Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, in today’s column : According to polls, Americans are in a mood to hold their breath until they turn blue.
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No, Really, Eugene Robinson Always Thought You Were All a Bunch of Brats. – (Campaign Spot)
Judicial Watch Lawmakers and police in a major U.S. city have reassured illegal immigrants that they’re protected under longtime sanctuary policies amid demands from open borders advocates that the measures be formalized in writing. A group of Latino activists, clergy and civil rights leaders took to the street this week to command Baltimore officials to further solidify the city’s measures to shield illegal aliens from federal authorities.
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Illegal Aliens Want Sanctuary City Policies in Writing – (Expose Obama)
I began to read this Bob Shrum column ready to mock it mercilessly — Shrum’s last bit of advice to the president was to give a big speech, a thoroughly original idea — but I actually see some proposals that are, by his standards, pretty good: So demand that the tax cuts be made permanent for most Americans, but not for the top two percent. And don’t keep that money, for now, for the federal Treasury; fight to reallocate it to two years of additional tax relief for the hard-pressed middle class
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Bob Shrum Endorses Low Capital-Gains Taxes; Apocalypse Imminent. – (Campaign Spot)
This un-sourced memo someone forwarded me shows what terrible trouble democrats are in. Please don’t gloat (too much) when reading it and don’t let democrats know we have it
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Leaked Democrat Re-election Strategy Memo (Must Read Before November Election) – (Audacity of Hypocrisy)
Some of the nation's largest banks have agreed to contribute enough money to save Chicago-based ShoreBank, the community lender with strong ties to the Obama administration, FOX Business has learned.
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Shorebank Latest Slush Fund for Obama? – (Free Republic)
In today’s Post : Rep. Travis Childers, who represents a district in northern Mississippi where Obama won just 38 percent of the vote in 2008, takes a similar approach in his TV advertising — promoting the fact that he has “voted against every big budget” since winning a special election two years ago. Here’s the ad, which contains, by my count, at least two glaring lies: He accuses Republican rival Alan Nunnelee of breaking a 2010 pledge to not raise taxes by voting for tax increases in the state legislature — in 2009, 1997, and 1996.
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I Voted Against Big Budgets, Not Counting Appropriations and the Stimulus – (Campaign Spot)
Ben Johnson, Floyd Reports How dangerous and unAmerican are Barack Obama’s views?
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Govt Prosecutor Says Obama’s Views of Gitmo Are UnAmerican – (Expose Obama)
Wall Street executives who endured two years of Democratic party blame for everything from the financ … (read more – click below)
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Wall Street Comes Back From The Dark Side-Moving Their Money From Dems to GOP – (Yid with Lid)
Floyd and Mary Beth Brown , FloydReports.com On July 2, President Obama declared, “And finally, because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street’s mistakes. (Applause.) There will be no more tax-funded bailouts — period. (Applause.) If a large financial institution should ever fail, this reform gives us the ability to wind it down without endangering the broader economy.
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Obama’s Fixes Keep Financial Crisis Going – (Expose Obama)
On July 2, President Obama declared, “And finally, because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street’s mistakes. (Applause.) There will be no more tax-funded bailouts –…
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown: Obama’s Fixes Keep Financial Crisis Going – (Town Hall)
Buying Votes: It appears that Democrats will receive a severe beating in the fall elections.
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A Mortgage Rescue For Greedy Investors? – Are Liberal Trying to Buy Votes? – (Audacity of Hypocrisy)
Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout. Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans who owe more than what their homes are worth. An estimated 15 million U.S.
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An August Surprise from Obama? – (Free Republic)
From one of my regulars: WSJ: “The number of idled U.S. workers making new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly increased last week to the highest level in nearly four months, raising concerns about the labor market’s recovery.” Hey, how many months of this have to pass before editors decide “unexpected” doesn’t work? ?What’s next
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Unexpectedly, The Sun Rose in the East – (Campaign Spot)
Jeez, there has been a fairly constant murmuring in the MFM over the past 6-8 months over the general opaqueness of the Obama administration. It sounds to me like some ivory tower J-profs, drifted out of touch with the street…
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Journalism group "leadership" accused of racism over resolution calling for greater access and transparency – (Ace of Spades)
Pollsters Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell, both Democrats, took on President Obama in a column in the Wall Street Journal last week, criticizing him for not being true to his campaign promise to unify the…
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Star Parker: Challenge Today is Freedom, Not Unity – (Town Hall)
Sen. Jim Webb is calling for an end to government-run diversity programs, saying they’ve only disadvantaged poor whites and hurt the cause of racial harmony. In a column that appeared in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, Webb argues that diversity programs have “marginalized many white workers.” He argues that the programs now jump new immigrants over similarly situated whites, and that diversity efforts now slight black Americans who were their original beneficiaries.
