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Don’t mean to give you more indigestion on a Saturday night, but thought you should see this from The Hill:
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)…is still in talks with President Barack Obama regarding her final vote on the legislation. Snowe said that she spoke to Obama while he was aboard Air Force One en route to Asia [...]

Guess it’ll be an early night for all the Democrat water-carriers in the media who have already filed their preemptive pieces downplaying whatever happens tonight after the polls close and the ballots are counting.
Here’s a bit of the Obama-as-a-factor-but-not-as-much-as-we-want-you-to-think analysis of exit poll results.
Politicker reports on the return of “It’s the economy, stupid:”
Forty-six percent of [...]

Conn Carroll at Heritage’s Foundry blog breaks down the stimulus spin from the White House today:
The Obama administration released the first hard numbers on how many jobs their $787 billion stimulus package has created or saved on Recovery.gov today. The number: 30,383 jobs from roughly $16 billion worth of stimulus contracts awarded directly by federal [...]

One word comes to mind when reading the account of how President Obama is “furious” with US General Stanley McChrystal over his speech on Afghanistan.
The word is “feckless.”
Via the Telegraph:
According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week. [...]

Don’t worry, be happy:
The Obama administration will scrap the controversial missile defense shield program in Eastern Europe, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN Thursday.
The U.S. has been testing the ability of ground-based interceptor missiles to hit long-range ballistic missiles.
The comment followed similar statements from officials in Poland and the Czech Republic — where key [...]

How Obama cronyism threatens rail security
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
New Delhi. Mumbai. Chechnya. Madrid. London. The question isn’t whether America will suffer a jihadi attack on our passenger rail lines, but when. So, why has President Obama neutered the nation’s most highly-trained post-9/11 counterterrorism rail security team?
All signs point to business-as-usual cronyism and pandering to [...]

This is what happens when you get too much Beltway on the brain.
Newt Gingrich — who sidled up on a couch with Nancy Pelosi for one of Al Gore’s global warming ad campaigns — championed President Obama’s education speech today.
Subtext be damned.
Gingrich, you should know, has been on a summer road trip with police-bashing, [...]

“It was surreal.”

“Daaa profilers!”

Recovery & Reinvestment?

Able to leap tall life obstacles in a single bound!
It’s opening day of the Senate SCOTUS hearings on the Sonia Sotomayor nomination. We’ll get gavel-to-gavel coverage this morning on all major networks and CSPAN starting at 10am Eastern.
The good news: At least we’ll be spared Joe Biden’s bloviations.
That’s about the only positive thing I can [...]

My syndicated column today covers the dawn of Generational Theft Act II. Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi purportedly walked back the rhetoric. Except she didn’t. While saying she was “committed to the first stimulus, and to giving it time to work,” she then turned around and floated another extension of unemployment benefits and a giant new highway [...]

Who railroaded the Amtrak inspector general?
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak inspector general Fred Weiderhold. The longtime veteran employee was abruptly “retired” last month –just as the government-subsidized rail service faces mounting complaints about its meddling in [...]

Showtime.

All aboard!

Wrecovery.gov!
It’s a good thing the White House can’t fire GOP Sen. Tom Coburn the way it fires inspectors general for blowing the whistle on waste.
He’s doing the job no one else in the administration is allowed to do — telling us the truth about porkulus fraud and abuse.
While Bozo the VP Joe Biden clowns around [...]

The Obamacare government takeover plan has provided a welcome stimulus of creativity and fighting spirit on the Right. Last week, we featured Rounds One and Two of the Obamacare photoshop poster contest. They just keep getting better. Print, save, and fax your favorites to your congressional reps. Bring one to an Obamacare protest near you [...]

Bozo the VP Watch.

The White House will hold a press conference this morning with Joe Biden announcing law enforcement support for SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Advocacy groups have always thrown their weight around during the confirmation process, but convening official White House events to make such announcements is a bit unusual. A friend jokes: Is Sotomayor running for [...]

Please pick up the red courtesy phone (Photoshop credit: Redhotphones.com)
I blogged back in March about the plight of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, two American journalists working for Al Gore’s Current TV who were seized by NoKo soldiers after crossing the border illegally into the country from China while on assignment.
The Yonhap news agency just [...]

Please pick up the red courtesy phone (Photoshop credit: Redhotphones.com)
Joe Biden said our unseasoned Dear Leader would soon be tested. The time is here and now. North Korea tonight has abandoned a 1953 ceasefire and is preparing the peninsula for war in the wake of South Korea’s decision to side with an anti-proliferation coalition led [...]

A reader forwards a DNC solicitation sent out this morning in Bozo the VP’s name:
Three weeks ago, my friend Senator Arlen Specter added one more feat to his long and impressive career — he became a Democrat.
Over the years, we’ve certainly had our disagreements. During that time, however, Arlen has been my friend, my confidant, [...]

Crossing the gaffetastic line.

My column today looks at the abusive relationship between Barack Obama and the hedge fund industry. He keeps taking their money. They keep getting publicly tongue-lashed. Looks like the cycle has ended. Last week, non-TARP lenders objected to the UAW-pandering Chrysler deal. This week, AQR Capital Management LLC hedge fund manager Cliff Asness — at [...]

David Hogberg at IBD is doing the job the government can’t/won’t do: Tracking porkulus waste. His analysis found that “$154 million in stimulus funds is going to low-traffic rural airports that already get subsidies and tax breaks — and whose net economic benefit is a matter of considerable debate.” It’s not just Jack Murtha’s airport/radar [...]

Bubble Veep

The government of the Northern Mariana Islands is applying for federal stimulus money that would go to foreign welfare recipients. The money would pay for food stamps and job training:
The CNMI government, through the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, has filed an application for a $3 million grant that would allow the inclusion of [...]

Caption contest.

3, 2, 1…blastoff

Plus: Guess who else schmoozed with Sharpton?