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Super PAC-men: Obama’s bundlers gone wild! by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 The White House didn’t blow a dog whistle for deep-pocketed liberal donors on Monday. No, the administration whipped out a supersized vuvuzela. Blaring message: Let loose the campaign finance-bundling hounds of super PAC war! President Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, who served [...]

The People’s President is raising money any way he can — and the fashion world’s 1 percent-ers have stepped up to the plate to help. Via the WSJ: At a New York fund-raising event Tuesday called “Runway to Win,” President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign plans to begin selling campaign-themed tote bags, T-shirts and accessories designed [...]

**Written by Doug Powers During the clamor to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut, President Obama asked “What does $40 mean to you?” His opponents of the way the extension was handled might now be able to counter with, “What does $9,500 mean to you?” (CBS News) Just before Christmas, American workers got [...]

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As we prepare to watch President Obama lambaste Republicans for obstructionism in his State of the Union address tonight, remember: Today marks 1000 days since the Senate last passed a full budget. Pass it on: From the Heritage Foundation, things that were accomplished in less than 1,000 days…and things that were not: From my friends [...]

Official White House photo The Land of Obama Make-Believe by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Where did President Obama go after killing off thousands of Keystone XL pipeline construction and manufacturing jobs? Why, Disney World, of course. Sabotaging work is hard work for Goofy and his pals. And where’d he head after that? Why, [...]

Old logo: New logo: Photoshop credit: Commenter jeffjackie The Bank of (Democratic Party) America by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Well, isn’t this rich? And I do mean rich. President Obama, man of the people, will deliver his presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. — so that [...]

Tone it down.

Photoshop credit: VVM Obama’s Super-Czar Is on the Loose by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: “So let it be written, so let it be done!” Like Yul Brynner’s Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments,” the demander in chief stands with [...]

Photoshop source: Ed Driscoll The Year in Obama Scandals — and Scandal Deniers by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama’s snowblowers in the media. See [...]

Ben “The Price is Right” Nelson, who infamously sold out on Obamacare, is hanging up his hat. The people of Nebraska whom he betrayed and embarrassed won’t be shedding any tears. All together now: DLTDHYOTWO. Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska will announce today that he is retiring after two terms, a serious blow to [...]

Photoshop: Tennyson Hayes Who is Kevin McNulty? One happy man. The White House and entrenched incumbent Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey gave him a surprise early Christmas gift — and New Jersey politicos are grumbling. According to the New York Post, McNulty was nominated to a federal judgeship for which he hadn’t been [...]

Punt to February

**Written by Doug Powers Last I heard, the House vote on the Senate-approved plan that would extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment for two months (which also includes a provision for the job creator that dare not speak its name) was to take place this evening. At this time, the odds of House passage [...]

My column is a year-end review of Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi’s congressional self-dealing and ethics covers-up. On a related note, here’s an amusing story of blue-on-blue corruption conflict: Calif. Democrat Rep. Laura Richardson (flashback here on her financial scams) attacking Pelosi’s wealth: The sources disagreed on the exact wording of the unusually direct shot at [...]

The ultimate tribute to murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry would be to evict Eric Holder and Barack Obama from Washington. Until then, this is a nice memorial from the House. Via GOP Rep. Darrell Issa: ISSA STATEMENT ON PASSAGE OF BRIAN A. TERRY MEMORIAL ACT FROM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON. D.C. – Representative Darrell [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The DNC must know it’s a ridiculous claim, but they’ve got their reasons: Who worries the Democratic National Committee after Saturday night’s Republican debate? For months, the committee has been training all of its rhetorical fire on Mitt Romney, sending out hundreds of e-mails and producing dozens of anti-Romney videos. But [...]

Holder, Blago, Richardson: Triangle of Sleaze by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 It was a rough week for the corruptocracy. White House officials better ho-ho-hold on tight because the sleigh ride isn’t going to get any smoother. On Wednesday, disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, D-Ill., received a 14-year prison sentence for scheming to sell [...]

The verdict in Rod Blagojevich’s corruption case is expected in about 20 minutes. Chicago journos have been live-tweeting the hearing this morning. After blaming everyone and anyone and their mothers for his cesspool of woes, Blago played the belated remorse card and begged the judge for “mercy.” The prosecution wants 15-20 years to “send a [...]

So, the Office of Congressional Ethics joined in the Holiday Document Dump Spirit (ho, ho, ho!) on Friday and unloaded a two-year-old report on Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s cameo role in the Blago Senate seat trading scam. The announcement is on the OCE site here, but you can read the 300-page report right here in case [...]

So, here is Twitter’s criteria for the “Top Tweets of 2011″ list it shared with ABC News. Pay attention to the phrases in bold: Over 100 million people around the world log in to Twitter every day to tweet about everything from their daily commutes to the meals they eat — but many have used [...]

Buh-bye. The news just broke over Twitter via WBZ Radio. All together now: DLTDHYOTWO! The original Tweet: Here. Press conference at 1pm Eastern: Congressman Barney Frank will hold a press conference in Newton Monday to formally announce and answer questions about his decision not to run for re-election in 2012. Frank of Massachusetts 4th Congressional [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Strange… you don’t usually see stories about political corruption coming out of Chicago: A Chicago-area businessman whose association with President Obama came under scrutiny during the 2008 presidential campaign has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for corruption charges related to kickback schemes. Antoin “Tony” Rezko, who raised [...]

Scroll down for latest updates… The Great Stonewall of Obama by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 The White House laments that America hasn’t built enough massive government infrastructure projects. Nonsense. At the rate it’s growing, the Great Stonewall of Obama may soon be the second largest manmade object visible from outer space. While many [...]

“The president’s doing the best he can by executive order…”

**Written by Doug Powers This falls into the “nice try” category, but ultimately it probably won’t fly. From The Hill: President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly referring to the Congress as “Republican” even though their party controls one-half of the unpopular institution. Obama and his allies have started to deploy the phrase [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Just because they’re young shouldn’t give her license to insult them, should it? From the Herald Online: U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, interrupted an interview with a reporter Saturday in Charleston to speak with two elementary-school age children that she quickly labeled “little Democrats.” [...]

**Written by Doug Powers I wonder if Mickey Mouse signed the petitions too. From Politico: An Indiana Democratic county chairman accused of submitting petitions with hundreds of faked signatures for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary resigned Monday, according to reports. St. Joseph County Democratic Party Chair Butch Morgan stepped down from [...]

You knew it was coming. The Kamp Alinsky Kids are taking a sight-seeing tour today. After a month of trashing Zuccotti Park at a public cost of $2 million per day, the riff-raff is marching uptown to occupy…wealthy people’s private homes. According to the NY Daily News: “A ‘Millionaires March’ will visit the homes – [...]