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Emetic of the day

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 19, 2009 01:14 PM

“You guys make a pretty good photo op.”

How do you say “You lie!” in Mandarin?

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 18, 2009 09:20 AM

Obama’s double-talk on dissent.

Cartoon of the day

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 16, 2009 10:21 PM

Rear-ended.

Protesting Pelosicare in her own backyard

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 16, 2009 10:37 AM

The Tea Party movement is going strong from the reddest of red states to the bluest corners of the country. In the Bay Area, limited government activists have held several large protests since the beginning of the year. Over the weekend, they gathered for a “sick-in” in San Francisco to protest the House health care [...]

Ho-hum: Pelosicare hikes costs $289 billion

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 14, 2009 10:40 PM

Well, the results of an actuarial analysis of the Democrats’ government health care takeover bill are finally out — a week after the House rammed the bill through and buried on a Saturday night.
Ho-hum. Nothing to see here except another massive act of generational theft:
The House-approved healthcare overhaul would raise the costs of healthcare by [...]

President O-bow-ma

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 14, 2009 09:34 PM

Downward dog.

Cold Cash Jefferson gets 13 years in the slammer: “Public corruption is a cancer on the body politic”

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 13, 2009 10:28 PM

Photoshop: Suitably Flip
Justice is served. The race hustlers will bray and moan, but disgraced Democrat Rep. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson had it coming. Thirteen years in prison for what the judge in the case called “the most extensive and pervasive pattern of corruption in the history of Congress:”
Former Rep. William Jefferson was sentenced today to [...]

Well, now: Anita Dunn’s bully lawyer hubby takes over as White House general counsel

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 12, 2009 11:27 PM

The thug politics power couple of Anita “A Pox on Fox” Dunn and Bob “The Silencer” Bauer isn’t going anywhere. I said it earlier this week and on Fox News early Thursday morning (vid here).
Now comes word late tonight that Bauer is indeed — as has been rumored for nearly a month via Glenn Beck [...]

Voters give corruptocrat Chris Dodd thumbs down

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 12, 2009 10:33 AM

He’s pulling out the stops in Washington with a swine flu power grab and a “financial reform” bill to distract from his ethics quagmire, but corruptocrat Sen. Chris Dodd isn’t fooling home state voters.
Continuing his year-long slide in the polls, the latest numbers show Dodd falling further (h/t DrewM at Ace of Spades HQ):
Connecticut Sen. [...]

Clownifying education reform again

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 11, 2009 04:33 PM

Ugh. Here comes the traveling Obama education circus again. This time, in Baltimore:
The odd couple of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Rev. Al Sharpton will bring their quest for education reform to Baltimore on Friday.
Gingrich and Sharpton are on a three-city “listening and learning” tour to find out which school strategies are working [...]

How Chris Dodd is exploiting the flu “crisis”

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 11, 2009 01:09 PM

Hold still. It’s gonna hurt.

Here comes Harrycare!

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 11, 2009 01:12 AM

A few weeks ago, intrepid Harry Reid was telling us he wouldn’t be “bound by any timelines” and wouldn’t rush the government health care takeover through the Senate on a White House-imposed schedule.
Neeeever mind:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) late Tuesday laid the groundwork for the Senate’s healthcare reform debate to start next Tuesday.
Reid filed [...]

Don’t get excited: Anita Dunn is not being thrown under the bus

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 10, 2009 12:05 PM

President Obama with Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Robert Gibbs (via White House Flickr stream)
A month ago, White House interim communications director Anita Dunn stepped into the role of lead Fox News-basher.
She’s handing the reins over to her young protégé and fellow Tom Daschle flack, Dan Pfeiffer.
Dunn never planned to stay in [...]

The fall of the Berlin Wall

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 9, 2009 10:10 AM

President Obama isn’t traveling abroad to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago today.
Of course not. There’s nothing in it for his Chicago cronies.
Also: There’s nothing for America to apologize for there today.
Guess which U.S. celebrity is in Germany to mark the anniversary? David Haselhoff.
When David Haselhoff is doing a better job [...]

Hey, Nancy: Can you hear America now?

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 5, 2009 03:19 PM

Via Mike Madden, the Democrats’ House health care proposal on the floor outside Nancy Pelosi’s district office. Message: Kill the bill, tear it up and start over:

All the president’s hacks

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 5, 2009 10:37 AM

Personnel is policy.
Obama’s policy is the Perpetual Campaign.
Which is why he has surrounded himself with nothing but campaign goons.
Dan Gerstein has an excellent column on all the president’s hacks:
The president’s top advisers are not just overly political, they are almost totally political. Indeed, this West Wing is stacked with “hacks”–campaign professionals who are acculturated to [...]

