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While The #Occupier-In-Chief Flitted Off To Central Asia, #Occupy Shambled On

by Smitty While BHO separated himself as far as  physically possible from the tanked economy, the #Occupy hippies celebrated Victims of Communism Day with their usual brand of dangerous idiocy: In Cleveland, a few of them tried going a little farther than throwing paint at police stations. The FBI announced today that they arrested five “anarchists” […]

Obama Administration Has Progressed Far Beyond ‘Conservative Lemmings’

by Smitty A couple of great graphics from the excellent Yid With Lid: The Lid’s post is all about how the Administration’s energy policy is killing the economy. It occurred to me in conversation with someone that Obama isn’t against fracking: he’s fracking society into balkanized little chunks from which to extract political energy. In […]

Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky … Obama!

Yes, comrades, they all share the same slogan: “Forward!” The Obama campaign apparently didn’t look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, “Forward” — a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism. . . . The slogan “Forward!” reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected […]

Oh, It’s A Retirement, All Right

by Smitty Althouse picks up on the phrase: “my last campaign” in an Obama fundraising pitch. And I don’t want to sound alarmist, so let me go at this with minimalist phrasing: given the record of the past three years, can you be 100% sure that, accepting the premise of a second term, that Barack […]

Obama Throws EPA Moron Under Bus, Bashes Republicans, Panders to Unions

“Oh, the wheels on the bus go round and round!“ Guess what? Obama’s big corporate donors don’t like being “crucified” by the EPA: Top EPA official resigns over ‘crucify’ comment — Associated Press Days after damaging video surfaces, EPA regional chief Armendariz resigns — Dallas Morning News E.P.A. Official Resigns Over ‘Crucify’ Comments — New […]

Axelrod Interviewed By Strolling Drone

by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty [Strolling Drone correspondent Sissypuss interviewed former Obama Administration political guru David Axelrod for its June 01, 2013 edition. This is a wide-ranging retrospective look at the Meltdown of 2012, the fallout from that, and what he’s been doing since he gave up politics in June 2012 for the other love […]

Boehner: Obama ‘Picking a Fight Where One Doesn’t Exist’ on Student Loans

“No one wants student loan interest rates to go up,” House Speaker John Boehner told Candy Crowley in an interview aired today on CNN’s State of the Union. “For the president to politicize this for his own re-election is picking a fight where one doesn’t exist.” Boehner pointed out that President Obama signed “the payroll […]

Obama Ad: If Romney’s Extremities Get Any More Extremely Extreme, His Limbs Gonna Fly Off And Hit Somebody

by Smitty This Obama campaign ad is kind of a hoot: I suppose the point here is to terrify the ‘hen-house’ with the notion that Mitt is some big, bad wolf. Thoughts: Are women, in general, the kind of dupes implied by this ad, who can easily be driven about the chicken coop with plays […]

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