Republican SpyGlass

On the State of the Union,....

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:40:00 +0000

Take cuts for small businesses to stimulate the economy?? Keeping American businesses IN America? When did the Obamessiah become a "Tea" drinker?

Has He Learned His Lesson Yet?

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:45:00 +0000

Or, as his spiritual mentor once said "The chickens have come home to roost!"

Barack Obama: "Raising America’s Debt Limit Is a Sign of Leadership Failure"

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006

Massachussett's Brown Turns Obama Blue

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:48:00 +0000

If you're keeping score: that's THREE, now!!

Brown wins Senate seat in epic upset
M.L.

Boston (AP/WBZ Newsroom) -- In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a U.S. Senate election Tuesday that left President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in doubt and marred the end of his first year in office.

The loss by the once-favored Coakley for the seat that the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy held for nearly half a century signaled big political problems for the president's party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

More immediately, Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of Obama's agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.

Anything for a Vote,....

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:16:00 +0000

Huff, huff, pass?

Amanda Simpson, Transgender Candidate, Appointed To Commerce Post

President Obama has appointed Amanda Simpson, a transgender woman, to be the Senior Technical Adviser to the Commerce Department.

"I'm truly honored to have received this appointment and am eager and excited about this opportunity that is before me," Simpson said in a statement. "As one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others."

Simpson -- a former test pilot and 2004 YWCA "Woman On The Move" -- has been active in the aerospace and defense industry for the past 30 years. She most recently served as Deputy Director in Advanced Technology Development for Raytheon, where she transitioned from male to female.

In the past decade, Simpson has been highly active in GLBT issues. In 2005, she successfully worked to have Raytheon adopt gender identity into its Equal Employment Opportunity Policy. That same year, she ran unsuccessfully for the Arizona House of Representatives.

"Reign of Error"

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:15:00 +0000

GOP Chief: Republicans 'Screwed Up' After Reagan

In new book, Michael Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.

In "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," released Monday by Regnery Publishing, Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.

Steele focuses much of the book on familiar GOP denunciations of President Barack Obama's overall policies ("a roadmap to failure"), the $787 billion stimulus bill ("a reckless, wasteful, pork-laden spending spree"), liberal views on manmade global warming ("A threat to life on Earth? Depends on whom you ask") and other issues.

To regain the public confidence, Steele says the GOP should, among other things, expose the "reign of error" inherent in liberal policies, contrast conservative and liberal principles, and highlight the damage caused by Obama's policies while explaining conservative solutions.

What We've Got Here is,....FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:08:00 +0000

Obama to Receive Report on Failed Airline Attack
FOXNews.com

President Obama is set to receive a preliminary report Thursday detailing what warning signs were missed before a 23-year-old Nigerian who was already on a terror watch list boarded a plane to Detroit armed with explosives.

The president declared Tuesday that a "systemic failure" on multiple levels allowed the suspect to board and said he should have been on a "no-fly" list. The preliminary report is the administration's first step in trying to reform both airport screening and the terror watch list system to prevent a repeat of the Christmas Day incident.

Officials said it was unlikely Obama would speak publicly about the report, although the vacationing president likely would talk several times throughout the day with his national security team.

Obama has demanded answers on why information never was pieced together by the U.S. intelligence community that could have prevented terrorist suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner, from ever getting on the plane.

In August, intelligence officials picked up phone intercepts from an Al Qaeda offshoot in Yemen, discussing a plot involving someone they called "The Nigerian." In November, the suspect's father told the U.S. embassy in Nigeria that he was worried about his son's extremist views.

This warning got the suspect's name on the terror watch database -- but officials did not realize he was "The Nigerian" until the attempted attack.

A senior intelligence official said the CIA's Africa desk was also preparing a report on the suspect, but didn't send it to the National Counterterrorism Center because they were waiting for pictures of the suspect.

There are some concerns about the leader of the review. Current and former intelligence officials told Fox News he could face a conflict of interest, since he basically put together the National Counterrorism Center, the agency that manages watch lists.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, an offshoot of Usama bin Laden's group, claimed it was behind the attempt to bomb the Northwest airliner.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said the conversations were vague or coded, but the intelligence community believes that, in hindsight, the communications may have been referring to the Detroit attack.

