Results for Barack obama

  1. Reuters: Eric Holder signed off on the raid of reporter James Rosen's email account. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/05/24/eric-holder-james-rosen-reuters-n46095
    It is virtually impossible to credit that Barack Obama has regulated his government in such a way so that Eric Holder does not feel … One thing not to deduce: that will be any ironclad evidence that Barack Obama signed off on Holder’s going after Rosen. … Either Obama is telling the truth, and he really has set up his command structure to avoid being told of such activities; or Obama
  2. The decline and fall of the Obama-media industrial complex. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/05/23/barack-obama-media-scandals-n46089
    I’ve always considered the relationship between Barack Obama and the Media to be a lot less genuine than is commonly believed: there … Barack Obama has always approached the Media with a certain inherent cynical contempt that only got more and more brazen as the years … And, for its part… the Media as a corporate entity likes Barack Obama the way that I like a rib-eye steak.…
  3. Barack Obama finally cops to ordering a drone strike on an American citizen... https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/05/22/drone-strikes-barack-obama-eric-holder-n46080
    The New York Times baldly says why (bolding mine): “One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.” Best to have that finally...
  4. Governor Perry, Please Veto SB 346 https://redstate.com/erick/2013/05/21/governor-perry-please-veto-sb-346-n46065
    The IRS under Barack Obama has leaked the donors of conservative groups, including a conservative group in Texas.…
  5. Has the Obama administration EARNED our trust on phone metadata harvesting? https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/06/09/barack-obama-verizon-metadata-trust-nsa-n46192
    Let us imagine a world where the following occurred*: 2008 – 2013: Barack Obama accepts public financing for the election, promptly … Just to not-really-randomly pick three of his campaign promises. 2009: Barack Obama secures the formal appointment of Inspector Generals … Barack Obama, I’m not entirely certain he wouldn’t just accidentally send it all to Belize.…
  6. Mark Kirk backhands Eric Holder over the executive branch's spying on Congress. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/06/06/eric-holder-mark-kirk-nsa-verizon-n46179
    Republican from Illinois; if there’s a Senator out there who has a vested interest in not picking an unnecessary fight with the Obama … I hope, for Barack Obama’s sake, that he’s satisfied with the way that Eric Holder is doing his duty as a meat shield; because Obama…
  7. Remember When Dems Supported Obama's Extension Of The Patriot Act? https://redstate.com/dloesch/2013/06/06/remember-when-dems-supported-obamas-extension-of-the-patriot-act-n48126
    Flashback: Minutes before a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama signed into law a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers … “It’s an important tool for us to continue dealing with an ongoing terrorist threat,” Obama said Friday after a meeting with French … With Obama in France, the White House said the president used an autopen machine that holds a pen and signs his actual signature.…
  8. Barack Obama unilaterally tries to recuse Susan Rice from #Benghazi testimony. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/06/06/barack-obama-executive-privilege-susan-rice-benghazi-n46176
    Via Ed Driscoll comes something I hadn’t considered: Susan Rice as National Security Advisor means that Barack Obama thinks that he … Although… it may simply be that Barack Obama is engaged in running out the clock. … All Barack Obama has to do is to stop stonewalling the people who are (quite rightly) trying to do some long-overdue oversight of the…
  9. The paranoid style of Obama politics https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2013/05/31/the-paranoid-style-of-obama-politics-n46137
    The Obama years have been all about conjuring demons from the ether, for various cultural and political purposes.   … You can pretty much draw a straight line from that, through Barack Obama and his allies relentlessly demonizing the Tea Party, to the … The phenomenon of bureaucratic hounds lunging from their cages to attack the President’s designated enemies is unique to the Obama
  10. Mary Landrieu's re-election now a "toss-up" https://redstate.com/joesquire/2013/05/31/mary-landrieu-toss-up-n48209
    While Mary Landrieu’s hasn’t exactly been a Barack Obama cheerleader, she is a Democrat in a state now firmly Republican. … “President Obama is not particularly popular, he’s being hit on all sides right now between Libya, IRS and controversial action within…
  11. Black State Senator Leaves Dems and Explains, "Why I Am A Republican" https://redstate.com/westcoastpatriette/2013/06/19/black-sta…enator-leaves-dems-and-explains-why-i-am-a-rupublican-n47938
    And could it be that our first black president — Barack Hussain Obama — helped wake up the blacks by embarrassing them as they watched … Thanks, Obama. Your presidency has forced people to sit up and get involved. The Watercooler is always an open thread.…
  12. Scientism, Despotism, Blackmail and The New Carbon Dioxide Regulations https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2013/06/19/scientism-de…tism-blackmail-and-the-new-carbon-dioxide-regulations-n46258
    President Barack Obama is out to slay Man-made Cooling, Global Warming, Climate Change once and for all. … But if Congress won’t act to protect future generations, Barack Obama will. … Governor Jack Dalrymple of the Great State of North Dakota writes The Honorable Barack Obama, President of The United States below.…
