Tell him/her to support the hell out of this bill if he/she wants your vote.
The REINS Act would require Congressional authorization for any new Major Rule proposed by the executive branch. It now has now has 57 cosponsors, including noted Constitutionalist Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). It also enjoys the support of the Chamber of Commerce. Under REINS, the numerous proposed regulations pertaining to health care, climate change, energy, financial regulation, and our economy would have to be submitted to Congress for approval. REINS would continue to allow the executive agencies charged with writing rules to propose draft rules, but would end the delegation of Congressional authority that has enabled these agencies to enact them unilaterally.
Sidesplitter of the Day The video of the constantly leaking Gulf well will damage Palin and the Republicans, not Obama, according to Henry 'Hairless Wombat' Waxman.
Harry before and after joining the Hair Club for Men..
On the rise and fall of the Obama Empire... Oh Peggy, Peggy! Have you come back to the fold, my dear? Did that little fling not work out for you?
Peggy on Obama in 2008
Ah, he didn't look quite so lovely, so charming, so...so vaguely humorous in the cruel morning light, did he? I feel your pain, sister. Have a vodka tonic and tell us all about it. (excerpted; to read the entire delicious piece, click on the link in bold)
The president is starting to look snakebit. He's starting to look unlucky, like Jimmy Carter. It wasn't Mr. Carter's fault that the American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran, but he handled it badly, and suffered.
It isn't Mr. Obama's fault that an oil rig blew in the Gulf and a gusher resulted. He already had two wars and the great recession. But the lack of adequate federal government response appropriately redounds on him.
The administration's failure to take impressive action after the spill dinged its reputation for competence. The president's failure to turn things around Tuesday night with a speech damaged his reputation as a man whose rhetorical powers are such that he can turn things around with a speech. He lessened his own mystique. Reaction among his usual supporters was, in the words of Time's Mark Halperin, "fierce, unforeseen disappointment." Dan Froomkin of the Huffington Post called the speech "profoundly underwhelming," a "feeble call to action." Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich called the speech "vapid." Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times said the president looked "awkward and robotic." MSNBC's Keith Olbermann famously said "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days." Chris Matthews scored "a lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk." Mr. Olbermann, on Mr. Obama's well-written peroration: "It's nice but, again, how? Where was the 'how' in this speech when the nation is crying out for 'how'?"
The right didn't like the speech either.
Well now Peggy, it depends on what you mean by "like". I can tell you it was my favorite speech by far. The excuses, obfuscations, feigned emotion, and startling display of fecklessness (startling to Democrats, anyway) were no more than I expected, but the uncontrolled dismay of freshly disillusioned pundits was more than I could have hoped for. It was the best laugh I've had since Chris Christie, Bob McDonnell, and then Scott Brown collectively humiliated Obama by handily defeating the losers he'd backed. The shock and horror of the leftist media had me in stitches. "This is not a referendum on Obama". Before that, the "Best Side-Splitter" went to the reaction to Chicago losing the Olympics in the first round..
Chicago is out?!
Be still, my heart. I knew when Obama was elected that it would be a disaster for the country. The only light I saw at the end of the tunnel was the possibility of the conservative-minded general public being galvanized into action by the sheer magnitude of the disaster that is Obama & Company. Lo and behold, the recoil has exceeded my hopes. What I didn't foresee was Obama coming unglued less than two years in. Coming unglued to such a degree that Chris Matthews and his ilk can't cover for him.
Let us all bow our heads and observe a moment of silence over the bloody shambles of the 'progressive' dream. (after we stop laughing hysterically)
The press traveling with Obama on the campaign never had a lovey-dovey relationship with him. He treated us with aloof correctness, and occasional spurts of irritation. Like many Democrats, he thinks the press is supposed to be on his side.
The former constitutional lawyer now in the White House understands that the press has a role in the democracy. But he is an elitist, too, as well as thin-skinned and controlling. So he ends up regarding scribes as intrusive, conveying a distaste for what he sees as the fundamental unseriousness of a press driven by blog-around-the-clock deadlines.
