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GOP: Time to Get Things Undone
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
President Obama thinks he knows what the primary objective of Republicans in Washington should be: To “get things done.” Bashing Rush Limbaugh last week, Obama urged GOP lawmakers to ignore the voices of [...]

The Lupoe children: Brittney (8), Jazmin and Jassely (5), and Benjamin and Christian (2).
I think it’s disgusting how Los Angeles politicians and the MSM tried to turn the horrific suicide-murders involving Ervin and Ana Lupoe and their five children today into an object lesson about the bad economy.
The Lupoe parents lost their jobs at Kaiser [...]

Cross purposes.

Use it!

Graph of the day.

The open-borders crowd has been pushing to get a piece of the S-CHIP pie for more than a year. House Republicans have flagged the issue repeatedly. The bill is now in the Senate.
CNS reports on Harry Reid’s diffident attitude about the loosened ID standards:
A proposed change to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), [...]

“Inexplicable.”

“New tone!”

President Obama’s new economic stimulus ploy is to declare that no dissent on the need for massive government action exists.
He is wrong.
Via Cato Institute: Here are 200 economists, including Nobel Laureates, who oppose the Generational Theft Act of 2009. The open letter is running as an ad in the NY Times, Washington Post and Roll [...]

You’ll be interested to know that Professor Bob has shut down his comment section on his “Open Letter” blog post to me and other critics of his color-coded stimulus earmarks.
Perhaps in response to his bogus, Media Matters-echoing accusations that we were twisting his words, someone posted a link to this 1997 Slate piece exposing Reich’s [...]

“[S]pending for new programs has frequently been slower than expected and rarely been faster.

GOP Sen. Jim DeMint flags the testimony of deputy Secretary of State nominee James Steinberg, who believes that abortion subsidies are constitutionally protected.
From Sen. DeMint’s blog:
James B. Steinberg, President Obama’s nominee to be the next Deputy Secretary of State, claimed in written testimony to the Foreign Relations Committee that Congress cannot constitutionally restrict taxpayer funding [...]

Amazing grace.

From Conn Carroll at The Foundry: “What Is the Spending Multiplier on a Pack of Condoms?”
The entire intellectual underpinning of President Barack Obama’s spending plan rests on the belief that certain types of government spending creates a “multiplier effect” which raises national income beyond the size of government’s initial spending increase. So, for example, Mark [...]

Thump, thump, thump.

Schlock value.

Here is the roll call vote on the Geithner nomination:

And here are the 10 B.O. (Barack Obama/Bend Over) Republicans who sided with Obama and the Dems:
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Question: Where was GOP Sen. Kit Bond?
Update – Answer: Missed his plane, but would have voted against.
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Sen. Jim Inhofe’s [...]

“…because today’s children are tomorrow’s bright future!”

The US embassy in Yemen received a warning about this pending attack hours before gunmen drove by and fired shots:
Unknown gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen on Monday, hours after the mission said it received a threat, but a Yemeni official said no one was hurt.
“Police are chasing the [...]

The thanks we get.

Giddyup, B.O. Republicans.

Party of supplication.

Saving the future…by aborting it.

Racial identity politics comes back to bite Michelle Obama.
NYMag reported last week:
The Black Artists Association is upset with our new First Lady for not wearing clothes by African-American designers. BAA Cofounder Amnau Eele, who was a runway model for Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, and Bill Blass, told WWD, “It’s fine and good if [...]

“The consequences of inflammatory and erroneous statements.”

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
House GOP leader John Boehner’s office reports that the left-wing voter fraud/illegal alien/housing entitlement racketeers at ACORN “could get billions” more in federal taxpayer funding from the Democrats’ stimulus bill.
Here:
Incredibly, the Democrats’ bill makes groups like ACORN eligible for a $4.19 billion pot of money for “neighborhood stabilization activities.”
Not so [...]

al Qaeda has released a video love letter (er, hate letter) from two Gitmo recidivists to the rest of the world as President Obama prepares to import a boat load of detainees into American civilian courts.
Sealed with a kiss-off:
Two former Guantánamo Bay detainees now appear to have joined Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch, which released a [...]

Last month, many of you joined in sending Christmas wishes to little Hannah Garman, the beautiful 4-year-old girl diagnosed with a rare, incurable brain tumor in October. Hannah’s mother died of cancer two years ago. Her community in Ephrata, Pa., spread word of Hannah’s wish to receive as many Christmas cards as possible. The [...]

There’s a very powerful read from Gerald Warner in the London Telegraph today. A snippet:
This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the [...]

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