Mitt Romney makes a rousing victory speech in Florida: "...Three years ago this week, a newly-elected President Obama faced the American people and said that if he couldn’t turn the economy around in three years, he’d be looking at a one-term proposition. We’re here to collect." And it gets better. Astute Bloggers has it all.
1/31/12
Obama taps the wrong key
"Yesterday, in speaking with Jennifer Weddel, the wife of an unemployed semiconductor engineer, President Obama displayed why he is sometimes overrated as a politician. Instead of hitting F8, which I think is the Obama Compassion Button, he hit F7, which is the Obama Lecture Button. So instead of getting her pain felt, Jennifer got a lecture." More at White House Dossier.
Forecast could signal doom for Obama
The Congressional Budget Office has come out with an economic forecast for 2012 that -- if it proves to be accurate --- would signal doom for Barack Obama's hopes of re-election. Even the CBO's lowball estimate of unemployment is downright scary. Town Hall has more
Romney 'gave $10,000 to radical gay group'
Interesting: Mitt Romney who represents himself as a social conservative, contributed $10,000 to a radical "gay" group, Right Wing News alleges.
1/30/12
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Romney, Obama tie in swing states
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are in a tie in a poll of swing states, with Gingrich trailing. Details here
Mitt meets killer dolphin
William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection thinks this devastating clip could be Romney's undoing. It's not clear where it came from...Newt's campaign?
Your taxes at work
A disgraced NY teacher is worth $10M, makes $100,000 a year, does nothing and refuses to leave. The New York Post has more:
The billion that dare not speak its name
Meet Obama's "reformed" Wall Street, where $1.2 billion can "vaporize" without a single person going to jail. Zero Hedge explains.
1/29/12
Reuters roto-rooted over 'bias'
Big Journalism has roto-rooted Reuters over what it says is a blatantly biased, error-ridden hit-job on Marco Rubio. More here.
Costa arm and a leg
Costa Concordia jokes have poured in faster than seawater through the breach in the hull. A sample:
- What's the fastest way to get off an Italian cruise ship? - Follow the captain.
- What was in the sandwich the captain ordered before fleeing his ship? - Chicken of the Sea
Supremes vs. Obama
Time after time, Barack Obama has chosen to uphold government power at the expense of individual protections, declares Steve Chapman at Reason.com. He writes:
"Warrantless wiretapping in national security cases? For it. Detaining citizens indefinitely without trial? Sure. Assassinating Americans abroad without making public the evidence or the legal rationale? Done. In October 2010, American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero pronounced himself "disgusted" with the administration's record.
"But there is one big redeeming item on his record: He has appointed to the Supreme Court people who don't entirely share his taste for aggressive statism. In two recent major decisions, both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan have declined to indulge ominous encroachments on personal freedom and privacy." Read it all.
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"Warrantless wiretapping in national security cases? For it. Detaining citizens indefinitely without trial? Sure. Assassinating Americans abroad without making public the evidence or the legal rationale? Done. In October 2010, American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero pronounced himself "disgusted" with the administration's record.
"But there is one big redeeming item on his record: He has appointed to the Supreme Court people who don't entirely share his taste for aggressive statism. In two recent major decisions, both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan have declined to indulge ominous encroachments on personal freedom and privacy." Read it all.
[Thanks BJS]
Germany wants Greek surrender
Philipp Roesler is the first German cabinet member to endorse openly a proposal for Greece to surrender budget control. And some bad news for Portugal and then Spain: you are next. Zero Hedge has more.
Laughing Conservative predicts Greece will default before -- effectively -- surrendering its national sovereignty. At the speed with which Obama is running up US debt, how long before China wants control of our budget? Oh wait... we don't have one.
Laughing Conservative predicts Greece will default before -- effectively -- surrendering its national sovereignty. At the speed with which Obama is running up US debt, how long before China wants control of our budget? Oh wait... we don't have one.
1/28/12
Dutch ban burqas
The Dutch government plans to ban Muslim face veils worn in public such as burqas and other forms that cover the face, Reuters reports. The ban would make the Netherlands -- where one out of every 17 people are Muslim -- the second European Union country after France, to ban the burqa.
"People should be able to look at each other's faces and recognize each other when they meet," the interior affairs ministry said. More here.