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Virginia Senator Webb Calls for End to Diversity Programs – (Audacity of Hypocrisy)
By John Berlau The 2,315 page? Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill? that President Obama will sign today should not be called “financial reform.” Instead the bill, which passed the Senate 60-39 last week when Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown joined Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to grant cloture, should be called what for what it is: pages and pages of massively costly, counterproductive and possibly unconstitutional mandates on nearly every type of business except for those government-sponsored enterprises at the root of the crisis. And while the bill claims to crack down on excesses on Wall Street, its harshest impact will likely be on Main Street businesses that had nothing to do with the meltdown. A front-page Wall Street Journal?? article this week noted that “far from Wall Street, President Barack Obama’s financial regulatory overhaul… will leave tracks across the wide-open landscape of American industry.” The Journal notes that “the bill will touch storefront check cashiers, city governments, [and] small manufacturers.” But one thing it will leave totally untouched is the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which new research by Congress’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and other bodies shows was even more of a prime factor in the subprime boom than originally assumed
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Obama’s Latest Monstrosity – (Expose Obama)
As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' “toxic assets” was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's “systemic collapse.” In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.
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America;s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution (Long, but very worthy and important read) – (Free Republic)
WASHINGTON – Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama Thursday that imposes sweeping new regulations on Wall Street and creates new protections for millions of consumers. The Senate's 60-39 vote came nearly two years after a financial crisis knocked the economy to its knees.
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Congress Sends Obama Sweeping Wall Street Bill – (Free Republic)
By Ed Lasky, American Thinker We now live in the Unionized States of America — a phrase that evokes how Obama and company have gone into overdrive to empower their union allies at our expense.
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The Unionized States of America – (Expose Obama)
By John Hunt, American Thinker Wall Street Journal columnist Russell Gold reports on Friday, July 2, on the pending deepwater drilling off of Cuba by Spain’s Repsol YPF SA, on locations that could be as close as 60 miles from Florida. For reference, the Macondo #1 blowout is about 57 miles off Louisiana. Way down within that story is a telling revelation of the Obama administration working on a contingency to help Cuba, should the Macondo #1 oil spill reach there.
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Obama says: Cuba Si!, Gulf Coast No! – (Expose Obama)
Quote Instead, they agreed to pay for Wall Street reform by ending the $700 billion federal bailout program called the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) immediately upon final passage of the bill.
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Wall street reform – (Political Hotwire)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: POTUS Plugs Something The Wall Street reform bill meanders and chugs through the minds of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd — two geniuses without whom we would not be blessed with delisted Fannie and Freddie and their collective $12 trillion mortgage market — as POTUS sashays to the White
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Batchelor: Barn Door Florida Horse Glue; Kim Gone; and Dream Again of Rome – (The Real Obama)
The White House has been fond of citing turning points lately, most recently when describing the administration's handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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New poll shows Obama approval at all-time low – (Free Republic)
If the Wall Street Journal poll is representative of public opinion, Obama’s benefit of the doubt has reached its own expiration date: Did you see? this coming ??“Americans are more pessimistic about the state of the country and less confident in President Barack Obama’s leadership than at any point since Mr. Obama entered the White House, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
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This is the Poll the Obama Administration Has Been Dreading – (Campaign Spot)
Florida Democrats are already enduring a Senate front-runner who’s polling in the mid-teens in a three-way race (Kendrick Meek); they probably cringed during this morning’s rough-and-tumble debate : The debate seemed to be fizzling out as Greene and Meek agreed on the issues. However when asked about the federal stimulus bill backed by President Obama, Meek praised the measure–and then bashed Greene for his role in Wall Street scandals.? Greene taunted Meek, saying the only job he had created was a consulting job for his mother. Meek went after Greene for the attack, noting his mother’s long career in public service when she was a single mother.? Despite that testy exchange, both of the candidates offered some support for the stimulus.?“We would have gone into a depression, not a recession, if it weren’t for the stimulus bill,” said Meek.? Greene said the stimulus did not do enough for permanent job growth
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The Greene and Meek Debate – (Campaign Spot)
By Hilary Hylton, Time Magazine South Carolina’s unexpected Democratic nominee for the US Senate, mystery man Alvin Greene, says he wants to play golf with Barack Obama. But in Texas, another surprise Democratic primary winner, congressional nominee Kesha Rogers, wants to impeach the President. So while South Carolina party officials are still unsure of what to do about Greene’s success at the ballot box, Texas Democrats have no such reservations — they wasted little time in casting Rogers into exile and offering no support or recognition of her campaign to win what once was Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s old seat
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Texas Dem wants to Impeach Obama – (Expose Obama)
They will never learn: President Obama will likely discuss setting caps on the utility sector when he meets with senators this week, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the Wall Street Journal on Friday. “The idea of a…
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White House Still Considering Raising Electricity Prices During Bum Economy – (Ace of Spades)
The Politico’s Mike Allen puts this in his morning newsletter: EXCLUSIVE: Phil Schiliro, the White House congressional liaison, has told the Senate to aim to take up an energy bill the week of July 12, after the July 4 break (and after the scheduled final passage of Wall Street reform).
