WyBlog

As Iran and North Korea build bombs, Obama calls for U.S. nuclear arms reductions

North Korea is building atomic bombs as fast as they can.

Iran can't wait to nuke Tel Aviv.

Al Qaeda wants a bomb. Any bomb.

So naturally Barack Obama thinks it's a swell time to cut the U.S. nuclear arsenal by 1/3.

Remember Ronald Reagan's motto of Peace Through Strength?

I'm guessing Obama's Peace Through Timidity plan isn't going to be nearly as effective.

Unless the goal is to destroy the United States.

Posted at 10:12 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama atomic-bomb nuclear-weapons Iran North-Korea   |   Tweet

A whole lot of folks think it's great that Obama is spying on his political enemies

Having spent most of this weekend attending various graduation parties with a gaggle of Obama voters I can unequivocally say one thing — they don't care that he's spying on Americans. Because according to them, he's spying on the right Americans.

Conservatives, Tea Partyers, Fox News: all perceived as enemies of progressivism. And thus fair game. Because, racism.

It's an interesting, and sadly sophomoric worldview. "Brother Obama," as he is known in certain circles, is a kind of demi-god to these folks. He's omnipotent. He's benevolent. He's a superhuman champion of the underclasses. Everything Barack Obama does is for our own good, because he cannot possibly be anything but perfect. And of course, "Bush was worse," while all of Obama's problems are caused by evil republicans.

One conversation stands out, with a fellow who works in IT for a government contractor. He said everyone who works for the government has a heart of gold. In fact, government is the epitome of altruism, public servants (such as himself!) are the protectors of our freedom. And if that means we citizens need to surrender our personal information to the government (think FB, twitter, email, etc) so be it. The government would never abuse that info! There are "safeguards."

And if someone in the government does do something we don't like, it isn't because they're bad, it's because "we don't understand" the true threat that they're protecting us from. The government knows what's good for us. Moreover, subjecting these data mining programs to public scrutiny undermines the government's ability to protect us, so persecuting Obama's critics keeps America safer!

I gotta tell you, hearing this stuff scares the shit out of me.

But if you wanted to know how Obama thought he could get away with all this skullduggery, well, now you know. His sycophants refuse to acknowledge reality. Their brainwashing is complete.

This is how fascism starts. This is how totalitarian states are born. "First they came for the Tea Partyers, but I didn't care because I wasn't a racist tea bagger." Go ahead, tell me it isn't exactly what's happening right now.

Because Big Brother Obama isn't using all this surveillance to keep America safe.

He's using all this surveillance to punish his political enemies.

And I've discovered that I know a whole lot of people who are OK with that. People who embrace it as necessary. And smile.

Whatever country emerges from the ruins of his administration, it won't be America. Not the America established in 1776. And certainly not the America that Ronald Reagan described as "a shining city on a hill."

Forget Freedom.

Forget Liberty.

Heil Obama!

Posted at 10:37 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama NSA spying wiretap PRISM   |   Tweet

Show of hands - who here believes Obama when he says he's not listening to our phone calls?

Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

Nope. He must think we're all morons. (Sadly, with regard to the 51% who voted for him, he's right.) But if Pravda can wake up, maybe there's hope.

From WaPo:

President Obama strongly defended the government's secret surveillance of people's phone records and Internet activities, saying … that the programs are "under very strict supervision by all three branches of government and they do not involve listening to people's phone calls, do not involve reading the e-mails of U.S. citizens and U.S. residents."

Except when, you know, they do involve exactly that.

Hmm. Grudges, eh? Perhaps like how the IRS just happened to have a "grudge" against Conservatives and Tea Party groups? Those kind of grudges?

Nah, Barack Obama would never do something like that! He's the Unicorn Healer.

He's not listening to your phone calls. He's not reading your email. He's not watching what you type into Google.

He's got people for that. At the NSA. And they're tracking every single thing you do.

Then, if you're on his enemies list, they'll turn all that data over to OFA. In case someone needs to pay you a visit.

It'll just be for a friendly chat.

The first time.

Posted at 14:19 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama Verizon wiretap fascism domestic-spying NSA   |   Tweet

All that surveillance and Obama can't find terrorists or illegal aliens?

Did I say "can't?"

I meant won't.

Because to Barack Obama, terrorists and illegal aliens are not a priority. Tea Partyers, Conservatives, and Patriots. They're the priority.

