Picture a freight train roaring down the tracks. Picture House Speaker Nancy Pelosi positioning her party on the rails. Picture a growing stream of nervous souls diving for the weeds. Picture all this, and you’ve got a sense of the Democrats’ earmark-corruption problem.
Bureaucrats
Shocking video of NY Democrats sitting through the Pledge of Allegiance
Fidel Castro to Congressional Black Caucus members: ‘How can we help President Obama?’ | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times
He’s actually such a pleasant guy and Cuba’s such a pleasant place that people are riding tire rafts at night to come to America. The Democrats utter lack of basic understanding is embarrassing to the country.
You gotta laugh at Obama and Geithner…
Tickler (laughing): “I’m reading this article where Obama compared Geithner to Alexander Hamilton.”
Tickler’s Wife: “What do you expect from a guy who compares himself to Lincoln.”
Obama’s making this easy. He’s completely incompetent and is literally destroying our economy, but he’s not even clever and clandestine enough to hide it. So we find but small solace in the obviousness of his idiocy.
Obama’s Teleprompter’s Blog
Having had some good fun here on Politicklish.com with Obama’s primary crutch, the teleprompter, I was tickled to hear of a new blog that just came out called Barack Obama’s Teleprompter’s Blog. It has some hilarious content and is worth a look. We have no affiliation with this site, we just appreciate the truth and humor that pokes fun at the obvious issues Obama has, that are also somehow ignored by the liberal-controlled NBC/ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC, etc.
How the State Punishes Ingenuity in Healthcare
Here’s a doctor who decided to find a better way to provide care to his patients. He sees all of the waste and fraud tied to our traditional insurance system and decides, hey, there’s a better way to do this. So he sets up his practice so that his patients just pay a flat $79/month for their healthcare. Under this, they can see him as many times as they need to, and he will take care of any x-ray, sonogram, etc. that needs to be done in connection with their visits. All for $79/month. New York State didn’t like that idea (heaven forbid we find a way to reduce bureaucratic jobs and waste) and tried to shut him down. Read what transpired next here.
Fox Blog: Is Obama The New Coke?
My wife brought an entertaining piece to my attention the other day entitled “Is Obama The New Coke”
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There are two basic scenarios for Brand Obama at this point.
One, the electorate thought they were getting one thing in Obama and instead got something very different. In other words, they wanted the change he said he would bring, but dislike the change he is actually bringing and actually believes in. In this scenario, Obama is what he is and simply won’t be able to adapt to what the Target Market demands –this spells a short stay — one term — in the White House.
Two, Obama is the change the electorate wants and he is capable of embodying this change. But the president has lost sight of his Target Market’s needs and is falling prey to inside-the-Beltway realities and left-leaning pieties and interest groups.
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Read the full article here. Clever observations.
Obama’s Sense of Humor: “I’m Like Abraham Lincoln”. You’d Better Be Joking.
Just for the record and because I’m frankly so far beyond tired of Obama’s naive amateur dense dangerous foolhardy undeserved race-baiting foolishness that I can’t even sufficiently describe it anymore without extremely foul language — anyway, again just for the record…
The very last thing in the entire world — including rare species of insect and mongrel in the Amazon Basin and flecks of rock and snow in Antarctica, as well as every speck of space dust in the solar system… — again I say, the very last thing Obama could ever be compared to in this life, the life before, or the life to come, is our revered President Abraham Lincoln. The… very… last… thing.
Was I clear about how unlike the Crooked Community Rabble-Rouser Obama is to the revered name of an actual President, like Abraham Lincoln? Hopefully you can tell that I would like to be clear, and speak in certain terms. He needs to shut up and sit down because no one — no, not even the most inebriated liberal messia-O worshiper in the whole of the world — could honestly believe the two are from the same planet.
Obama is the weakest bureaucrat cog to ever swindle his way into power (even more than FDR, whose worst facets Obama actually resembles), and as such should never dare even invoke the comparison to Lincoln, even as the most inappropriate and irreverent attempt at humor. I think I can speak for all thinking people, particularly conservatives (who actually are like Lincoln and still live by his principles) when I say you, Mr. two-months-and-already-a-total-failure, …you are certainly no Abe Lincoln.