Mmm, mmm, mmm

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 4, 2009 09:00 AM

Glenn Reynolds says the “Obama magic has faded.”
The glow is gone.
The swagga has sagged.
Indeed:
In fact, the elections underscored Obama’s political weakness just one year after his triumphant victory over Republican moderate John McCain.
The Obama invincibility that was so much in evidence then seems to have lost its power. People can argue the reasons why [...]

The GOP elite’s $1 million object lesson — and the message of NY-23

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 4, 2009 02:14 AM

Conservatives owe NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman immeasurable gratitude. He overcame impossible odds (single digits just a month ago) to come within two points of defeating Democrat Bill Owens. Hoffman had zero name recognition. National Republican Party officials dumped nearly $1 million into the race on behalf of radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava, who [...]

Ballot Watch: Waiting for the results that everyone tells us mean nothing; Update: GOP sweep in Va.; voting machine glitches in NY-23; Obama says he’s not watching; Update: GOP gov wins in NJ/Va; Update: Hoffman concedes

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 3, 2009 07:05 PM

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 [...]

The chutzpah of Harry Reid

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 3, 2009 12:27 PM

The man is really something else. Really something else. He still doesn’t have a health care bill to show the American people, but he’s whining that Republicans don’t have sufficiently “comprehensive” alternatives of their own — when, in fact, Republicans have had plenty of legislative proposals on the table. The chutzpah of Harry Reid knows [...]

How Scozzafava repays NRCC and RNC

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 1, 2009 05:54 PM

Hey, how did that six-figure RNC donation to the NRCC plus $85,000 to the New York GOP plus nearly half-million-dollar investment in advertising and other independent expenditures on behalf of radical leftist Dede Scozzafava work out?
She repaid the GOP by endorsing Democrat candidate Bill Owens. Some gratitude, eh?
“Since beginning my campaign, I have told [...]

Radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava quits

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 31, 2009 11:00 AM

Halloween treat.

Death of transparency, Pt. 98,765: Pelosi blocks public from public option event

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 29, 2009 12:52 PM

Queen Nancy Pelosi reportedly ordered Capitol Hill police to block a GOP staffer from attending the Speaker’s public option announcement on Capitol Hill.
Transparency, schmansparency:

Power to the people!
As always, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Harrycare in trouble: Dems bail, Lieberman supports filibuster

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 27, 2009 01:56 PM

FNC’s Major Garrett tweets that Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh is “uncommitted” on Harry Reid’s “public option” plan announced yesterday.
Politico’s Manju Ranu reports that Joe Lieberman supports a GOP filibuster:
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.
Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats [...]

“Damn it feels good to be a victim”

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 27, 2009 01:22 PM

Alfonzo Rachel and friends rap the Left’s victicrats from South Central to the White House:

Yes, Newt, the GOP should be “purged” of left-wing saboteurs

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 27, 2009 11:32 AM

Plus: The rejected RNC solicitation form of the day.

The fit hits the shan: Reid to announce public-option plan; Update: Where’s the beef?

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 26, 2009 02:55 PM

Capitol Hill awaits a 3:15pm Eastern press conference from Harry Reid, who is reportedly set to announce his public-option plan amid uncertainty over Democrat support:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this afternoon will announce his decision to include a government-run health care plan, or “public option,” in the health care bill he brings to the floor, [...]

Cartoon of the day

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 26, 2009 01:38 PM

Newt and Dede sitting in a tree, erasing lines between “R” and “D” (TobyToons via RedState):

The latest Club for Growth poll on NY-23 shows conservative candidate Doug Hoffman continuing his surge over the liberal Democrat and the radical leftist “R” in the race. (Caveats: Sample size is small and CfG is pro-Hoffman. Still. Hoffman’s got [...]

Newt for 2012? No, thanks.

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 26, 2009 09:47 AM

The most prominent GOP endorser of radical leftist NY-23 congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava is openly musing about running for president in 2012.
No, thanks:
Callista and I are going to think about this in February 2011. And we are going to reach out to all of our friends around the country. And we’ll decide, if there’s a [...]

Dallas Tea Party activists push back against Gingrich’s straw men

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 23, 2009 02:33 PM

Call them out.



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