He vowed to "fundamentally transform" America.

And boy oh boy, he sure has.

The amount of surveillance he's unleashed on American citizens would make J. Edgar Hoover blush. Thanks Verizon, yes the NSA can hear you now. And don't for one minute believe that AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Skype aren't also cooperating. As are just about every major internet company and search engine.

According to the Post, the National Security Agency and FBI are "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time." The program is code-named PRISM, and was leaked to the newspaper by a "career intelligence offer" who said, "They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type."

Also feeding into this Orwellian database? Credit card transactions. And supermarket loyalty card info. Undoubtedly along with a whole bunch of other stuff we haven't heard about yet.

So riddle me this Batman.

With all that data, and given that the Russians told him about the Tsarnaev brothers, why didn't someone stop the Boston Marathon bombing?

Because Barack Obama refuses to consider Islam to be the source of terrorism, that's why.

A correspondent to Breitbart News writes in frustration: "The FBI and NSA were reading [Nidal] Hassan's emails to [Anwar] Al Awlaki and monitoring his phone calls and didn't think he was a threat at Ft. Hood. The FBI was also monitoring the phone calls of the Times Square bomber and didn't do anything. So much for the value of phone call and email monitoring. Check the old news clips on these stories. It's all there."

We know who Obama's real enemies are.

And then comes a reminder of which information the government has been most interested in: information about Tea Party and conservative groups, information about individual activists in the conservative movement, information about the prayers of pro-life groups — information, in other words, about its political opponents, who have been treated since the beginning of the Obama administration like the real national enemy.

Welcome to Chicago politics coupled with Soviet tactics.

This is not the America our Founding Fathers envisioned.

But it's exactly what Obama promised us we'd get.

Posted at 10:16 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama NSA PRISM Verizon wiretap   |   Tweet

Barack Obama, destroying America one cabinet post at a time

Obama isn't even trying to pretend he's an American any more. Or a patriot, deferential to the Founding Fathers.

He's a tyrant, and malevolent to boot.

Susan "YouTube" Rice gets rewarded for her Benghazi duplicity with a promotion to National Security Advisor.

And Samantha "Death-to-Israel" Power slithers into Rice's old job as U.N. Ambassador.

Both reporting for duty under the jaundiced eye of Genghis John Kerry.

Neither interested in what we used to call "America."

While Kathleen Sebelius is now officially Obamacare's Death Panel of one.

As political hack Stephanie Cutter was given free reign to dispatch the IRS with orders to run roughshod over Tea Party groups and other "enemies of the state."

Oh, by the way, is Eric Holder still investigating himself? Or was that file closed with nary a whimper? You can't ask the media, and I seem to have lost track.

All is proceeding according to Saul Alinsky's plan.

We won't recognize this country by 2016. That is, if we still have a country.

Posted at 12:35 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama Susan-Rice Samantha-Power Kathleen-Sebelius   |   Tweet

All of Obama's top appointees are using secret email aliases

Richard Windsor has a lot of friends. All of them are fake too. But that's how Obama's top appointees do business — behind aliases, hidden from the public and those pesky Freedom Of Information Act requests.

Remember when Barack Obama promised us "the most transparent administration in history?"

Yeah, me neither.

With all these secret noms-de-guerre how does anybody in Washington keep track of who's who?

I can see it now. Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Old Executive Office Building there's a guy, in a closet, with a dusty log book and a bank of 56K modems, diligently writing down the name of every freshly minted doppelganger. And of course, nobody knows his real name either.

Posted at 10:36 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: email Obama alias Richard-Windsor Lisa-Jackson Kathleen-Sebelius   |   Tweet

In White House meetings Obama's campaign chief gave IRS commissioner his marching orders

The head of the IRS met with the manager of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Repeatedly. In the White House. But, nothing nefarious occured. Really. Trust them.

And yet, the IRS suddenly decided to target conservatives and Tea Party groups for extra special scrutiny. Purely coincidentally, of course.

C'mon people. How much more evidence do you need?

Barack Obama is a tyrant. And he has hijacked the federal bureaucracy to enforce his will. Not that they needed a whole lot of persuasion, but still, it's beyond the pale.

Posted at 23:07 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama IRS Lois-Lerner Douglas-Shulman Stephanie-Cutter Tea-Party   |   Tweet

Mission Not Accomplished: Obama ends the war on terrorism

Hey, did you hear? The War on Terror is over.

