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Archive for November, 2009

Even The Chinese Are Nervous About The Cost Of ObamaCare

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, November 18th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, China, Foreign Affairs, Health Care Reform, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Our bankers are worried that we’re spending too much:
Guess what? It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plans would impact America’s huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his Asian trip as an opportunity to ask the White House questions. Detailed questions.
Boilerplate assurances that America won’t [...]

Another McCain Aide Calls Palin’s Book “Total Fiction”

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, November 18th, 2009. Filed under 2008 Election, Elections, John McCain, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Sarah Palin

This time, it’s Nicole Wallace:
NEW YORK – Former McCain campaign senior adviser Nicolle Wallace says Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue” is “based on fabrications,” and that the basis for Palin’s depictions of her and former McCain campaign director Steve Schmidt as villains “took place entirely in her imagination.”
In a statement to The Rachel Maddow Show, [...]

Al Gore: Earth’s Core At “Several Million Degrees”

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, November 18th, 2009. Filed under Al Gore, Dumbasses, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

It must be true, Al Gore said it:
Conan: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy …
Al: Yeah, yeah.
Conan: and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that’s generated from the core of the earth …
Al: Yeah.
Conan: [...]

National Debt Tops $ 12,000,000,000,000

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, November 18th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Credit Crisis, Economics, Politics

Just 247 days after topping $ 11 trillion and 414 days since passing the $ 10 trillion mark, America’s national debt is now above the eye-popping level of twelve trillion dollars:
It’s another record-high for the U.S. National Debt which today topped the $12-trillion mark. Divided evenly among the U.S. population, it amounts to $38,974.34 for [...]

Obama’s Phantom Stimulus Creates Phantom Congressional Districts

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 17th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Credit Crisis, Economics, Politics

Heh:
Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; [...]

Obama Experiences Embarrassing Teleprompter Malfunction

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 17th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Humor, Politics

Obama’s Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

Will Sarah Palin Run For President ? Probably Can She Win ? Absolutely Not

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 17th, 2009. Filed under 2012 Election, Elections, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin

Nate Silver explains why he thinks that Sarah Palin really is planning on running for President in 2012:
[A]ssuming that Palin is rational, and that her goal is to maximize her chance of someday becoming President (or at least winning the nomination), it’s not clear that 2012 is a worse bet for her than 2016. Yes, [...]

Bob Barr Joins Prominent Conservatives In Endorsing Obama On Gitmo Detainees

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 17th, 2009. Filed under Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bob Barr, Homeland Security, Politics, September 11th, War On Terror

Former Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Bob Barr was joined by David Keene, founder of the American Conservative Union, and Grover Norquist, President of Americans For Tax Reform, along with others in endorsing the Obama Administration’s recent moves in the War On Terror
As it moves to close Guantanamo and develop policies for handling terrorism suspects going [...]

Obama Administration Blocking Senate From Talking To Fort Hood Witnesses

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 17th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, In The News, Politics

Some might even say that they’re stonewalling the investigation:
The first public congressional hearing on the Fort Hood attack will not include testimony from any current federal law enforcement, military or intelligence officials because the Obama administration “declined to provide any” such witnesses, according to a Senate committee source.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee [...]

Turkeys On The Jersey Turnpike

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 17th, 2009. Filed under Holidays, Humor, In The News

And, no, I’m not referring to the drivers:

TRENTON, N.J. — Authorities have stopped trying to capture a wild turkey that calls Interchange 14B on the New Jersey Turnpike home. The bird has been causing havoc for toll collectors and motorists as it runs across toll booths, plays in traffic, and sits atop toll collectors’ parked [...]

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