I'm not an ideologue

If you have to say it......

From the "if you have to say it, it's probably not true department".

Bring back The Billary

It's starting to warm up for The One

Obama Reprimands GOP To Their Faces

Dusty Springfield : Tupelo Honey (1973)

Where is the love?

Even the Obamunists are feeling like it's time to "start dating other people"......

Krauthammer

Krauthammer totally nails the White House reality show titled The Obama Amateur Hour...........

The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane -- that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration -- but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was captured and came under the full control of the U.S. government.

After 50 minutes of questioning him, the Obama administration chose, reflexively and mindlessly, to give the chatty terrorist the right to remain silent. Which he immediately did, undoubtedly denying us crucial information about al-Qaeda in Yemen, which had trained, armed and dispatched him.

We have since learned that the decision to Mirandize Abdulmutallab had been made without the knowledge of or consultation with (1) the secretary of defense, (2) the secretary of homeland security, (3) the director of the FBI, (4) the director of the National Counterterrorism Center or (5) the director of national intelligence (DNI).

The Justice Department acted not just unilaterally but unaccountably. Obama's own DNI said that Abdulmutallab should have been interrogated by the HIG, the administration's new High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group.

Perhaps you hadn't heard the term. Well, in the very first week of his presidency, Obama abolished by executive order the Bush-Cheney interrogation procedures and pledged to study a substitute mechanism. In August, the administration announced the establishment of the HIG, housed in the FBI but overseen by the National Security Council.

Where was it during the Abdulmutallab case? Not available, admitted National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, because it had been conceived for use only abroad. Had not one person in this vast administration of highly nuanced sophisticates considered the possibility of a terror attack on American soil?

Seriously, Is the Obama Administration just a collection of intellectual dim wits who simply sit around and theorize about the role of government?

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Napolitano

I don't know what's worse. Not showing up or showing up and showing your ignorance.

A funny

Jon Stewart may be the only person really reporting the news on TV today.......

Thought of the Day

Scott Brown should start organizing his 2012 presidential campaign today.

Gordon, are you crazy?

Well, consider that if he would win, he'd have six more months of experience than our current president.

That's worked out real well hasn't it?

Kind of put things in prospective doesn't it?

Why liberal men love abortion

Because when you knock up one of your hoes, you always like to have a Plan B working for you.

Former John Edwards' aide Andrew Young, who covered up the Democratic presidential candidate's affair, said when he cleaned up his house after his role in the cover-up ended he found one more shocker.

"There was one tape that was marked 'special,'" Young told ABC News' Bob Woodruff in an exclusive interview. "It's a sex tape of Rielle and John Edwards made just a couple of months before the Iowa caucuses."

Though Young never saw the woman's face in the tape, he said she was "visibly pregnant" and was "wearing a bracelet" and a "thumb ring" typically worn by Rielle Hunter.

"It's her jewelry," Andrew Young's wife, Cheri, told ABC News. "It could be on another woman with the same jewelry."

Young gives his account of the sex scandal and the elaborate cover-up for the Democratic presidential candidate in a new tell-all book titled, "The Politician," which will be released Jan. 30.

Yeah Hairman, there are two Americas. One where guys marry their girlfriend when they knock her up and one where the guy is chivalrous enough to pay for the abortion.

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Choo Choo - part II

More insanity to throw billions into rail transportation for 6 users......

California's plans to build a 220-mph train system between the Bay Area and Southern California will get a big boost today when President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden award the state more than a quarter of the $8 billion in federal stimulus money devoted to creating high-speed rail networks.

California will receive $2.25 billion - more than any other corridor - to help build the 800-mile high-speed rail project, which has an estimated construction cost of $42 billion. State voters in 2008 approved the sale of $10 billion in bonds to help build the system.

"This award is fantastic news for California and for our state's high-speed rail project," said Curt Pringle, chairman of the California High Speed Rail Authority and mayor of Anaheim. "This award will go toward specific projects, but it will benefit every single section of our planned high-speed rail system by moving this entire vision closer ... to being the first true high-speed rail system in the United States."

Once again, California already owes billions they can't pay back. Even with the bond issue and the billions from the feds, they are still 30 BILLION short of even getting this project put together.

Are these people INSANE!

Originally, I believed the tone deafness of the Obamunists was attributable to the arronagance of The One. Now it's clear there's a true delusional quality to being a liberal in general.

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Thanks reader Jeremy.

A history of banking regulation

An excellent history of banking regulation and unintended consequences in The Economist...

BARACK OBAMA'S new plan for the banks is unlikely to achieve his stated
aim that "Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a
bank that is too big to fail." But whether or not the proposed measures
fall short of that ambitious goal, one thing is sure. If the plan is
implemented, it will have unintended consequences. That has been the
history of previous financial reforms.

Take Regulation Q, a rule established by the American authorities in
the 1930s to restrict the interest rate that banks could pay on
deposits. It had several motives, including a desire to boost banks'
profits (and thereby help pay for deposit insurance) and a belief that
competition to pay high deposit rates would encourage banks to take too
many risks. The rule was extended to thrifts (savings-and-loans
institutions) in the 1960s.