Remember when we used to demand victory? Yeah, me neither.

But, the New York Times is happy, so that's gotta count for something, right?

And thus we see why Code Pinko Medea Benjamin was planted at his speech yesterday. Closing Gitmo had to wait until "the war" was over. And now, the war is over, which gives him an excuse ("International Law") to close up shop and release all the captives.

Go home fellas! No hard feelings, right? And don't forget to enroll in our Frequent Jihadi Program where we're offering double heavenly virgin points for a limited time!

Not for nothing Barry, but before you go and get ready for your "Mission Accomplished" photo op maybe you should check to see if the terrorists are still at war with us.

Because from where I sit, I'd say yes, yes they are.

Posted at 14:34 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama terrorism Islam jihad   |   Tweet

"Forward" to Tyranny: Obama promotes IRS Tea Party inquisitor to Obamacare enforcer

The question isn't whether or not we're paranoid. The question is whether or not we're paranoid enough.

Because the Obama Administration took the IRS executive responsible for overseeing Tea Party persecutions and put her in charge of enforcing Obamacare.

Since a picture is worth 1,000 words, I swiped this one from Facebook:

Ms. Ingram also earned $103,390 in bonuses for persecuting Tea Party members. And that's peanuts compared to what Barry's gonna pay her when she starts denying medical treatment to us.

Are you waking up yet America? Your government is out of control.

First they came for the Tea Partyers, but you did nothing because you hate those racist Tea Baggers just like MSNBC told you to.

Then they came for the Associated Press, but you weren't paying attention because Glee and American Idol were on.

When they played favorites with the environmentalists you said "good" because you despise those evil oil dudes, especially every time you gas up your SUV.

After they left 4 Americans to die in Libya you said it was no big deal because they were partying with Beyonce and she's way cooler than those baby-killer military psychos who probably got what they deserved.

And you still don't know who that Ben Ghazi fellow is anyway. But you're pretty sure he wasn't a guest on The View so he can't be that important.

The guy they locked up for making a movie is still in jail but you say that's OK because he should have known Islam is a Religion of Peace and besides every guy who violates his parole deserves to be stuck in solitary for the rest of his life.

Tyranny. It doesn't just rise up one day and bite you in the ass. It slowly and deliberately encircles you, eating away at your freedom bit by bit. By the time you finally figure out what's going it'll probably be too late.

I'll save you guys a seat in the prison exercise yard.

Posted at 10:59 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama IRS Tea-Party Obamacare Sarah-Hall-Ingram   |   Tweet

Yes, Obama's IRS is the Enforcement Wing of the Democratic Party

It's time to call this president by his real name — Barack Hussein Milhous Obama.

Except Nixon was a piker compared to Obama.

Nixon bugged a hotel suite. Obama bugged Congress.

Nixon tried using the IRS against his enemies. Obama stacked the IRS with so many Democrats they went after his "enemies" with gusto.

I won't rehash all the Tea Party, religious, and conservative groups that were subjected to "enhanced" IRS scrutiny. Gator Doug has a list. So does Taxprof. Those lists seem to grow every day.

In fact, the IRS seems so overwhelmingly politicized that it's hard for me to even believe everything I read.

But when Planned Parenthood has the power to torpedo a pro-life group's tax exempt status, what else can I do but believe the IRS is 100% in bed with the Democratic Party?

"In one case, the IRS withheld approval of an application for tax exempt status for Coalition for Life of Iowa. In a phone call to Coalition for Life of Iowa leaders on June 6, 2009, the IRS agent 'Ms. Richards' told the group to send a letter to the IRS with the entire board's signatures stating that, under perjury of the law, they do not picket/protest or organize groups to picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood," the Thomas More Society announced today. "Once the IRS received this letter, their application would be approved."

Remember, Planned Parenthood enthusiastically supported Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. And they're going to make a lot of money off of the "women's health" provisions mandated by Obamacare. So naturally the Internal Revenge Service wants to keep them fat and happy.

That is, when the IRS isn't dancing to Chuck Schumer's tune.

But Obama would have you believe it was all because of an interim IRS commissioner, who he "fired" yesterday, a mere 3 weeks before the guy's term expired. Oh, did I mention that this interim commissioner didn't start his job until a year after the supposedly rogue agents in Cincinnati were up to their eyeballs in duplicity?

