Washington, We have a Problem

The basic problem with the Obama administration is  simple incompetence.  Michael Goodwin, New York Daily News:

Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained

Interesting news on the energy front, today:

VIENNA -Wall Street Journal- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries on Sunday decided against new production cuts and urged its members to fully implement the output reductions the cartel announced in late 2008,

I don’t exactly consider Mrs. Pelosi to the sharpest knife in the drawer, but on the other hand, at least she can count votes.

Consider these facts:  The Obama economy is cratering.    The $trillion or so Porkulus package utterly failed

It has become quite obvious why Barack Obama has never released his college transcripts.   Obama is dumber than a hod of bricks, Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers:

WASHINGTON – The deepening recession is taking a slight toll on President Barack

The ‘rats had a contest to write the slogan for an anti-Rush Limbaugh billboard.  This is this winner of that contest:

“Americans didn’t vote for a Rush to failure

Michelle thinks the slogan is lame.   So do I    If

Whatever one thinks of Limbaugh, he’s not the one trying to use rising unemployment, a plummeting stock market, the alleged impending collapse of the financial system and a host of other fears about the future to advance his policy agenda

Statement from House Republican Whip, Eric Cantor:

“Just three weeks after President Obama signed his ‘stimulus’ bill into law, Congressional Democrats are already conceding that it will fail to achieve its objective. As the Speaker knows, the only reason

And most polls show the president’s approval rating at about 60 percent, which is similar to other modern presidents’ ratings at this point in their presidencies. But now that Obama has used his political capital to further ideology rather than

From Mrs. Clinton’s State Department, Overseas Security Advisory Council:

In January, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya increased the minimum wage 60 percent, raising monthly wages from US$ 181 to $289. As a result, an estimated 15,000 people have been laid

I think it’s fair to say that belief in Geithner’s mishandling is now officially unideological:

Mary Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard, quiped after Ann Coulter and Bill Maher agree.

Barack Obama on racial dialog, Helene Cooper, International Herald Tribune:

“I’m not somebody who believes that constantly talking about race somehow solves racial tensions,” Obama said. “I think what solves racial tensions is fixing the economy, putting people to

Obama is not trying to solve the economic crisis. He is using the crisis to socialize America

John Ray, Stop the ACLU..

Rich Moran, at American Thinker, argues that Barack Obama is lazy.  Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine, argues BO is a poor manager.    Across the pond, the Telegraph (UK) says  that BO is  tired,    While, Ed Morrissey,

If you want to be in the business of economic recovery you need to do things to encourage that. If you want to be in the business of conducting a grand social experiment, you ignore the advice and pleas of

How clueless is the rookie President Barack Obama?   Enough that Paul Krugman and Charles Krauthammer are on the same page,  first  Krugman:

Many analysts agree. But among people I talk to there’s a growing sense of frustration, even panic,