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Tuesday, April 6th

Net neutrality as dead as U.S. nuclear weapons program.
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Monday, April 5th

Toothless: Obama swears not to use nukes, even in self-defense.
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Worthless: Idiotic kids destroy brand new, $500 iPad for fun.
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Obama throws the opening pitch at Nationals - just like Iran it's a softball.
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Fake story meant to punish bloggers for lack of fact checking catches NYTimes instead.
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Friday, April 2nd

Paging Dr. Galt, Dr. John Galt.  Urologist tells Obama supporters to go elsewhere.
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Tuesday, March 30th

World sees best bang since the big one, thanks to Hadron collider in Geneva.
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Monday, March 29th

Inconceivable! Those words do not mean what you think they mean. Congress gets a lesson in drafting on ObamaCare.
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More legal gun owners mean fewer violent crimes, says -- MSNBC?!?
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Friday, March 26th

North Korea to Obama: Hey, enough pandering to Iran, pander to us some more!
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Dems admitting that Unicorns may be on backorder; ObamaCare not so great after all.
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Experts: Be on the lookout for large-breasted bombshells at airports.
Experts: Be on the lookout for large-breasted bombshells at airports (picture unrelated).
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Tuesday, March 23rd

This just in to the Weather Channel: Bloated government adds to Global Warming™.
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U-238.dll caused a general protection fault: Abort, Retry or Ignore? Are you sure (click OK to shut down reactor)? Gives new meaning to blue screen of death.
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Separated at Birth: KSM & Sweetums
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Obamerry Christmas: ObamaCare gonna be just like Christmas. Accountability hangs itself, no next of kin.
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Judge orders release of detainee who recruited hijackers for 9/11, but Obama & Holder guaranty KSM will be convicted.
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The FLOWERS! Won't someone PLEASE think of the FLOWERS! Global Warming™ blamed for declining scent; bad haircuts.
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Now their finances are in line with their morality: ACORN goes bankrupt as a national group.
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The original Tea Party: It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope: Patrick Henry 235 yrs ago today.
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Wednesday, March 17th

Smart Power: Europe and Asia feeling more alienated under Obamessiah than under Bush.
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Democrat predicts that ObamaCare will bankrupt the US in four years--bonus: it's the Massachusetts Treasurer.
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The mental giants who want to run healthcare and reform the financial industry, cannot even run a cafeteria.
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Tuesday, March 9th

Bob Herbert outed as a racist shill for the healthcare industry.
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Monday, March 8th

All style, no substance: Dems have to be trained on how to talk tough on terror.
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Not only does the Earth have a fever, it also has terminal flatulence.
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Change™ on a Daily Basis: Obama re-reverses course, will try Khalid Sweetums Mohammed in Gitmo.
Change™ on a Daily Basis: Obama re-reverses course, will try Khalid "Sweetums" Mohammed in Gitmo.
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Having solved all more pressing issues, MN legislature takes up the scourge of hotel porn; Harry Palmes and Yule Goblinde oppose.
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Obama the Weak-Willed.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
By Dan

Obama has promised to deliver healthcare to 45 million Americans, including 15 million illegal aliens, over 30 million Americans, and not “add one single dime to the federal deficit.” This promise hinges on Obama eliminating “fraud, waste and abuse” in Medicare, cutting Medicare advantage, and to a large extent, promising today that some future President and some future Congress will cut benefits in order to keep spending in check.

A child of 5 could see that this is absurd, but Congress, of course claps like the drooling two year-olds they are.

A child of 5 could see that this is absurd, but Congress, of course claps like the drooling two year-olds they are. So what really happens when benefit cuts are mandated by law? Do we have a real world example? I don’t know, maybe a cost of living adjustment to Social Security? Ah, yes, we do.

There are many people over 65 who don’t need Social Security at all, much less an additional $250 from the Obama Re-Election Fund.

This year, the Social Security Administration announced that, due to a negative change in the consumer pricing index, there would be no cost of living adjustment to social security. Obama immediately called for a $250 payment to seniors to make up for it. But don’t worry, Obama says, the approximately $13 billion won’t come out of the Social Security trust fund. Unless it is coming out of Obama’s pocket, that is still $13 billion that the federal government has to steal from you or your children to pay to someone else.  (And given the bureaucratic inefficiencies, it will actually cost closer to $32.5 billion, as the government wastes about $.60 for every $1.00 it collects.  And that doesn’t include the interest on your money with which Obama is being so generous.)

Do you really think Warren Buffet and Mayor Bloomberg need $2,000 a month plus another $250 of your money?

The point is not to gang up on grandma.  There are elderly people who desperately need cash.  But there are also people over 65 who really don’t need Social Security at all, much less an additional $250 from the Obama Re-Election Fund.  Do you really think Warren Buffet and Mayor Bloomberg need $2,000 a month plus another $250 of your money?

Reagan once said that there is nothing on Earth as close to eternal life as a government program.  The notion that Obama, or any administration, will have the political will to cut Medicare, the most popular government program in history, is absurd.  To base a new government program on that promise should be a new definition of gullible.

But this is not an isolated event.  Obama has proven he cannot make difficult decisions.  From Gitmo, to Afghanistan; from gay marriage and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to gun rights in D.C., Obama never sticks his neck out.  He has never led, never risked.  Even in a simple gubernatorial race, Obama will not come out and campaign for Creigh Deeds because he knows it to be a losing effort.  Governing is about making difficult decisions, not voting present.

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