Can you say "fall guy?" Sure, I knew you could.

Meanwhile, the Director of IRS Tax-Exempt Determinations Office Is an Obama donor.

Amd the husband of Lois Lerner, who issued the initial "apology" on behalf of the IRS, is an Obama bundler.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official who apologized for targeting conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny is married to an attorney whose firm hosted a voter registration organizing event for the Obama presidential campaign, praised President Obama's policy work, and had one of its partners appointed by Obama to a key ambassadorship.

That's the two top people responsible for scrutinizing tax exemption applications. They're both in Obama's pocket.

How about that Cincinnati office where this whole thing supposedly started? It's a hotbed of Democratic Party donors.

Going after their chosen candidate's enemies is just another day at the office for the partisan hack unionistas of the IRS.

Are you still with me here? Good! Because this is tyranny. This is abuse of power. Abuse that reaches to the highest levels of our government. ABC News says someone in the West Wing of the White House "knew" and "authorized" the harassment of conservative groups. When you've lost ABC News…

We simply cannot trust this president, or his government. Everything he says is a lie. Including "and" and "the". These guys weren't kidding when Valerie Jarrett said "After we win this election, it's our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don't forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay."

Hell is right. And in case you're wondering, Valerie Jarrett is the West Wing. Nobody takes a dump over there without her permission. So just wait until next year when these same IRS enforcers get to decide who receives health care and who doesn't. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, unless Obama sics the IRS on you.

Posted at 15:27 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: IRS Obama Tea-Party   |   Tweet

Obama's IRS: Intimidating Republican Supporters

Compared to Barack Obama, Richard Nixon was a rank amateur.

I've said it before, and I'll undoubtedly say it again. There is no low to which Obama won't stoop. None.

Low-level staffers in Cincinnati my ass! The IRS rot goes all the way to the top. The very top. Obama's White House counsel's office learned about the persecution of Tea Party groups last month. But we're supposed to believe he only found out by reading the papers?

That's what you call a cover-up. Especially since the current IRS Commissioner also knew about the targeting of conservative groups.

That's either gross incompetence. Or willful deceit.

I'm going with deceit. Because, guess what? It wasn't just the IRS. Obama's EPA pulled the same shit.

Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Conservative Enterprise Institute.

CEI's fee waiver rejection rate? 92 percent. Symmetry!

Then today, just to keep the tyranny in high gear, we learn that the same IRS office which coordinated harassment of conservative groups also illegally leaked copies of those groups' confidential tax return information to a pro-Obama organization.

The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year.

Who's behind ProPublica? George Soros.

And why did George Soros want these confidential documents? To expose tea party donors to media scrutiny, with of course the aim of silencing them.

Are you detecting a pattern here yet?

It's time for people to go to jail. And by "people," I mean Barack Hussein Obama.

Posted at 14:13 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: IRS Obama Tea-Party Alinsky Nixon   |   Tweet

Now that he suckered you fools into re-electing him, Obama plans to raise everyone's taxes

That $40 bucks a month he started swiping from your pocket in January? It's merely the beginning. Open your wallets kids, because Barack Obama is coming for your money.

What's funny is that the story is from Politico, a "news" organization which up to now has never missed a chance to cheerlead for Obama and the Democrats. But it's OK, he's safely re-elected, so a few well-rehearsed potshots will surely re-establish their credibility with all you low-information voters, right?

And if these new taxes start to hurt the middle class? They'll just blame it on Republicans. Again.

My job will be to remind you folks of who really screwed you over.

Do you claim the Earned Income Tax Credit? You'll get a smaller check this year. Smoke cigarettes or drink flavored vodka? The tax man wants a few more bucks from you. Deduct your mortgage interest or property taxes? Sorry, those deductions will be severely limited now.

Pay up suckaz. You voted for this clown. You deserve all the misery your Dear Leader can dish out.

Posted at 09:26 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama taxes middle-class   |   Tweet

Barack Obama's very bad, totally not good, completely horrible day

The very bad: Senate rejects background checks on gun purchases in bipartisan vote.

Oops. So much for waving the bloody shirt, eh Barry?

The totally not good: Alleged McConnell Bugger Visited White House

The head of a group accused of illegally taping private meetings of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign visited the White House days before the group's Twitter account began actively attacking the Kentucky Republican, according to White House visitor logs.