  13. The IRS, The NSA and Comprehensive Amnesty Reform All Tie Together In a Very Nasty Way. https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2013/06/14/the-irs-the…e-amnesty-reform-all-tie-together-in-a-very-nasty-way-n46225
    Corporate Sponsors of The Obama Regime Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters nationwide believe it is likely the NSA data will be used … So why would 57% of the American Electorate believe that the NSA will be used to attack political opponents of Barack Obama rather … It is obvious through this choice of priorities that President Barack Obama cares a whole lot more about keeping you in your place…
  14. Ruling-class concerns https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2013/06/13/ruling-class-concerns-n46219
    Look at the relationship between the Obama Administration and companies like G.E. and Google. … Obama to the scandal had failed – a judgment he is, of course, very quick to make.   … For the rest of us, this was never about “getting” Obama, or any other individual politician.  …
  15. Tech at Night: A few words on the Playstation 4. A Traitor and the Glenns Greenwald? I should trust THEM? https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2013/06/11/tech-at-night-a…traitor-and-the-glenns-greenwald-i-should-trust-them-n46204
    Barack Obama, and we know how much of the hype he lived up to.…
  16. Non-accountability marches onward at the IRS https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2013/06/10/non-accountability-marches-onward-at-the-irs-n46201
    During the inspector general’s own investigation, Paz, who National Review Online revealed is a donor to Barack Obama, sat in on the … There was some early noise from President Obama about how the politicized abuse of power was unacceptable, but he’s clearly not angry … Instead, we’re left to wonder how many other agencies are filled with Obama loyalists who might “spontaneously” decide to use confidential…
  17. The "Evolving" Energy Policies of President Bystander https://redstate.com/vladimir/2013/06/29/the-evolving-energy-policies-of-president-bystander-n46326
    In a "groundbreaking" speech Tuesday at Georgetown University, Barack Obama rehashed the same anti-Big Oil themes and half-baked … One change: President Obama has decided he likes natural gas*, and credits "Federally supported technology", an implicit endorsement … Obama seems to think that profitable, productive capitalists are a symptom of, not a cure for, the disease that ails our economy.…
  18. Hobby Lobby will not be fined for pursuing liberty of conscience contraception case. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/06/28/hobby-lobby-liberty-of-conscience-contraception-n46321
    If I might offer some unsolicited advice to the Obama administration? … the White House, particularly since these are no longer those halcyon days when it seemed that there was nothing at all between Barack … hard to bully a group that puts more moral weight onto a position than you do; and I don’t really think that this is an issue that Obama
  19. This Is What Fundamental Transformation Looks Like https://redstate.com/derrickmorgan/2013/06/28/this-is-what-fundamental-transformation-looks-like-n48340
    This is the promise Barack Obama made on Oct. 30, 2008, as the country was counting down to the presidential election. … Obama pushes these policies even though unilateral U.S. action will do next to nothing for the environment. … Dan Pfeiffer, senior adviser to Obama, tweeted: A yr ago this week wouldn’t have seemed possible.…
  20. Why the Democrats are about to HAMMER young people on student loan rates. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/06/27/student-loans-democrats-n46317
    over-simplify: the President wanted a deal on student loan rates; Senate Republicans are happy to oblige the President, given that Obama … is willing to give away a bit, for a change (and the alternative is the House Republican plan, which both Obama and the Senate hate … The important thing for the aforementioned Democratic Senators is that President Barack Obama affronted them so by publicly indicating…
  21. Did the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage Ruling Just Destroy Colorado's TABOR Law? https://redstate.com/smdavis/2013/06/26/did-the-supreme-cour…gay-marriage-ruling-just-destroy-colorados-tabor-law-n48299
    It was supported by more than 52 percent of California voters in a state that President Barack Obama won with nearly 61 percent of…
  22. Remember: today is Barack Obama's War On Coal speech. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/06/25/barack-obama-war-on-coal-daniel-schrag-n46293
    The only real question is whether Barack Obama will use the actual phrase. … Daniel Schrag is perfect for deniable messaging, of course: he doesn’t set policy, but he does officially have President Barack Obama … If he’s openly talking about bankrupting the coal industry – something that Barack Obama has been itching to do for years – then it…
  23. Ed Snowden flees Hong Kong, goes to... Russia. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/06/23/ed-snowden-russia-nsa-hong-kong-n46283
    Oh, I’m sure that Snowden isn’t planning to stay; he’ll no doubt end up somewhere that Barack Obama won’t dare send someone to collect…
  24. Wedge Issues and the Rape Exception https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2013/06/21/wedge-issues-and-the-rape-exception-n46275
    Wedge issues have always been a mainstay of elections, and at least now that Barack Obama has perfected their use, we are temporarily … A lot of us on the Right thought that many of the wedge issues raised by Obama in 2012 were silly and juvenile, but the reality is,…
  25. Democrats Aren't The Only Problem https://redstate.com/theplumber/2013/06/20/democrats-arent-the-only-problem-n47991
    If the Bush years opened up Pandora’s Box when it comes to spending and snooping, then Barack Obama has blown the Box up. … In 2012, Barack Obama won by 3-4 million votes.…