Category Archives: Economy

Obameconomy: 90% Say It Stinks

Obviously, this is Bush’s fault. Or the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Iraq. Afghanistan. Republicans. America has “gotten a little soft.” Bad luck. European debt. Greece. The Arab Spring. Bo ate his plan. (CNN) Three years after a financial crisis pushed the country deep into recession, an overwhelming number of Americans – 90% – say […]

Surprise! Navy Wastes Stimulus Money On Green Energy Boondoggle

Unsurprisingly, the Time magazine article by Mark Thompson takes a negative view of the Navy and how they waste money, while failing to take the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ie, Stimulus, Porkulus) to task Washington was buzzing last week with the news that Solyndra LLC, a California solar-energy firm with ties to […]

Angry Man Obama Attacks Republicans At West Coast Fundraisers

He’s continuing his Mr. Angry tone. And we all know that insulting and denigrating one’s opposition is the best way to get them to co-operate (Fox News) President Barack Obama charged that the Republican vision of government would “fundamentally cripple America,” as he tried out his newly combative message on the liberal West Coast. Aiming […]

Obama To CBC: Quit Crying And Complaining

He tells them they should support his jobs plan, because his previous one, the Stimulus, did wonders for Black unemployment In a fiery summons to an important voting block, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and “put on your marching shoes” to follow him into battle for jobs and […]

Snort: Geithner Wants “Decisive Signal” On European Debt

Starting off the day with some humorous talk from a guy who isn’t capable of using TurboTax correctly, and whose boss has racked up 4 trillion in debt in two years US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has called on European leaders at the G20 in Washington to send a “decisive signal” that they have a […]

Obama Pulls Campaign Stunt At Bridge That Doesn’t Qualify

See, if a Republican had been involved in this gaffe, the MSM would be tearing them apart. Since it’s Obama? Not so much. Andrew Malcolm provides the 411 You know all those rusting bridges that President Obama wants to spend billions more dollars repairing to allegedly stimulate the economy? He’s headed out to one today […]

President 39% Sees Massive Pessimism On Economy

Hey, remember when the media would spend hours talking about Bush when his approval rating dropped a bit? Anyhow According to this McClatchy-Marist Poll, the president’s approval rating is at 39% among registered voters nationally, an all-time low for Mr. Obama.  For the first time a majority — 52% — disapproves of the job he […]

Sssshhhh: Obama’s Deficit Plan Will Tax More Than The Evil Rich

Anyone who thinks this is anything more than a raise taxes on everyone plan is deluded, and his liberal cheerleaders will suddenly realize that the old Democrat axiom “do you get a paycheck? You’re rich” is in play It’s not just millionaires who’d pay more under President Obama’s latest plan to combat the deficit. Air […]

Shockingly, Obama’s Deficit Reduction Plan Reads Like A Bone To His Hard Left Base

When you have one of the his biggest cheerleaders at The Politico, Carrie Budoff Brown, positioning the plan as such…. President Barack Obama will release a plan Monday to cut the federal deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade, drawing half the savings from new tax revenue and sparing Medicare recipients from having to […]

Obama Approval Rating At All Time Low

Who or what should be blamed for this? The Japanese earthquake has been blamed already, but, perhaps we can blame the Virginia earthquake? As concerns about the struggling U.S. economy grow, a new CBS News/New York poll finds that President Obama’s overall approval rating has dropped to 43 percent, the lowest so far of his […]

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