BO’s Mere Words on Earmarks

Sherman Fredrick, Las Vegas Review-Journal, notes the difference between Barack Obama soaring rhetoric of the campaign, and the dingy reality of BO’s presidency:

Obama’s no virgin to earmarks. Before he ran for president, he submitted 112 earmarks totaling more

Ha ha. Yes, I have this picture of President Obama sitting in the White House, thinking I hate my job. He was all about running for President. What did he really know about being President?

Ann Althouse.

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,

President Obama set to sign executive order allowing federal funss to given to butchers for killing human beings,David Stort and Gardiner Harris, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama will announce Monday that he is reversing Bush administration limits

Having  successfully spent the last six months talking down the economy, President Barack Obama now wants to do the same thing to Afghanistan, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was

It’s interesting;  since I made the prediction that Barack Obama would emulate the policies of George W. Bush, written just after the inauguration and posted at Pajamas Media, it is flat out amazing the number of people who have

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,

There’s a rumbling below decks on the good ship Obama.

Geithner’s choice as his deputy has pulled out of the running.  Sanjay Gupta  has also withdrawn his name as Surgeon General. Charles Freeman is about ready to give up

Who’d have thunk,  Senator Charles Schumer, camera shy, Greg Sergeant:

Senator Charles Schumer has privately expressed concerns directly to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel about Chas Freeman, the Obama administration’s pick to head the group that prepares

“We have real problems in this country right now and the American people are looking to us for answers, not distractions, not diversions, not manipulations.”

Barack Obama, via: James Taranto. Best of the Web.

The New York Post, today:

There was Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, boldly testifying Tuesday before Rep. Charlie Rangel‘s Ways & Means Committee – promising that the Obama administration intends to propose “a series of legislative and enforcement measures to

Yo Eric, Michael Steele got the memo:

“I just want to make one thing very clear. Folks need to understand what’s happening here, Sean. You’ve already talked about it. This is a systematic effort, I think, very well planned out

So question, what is more danger9us, the  bullet or the ballot.    I contend the latter.   Mrs. Pelosi  seems to think the opposite.    Mrs. Pelosi was set to give District of Columbia residents representation in the House, albeit simply unconstitutional.  Chad

As the economy and the markets continue to tank, the question become  is the Obama administration just plain inept or purely evil.    The evidence suggests the latter.   The five dumbest word in a soft economy may well be “Cap and