"People should be able to look at each other's faces and recognize each other when they meet," the interior affairs ministry said. More here.
Smile of the Day
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says she has dirt on Newt Gingrich, but so far she's keeping her lips sealed — because that's how the last surgeon left them." –Conan O'Brien
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Philosophy of the stupid
"The reason I say that liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid is because we can look at what's going around in the country today. If, in your own lives, you were pursuing policies that were destroying your own home ownership, that were destroying your own job, that were creating a massive, impossible debt for your family and your children in particular, you'd stop it. You wouldn't keep doing it!
"And yet for the liberal, if it's imposed on you -- and they feel that they can be immune from it -- they're for it.
"They wouldn't do to themselves and their own family what they're doing to you, and your family, and the whole nation!
"Take Barack Obama. Does Barack Obama conduct himself in his own, personal affairs, in his family's affairs, as recklessly as he conducts the affairs of the nation? No. Would he run up the kind of relative personal debt that he's running up for the nation? No way.
"Would he do anything that would endanger his position as president? Of course not -- he thinks his agenda will return him to office. He's taking care of his constituent groups...
So they do to us -- and they do to our society -- what they would never do to their own families. They do not live in their own lives as they seek to have the rest of us live. Or as they seek to have our society conduct itself." --Mark Levin, "Why Liberalism is the Philosophy of the Stupid".
[h/t Doug Ross]
"And yet for the liberal, if it's imposed on you -- and they feel that they can be immune from it -- they're for it.
"They wouldn't do to themselves and their own family what they're doing to you, and your family, and the whole nation!
"Take Barack Obama. Does Barack Obama conduct himself in his own, personal affairs, in his family's affairs, as recklessly as he conducts the affairs of the nation? No. Would he run up the kind of relative personal debt that he's running up for the nation? No way.
"Would he do anything that would endanger his position as president? Of course not -- he thinks his agenda will return him to office. He's taking care of his constituent groups...
So they do to us -- and they do to our society -- what they would never do to their own families. They do not live in their own lives as they seek to have the rest of us live. Or as they seek to have our society conduct itself." --Mark Levin, "Why Liberalism is the Philosophy of the Stupid".
[h/t Doug Ross]
1/27/12
Treehugger-in-chief escorted by 22 gas guzzlers
Send in the clowns: Obama leaves a clean energy event in Colorado in a motorcade of 22 gas guzzlers.
The Bad Taste Factor
Early warning to those who might plan to watch the next airing of Fear Factor: There seems to be no depth which reality TV makers will not plumb and viewers will not follow. This episode involves drinking glasses of donkey semen and urine. Asinine. More here.
Shocked by the Volt
There are disturbing facts about the Chevy Volt and its tendency to ignite that have been quietly ignored by mainstream media. Doug Ross has more of what car buyers need to know.
1/26/12
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Another Biden blunder
Joe attempts an Indian accent and fails. Almost as embarrassing as Obama trying to speak like he was raised in the 'hood. But I must be mistaken, we know Dems can never be raaaacist, or patronizing don't we?
President Fail
"Let me be clear, O is and always has been an ordinary political hack who was picked up by a brilliant campaign because he happened to be in the right place at the right time. This brilliant campaign ran him, and ever since he’s been trying and failing to lead the country. He’s been a failure from the beginning because he’s been a fraud from the beginning." Reader comment via Althouse.
Repetition -- repetition-- is the charm
1/25/12
Ask Cabbie: Mobile advice columnist
Dear W.B.: You gotta be freakin' kiddin' me, right? If you are so goddam antsy to pay more tax, get your checkbook out your pocket, write a check for 50% of your pay and mail it to to the IRS -- end of problem. You still gotta problem widdat? Fuggedaboudit: Write a check for all your goddam income and send it to me. I got mouths to feed. Hey, buddy, where you goin'? We tip 15 % in Manhattan. Goddam Nebraskan tightwad -- Cabbie
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'Poor' woman leaves $2million to charity
Before demonizing "the rich," Obama and his fellow travelers should consider the case of Elinor Sauerwein, who seemingly lived in poverty, yet left $2 million to the Salvation Army. ABC has details
The Mail topples the Gray Lady
The Daily Mail, a middle-market British tabloid, has toppled The New York Times to become the newspaper with the biggest online reach in the world, according to the online tracking service comScore The Laughing Conservative worked for the Mail's owners when he was a relative rookie. The Mail is right of center and has an infallible "nose for news." They do veer towards the sensational, but are seldom boring. Interestingly, the majority of their traffic comes from the US.
