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You’ll notice I haven’t pounded on President Obama’s mispronunciation of “corpsman.”
(See Allah and Ed’s recaps.)
I guess I’m all gaffetastic-ked out this week.
Instead, let’s use the opportunity to spread the word about the great work the Navy Corpsmen do.
Milblogger Herschel Smith at Captain’s Journal pays tribute here. Read the whole thing. He concludes:
“Navy Corpsmen [...]

As we noted yesterday, President Obama told Senate Democrats to turn off cable TV and blogs and instead talk to the “folks” outside the “echo chamber.”
So, what’s the King of the Taxpayer-Subsidized White House Echo Chamber doing today?
Just arrived in my e-mail box:
Organizing for America
michelle –
Today, at 5:45 p.m. Eastern Time, Organizing for America is [...]

Because we haven’t seen Barack Obama campaigning enough on TV the past two weeks, the White House broadcast his meeting with the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference this morning.
The audio stream is here if you are just dying to hear him and aren’t near a boob tube.
The event was a dog-and-pony show with the [...]

The White House Blunder is headed Down Under.
Aussie reader Ruth e-mailed me tonight to flag President Obama’s upcoming visit to Australia. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s “popularity is sinking slowly” in an election year, Ruth writes, and “his almost evangelical support” of man-made global warming theory “is going to be the weighty millstone around his neck.”
Reverse [...]

This is what happens when Republicans fool themselves into thinking that the man in the White House will work with them.
He reached across the aisle…to smack GOP leaders in the face:
President Barack Obama branded Republicans on Tuesday as electoral opportunists more concerned about their own interests than the people’s, taking a political risk by escalating [...]

Cha-ching:
While President Barack Obama is proposing to cut some taxes for companies that hire workers, his budget would raise a host of other taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals.
The budget proposal released Monday would extend Obama’s signature Making Work Pay tax credit — $400 for individuals, $800 for a couple filing jointly — through 2011. [...]

Peter Orszag blogs this morning about the newly unveiled, $3.8 trillion White House budget: “The Budget lays out a plan to put the country back on a sustainable fiscal path.”
Via the House Republicans, this is what the Obama administration’s idea of a “sustainable fiscal path” looks like:

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The WSJ breaks the debt deluge down further:
President Barack [...]

In his State of the Union Address, President Obama purported to reach across the aisle by endorsing a “new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants”…before pushing cap and trade.
The nearly $4 trillion budget he released today exposes his nuclear lie.
It zeroes out funds for the besieged Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility in Nevada — [...]

It’s our own version of Britain’s Prime Minister’s questions and it’s been happening for nearly an hour live.
Hurry and tune in now on C-SPAN online if you aren’t near a TV.
Yes, Obama has shown some of his finger-wagging tendencies, ignored GOP Rep. Tom Price’s question, complained that health care critics likened Demcare to a “bolshevik” [...]

Reader Karen raises a good point about President Obama’s missing shout-outs last night:
Greetings from Tampa, Fl:
No one in the media has brought up the ultimate snub from Pres. Obama during his speech last night. He gave a shout out to Michelle Obama- twice, Joe Biden- once, but to the two officers who brought down the [...]

Obama was supposed to set a “new tone” in Washington tonight. Don’t think he meant the tone to sound like snoring.
Janet Napolitano should have brought her Snuggie to the State of the Union Address. Here she is putting the “nap” in Napolitano:

(hat tip: Cristy Li)
Harry Reid forgot to drink his Red Bull, too: Zzzzzzz.

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We’re an hour and a half away from President Obama’s Swagga Recovery Speech. He’s going to get his mojo back, we’re told, by acknowledging missteps — and then dumping the blame on lobbyists. Seriously. I know a lot of folks are organizing SOTU drinking games. But I don’t need the headache. This [...]

My syndicated column today torches President Obama’s fiscal freeze follies. A new CBO reports says the year-old Porkulus will now cost $75 billion more than originally estimated. Which is why the White House is scrambling to de-emphasize its spending discipline pose and talk about something else. Anything else. Like new legislation “restricting foreign corporations from [...]

As part of the pre-State of the Union publicity blitz, the Obama White House had its cabinet members sit down for quickie videos to tell you how they all “got to work” and “took bold steps to rescue the country from a potential second Great Depression; to rebuild the economy for the long-term — so [...]

One down. Fiftysomething to go. An apology from Gannett Wisconsin Media for getting duped by Astroturf Ellie:
A woman named Ellie Light (if that is her real name) recently duped dozens of newspapers around the country, including some here in Wisconsin, into printing her letter praising President Barack Obama as if she were a local resident.
The [...]

Astroturf Master/Senior White House adviser David Axlerod’s twin, David Plouffe, is officially being called an “outside adviser” It’s not clear who is paying his salary. But based on the Obama propaganda flowing into my e-mail box in his name over the last few weeks, I think we can properly call him the Spam Czar:
Organizing for [...]

Who is Ellie Light?
I predict you’ll start seeing the question as a popular bumper sticker soon (a la “Who is John Galt?”…and voila, someone has already made a t-shirt!).
It’s a handy rhetorical rejoinder the next time the White House or your nutroots neighbors and co-workers try to tar the Tea Party or any other [...]

President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address on January 27 at 9pm Eastern before a joint session of Congress.
I think it’s obvious who should deliver the response for Republicans:
Scott Brown.

Whether he wins or loses tonight, Brown has tapped into a unifying center-right-indie coalition that has given voice to a rising tide of [...]

In October, I gave you a closer look at Altgeld Gardens — a long-troubled public housing complex on Chicago’s South Side where youth violence has proven immune to “community organizing” solutions and the grand redevelopment schemes hatched by Mayor Richard Daley and slumlord/Obama crony Valerie Jarrett.
In this month’s City Journal, Heather Mac Donald shines light [...]

It’s official. The Hill reports this morning that the Dems have formally agreed to bypass the formal conference committee process to ram the government health care plan through for Barack Obama: “Aides said the agreement was reached during a Tuesday evening meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and [...]

Last week, Steve Schippert at ThreatsWatch first raised questions about a White House executive order that appears to give Interpol immunity from American law.
See Steve’s full analysis here.
Andy McCarthy weighed in here with more questions:
Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the [...]

Jetting off for Broadway dates, undeserved Peace Prizes, botched Crony-lympics bids, and world apology tours is hard work, don’t you know?
Cue the world’s smallest violin:
After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.
Who could blame him? [...]

“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.”

In honor of President Barack Obama’s acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, I think we should declare today Happy National Post-Achievement Day.
What award or honor don’t you deserve? Claim it.
What unearned prize for unmet aspirations would you like to give yourself? Declare it.
Obama’s full speech is here. All you need to know:
I receive this honor [...]

“She’s glamorous.”

Say cheese!

Inconvenient data.

“You guys make a pretty good photo op.”

Obama’s double-talk on dissent.

Rear-ended.