davidl on February 11th, 2009

Statement from the Institute for Energy Reserach:

“Less than 24 hours ago, the president urged Americans to support his plan to spend over $700 billion in taxpayer dollars to fight our economic downturn. Meanwhile, the Department of Interior this

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davidl on February 10th, 2009

Walt Minnick, Idaho First, has a better alternative to the Pelosi/Reid/Obama Porlulus bill,  DC Examiner:

While President Barack Obama goes on the road to shore up slipping popular support for the $1 trillion stimulus porkfest that he ordered

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davidl on February 10th, 2009

Gleen_GreenwaldAs a candidate Barack Obama created a terrible box for himseslf.  He could placate his leftard base and abandon an effective war on terror, or he could placate his base, and thus imperil both the nation’s safety and his own

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davidl on February 10th, 2009

Nadya SulemanNadya Suleman has no husband, no job, no prospects, but she does have fourteen children: 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The California mother of newborn octuplets said on Monday she was counting on God to help provide for her

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davidl on February 9th, 2009

Kate, Small Dead Animals, asks,”Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?, video:

Evidentlly according to Bruce McQuain, Q and O, what Barack Obama can not do is to tell the truth.  BO in  Elkhart, Indiana, today:

So – so

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davidl on February 9th, 2009

So what have we discovered of the nebulous administration of one Barack Obama?   Two things, one, Obama isn’t very good at governing and doesn’t like it ; two BO likes to campaign.   So with the fate of Porkulus hanging in

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davidl on February 9th, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

Mrs. Pelosi as Dubya is a skirt, John W. Lillpop, Post Chronicle:

Nancy Pelosi appears to be walking in W.’s steps when it comes to being inarticulate and a liability to her party.

For example, Nancy Pelosi’s garbled

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davidl on February 8th, 2009

Sorry about that Dan

George W Bush, 2002 State of the Union:

This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world. States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to

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davidl on February 8th, 2009

Show me a person who says he is not greedy, and I show you either a fool or a liar.   Milton Friedman takes Phil Donohue to the woodshed, video:

Hat tips: Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit and Jack Dunphy, Patterico Pontifications.

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davidl on February 8th, 2009

Still getting your televison over the air and haven’t yet got your converter box?    Congress is claiming to have done you a favor, MSNBC:

The house voted Wednesday to delay the transition to digital T.V. The nationwide switch that

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davidl on February 7th, 2009

Barack ObamaFrom the New York Slimes:

Mr. Obama called Ms. Collins and Mr. Specter, as well as Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, another Republican expected to support the deal, to acknowledge they were acting against pressure from their party

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davidl on February 7th, 2009

From Swamp, Micheal Steele, video:

Michael SteeleText:

“This is Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Democrats have controlled both branches of government for less than a month. And you have to wonder if all that power has gone

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davidl on February 7th, 2009

Nancy PelosiMrs. Pelosi on the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt bill:

“Washington seems consumed in the process argument of bipartisanship, when the rest of the country says they need this “

Whereas back in the real world, support for Pelosi detb plan craters:

But

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davidl on February 6th, 2009

Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe  asks:

Does anyone have a right to tell anyone else how many kids to have? Can only people who can afford them bear children? Do you need a husband to have a baby? These are questions

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davidl on February 6th, 2009

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post:

After Obama’s miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The

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