With rates held below their natural level, American savers eventually
turned elsewhere. The biggest institutions looked abroad. As dollars
accumulated outside America, the Euromarket, where lenders and
borrowers were free to set rates between them, developed in London.
Small investors moved their savings out of banks and thrifts and into
money-market funds, which did not face a limit on the rates they could
pay. The devisers of Regulation Q did not intend to boost the
money-market fund industry or to prop up London as a global financial
centre but that is the effect they had.

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Thanks reader Tim.

Life in "Progress" State

They called it Paradise
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun
Sinking in the sea

From the Golden State of California, where you can't find a conservative with a Predator drone hovering over the state...........

The California Senate approved creating a government-run health care system for the nation's most populous state on Thursday, ignoring a veto threat from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Supporters said it is time for state legislatures to take up the debate as the Obama Administration's national health care proposal falters in Congress.

"If it's not to be done at the national level, let us take the lead," said state Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego.

The move in California comes after Massachusetts voters changed the calculus in Congress by electing a Republican to the Senate who opposes the pending plan.

Democrats are the majority in both houses of the California Legislature. The 40-member state Senate passed the single-payer plan on a 22-14 vote, sending it to the Assembly. One Democrat voted against the measure.

Are these people INSANE!

Their budget is already in the red billions of dollars. So much their bond rating has been downgraded. Yet they trudge forward with yet another entitlement that can't be paid for as productive residents pack up U-Hauls as soon as they return from other states.

California is the perfect case study of why liberalism doesn't work at any level. Yet these guys keep sucking down the Kool Aid.

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The Curse of the BO

The One goes to NJ and campaigns for Corzine..... Fail

Goes to VA to campaign for Deeds..... Fail

Goes to MA to campaign for Coakley..... Fail

Calls John Calipari, coach of the Kentucky Wildcats to thank him for their Haiti relief. Kentucky goes out that night and loses to South Carolina ending their undefeated season.

Coincidence?

Maybe Charlie Crist should have learned about The Curse before he met with him yesterday.

Ditto

MSNBC's Shuster: Andrew Breitbart defends self and O'Keefe in Landreau 'bugging' case

Choo choo

So the Obamunists are going to be funding The Little Engine that could.

Liberals must have the mentality of your average five year old based on their obsession with Thomas the Tank Engine (that might explain why Alec Baldwin narrates the show).

So we're looking at throwing $500 million in a shovel ready stimulus project rail system that will haul our butts from Cincinnati to Cleveland in a speedy 6 and 1/2 hours.

Wow! That's kicking ass given that it only takes 4 1/2 to drive there today.

I can see the citizens clamoring for such an efficient mode of transportation. Well, not exactly........

Results of a recent Ohio Newspaper Poll show a majority of Ohio voters, 52%, are not on-board Ohio's costly $564 million plan to re-start a passenger train connecting Cincinnati with Cleveland via Dayton and Columbus that only averages 39-mph, takes six and one-half hours to travel the 255-mile route and will need $18 million each year in public subsidy.

The poll, part of a continuing collaboration between Ohio's eight largest newspapers, shows the growing schism between proponents of the 3-C Transportation Corridor, who say returning passenger trains to a route over which they have not run in over 40 years will give 60 percent of Ohio’s population increased travel options as early as 2011 that will be safe, efficient and cost effective, and opponents, who argue it's slow speed, long trip times and on-going need for massive public subsidy will not shift drivers from their cars to the rails and for those who do, will leave them stranded at their destination because ground support transportation systems are woefully inadequate.

But that's not the kicker here. Not only is this albatross not fast, it's not going to be cheap either........

State Rep. Louis Blessing, R-Colerain Township, an attorney and long-time state legislator, said he opposes the state investing in the rail line. Blessing, now in the House again after eight years in the Senate, told Wilkinson he is not surprised by the poll's results, citing as his primary concern the fact that the state can design and build the system on existing rail tracks with federal money, but couldn't maintain and operate it without pouring millions of dollars into the system for the foreseeable future.

The Ohio Department of Transportation estimates revenues for the 255-mile rail line while operating costs of $29 million would leave a 18 million-per-year gap for public subsidy.

I'm starting to truly believe that liberals intentionally start these white elephants knowing that they don't pay for themselves so they have more reason to increase taxes.

Where do I sign up?

Read the rest of this and shake your head

Democrats Boo Bush During 2005 SOTU

And Time magazine's Michael Scherer notes that republicans were "cool" to Obama.

You'd probably think jobs were a priority

Given the Big O mentioned jobs five times more often than health care, you'd think that would be a priority.

Then why is it that this administration did almost nothing in 2009 but focus on health care for it's domestic agenda?

By the way, if you really want to help small businesses in this country, help big businesses. That's the fuel for small companies in this country. Here's why

Nice to hear we're going to have a nuclear plant soon. Anyone want to take wagers on Iran having one before we build another?