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**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

By Doug Powers • November 2, 2011 12:53 PM

Plus, “are we better off?”

GOP 2012: The Hold Your Nose Tracker

By Michelle Malkin • October 17, 2011 10:14 AM

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

By Doug Powers • October 15, 2011 02:06 PM

**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?’

By Doug Powers • October 6, 2011 04:08 PM

“Things got really bad before we came into office…”

Joe Biden: Economy Belongs to Us, Not Bush

By Doug Powers • September 29, 2011 03:58 PM

“We’re in charge”

Majority Rate Obama ‘Same or Worse’ Than Bush, New Poll Puts Approval at 36%

By Doug Powers • September 24, 2011 03:25 PM

**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

By Doug Powers • September 10, 2011 06:50 PM

“Evil is real, and so is courage”

Obama Tops $4 Trillion Worth of ‘Unpatriotic’ Debt

By Doug Powers • August 24, 2011 04:42 PM

**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

By Doug Powers • August 11, 2011 01:25 PM

**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

By Doug Powers • August 5, 2011 04:16 PM

A shovel-ready claim

Bush: ‘Miss Me Yet?’ — Dennis Kucinich: ‘Yes’

By Doug Powers • June 17, 2011 10:55 AM

**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

By Doug Powers • March 30, 2011 10:59 AM

**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 […]