The goal now, officials say, is to do everything the U.S. can to prevent a repeat. Even so, they acknowledge a perfect system is impossible to create and that it will take weeks for a more comprehensive investigation into what allowed Abdulmutallab to get into U.S. airspace.

What Will CLEARLY Define the Administration:

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:35:00 +0000

Homeland chief an airhead
Says security system worked

By JENNIFER FERMINO, MURRAY WEISS and PHILIP MESSING

Last Updated: 5:37 PM, December 28, 2009

Posted: 2:52 AM, December 28, 2009

An al Qaeda bomber stashing explosives in his underwear cakewalked onto a US-bound airliner after averting scans on two continents -- but the federal Homeland Security chief incredibly claimed yesterday that "everything happened that should have."

"This was one individual literally of thousands that fly and thousands of flights every year," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who called flying "very, very safe."

"And he was stopped before any damage could be done . . . Once this incident occurred, everything happened that should have."

Napolitano's all-is-well assessment ran counter to that of her boss, President Obama, who called for a total review of procedures at US airports.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told NBC's "Meet the Press" that Obama had ordered a full appraisal of anti-terror flight regulations, "to ensure that there is no clog in the bureaucratic plumbing of information."

Napolitano's astonishing claim in the aftermath of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed bombing over Detroit led Rep. Peter King (R-LI) to respond, "The fact is, the system did not work."

The latest system failure came last night at La Guardia. The Post learned that the feds questioned a Florida man after ground crew found what authorities called a "pyrotechnic" aboard a US Airways flight from Baltimore. The 4-inch-long, three-quarter-inch-wide explosive was found wedged between two seats. Authorities collared Thomas Ouelette, 67, of Bonita Springs, Fla., before he boarded his connecting Delta flight to Fort Myers, Fla. The feds said is did not appear terrorism was involved, but Ouelette did have two outstanding Florida warrants for "unlawful flight."

Read more here

Clearly, the "H" isn't for "Humble..."

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:09:00 +0000

Looks like a solid B,..M!

Obama Statue Slammed by Facebook Critics

AP

More than 10,000 people join group on social networking site after statue of President Obama as a boy is erected in Indonesia.

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A statue of President Barack Obama as a boy erected in a Jakarta park has been targeted in a Facebook campaign by thousands who say it should be removed.

The Facebook group named "Take Down the Barack Obama Statue in Taman Menteng Park" had attracted more than 10,000 members by Tuesday since the 43-inch statue of 10-year-old Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt was unveiled in the downtown park on Thursday last week.

Heru Nugroho, the group's creator, said he would use the support on the popular social networking Web site to demand that Jakarta Gov. Fauzi Bowo remove the statue.

"Everybody knows that Obama is a world leader, but he is not our national hero who deserves to be awarded a statue," Nugroho said.

"This has hurt our national pride because there are many Indonesian figures who gave worthy service to this nation but no statue has been built for them," he added.

Many Indonesians are proud of the fact that Obama lived in Jakarta from 1967 to 1971 with his American mother, his Indonesian stepfather and his half-sister.

He went by the name "Barry," attended the local elementary school near where his statue now stands and owned a pet monkey.

Peace: An Opportunity Missed?

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:25:00 +0000

As Obama stood today and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, his chance to cement a real reason to deserve such an award is slipping away.

In Iran, the seething anti-theocracy revolt hasn't died down, but instead has percolated below the surface at a slow, rolling boil.

The Basiji and Revolutionary Guard are backing down from confrontations with the Green's leaders, and the movement teeters on a breakthrough.

And when a few words of support from the Obama administration could rally them to a final victory, he remains silent.

This is not some craven crowd of dissidents! The Persians are highly-intelligent. They're well-organized and tech-savvy. They're plugged into the internet, Facebook and Twitter. They know to hit-and-run often enough to confound and confuse the Ahmedinejad regime.

And the White House silence is deafening!!

Is the Obama administration so overly-engrossed in revamping our healthcare system to pay any attention to Iran (witness his dithering over Afghanistan and McChrystal's request)?

Could it be any regime change in Iran the results in a westward-oriented government would be a vindication of Bush's street-level efforts and the left's hatred for anything Bush-positive has blinded them to an opportunity akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall?

Maybe the Nobel people should have waited a year before giving their golden boy his laurels.

Help is Coming? So is CHRISTmas!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:03:00 +0000

The only ones with more employment were the photographers at this photo-op!

