Flashback to a time when words meant what they were intended to mean, not what a reasonable set of Justices decided they must mean: STEPHANOPOULOS: You were against the individual mandate… OBAMA: Yes. STEPHANOPOULOS: …during the campaign. Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don’t. How is that not a tax? OBAMA: Well, hold on a second, George. Here — here’s what’s
June 28, 2012
House Contempt vote reaction thread / open thread
1. Yay, finally a degree of justice — symbolic though it may be! 2. Wow. That was anti-climactic. Bunch of punters, those Congresspeople. 3. Fucking Boehner.
June 28, 2012
ObamaCare ruling reaction thread / open thread
1. Yay, the republic has been temporarily saved! 2. Wow. That was anti-climactic. Bunch of punters, these Justices. 3. Eat your peas, citizen. **** update: Eat your peas it is. Subject. Is the individual mandate penalty really a tax? Obama and his reps assured us it wasn’t. Until it was passed and then challenged legally. At which time it became a tax for purposes of justifying it. Guess what, folks:
June 28, 2012
Let’s all celebrate picking our neighbor’s pocket! PAHHR-ty! [Darleen Click]
Previously I covered how the food stamp program is, by happy design, expanding. It even gets fun, new names as California designates it as “CalFresh.” Via Weasel Zippers is this advice from the USDA pamphlet on how to ensnare more people into “SNAP” … Throw a Great Party. Host social events where people mix and mingle. Make it fun by having activities, games, food, and entertainment, and provide information about
June 27, 2012
Because this site has been so unrelentingly pessimistic
I’m not going to reference the plan by Obama to deploy thousands upon thousands of lawyers this election season so that, should he lose, he can claim he’s really won, save for all the racism and fraud, and file lawsuit after lawsuit to keep himself in office. I’m not going to reference that because that’s just too depressing to think about. Instead, I’m going to do this: Puppies! Licking babies!
June 27, 2012
Did former Obama White House Budget Director Peter Orszag just endorse Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan?
It would sure seem so. Apparently, the more one moves away from Barack Obama, the clearer one’s thinking becomes. At least, that’s the lesson I take away from this, racist that I am.
June 27, 2012
Good question
France announced a 2% increase in its minimum wage, and Bill Wilson of Americans for Limited Government wants to know why it is that the US taxpayer, by way of a “credit expansion” of $108 billion to the IMF, is being forced to fund the excesses of a country whose socialist government refuses to live within its own means? Over to you, House Financial Services Committee Chair Bachus.
June 27, 2012
Good thing we dismissed that wacky snowbilly and her middlebrow cult of personality!
Washington Free Beacon, “The Bear at the Door: Russian nuclear bombers test U.S. air defenses in arctic war games during chilly Obama-Putin summit”: Russian strategic nuclear bombers threatened U.S. airspace near Alaska earlier this month and F-15 jets responded by intercepting the aircraft taking part in large-scale arctic war games, according to defense officials. The Russian war games began the same day President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin held
June 27, 2012
“German Court Makes Circumcision for Religious Reasons a Crime”
Well, on the bright side, at least they didn’t go with ovens this time.
June 27, 2012
Congrats, Miami Heats!
Seriously. This slickly-packaged fraud is to “cool” what Justin Bieber is to “rock God.”