) – Americans are paying more for gasoline today than they were six weeks ago when President Obama released 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In the Gulf of Mexico, meanwhile, 10 drilling rigs — more than one-third of the fleet — have left on...

(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – How can anybody believe Barack Obama? While using one side of his mouth, allegedly trying to “negotiate” a deal between a GOP House and a Democratic Senate on increasing the nation’s debt limit, the President used the other side of his mouth to tell the American people:...

The story has the earmarkings of the best Woodward-Bernsteinesque intrique: scandal, cover-up, the White House. I wonder whether there are some missing tapes? From Pajamas Media, these paragraphs will whet your appetite. Read the entire story here. – Ed. (Mike Daniels/Pajamas Media) – The cover-up is always worse than the crime: considering...

(Mike Chamberlain/The Cranky Hermit) – As I learn more about the debt-ceiling crisis, I’ve really been influenced by the graphic from this editorial, which has been described by some on the left as the ultimate chart of the debt-ceiling crisis. It reveals that the tax cuts from both Bush and Obama are...

(Sara Michele Crusade/Examiner.com) – The debate rages on about whether or not to raise the debt ceiling. Nevada’s own Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is siding with President Obama in his desire to increase the debt ceiling just a couple trillion more. The Republicans in Congress are pretending to hold the line for...

(David Mansdoerfer) – Today, after reading Senator Reid’s debt ‘plan’, I burst into hysterical laughter. Initially, or...

(Mike Chamberlain/The Cranky Hermit) – WSJ: So the credit-rating agencies that helped to create the financial crisis that led to a deep recession are now warning that the U.S. could lose the AAA rating it has had since 1917. As painfully ironic as this is, there’s no benefit in shooting the messengers....

(Gil Guignat/Examiner.com) – This is an outrageous title indeed. We do know however that there was some controversy as to how the president got his campaign contributions when he was first elected. Through a loophole, he may have received up to a third of his contributions illegally and from abroad. Why wouldn’t...

(Jim Clark) – Former Utah Governor John Huntsman’s recent visit to Reno has quietly raised the question: “How much does it hurt a GOP candidate’s primary election chances to have been associated with the (ugh) other political party?”  Huntsman stepped down to accept an appointment by President Obama as ambassador to China,...