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June 5th, 2011
At least one Jewish Democrat thinks President Obama could lose broad support among one of his key constituencies in 2012: Jewish voters. And this is someone who ought to know, because he’s both Jewish and a Democrat: former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.
With Obama’s frequent outright hostility toward popular Israeli president and outspoken conservative, Binyamin Netanyahu, as well as his recent blunders in handling Middle East affairs, Koch think Jewish disappointment in Obama could lead to a higher-than-usual number of Jewish voters casting their ballots for the GOP, so long as the GOP doesn’t nominate someone who’s even worse on Israel.
But don’t worry about that, folks: Mike Huckabee has already said he’s not going to run, and it’s highly unlikely Ron Paul will prevail. While I wouldn’t bet my guaranteed issue life insurance on a massive defection, the possibility of a significant shift is not out of the question.
Good call, Mayor Koch!
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Democrats,
Election 2012 •
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April 1st, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC – In a WonderfulPessimist exclusive, we have learned that President Barak Obama will hold a press conference within 24 hours to announce he is resigning the presidency to accept the head men’s basketball coaching position at Georgia Tech University. This comes hours after Dayton coach Brian Gregory was initially announced as the new G-Tech coach earlier this week.
Georgia Tech athletics director Paul Radakovich let the announcement slip in a recent Tweet, in which he said, “Brian who? We’re getting Obama, man!” Radakovich claimed President Obama’s masterful command of his recent NCAA March Madness brackets indicated to him there might be an opportunity in the making.
“When President Obama took office, his approval ratings were through the roof,” Radakovich told WonderfulPessimist.com. “But those have dropped and I heard through a head-hunting service, while we were conducting our search, there might be an opportunity there. At first, I didn’t believe it. I figured we were getting Punk’d or set up for an episode of Undercover Boss or something. So we proceeded with the Gregory hire. A couple days ago, the White House contacted me. That’s when I knew he had a real chance.”
Terms of the pending agreement remain undisclosed, though Gregory did confirm it was a “four-year deal” in line with other premiere college coaches. That would put his compensation in the $2-$3 million annual salary range. As U.S. President, Obama earned the constitutionally-mandated salary of $400,000 annually, plus a $50,000 personal expense allowance.
“In a lot of ways,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told WonderfulPessimist.com, “this represents a promotion of sorts for President Obama. He’ll enjoy a far higher salary and no more criticism than he currently endures. Georgia Tech basketball fans can be pretty fierce.”
The reception on the Yellowjackets’ campus has been enthusiastic so far. Top recruit Julian Royal of Milton High expressed optimism. “I get to be coached by Barak *expletive deleted* Obama? Are you *expletive deleted* me? That’s the *expletive deleted*, man! I’m so in! *Expletive deleted* coach Gregory, man! Barak’s my *expletive deleted*!”
Others were less enthusiastic. Sophomore center Nick Hicks said, “You’re kidding, right? The man’s March Madness brackets were way off. Kansas, K-State, Kentucky and Villanova were his Final Four. He got one right. Now he wants to be our coach?”
The White House immediately issued a press release announcing the revocation of Hicks’ scholarship and a subsequent FBI investigation into his academic record.
Politically, Georgia governor Nathan Deal, a Republican, praised the signing in a brief press release. “This is a great day for Georgia Tech basketball, and most especially, for the nation.”
On Capitol Hill, word of Obama’s pending resignation sent shockwaves throughout Washington. Vice President Joe Biden, who will ascend to the presidency upon Obama’s formal White House resignation May 1, told WonderfulPessimist.com, “Certainly I’m thrilled. In fact, Barak told me when he offered me the number two spot that there was a chance this could happen. The man loves his hoops.”
Speaker of the House John Boehner, a Republican, will become the interim Vice President to Biden according to U.S. Constitutional rules of succession, wept when he was notified.
Yet not all reactions in Washington were positive. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi expressed disappointment in the President’s timing, saying, “If he was going to do this, why not last spring? Then I could have been vice president.”
Also, junior Georgia senator Johnny Isakson, a Republican, noted in his blog, “First he ruined the country, now he wants to ruin Georgia Tech basketball? Go back to Illinois, carpetbagger!”
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RELEASE DATE: APRIL 01, 2011
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Democrats •
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March 6th, 2011
The White House is claiming a budget that proposes spending cuts – they say – that consist of $51 billion less in spending in 2011. The House GOP’s budget proposes over $102 billion. So that’s not bad; at least the White House is only half-way to the GOP proposal, right?
