May 12, 2013 – John Dickerson took perhaps too long to get to this paragraph, and he wrote it through gritted teeth, but he does put a finger on the central problem for the Obama administration right now: The substantive differences between the president and Republicans on the budget may be insurmountable, but...

May 12, 2013 – Her unusual fundraising push comes after Congress has repeatedly rejected the Obama administration’s requests for additional funds … I can still hear the voices of Barack Obama and the other con artists behind ObamaCare telling us how it would reduce the deficit.  …

May 11, 2013 – This will have bad immediate effects, and here’s the worst one of all: nobody will love Barack Obama any more. … Of course, in forty years Barack Obama will be 95 or so; which means that he’ll either be dead, or else utterly indifferent to your … The difference between me and Barack Obama, however, is that I retrain a basic empathy for people who are going to get the short end…

May 30, 2013 – Businessweek: Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, one of Obama’s biggest boosters, is bankrolling a new for-profit endeavor being run by former Obama … “During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama’s reelection team had an underappreciated asset: Google’s (GOOG) executive chairman, Eric Schmidt … Obama.…

May 30, 2013 – In 2007, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama visited the union’s picket lines, vowing to return after he was elected President…

May 30, 2013 – Obama did briefly address the malfunctions currently afflicting his beautiful Big Government machine.   … This attitude is hardly new to the Obama Administration.   … And yet, the very same politicians who offer those assurances, like Barack Obama, also claim they haven’t got a clue what The System…

May 30, 2013 – Obama. … Obama, now that you’ve channeled John Lennon at his most naïve. … We cannot, President Obama. I say that with sadness instead of my typical disdain for your ideological philosophy.…

May 30, 2013 – Indirectly, to be sure: but nobody sensible to expect plain talking from Barack Obama anyway. … I know, I know: people are saying to themselves right now Why is Moe just repeating what Barack Obama said? … Because I’m not: I’m merely stating explicitly what Barack Obama kind of skipped over.…

May 29, 2013 – …and that’s that this problem has been made particularly difficult for the Obama administration because of a ruling that they ironically … The IRS, not at all coincidentally, whose reputation has taken an absolute nose dive since Obama took office. … It still does need to be pointed out that life isn’t quite as much kittens and sunshine for Barack Obama as it appeared to be, the…

May 28, 2013 – President Obama often tells audiences that he has waged his last campaign. But that’s not exactly true. … Well, it would be, if Barack Obama had one tenth the charm that his followers think he has – and about one fourth the charm that he…

May 28, 2013 – The Obama administration has warned British officials that if the UK leaves Europe it will exclude itself from a US-EU trade and investment … Washington, which was primarily intended as a joint promotion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with Barack … Anyway… Barack Obama just doesn’t like the United Kingdom, huh?…

May 28, 2013 – , Americans for Prosperity and the 60 Plus Association, which have already spent millions on advertisements targeting President Barack … Obama this election cycle.…

May 27, 2013 – In the 2012 election, every donation traceable to this office went to President Obama or liberal Sen. Sherrod Brown. … But apparently this has changed, under Barack Obama… and here’s a little secret: no government bureaucracy can in fact survive except…

May 24, 2013 – 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…

May 23, 2013 – 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.…

May 22, 2013 – 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...

May 21, 2013 – The IRS under Barack Obama has leaked the donors of conservative groups, including a conservative group in Texas.…

Jun 9, 2013 – 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.…

Jun 6, 2013 – 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…

Jun 6, 2013 – 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.…

Jun 6, 2013 – 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…

May 31, 2013 – 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…

May 31, 2013 – 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…

Jun 19, 2013 – 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.…

Jun 19, 2013 – 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.…