Now that Obama has been hit with negative press, he’s even more contemptuous. “He’s never needed to woo the press,” says the NBC White House reporter Chuck Todd. “He’s never really needed us.”
All of this makes the truth quite ironic. The man who affects to despise the press and to be above following the news has displayed a very telling behavior pattern regarding the Gulf spill, as covered in this excellent piece in the Washington Examiner.
Here are the highlights, with accompanying sound track..
Media says go back to the Gulf coast Obama makes second visit to the Gulf coast...3 days later
Media says meet with BP CEO Tony Hayward Obama announces meeting with BP CEO Tony Hayward..2 days later
Media says cancel trip to Indonesia Obama cancels trip to Indonesia...2 days later
Media says Obama should deliver a primetime address Obama delivers primetime address..12 days later. (That required a speech, it takes time to coordinate a million monkeys with a million keyboards.)
Media says, "Show Passion!" Obama "furious" "jaw clenched"..lag time, 2 days
Media says Obama "too detached" Obama tells sweet, personal "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" story.. lag time, 4 days
Media says "get angry!" Obama looks for, well, you know..
"Treat me good, and I'll do anything..I'm just a puppet and you hold my string..I'm your puppet."
Iran promised to expand its atomic research Wednesday as its president vowed to punish the West and force it to "sit at the negotiating table like a polite child" before agreeing to further talks.
So much for Obama "restoring our relations" with the Mideast and the rest of the world. You might almost think he was utterly clueless the whole time and living in a fantasy world of his own making. You know, one where all he had to do was show up and everyone would break out the unicorns and ride together into the sunset. Between breaking his campaign promises, his hapless bungling of foreign diplomacy, the American economy, and now the oil spill cleanup, I wonder how leftists are taking the massive disappointment as their pipe dreams dissipate in a cloud of smoke...
But if the standard to which they are holding Obama is impossible, that’s because it’s hoist-by-his-own-petard time for Obama, as brought to you by Euripides. Anyone who greets a primary victory as Obama did in 2008 by saying that history would record that “this was the moment when the oceans began to recede” is just asking for it. And “it” may be upon him.
Of course, what Jon is complaining about is that Obama isn't fulfilling his campaign promises, which were all geared to appeal to the slavering hunger of leftists to seem righteous in their own eyes. If Jon boy and the rest of the howling pack had listened to conservatives, we could have told him that Obama was blowing smoke as fast as he could produce it.
That's right Jon, weep into your nonfat vanilla soy latte about how Obama suckered you into thinking he was going to fulfill all your leftist fantasies. Meanwhile, you continue to mock the only person in the political spectrum right now who has been known to voluntarily relinquish power over a matter of principle. On multiple occasions, no less.
The thrill is gone..or perhaps they just want to be relevant again. The AP did a Fact Check (albeit a gently worded one) on The Won's Oval Office faceplant Tuesday night.
WASHINGTON – In assuring Americans that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either.
That means it's anyone's guess whether the government can, in fact, make BP pay all costs related to the spill.
Obama aimed high in his prime-time Oval Office address Tuesday night — perhaps higher than the facts support and history teaches — as he vowed to restore livelihoods and nature from the still-unfolding calamity in the Gulf of Mexico.
The piece goes on to uncover 6 uses of hyperbole, obfuscation, and mendacious smooth talk. Obama spoke for 18 minutes..which means he lied every three minutes. We will have to consult our staff of experts, but we are fairly certain that is a new record for Obama, who generally cannot go longer than 2 minutes and 15 seconds between egregious falsehoods.He appears to have been a little off his game last night, someone off-camera may have been signaling him to 'plug the damn hole'.
Before the speech excoriated 'round the world.I look forward with eager anticipation to his further humiliation at his own hands.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20 (see trends).
