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Hiring Spree in NYC
**Written by Doug Powers This week the First Lady told an audience at a fundraiser that the economy has made “remarkable progress” these past three years. One example of a hiring spree uptick can be found in New York City, where a couple hundred workers have been or are being added to the payrolls due [...]
Good News: Obama Less Interested in Allocating Blame for Bad Economy
Plus, “are we better off?”
GOP 2012: The Hold Your Nose Tracker
Photoshop: Reader Jimmy D. Yes, I’m still struggling. Like many of you, I am still carefully weighing all the costs and benefits of each declared GOP candidate. As the candidates continue highlighting each other’s unsavory left-wing alliances, I thought it might be helpful to compile a Hold Your Nose Tracker of the current top four [...]
Denver Occupier Promotes New Tone: ‘Hang and Shoot’ Bush Administration
**Written by Doug Powers In 2009, a weepy Nancy Pelosi denounced rhetoric she claimed was coming from the Tea Parties, claiming the protest could lead to a climate of violence. Since then, however, Pelosi has given Occupy Wall Street her blessing. Kelly Maher’s piece at the Daily Caller might have some wondering where Pelosi’s deep [...]
Joe Biden Competes on ‘Are You a Better Bush-Blamer Than a 5th Grader?’
“Things got really bad before we came into office…”
Joe Biden: Economy Belongs to Us, Not Bush
“We’re in charge”
Majority Rate Obama ‘Same or Worse’ Than Bush, New Poll Puts Approval at 36%
**Written by Doug Powers Clearly this must be Bush’s fault: When a random sample of 1004 adults were asked to compare the 43rd and 44th presidents, 34 percent of respondents said Obama had been a worse president than Bush, while 22 percent said he was about the same. Forty-three percent, a plurality, said they preferred [...]
George W. Bush’s Flight 93 Memorial Speech
“Evil is real, and so is courage”
Obama Tops $4 Trillion Worth of ‘Unpatriotic’ Debt
**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. [...]
Carney 2001: President’s on Vacation — Carney 2011: No Such Thing as a Presidential Vacation
**Written by Doug Powers Here’s White House Press Secretary Jay Carney this week in response to a question about whether President Obama planned to carry on with a vacation on Martha’s Vineyard scheduled for later this month: And I don’t think Americans out there would begrudge that notion that the president would spend some time [...]
Harry Reid: 8 Million Jobs Lost During Bush Presidency
A shovel-ready claim
Bush: ‘Miss Me Yet?’ — Dennis Kucinich: ‘Yes’
**Written by Doug Powers To say that Kucinich longs for the days of George W. Bush would be a wild over statement — after all, Kucinich wanted to impeach him — but maybe it’s not a stretch to say Dennis appreciated that Bush was more constitutionally considerate than the current president on the issue of [...]
Debate on Wartime Patriotism — Today’s Matchup: Ed Schultz vs. Hillary Clinton
**Written by Doug Powers Welcome to today’s debate on patriotism when it comes to unconditionally supporting a president at a time of war. Today’s debaters are MSNBC host Ed Schultz and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ms. Clinton won the coin toss and has elected to defer to Mr. Schultz. Take it away, Ed: Republicans [...]
Yet Another Problem Obama Inherited From the Previous Administration: Sleeping Air Traffic Controllers
Yes we can!
Iraq vs. Libya: Obama Takes a Swipe at Bush for… What Exactly?
**Written by Doug Powers President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner, launched an attack on another country while in another country, without the congressional approval that George W. Bush had and with only about half as many other countries on board. Obama seemed to feel this constituted enough of a moral high ground from which to [...]
Guess Who Pelosi Blames for Making Her Move Out of the Speaker’s Office?
**Written by Doug Powers It’s a tired cliché at this point, but in the absence of lucidity sometimes that’s all one can manage cling to: “We still would have lost the election because we had 9.5% unemployment. Let’s take it where that came from. The policies of George W. Bush and the Republican support for [...]
Complete Lack of Bias Causes CBS News to Accidentally Air Joke Cover of Bush Book
**Written by Doug Powers Hey, I’m sure they’ve made similar “mistakes” and accidentally shown fake covers of Clinton or Obama’s books instead of the actual covers. Okay, maybe not, but they might someday, and that’s the whole point: Newsday editor and colleague, Alan Fallick was watching CBS’ “Sunday Morning” this past Sunday, and watched Erin [...]
Left Greeting Bookstore Release of Bush’s ‘Decision Points’ With Level of Maturity You Might Expect
**Written by Doug Powers If you’re in a bookstore this weekend and hear alleged adults giggling like a Code Pink party when the cake finally arrives, it’s just these clowns re-arranging the shelves: The special relationship is being turned on its head, with US peace activists following the lead of their British counterparts to launch [...]
Bush nostalgia: Let’s not get carried away, ok?
As you all know, President George W. Bush is on his book/rehabilitation tour — hitting every MSM and cable news show from the Today Show to Hannity, plus Oprah, Rush Limbaugh, and beyond. His candor, decency, self-effacement, and clear love of country stand in stark contrast to the current antagonist-in-chief at the White House, so [...]
Video: The Forgotten Man
How would the Founding Fathers react to the fall of the constitutional republic and the rise of Barack Obama? Artist Jon McNaughton puts it on canvas. Watch the video (I especially appreciate the criticism of Obama’s predecessor implicit in the clip and painting. As I’ve observed many times, the Big Government Republican paved and pre-socialized [...]
Hurricane Katrina and the race card: 5 years later
President Obama is headed to New Orleans this weekend to mark the 5th anniversary of Katrina. The papers and airwaves will be clogged with all sorts of retrospectives. My column today reminds you of the ugly racial demagoguery by leading Democrats and “civil rights” leaders from Jimmy Carter to Charlie Rangel to Malik Zulu Shabazz. [...]
Ground Zero Mosque Supporters Beg Greedy, Lying, Human Rights Violating War Criminal to Join Their Crusade
“Help us, George W., you’re our only hope”
Helpful Tip for Obamaniacs: Turn Off Google’s ‘Auto Complete’ Feature Before Searching For Info About Your Hero
**Written by Doug Powers By way of Moonbattery, it’s time once again for “Fun with Google’s ‘auto-complete’ feature.” If you’re a fan of the president, you might want to just turn it off: That really happens. Go try it yourself. I hear Chris Matthews uses it as his version of “thinking about baseball” when he [...]
Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan Get a Little Surprise at Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport
Guess who?
Bush Derangement Syndrome: 4th of July Fireworks Edition
Exploding deficits, wrong president’s picture
‘Blame Bush’ Du Jour: Ending the Gore Marriage
Homewrecker
A better “Miss Me Yet?” billboard
I’m not the only one with misgivings about the Bush “Miss Me Yet?” billboard. Reader W.E. Messamore came up with some new and improved “Miss Me Yet?” billboard photoshops, including my favorite: Bull’s-eye. Definitely want to see someone put this one up for real!
Things I don’t miss about George W. Bush
Let me count the ways…
Diana West speaks the truth
It wasn’t Rush Limbaugh who ruined conservatism over the last eight years. Diana West says what 99 percent of Republican talking heads and strategists and self-designated defenders of conservatism won’t say. Read her latest post to see who the real problem has been. Hint: It’s the guy who said this… And the guy who did [...]
Bush the pre-socializer: “I readily concede I chucked aside my free-market principles”
Legacy.
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