State of the Ego
1/24/12
Exclusive! Romney's brain revealed
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The rising price of Obamanomics
During the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the same period, the price of ground beef has gone up 24 percent and price of bacon has gone up 22 percent. Details here
Surprised? Keystone rejection benefits Buffett
Crony capitalism at work: A big beneficiary from Obama blocking the Keystone pipeline will be Warren "Raise my taxes" Buffett's Burlington Northern Railway. More here
[thanks BJS]
[thanks BJS]
Dreams of our daughters
There are occasions when the sheer force and passion of someone's argument stops you in your tracks. Such is the case with The Anchoress on the subject of Roe v. Wade. Read it all.
Why do girls seek to be more boyish?
Piece of Work in Progress has an interesting post, questioning how much male homosexual influence on female fashion has influenced the pressure on women to be more boyish in appearance-- lanky, with narrow hips and a small bust. Read it all
1/23/12
FITZ N' STARTZ
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Florida latest: Gingrich 41, Romney 32
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Florida Republican Primary Voters, taken Sunday evening, finds Gingrich earning 41% of the vote with Romney in second at 32%. Details here.
Hogging attention
Still worth a smile: Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address are on the same day. One is an annual ritual of looking to a creature of limited intelligence for guidance. The other involves a groundhog.
1/22/12
Now Brazil stiffs Obama over oil deal
In another display of dazzling incompetence -- after blocking the Keystone pipeline, driving Canada into alliance with China -- Obama has lost a massive oil deal with Brazil to -- guess who? China. Those crazy conspiracy theorists who say Obama is deliberately crippling America... are they really so crazy? More here.
[Thanks: BJS]
[Thanks: BJS]
Obama's no-energy energy plan
Chris Wysocki at Wyblog is steaming with sulphuric sarcasm today:
"When Barry took office gas was $1.81 a gallon. This week it hit $3.31 here in New Jersey, only 7 cents below the national average of $3.38. Wouldn't it be great if there was a plentiful source of crude oil, maybe only a few miles north of us, and a reliable way to get that oil to our refineries? It's almost like Obama's energy policy is "no energy," isn't it? I mean when he claims that three years isn't enough time to study the Keystone XL pipeline proposal (and like Newt said, we won World War II in less than three years!), and then he goes and puts essentially all of our uranium producing lands off-limits to mining, what other conclusion can I make?" Read it all
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1/21/12
Palin: what role in Newt's future?
It's an interesting question: How much did Sarah Palin's last-minute support for Gingrich in S.C. help turn the tide for him? And how may he want to use that support in future? She would certainly help offset misgivings female voters may have about him. VP would be a stretch, but she could have a credible role in a Gingrich Cabinet. Newt may have been an SOB at times, but he's a grown-up. And how nice it would be to have a grown-up in the Oval Office, after four long years...
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It's Newt! Exit polls predict
Newt Gingrich will defeat Mitt Romney to win the South Carolina primary, according to projections based on exit poll data. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum were battling for third place. More here
A final, foolish Mittcalculation
Romney's campaign is planning to send Newt Gingrich a birthday cake to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Newt's censure by the House. This is a serious misjudgment when people are increasingly turned off by silly stunts and distractions from the deeply serious issues we face. It's no wonder Romney is lagging. Professor William Jacobson has more here.
Some like it dry
Smitty, a man of excellent taste, posted this video at The Other McCain.
Laughing Conservative readers are already aware that we share Mr Ott's love of dry humor.
Laughing Conservative readers are already aware that we share Mr Ott's love of dry humor.
1/20/12
10 reasons Newt is right about THAT question
From a journalism pundit, comes this interesting perspective: Ten reasons Newt Gingrich is right about John King's first question
[thanks BJS]
[thanks BJS]
Bloggers scorned
Prof. William Jacobson says hell hath no fury like a blogger scorned. Mitt's campaign has been doing some scorning.
Obama view of same-sex marriage 'still evolving'
Barack Obama's view on "gay" marriage is still evolving, says spokesperson Jay Carney. Why does the Laughing Conservative have a nagging suspicion that Obama's view will continue to "evolve" until after the General Election in November? Keith Koffler has more
Holder linked to big mortgage banks
Washington's revolving doors: "U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud," a Reuters inquiry claims.
