Category: The One

Yes, we can!

Have no fear of the coming recession, The One has revealed the answer to our economic problems:

Obama also said he wants to install energy-saving light bulbs and replace old heating systems in federal buildings to cut costs and create jobs.

Yes, an army of illegal immigrants running around installing made-in-China lightbulbs in federal buildings is a sure path to prosperity.

Obama, On Your Shoulder

Is there nothing that The Savior cannot do?
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Notice: Some of you have been getting antivirus software alerts. Here’s what I’ve found. The problem is with embedded videos, so I’ve dropped those for now and replaced it with a link.. Actns/Swif.T virus affecting embedded YouTube vids?

Spoke with Google/YouTube and apparently anti-spyware software from Computer Associates had been returning false positives, identifying certain files contained within YouTube embed codes as malware. The specific YouTube issue is apparently being corrected by Computer Associates and wasn’t actually harmful in the first place. If you’ve got CA software, you might want to check for any updates.]

Y2Kyoto: “Mr. Obama rejected that view”

“… saying that his plan would reduce oil imports, create jobs in energy conservation and renewable sources of energy, and reverse the warming of the atmosphere.

Good times!

Economically speaking, this is total lunacy. But he believes. Nor does he need Congress to act, since the EPA is already dealing with petitions to regulate CO2 as a pollutant. He simply does what he said he would do before the election, which is to regulate CO2 as a HAP. Even farms would have to go through permitting, as would large stores, etc.
Last week an EPA appeals board dumped another coal plant, and said the EPA should develop national rules for CO2 emissions. That ruling is widely believed to have placed about one hundred coal plants in jeopardy, at a time when the US is rapidly running out of electricity. Plants in Utah, New Mexico, Kansas and Georgia have all recently been stopped by legal action.
That leaves the US with no new drilling, no new nuclear plants, no new hydro plants and no new coal plants. In short, it leaves us with no real substantial new energy sources except perhaps plants that burn natural gas.

The Man From Hope And Crawford

Combining the Clinton White House with the Bush tax cuts.

[F]inally, the day will come, and the first thing Obama will do is…not touch the Bush tax cuts. In addition to proposing a “vast economic stimulus plan,” the Times news pages report today, Obama is “said to be reconsidering a key campaign pledge: his proposal to repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. According to several people familiar with the discussions, he might instead let those tax cuts expire as scheduled in 2011, effectively delaying any tax increase while he gives his stimulus plan a chance to work.”

Heh. Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
I wonder how many loyal Democrats realized during the heated battles of the primaries that they were making a choice between Hillary and Hillary?

Say It Isn’t So, O!

Six Agencies Illegally Scoured Joe the Plumber’s Records for Dirt, Including Office of the Attorney General, So That Information Could Be Turned Over to National Media.”
That’ll teach him!
But the bigger question being asked by Americans today is this: Could Obama get a job in the Obama administration?

On Thursday’s front page, the New York Times revealed that President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, apparently intent on avoiding personal scandals and ethics embarrassments, is requiring prospective staffers to answer what is probably the most exhaustive disclosure questionnaire ever written by an incoming administration.
It includes questions such as “Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun?” and “If you have ever sent an electronic communication, including but not limited to an email, text message or instant message, that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family or the President-Elect if it were made public, please describe.”
And this: “If you keep or have every kept a diary that contains anything that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect if it were made public, please describe.”

Well that throws a cold, wet blanket on the “Hillary for State” speculation, no?

The Audacity Of Dope

Nice move, rookie;

Just hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking out to the press, igniting anger from the president, sources claim.
“Senator Obama would be wise to keep close counsel,” a top Bush source warned.
“BUSH AND OBAMA AT ODDS OVER AID FOR AUTO INDUSTRY,” splashed the NEW YORK TIMES in an exclusive Monday evening, quoting “people familiar with the discussion.”
The two met at the White House in private, without staff.

But that’s not all…. from Ayers to the IRA to palling around with Hamas. More on that here;

That Malley would be working on Middle East policy for the new administration is troubling enough, but the fact they’ve now repeatedly been dishonest about his involvement in the campaign makes it much worse.

(So, should people speculate as to where this leak came from?)

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