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**Written by Doug Powers Sarah Palin obviously isn’t even a declared candidate, but according to a new national poll she’s not only still well within the fray, but gaining speed: A new McClatchy-Marist poll finds that Obama looks increasingly vulnerable in next year’s election, with a majority of voters believing he’ll lose to any Republican, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Privately, DC Democrats like Harry Reid know they need and even depend on the rich, but publicly they reject them like red-heads at Danish sperm banks. That is unless they’re like Warren Buffett and play along in the “wink wink, nudge nudge” sense. Reid spoke earlier about President Obama’s “jobs plan” [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Forget about the implied “we’re not going to march on the White House because of the color of the president” part and try to focus on what is tantamount to an admission that the policies embraced by this administration have been disastrous. From The Hill by way of the Miami Herald: [...]

Taxing friendship

**Written by Doug Powers Learning that Solyndra investors were placed ahead of taxpayers when it comes to who gets paid back in the event of a loan default wasn’t a big surprise. After all, the auto bailouts were also structured in a way so that the unions were taken care of first with taxpayers stuck [...]

**Written by Doug Powers On Al “Resist We Much” Sharpton’s MSNBC show, Mayor Michael “Resist We Salt” Bloomberg said that we must see to President Obama’s success for the sake of the future of our children and grandchildren (apparently in the future the cures for cancer and heart disease will be debt and unemployment checks, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Nobody in his or her right mind would resign from the prestigious American Physical Society, but that it has happened can now serve as further proof that global warming causes mental illness. From Fox News: Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the [...]

“All aboooard!… again…”

**Written by Doug Powers This has to be the headline of the day: From WTVD: The company’s CEO introduced the President before his speech around 12:30 p.m. Obama talked about his proposal to pay for the plan by raising taxes on big corporations and the wealthy, an idea that has not sat well with Republicans [...]

**Written by Doug Powers From the “Imagine the media reaction if Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann had said this” file we find the transcript from President Obama’s “jobs speech” Thursday evening in which he briefly strayed from his teleprompter to add five words: We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. [...]

Back burner

Change Change!

**Written by Doug Powers Tomorrow night, President Obama is expected to announce a $300 billion “jobs plan” (the “stimulus” that dare not speak its name). After the speech, Republicans will either be busy tailgating before the game or would rather let Obama’s “let’s try the same stuff and hope for a different result” approach serve [...]

America’s Uncle Omar problem by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 “Always remember. Never forget.” The phrase is now emblazoned in red across the U.S. Department of Homeland Security website. But as the Obama administration disseminates its talking points to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 jihadist attacks, the White House remains stone-silent about [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Maybe some stimulus-minded soul in the White House will take note of the fact that the very chore of scheduling and re-scheduling President Obama’s “jobs speech” could have “save or created” several jobs. As of this hour, a time for the speech has finally been settled upon: After consulting with President [...]

“Definition of insanity” – Example #3,648

**Written by Doug Powers President Obama must have been pretty impressed with the quality of the lobster Brian Roberts served on the Vineyard, because his spokesman Jay Carney has graciously given NBC permission to move the start time of the GOP debate next Wednesday. This would be so the Republican debate isn’t in direct conflict [...]

**Written by Doug Powers During President Obama’s upcoming job speech, if you do a shot whenever you hear the words “invest in clean energy” you’ll be asleep before the teleprompter’s internal cooling fan kicks into action. Not that it was necessary, but here’s yet another reason to be extremely wary of that repeated green clarion [...]

**Written by Doug Powers President Obama promised to present America with his jobs plan after his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. That was in 2010. This year he said the exact same thing before his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard (an administration that’s gone into reruns after only two and a half years is officially out of [...]

Oh, Uncle Omar. We’ll get to more of him in a moment. Over the past decade, I’ve reported on America’s bottomless deportation abyss. After the 9/11 attacks, it finally dawned on federal homeland security officials that maybe it wasn’t such a smart policy to allow 400,000 illegal aliens who had been ordered deported to remain [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Would it surprise you to learn that, as a replacement for outgoing economic jokester (and he also dabbles in stand-up comedy) Austan Goolsbee, President Obama plans to nominate a more conservative supply-side economist? Of course it would surprise you… but that’s not what’s going to happen. Instead, the “clunkers for clunkers” [...]

There’s one employee of the White House — other than the Teleprompter of the United States, that is — who never gets a break. His name is Pete Souza. He’s the official presidential photographer. Last week, Souza was hard at work making President Obama look hard at work while vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard. Souza’s Twitter [...]

Change?

**Written by Doug Powers If you’re wealthy and want to spend $35k to listen to a billionaire argue why Washington should confiscate more of your income, all while your ticket money is dumped into to re-election coffers of the candidate who signed the Bush tax cut extension, Warren Buffett has you covered: Tickets for the [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Don’t worry — According to Warren Buffet this is nothing that can’t be easily remedied by raising Warren Buffett’s taxes. CBS News: The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama’s watch. The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Team Obama might be praying for any sort of “Gaddafi bump” in the polls, but until that day probably never arrives, Gallup puts President Obama’s approval at a new low: Some of those 38% spend their summers hanging around the Bunch of Grapes book store on the Vineyard. If President Obama [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The term “Fourth Estate” has long been used in reference to the press, but it’s getting a little stale. So, thanks to a little inspiration from the vacationing president, we can now get rid of “Fourth Estate” and replace it with “Eighth Hole”: But it was later, at the Vineyard Golf [...]

Definition of insanity

Same old sales pitch