Laugh of the Week
"President Obama took Michelle out to a steak restaurant for her birthday, marking the first time in months the words 'Obama' and 'well done' appeared in the same sentence." --Jimmy Fallon.
1/19/12
Why blogs should probe MSM writers
The ABC News interview with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s second ex-wife, has prompted radio host Rush Limbaugh to ask why journalists aren’t held to the same standard as those they investigate. Limbaugh said that it was appropriate to do so, since media are no longer just reporting, but passing judgement. The Daily Caller has more.
MSM journalists are unlikely investigate themselves with rigor, so this role would be ideal for independent bloggers. Such blogs might thrive on increased traffic but would likely need some financial help to take on this added role (with all outside funding disclosed). For campaigns or Superpacs this could be a great investment.
The Diary of O
Dear Diary: Another insanely busy day, beginning with a speech about tourism at Disney World. I wish all audiences were as receptive as those puppets in "It's a small,small world." It sure was a small world for me today: by 2.15 p.m. we were already heading north again to New York for four fundraisers in a row, ending at the Apollo Theater. I sang a few lines from an Al Green song. I sang very well, though I say so myself[and I do.] The audience loved it. On way back to D.C I had to discuss strategy for limiting damage from rejecting the Keystone Pipeline. Only got back here a few minutes ago. Good night,small world. And so to bed.
Killing Keystone is insane, says Samuelson
"President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is an act of national insanity," writes Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post. " It isn’t often that a president makes a decision that has no redeeming virtues and — beyond the symbolism — won’t even advance the goals of the groups that demanded it." Combine this with union fury from the left, and it looks like presidential advisers Jarrett and Axelrod have allowed an unwitting president to walk into a spinning propeller.
Exposed: The real Keystone strategy
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Union blasts Obama for siding with greens
Not surprisingly laborers' union President Terry O'Sullivan is fuming at Obama's killing of the Keystone Pipeline. Doug Ross has this broadside from O'Sullivan:
"...We are completely and totally disappointed. This is politics at its worst. Once again the President has sided with environmentalists instead of blue collar construction workers – even though environmental concerns were more than adequately addressed. Blue collar construction workers across the U.S. will not forget this.
The project would create thousands of good jobs at a time when unemployment in the construction industry is 16 percent with 1.3 million men and women jobless.
Environmental groups have used the Keystone XL as a disingenuous proxy for arguments about global warming. The pipeline would carry up to 900,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada’s Tar Sands to the U.S., reducing reliance on oil from hostile nations. While environmental groups decry Tar Sands development, the Canadian government and Trans-Canada, the company developing the Tar Sands, have made clear the oil will be developed – and possibly sold to China – regardless of whether Keystone XL is built..."
"...We are completely and totally disappointed. This is politics at its worst. Once again the President has sided with environmentalists instead of blue collar construction workers – even though environmental concerns were more than adequately addressed. Blue collar construction workers across the U.S. will not forget this.
The project would create thousands of good jobs at a time when unemployment in the construction industry is 16 percent with 1.3 million men and women jobless.
Environmental groups have used the Keystone XL as a disingenuous proxy for arguments about global warming. The pipeline would carry up to 900,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada’s Tar Sands to the U.S., reducing reliance on oil from hostile nations. While environmental groups decry Tar Sands development, the Canadian government and Trans-Canada, the company developing the Tar Sands, have made clear the oil will be developed – and possibly sold to China – regardless of whether Keystone XL is built..."
A letter from Mitt
SOUTH CAROLINA (The Borowitz Report) – Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney has released the following letter to the American people:
Dear American People:
Over the past several days, my personal finances have been distorted into a grotesque caricature by the mainstream media, pundits, and other people who can count. I am writing to you to set the record straight by explaining my finances in terms the American people can relate to.
Let’s say you bought a bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1982 for $5,000. A couple of years later, what do you know, you sell that same bottle for $10,000. So you just made a profit of $5,000 through your own hard work. How much of that should you pay to the government? I’d say fifteen percent. Read it all.
