After the SOTU, who should be more embarrassed, this administration or the voters who put it into office?

Is America Becoming an Idiocracy?  

" ...a woman identified only as Mrs. Powell of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Franklin is said to have answered, “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it.”

... "The founders charged the citizens of this country actively to pursue righteousness in our elected officials and to remain alert to the activities at every level of government.

In SOTU, Obama Slips on Oil, Success of Private Sector  ... "Despite oil production on federal land being stifled 16%, despite the federal government snatching up tracts of land, despite an Environmental Protection Agency hostile to conventional sources of energy, America’s oil production continues to grow in the private sector. In spite of Obama trying to orchestrate his “middle-class economy,” free enterprise brought a true benefit to the American people." ...

Has the White House hired Jonathan Gruber as the President’s new speech writer?

Remember When Obama Wanted $8 Per Gallon Gasoline?

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Last night you could have played State of the Union Bingo

Limbaugh: SOTU Is Nothing But A “Vote-Buying Scheme”…

Weasel Zippers

"Everything Obama does is a “vote-buying scheme”…

"Via Daily Caller:

In his pre-State of the Union program, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh slammed the significance of the annual presidential address, saying he has “never cared about a State of the Union address less” than the one Tuesday night.

Limbaugh told his audience that the address, as it is currently constructed, is not a real State of the Union speech. The host said the address is full of “empty promises,” adding that it is a “vote-buying scheme.”

“I have never — and I shouldn’t say this — I have never cared about a State of the Union address less than the one I care about today,” Limbaugh said. “In fact, my temptation is not even to discuss it, because to discuss it is to fall prey to the whole narrative the Drive-By Media is setting up, which is it’s the most important thing in the news today.”

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Statue of Limitations

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. . . "At least, that's the opinion of Reverend Al "Taxes Is For White Folks" Sharpton, who has somehow become the ludicrous heir apparent to Dr. King's legacy. Following the announcement of this year's Oscar nominations, Reverend Al called an emergency meeting of his Diversity Task Forceto address the fact that there were no black actors or directors nominated for top awards. 

"In the time of Ferguson," Sharpton said while squinting into his word-a-day dictionary, "that isincongruous!" 

. . .

"Currently, neither the Reverend Sharpton nor his Diversity Task Force has announced plans for a Martin Luther King "Content Of Character" award.

Is Obama More Interested in Progress or Politics? From his address tonight, five ways to judge the president's motives.

Ron Fournier

. . . "Unfortunately, both the White House and the GOP-led Congress seem focused prematurely on 2016. Republicans are sending to the White House legislation they know Obama will veto. The president is pushing an agenda he knows Congress won't pass. It's a recipe for more gridlock, more fighting, more courting of donors and ignoring the needs of a country in transition.

"In other words: The state of the union is the status quo.

If you're OK with that, stop reading. If you'd rather see progress than partisan gains, consider this: The State of the Union address is an opportunity for the president to chart a path toward consensus on issues like jobs, social mobility, education, infrastructure, energy, the debt, the environment, and terrorism.

"Is Obama more interested in politics or progress? Here are five ways to tell from his address tonight."   Keep reading...

As a teaser, here is just one of the benchmarks Fournier includes:

The pronouns: Count how many times Obama uses the words "I," "me," and "my." Compare that number to how often he says, "You," "we," "our." If the first number is greater than the second, Obama has failed. He needs to remember the lesson of Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign: Don't dismiss the 47 percent of Americans who disagree with him.

Tonight's State of the Union; Like Waiting on the Dentist

Do you have my same sense of dread over tonight's SOTU speech? Like when you wait for the IRS to tell you what must be done for them to forgive your tax problems. TD

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President Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol tonight. He plans to open by announcing that the State of the Union is strong. It's always a good idea to start out your speech with a good joke to get the crowd on your side.   Argus Hamilton

Taegan Goddard; We Already Know What Obama Will Say Tonight  "Rick Klein: “The ‘spoilers’ strategy may sap what’s left of the drama of anticipation around Tuesday night’s State of the Union. But that drama has been dissipating naturally anyway – and that’s why the White House has to be pleased with the way it’s gotten items off the laundry list and into display cases.  The community-college proposal, the president’s tax plan, the new paid-leave policy – these are all in the political bloodstream now. If we first learned of them Tuesday night, maybe one or two plans total would be expected to get traction. Maybe none of these things end up happening.' ”
Interested in national security? Serious about foreign policy? If so, watching the speech tonight will be a colossal waste of time.

 Bear in mind that Robin Hood stole from the government to give back to the people. That will not happen with Democrats


 Obama has worst State of the Union record since Ford, study shows  "Judging by his recent history, it doesn’t really matter what President Obama says in Tuesday’s State of the Union address — Congress is going to ignore him anyway."

Wayne Dupree:  Obama Honors Illegal Immigrants At SOTU While He Does What?. . .  "Catie Quinn made the mistake of following the rules. She submitted the proper paperwork when she entered the country, jumped through the necessary hoops to get her visa renewed, and for some reason the Obama administration has chosen her to be their token deportee.

"People have advised her she could stay if she married an American, but Catie refuses to cheat the system.

(And after the SOTU, this president will...)

Jim Gammon; Obama's massaged 'facts' "Perhaps the most telling aspect of President Obama's inability to deal with reality is in ignoring facts when he gives a speech.  He is a political animal, so enslaved to his ideology that he sees facts as irrelevant to his goal, the furthering of that ideology." . . .