Well, newsflash, both budgets are lying. They reach those totals by including a proposed $40.8 billion thanks to a spending freeze. Only trouble is, that money was not close to being spent; it was “built-in spending increases” due to the “cost of inflation.” Because Washington doesn’t do zero-baseline budgeting like normal Americans; they assume everything they spent last year will be spent again, plus more for “inflation.”
So all that’s being truly cut is the so-called “inflation adjustment” increase. But it’s not real money, so it doesn’t count.
Between Harry Reid’s Senate plan and the White House, the Democats came up with only $10.5 billion in additional cuts. That’s nothing compared to the cuts the GOP-led House came up with; subtract the same $40.8 billion in fake spending cuts from their budget, and you are left with savings of $61.5 billion.
That’s nowhere near close on the White House’s part. So at least the GOP budget is somewhat aggressive. But aggressive enough? By my count, the GOP still owes the American people at least another $40 billion in cuts. Real, actual spending cuts that shrink the size of government. Either that, or giving us each a set of nice shoulder braces. That might work, too…
Nah. I’d still prefer the spending cuts.
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Democrats,
Republicans •
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March 6th, 2011
With gas prices quickly heading skyward toward $4 a gallon, and a federal judge ordering the Department of the Interior to get off their lazy butts and approve some deep water drilling permits that would put more oil on the market and bring some price relief, the Obama administration acted last this past week… to halt the judge’s order.
Overstepping the bounds of the executive branch, Obama is disrespecting yet another federal judge to enact his own agenda. The first time has been his administration recent “so what?” reaction to a Florida federal judge declaring ObamaCare unconstitutioonal. Obama’s callous disregard of the ruling caused the judge to put a timeline on the administration’s ability to file an appeal of his ruling – widely misinterpreted by the Obama Media as the judge “backing off his ruling and allowing the administration to enact ObamaCare” when just the opposite was true; the deadline was set and the Obama administration risks being held in contempt of court if the deadline passes without an appeal being filed and they continue to enact ObamaCare.
Now Obama’s administration is hitting America in the pocketbook, hoping to end drilling in the Gulf indefinitely at a time when getting that oil flowing again would provide much-needed price relief at the gas pump. Yeah, he’s just begging to be re-elected, isn’t he?
Guy probably smokes cheap Don Tomas cigars.
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Democrats •
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February 28th, 2011
Well, no surprise, but Hollywood liberals politicized the Oscars this year. Again.
The only real surprise to this is who did it. It was not a loudmouth, ego-inflated star like Alec Baldwin. It was a loudmouthed, ego-inflated cinematographer, instead; and one who needed the best diet pills available, from all appearances.
Winning cinematographer and Hollywood-dweller Wally Pfister decided he had more insight into what’s good for Wisconsin than, well, Wisconsinites. Tilting his lance at Governor Scott Walker’s face-off with state unions, Pfister used his win to pontificate to the unwashed masses, saying, “I think that what is going on in Wisconsin is kind of madness right now.”
Hey, we get it; you’re a union guy and you’re showing solidarity. But you’re not a Wisconsin taxpayer, so just hush up, will you?
February 18th, 2011
Is Barack Obama really a U.S. citizen? If so, why the avoidance of producing his actual birth certificate, rather than the unofficial “certificate of live birth?”
That’s the question so-called “birthers” have been asking for a couple years now, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petitioned hearing on the matter without comment back in January, but now has announced it will grant a conference on the issue in early March. It’ll be a case of delicate material handling.
If Obama were deemed not to be a U.S. citizen, he would ultimately be forced to vacate his White House seat, ceding the presidency to Joe Biden, his vice president.
It is possible that Justices Elana Kagen and Sonia Sotomayor would be forced to recuse themselves from the hearing, given that they were appointed by Obama and the case would represent a conflict of interest. That situation would also put so-called judicial conservatives in an overwhelming majority situation, outnumbering liberal appointees either 5-2 or, at worst, 4-3. Either way, the case will finally be heard and lay to rest, hopefully, all doubts about Obama’s eligibility to run.
My take? Obama’s a train wreck; Biden would be worse. Keep them where they are and let the voters kick them out in 2012. Or not. We get what we vote for, America.
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Democrats,
Supreme Court •
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February 5th, 2011
According to a Gallup Poll, the real unemployment number stands at 9.9 percent, not the 9.0 percent promoted by the bow tie-wearing numbers crunchers from the Obama Administration. The same Gallup Poll unveiled an “under-employment” percentage that stands at a staggering 19.2 percent.
With nearly 1 in five Americans either unemployed or underemployed, it’s a tough sell for Obama to claim his policies are working. Yet he’s claiming exactly that. Which makes sense… who in his right mind would say, “I’ve messed up. Time to try something different.”
Oh well. Elections are only a couple years away… we’ll survive tell then and the nation will get a chance to do a further course-correction.
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Democrats •
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February 4th, 2011
One of the snowiest, coldest winters in recent memory won’t deter Algore; on a recent episode of Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor, the host challenged Gore to explain the conditions. On his own Web site, Gore responded and claimed that the conditions currently burying most Americans living north of the Mason-Dixon line are proof… of global WARMING.
Here’s what he told O’Reilly, via his Web site:
“As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming.”
After the Drudge Report posted the Chicken Little claim, the increased traffic broke Gore’s Web site, keeping it out of service for nearly two hours. Algore might be better off predicting the future of healthcare jobs.
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Democrats,
global warming •
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February 4th, 2011
A federal court in Florida has ruled that ObamaCare is unconstitutional and therefore void. While the ruling is merely a prelude to an eventual Supreme Court showdown over the matter, the ruling establishes important precedents that could lend support to an eventual Supreme Court overturn on the entire measure.
One doesn’t need a laptop computer to detect the flaws in ObamaCare; the judge ruled that by making the purchase of health insurance mandatory and a fine-able offense, ObamaCare stepped beyond Constitutional restrictions on federal authority.
That big giant gasp followed by a confused, “What’s that?” you just heard is the sound of liberals everywhere, astonished that America is still ruled by that “dusty old relic.” Most thought the Constitution had been completely overturned during the Clinton Administration.
Surprise! It’s still here, people!
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
Democrats,
Supreme Court •
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January 8th, 2011
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot by 22-year-old punk Jared Lee Loughner, a MySpace and YouTube user who posted mendacious, incoherent ramblings that are too asinine to bear repeating. Yet somehow he slipped through the system just enough to free as a bird today when he decided to go to an Arizona grocery where Giffords was appearing, with the intent to kill.
While Giffords, who may have been fond of Ladies Hats at times, is currently expected to survive despite being shot in the head, Loughner’s attack left six people dead, including a federal court judge, as well as 12 more who were injured. Among those dead were a nine-year-old girl.
Giffords is a three-term congresswoman who gained attention by being one of the rare Democrats to fend off a challenge from a Tea Party-backed Republican last November. A member of the Blue Dog contingent of the Democratic Party, Giffords is counted as a moderate in the House.
WonderfulPessimist.com wishes Rep. Giffords a safe and speedy recovery. Our prayers are with her and her family.
As for her attacker, let’s hope Loughner winds up in that Arizona prison where they still have chain gangs… at best.
December 15th, 2010
Well, clearly their massive losses in the November midterms taught Dems nothing. With the lowest Congressional Approval ratings in modern polling, the Nancy Pelosi Lame Duck Session is determined to pass as much of the liberal agenda American reject in November as possible before the GOP takes the reigns.
That includes overturning Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell over the objections of the Pentagon, attempting to disguise another stimulus spending bill as a tax cut, and tagging onto that a record number of controversial earmark measures that were the sort of thing that swung moderates against them.
Sometimes politics like this is so petty, I’d rather just blog about iPhone, iPad, iPod and Amazon’s Kindle than have to slog through this nonsense. It’s a lot more enjoyable that watch an entire party play The Biggest Sore Loser.
December 12th, 2010
No amount of promotional lip balm is going to make folks feel good about this, but the price of gasoline at the pump is up sixty percent since Barak Obama took office.
When Obama was sworn in, the average US price at the pump was $1.81 per gallon. That was a huge cut from the crisis price of the Bush years, in the summer of 2008, when gas reached over $4.00 a gallon, briefly. But while the price hasn’t crept back to that level yet, the 60 percent increase is starting to cause economic pain.
In the Bush years, the biggest contributing factors to the price hike was unrest in the Middle East over the Iraq War and other political disruptions, as well as out-of-control energy commodity speculation in the market. That’s not entirely the case today.
The Obama Era gas price is inflated for entirely different reasons. First of all, the speculators are back and ruining the market again, but that’s not the biggest cause. The biggest cause at the moment is the weakness of the US dollar.
The weakness of the US dollar is caused by all the out of control spending and borrowing Obama’s indulged in; the US deficit has ballooned under his watch like it has under no other president. Perhaps being forced to work with a Republican-controlled House will be exactly what Obama needs to bring spending under control, allow the economy to rebound, and see prices at the pump deflate once again.
By Craig Hansen • Posted in
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