Oops. So much for that "no Democrats were involved in this fiasco" theory, eh Barry?

The completely horrible: CBS News has learned that previously unknown whistleblowers on #Benghazi are now speaking to Congressional investigators.

Sixty Minutes Barry. Once they dig in their claws they don't let go. Yes, even if all the evidence points to you. Because the mothers of the four men killed in Benghazi could be reached for comment, since by now Darrell Issa has them on speed dial.

Funny how they never got a radio address to call their own. A "Sinty Minutes" gig? That's better. Unless you're Barack Obama. Because I'm sure he'd rather be golfing.

Posted at 21:32 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama gun-control Benghazi Mitch-McConnell Democrats   |   Tweet

Figures, Dear Leader snubs Margaret Thatcher's funeral

I guess he's too busy golfing.

"Barack Obama, who sent an official delegation from his administration to Venezuela for socialist dictator Hugo Chavez's funeral, won't send one to Margaret Thatcher's," writes Matthew Burke. One of Marxist Obama's first shamefully embarrassing, classless acts as president was to return a bust of the great British leader, Winston Churchill, a gift from Britain to the U.S. which was displayed in the White House. It was such a disgusting act that the Obama propaganda machine originally lied about it, calling the story "100% false." Finally, they had to admit it was true, but like all decisions made by "Dear Leader" Obama, it was largely ignored by the mainstream media. It should have been a strong warning to Americans about Obama's ideology.

Not to worry, two former Reagan Administration officials will pay our nation's respects.

Two former Republican Secretaries of State — James Baker and George Shultz — will lead the U.S. delegation to the Thatcher funeral on Wednesday.

Ah, remember the days when America had a Real President?

Posted at 11:53 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama Margaret-Thatcher   |   Tweet

Wouldn't it be great if Obama paid the same tax rate as Warren Buffett's secretary?

In the now legendary anecdote, Barack Obama accused candidate Mitt Romney of paying a lower tax rate than Warren Buffett's secretary, as if this was proof Romney was cheating on his taxes. The MSNBC brain(less) trust had a field day with that, of course.

So wouldn't it be nice if Obama himself paid a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett's secretary? Um, not so much.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama paid $112,214 in federal income taxes in 2012 on adjusted gross income of $608,611, an effective rate of 18.4%, the White House said Friday.

According to my accountant my effective tax rate is 24.2%, mostly because of the Alternative Minimum Tax.

Alas, Obama says I'm still not paying "my fair share," and his proposed budget includes the "Buffett Rule" which calls for even higher tax rates.

But mendacious WaPo libtalker Kirsten Powers says those rates shouldn't apply to Obama. He's special.

Hypocrites.

Posted at 12:11 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama Biden taxes tax-rates Warren-Buffett Buffett-Rule   |   Tweet

The $16 Trillion Dollar Man is going to teach you how to budget responsibly

Meet Professor Obama, he knows how to budget responsibly.

I thought this was an April Fool's Day joke momentarily, but apparently, it's for real. The White House has declared that this is the month to give advice to young people on how to budget responsibly.

Borrow. Borrow some more. Send the bill to your grandchildren. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Really. Those are his exact words. As he takes every opportunity to demagogue a modest reduction in the rate of spending growth. As we still await his federal budget. As he prints money like it's going out of style, and borrows more than all other presidents combined.

This just in, May will feature Mark Sanford and John Edwards starring in Be Faithful to Your Wife Month. June marks the 37th annual National Diet Month featuring Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell, with a special guest appearance by Oprah Winfrey. And in July we'll learn the basics of sensual shower massage from Jerry Sandusky.

All of which are, sadly, more believable than pretending that Barack Obama knows thing one about budgeting.

Posted at 21:05 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama budget deficit humor   |   Tweet

Sequester pain? Dear Leader sends $500 million to Hamas

Dear Leader says there's no money for airport control towers. But that didn't stop him from writing a $500 million dollar check to the terrorists of Hamas.

Yes, the Palestinian Authority is Hamas, the guys who shot rockets at Dear Leader during his trip to Israel. Is this a payoff for not scoring a direct hit?

If it was up to me I'd cut off all aid to Muslim nations and let them hate us for free.

Instead, Barry's boys want more money for his Palestinian pals.

