[T]he press gave the great American republic an untried, unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent figure as President. – National Post
Archive for September, 2011
Obama’s “astonishing faith” in his power of persuasion is delusional
George Will explains Obama’s reliance on his rhetorical powers and their utter failure in reality.
The Postmodern Party
[T]oday’s Democratic Party is profoundly infected by postmodernism — at its root, an outrageous fraud cleverly covered up by a fog of arcane gibberish and deceitful, euphemistic code words that permit its adherents to imagine that they are members of a superior, elite gnostic coterie when in fact they are intellectual eunuchs and just plain lazy. – American Thinker
O’Reilly exposes Obama’s “fair’ tax scam
Obama wants to raise capital gains tax to punish achievers and for ‘fairness’ even though its been proven that raising capital gains taxes reduces tax revenues and hurts the economy.
Why the U.S. economy is headed for a double dip
“the regulatory process is broken” and that it is “being manipulated and exploited in an effort to reward allies of the Obama administration such as environmental groups, trial lawyers and unions.” – Washington Examiner
Ex-Solyndra Employees Now Applying For Trade Adjustment Assistance
Blaming China will allow Obama administration to spend another $14 million plus to “retrain” former Solyndra employees.
Patented Obama Foot Shooter with Speed Loader
Cartoon of the week from TerrellAfterMath.com
Palin’s Iowa speech makes UK Telegraph – “Palin totally gets it”
It was so inspirational, so true that it prompted even her traditional enemy the New York Times to ask: Is there a hint of a political breakthrough hiding in there? – Telegraph columnist James Delingpole
Solyndra Solar Failed By Poor Cost Structure, Not China
The DOE and Solyndra also conveniently neglected to mention Solyndra’s demise has everything to do with its unsustainable cost structure using an ‘innovative technology’ to produce solar panels. (Hint: innovative = costly)
Krauthammer: Obama’s “toxic combination of lemon socialism and crony capitalism’
“This is a classic example of this toxic combination of lemon socialism and crony capitalism. The lemon socialism part is the old story of industrial policy. Meaning smart people in Washington, or people who think they’re smart, elected officials and bureaucrats, and they bring in experts who think they’re even smarter, that decide which are the industries of the future as if they know and the market doesn’t.” …. “you destroy an economy when you think that a politician in a centralized capitol knows where capital ought to be allocated. “