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Obama Officially Embraces the Lame-Duck Session Strategy – (Campaign Spot)
By Mitt Romney, USAToday ? Obama is being a typical politician seeking to cast blame on others Has it come to this again?
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Romney: We need a leader, not a politician – (Expose Obama)
As with nearly every other Congress, the current Congress has done a magnificent job criticizing Wall Street and pandering to “the poor”, while crafting tough legislation aimed at benefiting those Corporations and Industries able to pay. The strict “Wall Street Bill” is finally ready to be implemented and Wall Street couldn’t be happier. Quote Although public anger over the financial industry’s role in the recession has helped shape the regulatory reform debate, the financial industry won some battles during the process, scuttling proposals to break up large banks and enabling community banks and credit unions to sidestep new consumer protection rules.
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The Democrats Corporatist Finance Bill – (Political Hotwire)
A good read. I guess history does repeat itself
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The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger – (Political Hotwire)
By J.R. Dunn, American Thinker Over the past few weeks, we’ve been treated to a precise and detailed preview of what the rest of the Obama presidency will be like: a sky black with chickens coming home to roost and blaming George W. Bush.
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Obama Fails the Test of Office – (Expose Obama)
A serious re-election fight wasn’t what Republican John McCain expected when he returned to the Senate after losing the presidency. Yet that’s just what he’s got. The four-term senator is battling for his political life in a race that embodies the volatility of an unpredictable election year
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Fierce struggle for McCain to retain Arizona seat (It’s time for McCain to go – No more RHINO) – (Audacity of Hypocrisy)
Sweeping Wall Street Reform Bill Advances Legislation is one of President Barack Obama's top domestic priorities WASHINGTON – U.S.
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Sweeping Wall Street Reform Bill Advances – (Free Republic)
Commanders have reportedly ordered a U.S. military unit in Afghanistan to patrol with unloaded weapons. Some soldiers are being ordered to conduct patrols without a round chambered in their weapons, The US Report has learned from an anonymous source at a forward operating base in Afghanistan .
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Some US troops in Afghanistan patrol with unloaded weapons – (Audacity of Hypocrisy)
Boston Herald ? Obama’s aunt is getting special treatment President Obama’s unsinkable Kenyan Aunt Zeituni Onyango – already adopted by her South Boston neighbors with open arms – can now call her L Street public housing home sweet home, after she was granted political asylum yesterday. “She’s a very nice person – very well-spoken.
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President Obama relative wins battle to stay in U.S. – (Expose Obama)
The influence that comes from these semi-quasi celeberities every single day should be taken seriously. They influence politicians, embolden them. Then there is the influence of the viewers and the pressure that is put on from the public
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The Media and Politics – (Political Hotwire)
By Hazel Sanchez, CBS ? Obama is being hypocritical Despite the harsh criticism of the possible New York City anti-terror cuts, President Barack Obama walked straight into the lion’s den on Thursday. He met with NYPD officers whose budgets may be slashed, then took cash from the Wall Street fat cats he’s very publicly ripped apart. The irony is hard to ignore – President Obama schmoozing with New York’s Finest, thanking them for their handling of the Times Square bomb scare, just one day after the White House said it may be slashing the city’s terror-fighting fund.
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Obama Called A Hypocrite For Coming To NYC – (Expose Obama)
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank last Sunday finalized their bailout of Greece (of which, approximately $7 billion will originate from the United States of America). Along with the over $100 billion from European Union states, that will bring the grand total of bailout money to Greece to over $140 billion.
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Greece and the European Socialism Lesson – (Neoavatara)