The Obama administration also notified Congress in late February that it was seeking a further $200 million to fund US Agency for International Development (USAID) programs for the Palestinians.

Nobody tell Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Her poor staffers are literally starving after their lobster and caviar budget was decimated by the Sequester. And then there's Joe Biden, having to get by in Paris on a measly $585,000 per day. Quelle Horreur! Make the cuts stop already, before something really important is affected!

Like, you know, foreign aid to terrorists.

Posted at 18:10 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama Israel Palestinians Hamas Sequester   |   Tweet

Sequester-proof: Queen Michelle's 50th birthday bash with Adele and Beyonce

Compare and contrast. The White House, closed to visitors for the foreseeable future. Military readiness jeopardized. Air traffic controllers furloughed, airports left unmanned. All that, and more, because of supposedly draconian budget cuts required by the dreaded Sequester.

But Queen Michelle's 50^th birthday bash will go on as scheduled, a ritzy extravaganza featuring A-list Hollywood performers Adele and Beyonce. Paid for out of the First Family's annual allotment of taxpayer cash.

An allotment that at last count came in at around $1.4 billion dollars. Yes, billion, with a "B."

The FAA says they need $600 million to keep the planes from falling out of the sky. That's a little less than half of Dear Leader's household budget.

Should be a no-brainer, right?

I guess that's why I'm not King.

Posted at 15:49 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Sequester White-House Michelle-Obama Adele Beyonce   |   Tweet

Only children who are useful as props can visit Dear Leader's White House

If these sixth graders had made a video begging for more gun control Dear Leader would be rolling out the red carpet.

Budget cuts, eh? And nothing else was on the table? Say 20 car motorcades to go six blocks? Or golf with Tiger Woods? Not even robotic squirrels?

OK, fine. Here's Eric Bolling and Sean Hannity ready to save the day.

On The Five today, Eric Bolling offered to pay the expense of keeping the White House open for tours for one week — tours already cancelled, doors already shut. Sean Hannity followed up with a tweet that he would pay for a second week. If you think this is grandstanding, think about the people with plans to be in Washington, D.C. the next two weeks. Reservations made — likely cannot be cancelled without additional cost to a family already sacrificing to take the trip of a lifetime and visit the White House. Two weeks would at least, give some notice to those who can cancel.

Sorry, Dear Leader said "no." Bolling and Hannity aren't offering enough cash. It costs half a million bucks to buy your way into the White House and he won't settle for one penny less.

The People's House is closed to the people. Is Obama the Best President Ever or what?

Posted at 11:27 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: White-House White-House-tour sequester Obama   |   Tweet

Sequester follies: Longer airport lines for you, new luxury jets for government officials

You know, I'd take the sequester doom and gloom a lot more seriously if it wasn't for stuff like this:

Because Eric Holder can't fly commercial. He might encounter one of those interminable security lines Janet Napolitano says are now necessary because of those horrible sequester-imposed spending cuts. Can't have that, he's important.

I wonder how many TSA dudes Big Sis could hire for $50 million? Yeah, the feds are still hiring. Really. 400 new jobs were posted yesterday, even as the sequester cuts furloughed "essential" government workers. Apparently there are some jobs that can't possibly go unfilled.

The U.S. Forest Service on Monday posted help-wanted ads for a few good men and women to work as "recreation aides" this summer, the Internal Revenue Service advertised for an office secretary in Maryland, the U.S. Mint wanted 24 people to help press coins, and the Agriculture Department said it needs three "insect production workers" to help grow bollworms in Phoenix.

Bollworms are essential. Write it down so you'll remember why the schools are closed when the Head Start funding runs out.

And Secretary of State Genghis John Kerry just airdropped $250 million smackeroos onto the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt so they'll hate us a little less. I suppose he used one of those luxury jets to do it too.

In other news, and perhaps emblematic of Dear Leader's sequestration mendacity, the IRS is on pace to vacuum up a record $2.7 Trillion dollars of our hard-earned money this year. Which to hear him tell it, isn't nearly enough to save "mission critical" federal services like bollworm breeding.

Oh wait, sorry, bollworms are safe. It's stuff you and I actually care about that's on the chopping block. Because the Republicans made him choose those painful cuts. Honest. Joe Biden said so.

Posted at 12:20 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
Technorati Tags: Obama sequester Congress budget   |   Tweet