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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!

You’re next.

The dream of Cirque du Jihad in the Big Apple lives. The White House won’t rule out multiple Gitmo civilian trials in NYC, despite bipartisan opposition and massive public outrage over the costs, risks, and recklessness.
Still stuck on stupid, via the NYDailyNews:
The feds may still try the 9/11 terror thugs near Ground Zero, President [...]

The door is this way…

I’m proud to call Colorado Springs home for myriad reasons — quality of life, cost of living, terrific schools, physical beauty, Fort Carson, the Air Force Academy, and great cultural amenities. For starters. The city leans conservative to libertarian, but is no monolith. There are “progressives” and Big Business statists and everything in between. Most [...]

DLTDHYOTWO!*
See ya:
Scott Lee Cohen, the pawnbroker whose surprise victory in last week’s Democratic lieutenant governor primary was followed by scandalous revelations about him, quit the race tonight during the half time of the Super Bowl, saying he didn’t want to “put the people of Illinois in jeopardy in any way.”
Cohen made the tearful announcement at [...]

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The House is currently debating the federal debt ceiling increase to $14.3 trillion. (The Senate, with every single Democrat voting in favor, adopted the debt limit increase last week.) These measures are on top of two other debt limit increases over the last year (including one adopted in the dead of night over [...]

#demonsheep has now been immortalized as a running Twitter joke.
It’s the nickname of the truly bizarre (”freaky deaky,” Allahpundit calls it) campaign ad that McCain-endorsed California GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is running against one of her Republican rivals, moderate House Rep. Tom Campbell.

It’s a mess — confused tone, bad metaphor (yes, Fiorina’s message seems [...]

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 [...]

MA GOP Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s certification has been moved up from February 11 to tomorrow.
He’s already missed the Senate vote on Bernanke’s second term and on raising the debt limit.
Not sure why he waited to hurry things up now. But better late…
US Senator-elect Scott Brown this afternoon sent a letter to Governor Deval Patrick and [...]

This is what happens when you put Chicago crony pork-stuffed politicians in charge of government bureaucracies overseeing businesses they know nothing about — and, per commenter Steve Egg, that are direct competitors to businesses the government owns.
Via the WSJ, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, whose specialty is earmarks, not engineering, walked back his scare-mongering this morning [...]

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 [...]

GOP cap-and-tax 8′er Mark Kirk won the GOP primary in Illinois for the Senate seat formerly occupied by Barack Obama.
After pandering to enviro-nitwits and casting his vote in favor of the largest energy tax increase in American history based on shoddy science and Al Gore-led fear-morning, Rep. Kirk promised Illinois voters he wouldn’t pander the [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]

My syndicated column today expands on Tuesday’s blog post about the Aafia Siddiqui terror trial debacle in New York City (see here for background/links) and what it portends for the future. Yes, I call it Cirque du Jihad. The White House and DOJ are now scrambling to cook up contingency plans for their jihadi show [...]

Photo credit: Urban Infidel.
President Obama’s rhetoric meets reality, again.
After pushing hard to try Gitmo detainees in New York City, the White House has now ordered the Justice Department to try and find other venues. They are still insisting on shipping suspected jihadis to federal courts on U.S. soil.
It’s going to be a long, [...]

Oh, goody.
The man whose in-state appearances helped doom Democrats Jon Corzine in New Jersey, Creigh Deeds in Virginia, and Martha Coakley in Massachusetts is now scheduled to campaign for flailing Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet here in Colorado.
President Obama will bring his reverse Midas Touch to the mountain West next month, according to the Denver Post:
The [...]

Every Senate Democrat voted to raise the debt limit to $14.3 trillion. The vote was 60-40 on straight partisan lines.
Let me repeat that — and let it be repeated loudly and often:
Every Senate Democrat voted to raise the debt limit to $14.3 trillion.
That’s $45,000 per American.
Here’s the roll call vote:

Can’t say it enough: There is [...]

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.

Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell is giving a terrific counter-response to Obama’s spend-all, do-all State of the Union address. He is drawing on the Founding Fathers and talking about the need to restrain government. “The federal government is simply trying to do too much.”
Speech excerpts here:
JOBS
“Good government policy should spur economic growth, and strengthen the private [...]

Big Labor poured millions of rank-and-file members’ dues into a tax hike campaign in Oregon. It worked. The “wealthy” and the “evil corporations” will now be forced to bail out government schools and social services. Look for affected business owners to start Going Galt en masse.
The Oregonian reports on the gloating by public employee union [...]

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 [...]

I’m disappointed, but understand his reasons. Erick Erickson at RedState has the full scoop:
January 26, 2010
Open Letter to Friends and Supporters
As many of you are aware, I have been approached about running for the United States Senate in 2010. Karen and I have been humbled by the outpouring of support and encouragement which we received [...]

Let’s see. Corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder gave the New Black Panther Party thugs a pass. And he gave pay-for-play corruptocrat Bill Richardson a pass.
Who’s the lucky winner today?
Democrat Rep. Alan “Cheat River” Mollohan of West Virginia.
You may recall that he was forced to step down from the House Ethics Committee four years [...]

From the land of Barack and Michelle and Rahm and Valerie and David and David and Arne and Ray and Desiree, here’s the latest corruption scandal rocking the Windy City. They did it for the children, no doubt:
The credit cards of 89 Chicago Board of Education employees have been yanked in the midst of an [...]

The Siddiqui circus.