WHITE HOUSE TO MAIN STREET TOUR
Obama at LCCC: Help coming America, but it will be awhile

ALLENTOWN | - With a wide-ranging and fast-moving visit to the Lehigh Valley, President Obama kicked off a national tour intended to highlight ways to create jobs in an economy no longer built on the historical bedrock of manufacturing.

Obama said the economy's modest recent upward trend, including a positive jobs report today, is not nearly enough to restore a sense of confidence and security.

"I consider one job loss one too many," Obama said to roars of approval from a crowd of 1,000 at Lehigh Carbon Community College. "Good trends don't pay the rent. We have to grow jobs and get America back on track as soon as we can.

"In the two years since this recession began, too many members of our American family have felt the gut-punch of the pink slip," the president said. "Everyone one of us knows [them]."

The president spent about six hours here, departing at 3:50 p.m.

He stopped first at the Allentown Metal Works -- home to some of the Valley's last steelworkers -- before heading to LCCC.

ANOTHER Epic Failure

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:46:00 +0000

Not even President for a full year,.....(HT to Wyatt)

Change! Somali Terrorists Use Obama Portraits For Target Practice

Isn’t this racist?
Somali terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda are using portraits of Barack Obama for their target practice.

Radical Islamist Shebab members ride horses in Mogadishu in September. Al-Qaeda and Islamists fighting to topple Somalia’s government provide “mutual support” to each other, the head of the African Union peacekeeping force has told AFP in an interview. (AFP/Mustafa Abdi)

More "O" Oops!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:30:00 +0000

Party Crashers Met Briefly With Obama

FOXNews.com

The controversy over state dinner crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, has prompted the White House to order a "full review" of the incident to find out how the Secret Service allowed such a security breach

A reality TV hopeful and her husband who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.

The controversy over state dinner crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, has prompted the White House to order a "full review" of the incident to find out how the Secret Service allowed such a security breach.

The White House said Friday it supported the Secret Service and its employees -- but also demanded answers.

"The White House asked the United States Secret Service to do a full review and they are doing that," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said. "The United States Secret Service said they made a mistake and they are taking action to identify exactly what happened and they will take the appropriate measures pending the results of their investigation."

The White House has insisted that the Salahis were not invited to Tuesday's dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, despite contrary claims by the couple and their lawyer.

Scenes from the Obama Apologia World Tour

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:06:00 +0000

HT to Tony Phyrillas:

Another Global Failure

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:18:00 +0000

Emperor Akihito, I apologize that the United States is STILL the greatest country in the world, but I'm working on that problem as we speak.

Gargling WIth Absorbine Jr Again!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:48:00 +0000

The Obamessiah response to the Ft. Hood massacre:

Obama: 'Dont' Jump to Conclusions' on Fort Hood Shooting

In the wake of the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. base, President Obama on Friday cautioned against jumping to conclusions on the motive of the suspect.

"We don't know all the answers yet and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts," Obama said on the White House lawn.

"What we do know is that there are families, friends and an entire nation grieving right now for the valiant men and women who came under attack yesterday," the president said.

Obama said he met with FBI chief Robert Mueller and other federal agencies to discuss what may have caused Nidal Malik Hasan to turn on his comrades in Thursday's shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead and 30 wounded.

More on this at The Bitter American!

It Ain't "O"-ver 'Til the Fat Guy Sings, Huh?

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:47:00 +0000

Christie Takes N.J. Governor's Race

TRENTON, N.J. - Chris Christie, an aggressive former prosecutor who racked up a perfect conviction rate in public corruption cases and became the darling of New Jersey's Republican Party establishment, has unseated the deep-pocketed but unpopular Gov. Jon Corzine, according to The Associated Press.

Christie, 47, on Tuesday became the first member of his party in a dozen years to win a statewide contest in heavily Democratic New Jersey. President Barack Obama invested heavily in the race, campaigning with Corzine five times on three separate visits.

With 75 percent of precincts reporting, Christie had 50 percent of the vote compared to 44 percent for Corzine. Independent candidate Chris Daggett, who at one point had been feared as a potential spoiler, had about 5 percent.

Obama: Slinger of Mud

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:10:00 +0000

HT to Tony Phyrillas:

Thursday, October 29, 2009
Krauthammer: Barack Obama Attacks On Bush are 'Disgusting'

So, the First Amendment STILL Holds Sway?