And I end this rant.
Surrender Poodle Pelosi’s Private Airline is Actually Public
Judicial Watch, a legal watchdog group, published a story today recounting the high-maintenance sock-puppet Speaker of The House’s demands on the military to waste taxpayer dollars and resources.
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Department of Defense (DOD) detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s multiple requests for military air travel. The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), include internal DOD email correspondence detailing attempts by DOD staff to accommodate Pelosi’s numerous requests for military escorts and military aircraft as well as the speaker’s last minute cancellations and changes. The following are a few highlights from the documents, which are linked in full [on the site]:
- In response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one Defense Department official wrote, “Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi’s team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?…[T]here’s no need to block every weekend ‘just in case’…” The email also notes that Pelosi’s office had, “a history of canceling many of their past requests.”
- One DOD official complained about the “hidden costs” associated with the speaker’s last minute changes and cancellations. “We have…folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc.”
- The documents include a discussion of House Ethics rules and Defense Department policies as they apply to the speaker’s requests for staff, spouses and extended family to accompany her on military aircraft. In May 2008, for example, Pelosi requested that her husband join her on a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) into Iraq. The DOD explained to Pelosi that the agency has a written policy prohibiting spouses from joining CODEL’s into combat zones.
- Documents obtained from the U.S. Army include correspondence from Speaker Pelosi’s office requesting an Army escort and three military planes to transport Pelosi and other members of Congress to Cleveland, Ohio, for the funeral services of the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Pelosi noted in her letter of August 22, 2008, that such a request, labeled “Operation Tribute” was an “exception to standard policy.”
- The documents also detail correspondence from intermediaries for Speaker Pelosi issuing demands for certain aircraft and expressing outrage when requested military planes were not available. “It is my understanding there are no G5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable…The speaker will want to know where the planes are…” wrote Kay King, Director of the House Office of Interparliamentary Affairs. In a separate email, when told a certain type of aircraft would not be available, King writes, “This is not good news, and we will have some very disappointed folks, as well as a very upset [s]peaker.”
- During another email exchange DOD staff advised Kay King that one Pelosi military aircraft request could not be met because of “crew rest requirements” and offered to help secure commercial travel. Kay King responded: “We appreciate the efforts to help the codel [sic] fly commercially but you know the problem that creates with spouses. If we can find another way to assist with military assets, we would like to do that.”
Speaker Pelosi came under fire in 2007 for requesting a 42-seat Air Force carrier to ferry the Speaker and her staff back and forth between San Francisco, CA and Washington, DC. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was allowed access to a 12-seat commuter jet for security reasons after the events of 9/11.
“Taken together, these documents show that Speaker Pelosi treats the Air Force like her personal airline,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Not only does Speaker Pelosi issue unreasonable requests for military travel, but her office seems unconcerned about wasting taxpayer money with last minute cancellations and other demands.”
Read the details and emails here.
Breitbart: Timothy Geithner, alone and working night and day
Obama, now being annoyed by having to find credible people, finds his Treasurer working alone. Pathetic.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is practically alone on the job, working night and day to cope with the worst economic downturn in decades.Of the 15 key Treasury Department positions that require Senate confirmation, only one has been filled. Stuart Levey, a leftover from the previous administration, who as under secretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, is not central to the crisis management however.
Unemployment figures which revealed Friday that 651,000 jobs were lost in February, showed the recession is running ever deeper, but Geithner, who started work in late January, has no deputy secretary, no under secretaries for international affairs and no deputy under secretaries.
Annette Nazareth, who had been expected to be chosen as deputy secretary — Geithner’s top aide — has withdrawn her name, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition, citing people familiar with the matter.
The former Security Exchange Commission head “withdrew in large part because of the long vetting process” President Barack Obama has put in place to choose members of his government, the daily said.
Geithner’s choice for undersecretary for international affairs, Caroline Atkinson, also took her name out of the running, only weeks ahead of the April 2, Group of 20 developed and developing nations summit in London.
Read the full article here