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It Doesn't Take a "Smart" Person to Understand the Hoax of Liberalism

Bad Poll News for Obama, Dems
After not even a year, Obama has lost Republicans, independents. 
Public Policy Polling: Obama's December Standing | Obama 50, Bush 44

Obama Rewrites Reagan History
Obama's speech contained an out-and-out revisionist lie: "Ronald Reagan's efforts on arms control and embrace of perestroika improved relations with the Soviet Union."  We defeated the Soviets!

GOP Must Fight Twin Hoaxes of Climate Change and Obamacare


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$2,000,000 Per Job?

Porkulus paid Hillary aide $6 million, saved three jobs

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Nuance

Dem senator: I don’t recall anyone comparing Bush to Hitler

I don’t think this guy’s spinning. Too many people know the truth and too much evidence is available online for him to deliberately lie and think he could get away with it. Either he, like Gibbs, was in some sort of coma for most of the last decade or else the sheer dynamic magic of Hopenchange really does have them convinced that history started on January 20, 2009. Every religion follows a calendar that began with the appearance of its oracle. No difference here, really.

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Black-Robed Santa

Judges playing St. Nick — such as the one who canceled a couple's mortgage — might warm the hearts of the gullible this time of year. In the real world, ... More »
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Sneaking In Amnesty

For illegal immigrants, the good times are back. Workplace raids have been halved, and easily fudged paperwork audits are up. Make no mistake, this is a politically ... More »
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Gitmo North

Sen. Durbin calls a plan to transfer 100 Guantanamo detainees to northwest Illinois "a dream come true." It would paint a bull's-eye on America's heartland in time for the 2012 Iowa caucuses. It seems the question of where to put the Guantanamo detainees is being settled ... More »
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Please No

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It’s Come To This

Gibbs: Can you imagine if, five years ago, protesters had compared our government to Hitler?

You know what? I think I can.

Two possible explanations: (1) Gibbsy was trying to say something else and it came out very wrong; (2) Gibbsy was in a deep, deep coma for much of the past decade. Either way, maybe “White House press secretary” isn’t the optimal line of work for him. I’m stammering at the moment myself from sheer frustration at deciding where to begin to answer him, but thankfully MKH has pulled the necessary links together to do the job. Just follow the link up top. Meanwhile, dare we ask: Did anyone in the press corps challenge him when he dropped that nugget? Tapper? Bueller?

Let's help Gibbs out with this in particular:

Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler.

Let's see if we can imagine that, Bob. Click here, and just keep scrolling.



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Smackdown

The “inherited deficits” fallacy

Keith Hennessey takes apart a Peter Orszag speech, and in the process, the Obama administration’s entire effort to blame Obama’s predecessor for their wild, profligate spending in the middle of a terrible recession.  Speaking at NYU yesterday, the OMB director once again excused Barack Obama for inflating the 2009 defoicit to $1.4 trillion and projecting another $1.4 trillion by claiming that Bush made them do it

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Toss It Now


Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit...

Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out.

In making the argument, the Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration's position on the case but insists it came to the decision differently. A civil liberties group criticized the move Friday as a retreat from promises President Barack Obama made as a candidate.


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Mass Layoffs Still Huge In September

Housing sales drop “unexpectedly”

Two economic indicators over the past week indicate that the recovery may have trouble getting off the ground.  Today, the Commerce Department reported a sharp drop in sales of new homes after a few months of tepid increases fueled by a tax break.  The previous month’s figures also got revised downward by 12,000 sales, or almost 3%

The biggest mystery is why this result is labeled “unexpected.”  First, defaults rose last month, making the sale of new homes less attractive as foreclosures skew the market.  More importantly, though, the expiration of the tax break should have made this outcome rather predictable.  Just as with Cash for Clunkers, the tax credit did nothing but accelerate sales to people who could already afford to buy.  As pointed out yesterday, the temporary prop for housing prices only delayed the inevitable reconciliation between actual value and market value, and stole sales from the future.

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“Air Raiding Villages And Bombing Civilians” Now A Democratic Platform?

Schumer: Stability in Afghanistan too expensive

Chuck Schumer appeared on MS-NBC this morning to endorse an unusual strategy in Afghanistan — the very “air raiding villages and bombing civilians” that Barack Obama derided as a candidate. The clip from Morning Joe is lengthy, but the portion that caught The Hill’s attention takes place in the first couple of minutes. Schumer seems to have missed a couple of strategy sessions in coming up with this idea

Actually, Joe Scarborough makes a much better point just after Schumer. It will take at least a decade, and probably several decades, to bring stability and infrastructure to Afghanistan. Forget about Schumer’s argument for the moment; does the American people have the stamina to see that mission through to its end, even for ten years, let alone 20, 30, 40, or more? If not, does it make sense to get out now and leave Pakistan to fend off the radicals as they move their flags across the frontier to avoid the Pakistani army and set up terrorist shop in Helmand while our credibility suffers in the region?



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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Everything

Could See This Coming!

We ended that post with the by now familiar bleat . . . “What could possibly go wrong?” Now, with a tip of the hat to Rich “Mullings” Galen, we learn exactly what can possibly go wrong

At Treasury, President Obama’s pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, announced sharp cuts in pay for 175 top executives at seven big banks and automakers that received hundreds of billions of dollars in federal bailout money during the financial crisis. The new structures reduced the cash salary paid to some executives by 90 percent and tied more compensation to long-term stock awards….

At the Federal Reserve, Chairman Ben S. Bernanke proposed a broader but less proscribed plan to restrict pay at banks. The aim is to prevent them from rewarding employees for actions that could endanger the firms’ long-term financial health. Unlike Feinberg’s more limited plan, the Fed’s guidance would cover all banks it regulates — even those that never received a bailout — as well as U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies.

But hey, it’s not like the federal government is, like, you know, taking over the private sector; they’re not actually setting wages for all banks — they merely get the final say on what those wages will be

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