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:04:00 +0000

Administration Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview
The Obama administration on Thursday tried to make "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News. But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included.

The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.

The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the network pool except Fox News. The pool is the five-network rotation that for decades has shared the costs and duties of daily coverage of the presidency and other Washington institutions.

But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks consulted and decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included. The pool informed Treasury that Fox News, as a member of the network pool, could not be excluded from such interviews under the rules of the pool.

Could there be a broadcast coup in the making? Finally, someone isn't unquestioningly bowing before the Obamessiah??

And The List of Mistakes Grows,...

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:42:00 +0000

Obama Compares Fox News to Talk Radio, Says He's Not 'Losing Sleep' Over Controversy
Several top White House advisers have gone on other channels to criticize Fox News' coverage of the administration

President Obama spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday about his administration's portrayal of Fox News as an illegitimate news organization -- only to say he's not "losing sleep" over the controversy.

Obama, in an interview with NBC, at first attempted to deflect a question about the White House's criticism of Fox News, saying "the American people are a lot more interested in what we're doing to create jobs or how we're handling the situation in Afghanistan."

The interviewer then pressed, noting that Obama's advisers have targeted the network openly.

"I think that what our advisers simply said is, is that we are going to take media as it comes," Obama said. "And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that's one thing. And if it's operating as a news outlet than that's another. But it's not something I'm losing a lot of sleep over."

Several top White House advisers have gone on other channels to criticize Fox News' coverage of the administration, dismiss the network as the mouthpiece of the Republican Party and urge other news organizations not to treat Fox News as a legitimate news station.

And on Tuesday, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said White House officials "render (that) opinion based on some their coverage and the fairness of that coverage."

But asked how Fox News was different from other news organizations, Gibbs mentioned the channel's 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. shows, in an explicit reference to "Beck" and "Hannity" -- even though those two shows represent opinion programming.

Informed that those hours are for opinion programming, Gibbs said: "That is our opinion."

Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news for Fox News, issued a statement Tuesday defending the company.

"Hundreds of journalists come to work each day at Fox News all deeply committed to their craft. It's disappointing that the White House would be so dismissive of their fine work and continue their vengeful war against a news organization," he said.

Out of the Mouths of Babes,...

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:27:00 +0000

An attempt to showcase another OY (Obama Youth) gone awry??

Little Boy Asks Barack Obama, 'Why Do People Hate You?'

President Obama went to New Orleans for the first time as president Thursday to visit a charter school and to hold a town hall meeting. While there, he told the people of the city that he is committed to helping them continue to rebuild, more than four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal attended, as did Sen. Mary Landrieu, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, and Tyren Scott, a 4th-grade boy who asked the president the last question during the question and answer session of the program.

"Why do people hate you? And why, aren't they supposed to love you, if God is love?" Tyren asked the commander-in-chief.

Wow!!! No Freudian slip there, eh? God is love and we're to love the Obamessiah? Yeah,...and Big Brother loved us, too!

Obama Doing a Rod Serling Impression?

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:09:00 +0000

How apropos as this is the 50th Annivesary of what has become of our televised media:

From Breitbart:

LEAKED NETWORK MEMO REVEALS: Obama Controls Your Television Set

On September 10th of this year the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) posted a press release informing the world that “from October 19-25, more than 60 network TV shows [will] spotlight the power and personal benefits of service,” and that this “unprecedented block of TV programming is the first wave of a multi-year ‘I Participate’ campaign.”

On its face this all sounds rather benign in that silly, liberal do-gooder kind of way. The networks have launched these kinds of campaigns before and other than some clunky exposition awkwardly inserted into your favorite show to meet the mandate — no harm, no foul.

Even Better,...

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:57:00 +0000

Via College Politico:

A Truthful Obamessiah?

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:49:00 +0000

On winning the now-tarnished Nobel Peace Prize, the Obamessiah said:

"I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many transformative figures that have been honored by this prize," he said.

Oh, No! Its the HJs,...Um,..OJs,...OYs?

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:32:00 +0000

The Obama Youth,..and how appropriate, they're wearing brown sweaters.

Please tell me this is a sick joke!!!

Obama/Hitler's Reaction to Losing the Chicago Olympic Bid!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:17:00 +0000

Too Funny!

HT to Bucks Right: