Category: Obama Administration

So, couldn’t they read the questionnaire?

So, couldn’t they read the questionnaire?

| February 3, 2009 | Reply

Let’s look at the track record so far, two weeks into the Obama Administration: Tom Daschle, now-former nominee for Sec’y of Health and Human Services, leaves the Senate, earns millions of dollars per year for uncertain work, fails to pay taxes and has heavy lobbying-like involvement from the health industry; his withdrawal was announced after […]

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Image o’ the day

Image o’ the day

| February 2, 2009 | Reply

Do I really need to explain anything? Hat tip to the Daily Bayonet.  ..bruce w..

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Perspective on the “stimulus” disaster

Perspective on the “stimulus” disaster

| February 1, 2009 | Reply

Visualization is the key to comprehension: Hat tip to Mother, May I Sleep with Treacher? ..bruce w..

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I may have my disagreements with Pres. Obama…

I may have my disagreements with Pres. Obama…

| January 26, 2009 | 1 Reply

…but even I don’t think he deserves this: The website says this is the “determined pose”. The George W. Bush Chia Pet appears to have been discontinued.  ..bruce w..

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A sense of liberation and relief…for me, at least

A sense of liberation and relief…for me, at least

| January 23, 2009 | Reply

Earlier today, I watched live TV coverage of the second White House press briefing by new White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (the first was yesterday). To their credit, the White House press corps were not at all easy on Gibbs, perhaps due to some growing frustrations with President Obama and his interactions (or lack […]

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Apparently Reid is sending a message to Obama, too

Apparently Reid is sending a message to Obama, too

| January 7, 2009 | Reply

After my post yesterday about Sen. Dianne Feinstein sending two different shots across President-elect Barack Obama’s bow in one day (Tuesday), Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), the Senate Majority Leader, made his own statements as well in an interview he gave to The Hill on Tuesday as well: “Even though we’re one short of 60 [senators […]

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Is Feinstein sending Obama a message?

Is Feinstein sending Obama a message?

| January 6, 2009 | 1 Reply

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was an early (July 2007) endorser of Hillary Clinton’s run for the US Presidency. At the same time, Sen. Feinstein was the one who provided her DC home for a private meeting between Clinton and Obama last June that led to Clinton ending her campaign and endorsing Obama’s candidacy. So, Feinstein […]

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