These results are based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. As a result, today’s results are based almost entirely on interviews conducted before the president’s speech to the nation. The impact of the president’s speech will be seen over the next several days.
Overall, 42% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. That’s the lowest level of approval yet recorded for this president. Fifty-seven percent (57%) now disapprove. Those are the lowest ratings yet recorded for this president. The president’s approval rating has held steady in the 46% - 47% range for six months and it remains to be seen whether this new low is merely statistical noise or the start of a lasting change.
Statistical noise, or the start of a lasting change...hmmmmm..
Our new Louisiana poll has a lot of data points to show how unhappy voters in the state are with Barack Obama's handling of the oil spill but one perhaps sums it up better than anything else- a majority of voters there think George W. Bush did a better job with Katrina than Obama's done dealing with the spill.
50% of voters in the state, even including 31% of Democrats, give Bush higher marks on that question compared to 35% who pick Obama.
Overall only 32% of Louisianans approve of how Obama has handled the spill to 62% who disapprove. 34% of those polled say they approved of how Bush dealt with Katrina to 58% who disapproved.
How to have your cake and eat it, too. Democrats are sorely perplexed as they struggle to reconcile their two main professional goals- 1. Holding onto power 2. Appeasing special interests
The first requires that they pretend not to be what they are, profligate wastrels. The second requires that they prove themselves what they are..profligate wastrels. Oh dear, whatever shall they do?
After running up a record-setting deficit (for which they blame Bush and Congress prior to the Dem takeover in 2006),failing to pass a budget (for the first time in modern history), and witnessing a nationwide grassroots movement to throw the big spenders out of government, Democrats are caught between a rock and a hard place as Obama pressures them to produce another big union payout and pass wildly unpopular Cap and Trade legislation. All before the midterm elections. No pressure, right?
Politically-minded conservatives have been aware of the left-wing bias in the media for over two decades. The average American, however, who tunes in for half an hour in between work and dinner, was largely in the dark till the '08 election. Obama was fawningly covered by a cadre of second-generation liberal journalists who saw his glorious advent as their opportunity to help change the country...and thought they were doing something noble. Hey, just reporting the bald facts is boring. If they don't tell people how to think, who will?
The shameless promotion of everything Obama was so blatant that Americans put their coffee down and took notice. The right-wing blogosphere exploded like never before, FOX news ratings soared, talk radio surged, and all three have been going full steam ever since. With virtually every traditional media source listing hard to port, necessity mothered invention with the fecund enthusiasm of the Octo-Mom.
To the shock and dismay of the leftists, their derisive collective attack on everything to the right of Keith Olbermann has backfired. Gloriously.
2. 63% of Americans think the Tea Party reflects their view more closely than the President.
3. Sarah Palin continues to draw record crowds everywhere she goes despite being dumped on more than a toxic waste site.
4. Nikki Haley stomps the RINO opposition into the ground after multiple unsubstantiated personal smears the media wouldn't have touched with a ten foot pole if she'd had a (D) after her name.
And last, but most certainly not least....drumroll please....
For your viewing pleasure, an interview with Alvin Greene on CNN. His display of quintessential Democrat wit, charm, and eloquence will leave you breathless.
Unless we do this consequences will be DIRE. Like, unemployment over 8%, millions of jobs lost, and millions more underemployed. Oh wait, we've been on this ride before, it leads to the bread line.
White House: Obama Ready to Seize Claims Process That oughta do wonders for BP's plummeting shares. 40% of their stock is held by Americans, they employ thousands in the Gulf, alone, and the approximately 13,000 BP stations in America are all independently owned franchisesunder contract to buy their gas only from BP. Do those count as American jobs, I wonder?
White House Runs Roughshod Over Rule of Law Law? Who needs law when we have The One? He'll take care of us after he drives thousands of companies out of business and millions of people out of work.
Citizens of countries around the world are rallying in the spirit of the Tea Party movement.Who knew the concepts of limited government, low taxes, and personal freedom would resound with, well, the rest of the human race..
