Posts Tagged ‘obama’

How’s that ‘Tax the Rich’ thing working out in the UK?

Posted by jerome | Filed under America's Debt, Economy | Feb 22, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments

A big part of Obama’s 2012 campaign is his plan to tax the rich.  More than a few people in America believe taxing the rich is the right thing to do, that somehow it will bring in the money needed to feed our bloated government and make things ‘fairer’ or something.  Some people ...Read more.

Budget? The Dems don’t need no stinking budget

Posted by jerome | Filed under America's Debt, Economy | Feb 4, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | No Comments

You know how the federal government under Obama has not passed a budget in over 1,000 days?  Yeah, don’t count on it being done in 2012 either.
“We do not need to bring a budget to the floor this year — it’s done, we don’t need to do it,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told ...Read more.

Remember this when the lefties are pushing their class warfare bull

No way the lefties can say their candidate is getting the majority of his financial support from the middle class.
President Obama raised more than $55 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 for his reelection bid, $21 million of which came through a channel that allowed it to raise money from wealthy donors in chunks ...Read more.

Did Obama’s SOTU point out the fact he is a failure?

Normally when a president wants to show how successful he has been over the past year while giving his State of the Union Address, that president doesn’t repeat what had been said in previous SOTU’s.  Why, you may ask?  Because to do so merely points out the fact that what the president said was a ...Read more.

Boston Bruins goalie passes on White House visit

And if I were in his shoes, I would have done the exact same thing.
Fox News has the story.
Boston Bruins’ star goaltender Tim Thomas skipped Monday’s White House visit by the Stanley Cup champions due to political differences with President Barack Obama.
When it came to explaining why he passed on what could be a once ...Read more.

Obama to reject his own job council’s recommendations again? Yup

Okay, maybe I’m trying to predict the future a little bit, but based on past history am I not likely to be 100% correct?
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) — President Obama’s jobs council on Tuesday released its latest round of recommendations detailing how the United States can be more competitive.
This time, the recommendations aren’t all ...Read more.

If Obama were a captain of a ship

Posted by jerome | Filed under Idiots Speaking Out Loud | Jan 9, 2012 | Tags: , , , | No Comments

H/T Amy F.
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Obama has golfed over 8% of the days he has been in office

Posted by jerome | Filed under Elitists | Dec 28, 2011 | Tags: , , , | No Comments

Barry O has played his 90th round of golf since getting into office, a rather staggering number when you think about it.   And if this doesn’t seem like a lot of time spent hitting a ball around, look at it this way:
90 golf games in less than three years (let’s just go with three ...Read more.

So, this is all it takes to be one of the greatest??????

“13 million out of work, $15 trillion in debt, and 34 months of unemployment above 8 percent.”

Looks like “greatness” just isn’t that great anymore.
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Boehner seizes position of weakness, runs with it

Pathetic.
In a very public retreat, House Republican leaders late Thursday agreed to a two-month extension of payroll-tax cuts, a move that will prevent Social Security taxes from rising on millions of workers Jan. 1.
Not only does this two-month extension NOT stabilize a whole lot when it comes to budget planning for individuals or companies, it ...Read more.