Category: Miscellaneous

Despite Low Poll Numbers, Obama Still Gets His Way and His Agenda Passed

From 73wire.com: It’s encouraging to see the American people finally wake up to Obama’s true intentions of his fundamental transformation of America, and November can’t get here fast enough to retake the Congress or at minimum, the House.   Two polls being reported today include one from CBS: Mr. Obama’s approval rating on the economy has tumbled [...]

Michelle Obama: Take Your Vacation in the Gulf, America — If You Need Us, We’ll Be Vacationing in Maine

From Michelle Malkin: Michelle Obama visited the Gulf coast today, and suggested that Americans who are planning vacations this summer consider taking them in the Gulf region as a sign of economic solidarity with those impacted by the oil spill. From ABC’s Jake Tapper: On her first trip to the Gulf Coast since the BP oil [...]

Obama’s war on the traditional family

From The Washington Times: President Obama has wasted little time in using his executive branch power to give the country a leftward shove. In just the past few weeks, the administration has ramped up programs intended to reshape conceptions of the family. When it comes to moral values, it is clear that radical leftists are driving [...]

As Obama Calls Out Republicans on Campaign Trail, Republican Leader Blasts President’s ‘Childish Partisanship’

From CNSNews.com: “The President should be focused on solving the problems of the American people — stopping the leaking oil and cleaning up the Gulf, scrapping his job-killing agenda, repealing and replacing ObamaCare — instead of my choice of metaphors,” House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Wednesday. He was responding to President Obama’s [...]

Is President Obama Trying To Kill The Gulf State Economies?

From Right Wing News: It sure seems like President Obama despises Republican states. The industry remains dormant in the Gulf. Like the dry fields of California, acres and acres of livelihood being destroyed by Democrat mismanagement, so to the Gulf states see their fields dying and they’re lives destroyed. From CNN: The offshore drilling ban imposed [...]

Jimmy Carter’s Second Term

From Intellectual Conservative: The year 1980 was considered a bellwether year in presidential politics. America was firmly caught up in the economic and foreign policy nightmare that was the Carter Administration. The prime rate was 20.5%, inflation was running at 14.8%, unemployment was a then record 10.8%, the 30 year mortgage rate was a staggering [...]

The Unengaged President

From National Review: What do General McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic-party supporters. Or they were. Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which may at least partly explain how he became the first U.S. general [...]

Poll: Obama Endorsement Poison for Candidates

From NewsMax.com: Nearly half of voters surveyed this month — 48 percent — said President Obama’s endorsement of a candidate would make them less likely to vote for that candidate. Only 33 percent said an Obama endorsement would make them more likely to vote for such a candidate, while 18 percent said it made no [...]

Middle Class Is Abandoning Obama: He Gets Majority Approval Rating Only From Americans Making Less Than $24,000

From CNSNews.com: The middle class is abandoning President Barack Obama, according to data released by the Gallup Poll. The only income bracket among which a majority still says they approve of the job he is doing as president are those earning $2,000 per month or less. During the week of June 7-13, only 46 percent [...]

The Spill, The Scandal and the President

From Rolling Stone: On May 27th, more than a month into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, Barack Obama strode to the podium in the East Room of the White House. For weeks, the administration had been insisting that BP alone was to blame for the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf – and [...]

Obama loses the Left: suddenly, it’s cool to bash Barack

From Telegraph.co.uk: Well, at least he’s still got Sir Paul McCartney. At the White House last week, the 67-year-old crooner was gushing in much the same manner as his own groupies did at Shea Stadium in 1965. “I’m a big fan, he’s a great guy,” McCartney told American critics of President Barack Obama. “So lay [...]

As Gulf of Mexico oil disaster wears on, blame is finding its way to the White House

From Nola.com: The uncontrolled, environmentally and politically toxic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now lapping at the White House. “I’m angry and the people back in my state are very angry,” Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, fresh back from home, said in a speech on the House floor Monday afternoon, in which he waved a [...]

Neil Armstrong says Barack Obama is ‘poorly advised’ on space

From Telegraph.co.uk: Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Mr Armstrong said that the Obama administration plan to end the Constellation program and cut other space efforts appeared to be made without input from NASA or the president’s science adviser. “I have yet to find a person in NASA, the Defense Department, [...]

Voters Favor Tea Parties Over Obama, 48% to 44%

From NewMax.com: A new poll indicates that most voters, by a 48 percent to 44 percent margin, believe the tea party’s views are closer to their own than President Obama’s are. The question that Rasmussen Reports posed to 1,000 likely voters: “When you think about the major issues facing the country, whose views are closest [...]

Obama’s Approval Rating Drops to Record Low

From NewsMax.com: This healthcare thing apparently isn’t working out too well politically for President Barack Obama. His approval rating fell to a record low of 44 percent in the latest CBS News Poll. That compares to 49 percent in late March, just before the healthcare reform bill became law. His approval rating was 50 percent [...]

Obama more disliked than Bush?

From HotAir.com: Today’s Rasmussen numbers from their daily presidential poll puts Barack Obama into an unusual position.  In just 14 months, he has made himself more unpopular than his predecessor, at least by the measure of strong disapproval.  Obama’s approval index has tied its lowest mark yet at -21: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll [...]

Anti-Obama Sentiment Sweeps the Nation

From The Weekly Standard: The same thread runs through Governor Rick Perry’s smashing defeat of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary in Texas, the elections of Republican Governors Bob McDonnell of Virginia and Chris Christie of New Jersey last fall, and the Senate victory of Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts in January. It’s [...]

The Anti-Obama?

From National Review Online: On the morning of November 5, 2008, the world rocked to news that the United States had elected Barack Obama to the presidency. That same morning, Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, joined the list of those most often mentioned as potentially defeating President Obama in 2012. In what may be a [...]

Obama’s Balloon Hits the Dirt

From TownHall.com: It was only a year ago that liberal elites in Washington were shoveling dirt on conservatism. James Carville was writing boastful books about 40 years of Democrat dominance, boasting in his typical way that he could call “time of death” on the Republican Party. Liberals believed their hype that Barack Obama would be [...]

Reaction Roundup: The State Of The Union

President Obama only referred to himself 103 times in his first State of Himself Address… er, State of the Union Address, which is lower than the 132 times he referred to himself in a speech he gave just last week in Ohio. From The Heritage Foundation: Heritage members and fans are discussing President Barack Obama’s [...]