Perry quits, backs Newt
Texas Rick Perry will announce his withdrawal from the GOP race at an 11a.m. gathering and will endorse Newt Gingrich, according to multiple sources, including CNN
City pays $5million for its teachers to have plastic surgery
The incredible tale of how a city pays millions in nip-and-tuck surgery for its teachers. Read it all
[Thanks BJS]
[Thanks BJS]
The Diary of O
Dear Diary: Heck of a day, with incoming from all directions, mostly about axing the Keystone XL pipeline, but we managed to deflect some of heat towards the Republicans. The dinner we had on Michelle's birthday at the BLT Steakhouse inevitably came under fire after the menu was leaked. What's the world coming to when a guy can't even have an $80 steak without people whining about "the 99 percent." This occupy crap is getting really old. I now regret showing solidarity with the unbathed illegitimi. There were some demonstrating outside the White House and one even threw a smoke bomb on to the North lawn. Marvin my new body guy was nearby, taking Bo out for a leak. The bomb scared the heck out of both of them. Bo jumped straight into Marvin's arms and that dog is not small [Bo I mean, not Marvin.] If that's how the unbathed hordes are going express their gratitude, I'll get Eric to instruct the D.C. cops take off the gloves. Michelle was in a great mood today, maybe it was the afterglow of that delicious red velvet dessert of which she had, ahem, a generous portion. But, dag-gone, she was the birthday girl. That'll be Michelle calling now, so I'll close the laptop. And so to bed.
1/18/12
Barack Obama, mass job killer
Obama's decision to reject the Keystone pipeline project is a tragedy both for job seekers and the country's energy security. Many job-loss figures are being claimed, but here's an estimate TransCanada made some time ago on their website when they thought -- like any sane person -- that the project was too vital for US security not to be approved.
They said: "TransCanada is poised to put 13,000 Americans to work to construct the pipeline - pipefitters, welders, mechanics, electricians, heavy equipment operators, among other jobs - in addition to 7,000 manufacturing jobs that would be created across the U.S. Additionally, local businesses on the pipeline route will benefit from the 118,000 spin-off jobs Keystone XL will create through increased business for local goods and service providers."
The only good thing to emerge from this ghastly mess is the powerful weapon it has given Republicans to ridicule the job-destroyer-in-chief if he dares claim ever again that he's a champion of the middle class.
They said: "TransCanada is poised to put 13,000 Americans to work to construct the pipeline - pipefitters, welders, mechanics, electricians, heavy equipment operators, among other jobs - in addition to 7,000 manufacturing jobs that would be created across the U.S. Additionally, local businesses on the pipeline route will benefit from the 118,000 spin-off jobs Keystone XL will create through increased business for local goods and service providers."
The only good thing to emerge from this ghastly mess is the powerful weapon it has given Republicans to ridicule the job-destroyer-in-chief if he dares claim ever again that he's a champion of the middle class.
New green energy fail: taxpayers hit for $20 million
On the very day that Obama rejected the Keystone pipeline, Oregon Live reports: Taxpayers will have to bail out a state fund that made bad loans to increasingly speculative renewable energy projects. The fund loaned $18 million to a Clatskanie ethanol plant that quickly went bankrupt, $12.1 million to a Linn County solar company crippled by plunging global prices...In all, state officials estimate the Oregon Energy Department's Small Scale Energy Loan Program will cost the Oregon general fund, and taxpayers, as much as $20 million over five years.
[Thanks: BJS]
[Thanks: BJS]
Why we miss the Gipper
Keith Koffler at White House Dossier has this wonderful Reagan joke from days when politics were so much less bitter.
The mortal peril from Iran
"Any president of the United States fit for the office should someday, soon, say to the American people that in his judgment Iran—because of its longstanding and implacable push for nuclear weapons, its express hostility to the U.S., Israel and the West, and its record of barbarity and terror—must be deprived of the capacity to wound this country and its allies such as they have never been wounded before." Mark Halprin at the WSJ makes makes a compelling case for neutralizing Iran's nuclear threat imminently, while it's still possible.. Read it all.
Too close for comfort
[Thanks BJS]
Let them eat Wagyu
The Obamas have celebrated Michelle Obama's 48th birthday with a modest meal at D.C.'s BLT Steakhouse where a Wagyu steak costs around $85 dollars . Obama must have been building up his strength to announce later today his rejection of the Keystone pipeline and accompanying jobs for 40,000 people. Let them eat Wagyu.