 

Silvio Canto, Jr.; In the midst of terrorism, Obama talks college tuition 

Hugh Hewitt; A SOTU Over Before Its Begun (Long sentence alert)  "Tonight President Obama will give a speech few Americans will watch much less remember, and it will lack even a gracious gesture such as Bush's appreciation of Pelosi. "Petulant" has been the tone of the past ten weeks, and while Bush acted within his constitutional authorities to dispatch troops to Iraq in 2007 in sufficient numbers to secure victory in Iraq, and while President Obama has acted within his constitutional authority to begin the return of those troops after his withdrawal of them gave terrorism new life and force can in the rise of ISIS, most of the news now is about a president acting domestically far beyond any established precedent in order to try desperately to stay relevant even as his Class D set of advisors manage to miss the moments --like the march in France-- that could make extend President Obama's shelf life as a force on the world and national stage."

Krauthammer’s Take: Obama ‘Wants to Punish the Rich Regardless of Effect on Economy’

Krauthammer pointed out that like all things Obama says and does, this is about left wing political ideology.

5 Must-See TV Shows for Skipping the State of the Union  "Interested in national security? Serious about foreign policy? If so, watching the speech tonight will be a colossal waste of time. "

Billy Crystal Says what Millions of Americans Would Like to Say

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Godfather Politics  "Billy Crystal stepped in it: "Stop shoving gay sex scenes in my face."
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"One of the students said that she did no see anything wrong with same-sex sexuality. When I described what male homosexuals did, her draw dropped. From there I went to describe the moral implications, the biological inappropriateness and illogical of same-sex sexuality, and the possible legal ramifications that are coming to pass today.

"To say anything negative against same-sex sexuality can have several bad consequences. If you are in any part of the wedding business, refusal to serve same-sex couples in “marriage” can land you in a great deal of legal trouble."  Read more here.

Then why does she have armed security?…

Liberal Logic 101

This is NOT my father's Democrat Party

No Joke: Obama HHS Secretary Praises Al Sharpton On MLK Day, “He’s Spent His Life Fighting For What’s Right”…

Weasel Zippers

“ 'Punk faggots” and the Jews lynched  in Crown Heights beg to differ."

Via Washington Examiner:

 Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell on Monday morning praised Al Sharpton in a breakfast speech before his National Action Network.

“I’ve had the pleasure of knowing the Reverend for many years, and have worked with him from my time in the Clinton administration to my time at Walmart to now,” Burwell said, according to her prepared remarks.

After quoting Martin Luther King Jr., Burwell added, “Reverend Sharpton has spent his life fighting for what’s right, no matter how challenging. I want to thank you for your courage, tenacity and persistence.”

What exactly does Burwell have in mind as far as “fighting for what’s right”?

Does she think Sharpton was fighting for what’s right when he defamed a district attorney by falsely claiming the official had participated in the gang rape of a black teenager?

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Just say it: Radical Islam has declared war on all non-Muslim civilization

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Pat Condell:  Islam "Has Nothing To Do With Islam"

Drawing Mohammad Cartoons is the "Worst Act of Terrorism"? 

Al-Quds ‘University’ allows supporters of Hamas to teach students how to murder Jews at prayer (Video)

Jonah Goldberg:  The Left’s Islamophobia obsession shows the extent to which victimology dominates our politics.  . . . "Simply put, victimology is the language and currency of our politics. Fighting for victims is a calling and minting new victims and grievances is a trillion-dollar industry. Heroism, fidelity, courage, duty, temperance: Their stock value may be volatile but the long-term trends have been bad for a while. But guilt and resentment are the gold and silver of our realm, a perfect hedge against the civilizational recession.

"And so before the street-sweepers even put a dent in the discarded “Je Suis Charlie” signs, the media was already on the prowl for signs of Western overreaction. The New York Times editors warned that “perhaps the greatest danger in the wake of the attacks” was a backlash against Muslim immigrants." . . .

An Islamic Reformation?   . . . "Without a centralized authority to say who can speak for the religion and who cannot, Sunni Islam developed more like reform Protestantism than traditional Catholicism.  Pretty much any Muslim with a Koran can claim to be an imam, and pretty much any room can serve as a mosque." 

Millions stand for free speech—and the media is still afraid

"Coverage of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris this month may be about spun out, but questions regarding media censorship of the attacks, the cover of Charlie Hebdo, and Obama’s absence from the Paris unity march rage on.
"On Meet the Press this weekend, Chuck Todd spoke with the new editor of Charlie Hebdo, Gerard Biard, about American media outlets’ decision to blur out the cover of the satirical magazine." ...

ObamaCare slaps states with $15 billion in new costs

Galen Institute . . . "Punishing states for using Medicaid managed care is yet another ObamaCare attack on private health plans.

"According to the Milliman report, Florida could face added costs of up to $1.4 billion over the next ten years to fund ObamaCare, Pennsylvania, $1.3 billion, and Texas, $1.1 billion.  Tennessee, where Medicaid recipients are fully enrolled in managed care, could face added costs of $731 million over that time.  Maryland will need to come up with $680 million, and Louisiana with $787 million.  States that don’t contract with Medicaid managed care plans will not have to pay.

"The tax is due regardless of whether or not a state decides to expand Medicaid.  The worst decision would be to scrap their Medicaid managed care plans to avoid this new ObamaCare tax.  This is one more example why the best solution is to eradicate all of the ObamaCare taxes — along with the rest of the law."

 

The Galen Institute, Inc., is a not-for-profit, free-market research organization devoted exclusively to health policy. It was founded in 1995 by Grace-Marie Turner to promote a more informed public debate over individual freedom, consumer choice, competition, and diversity in the health sector.

"Selma": more windfall profits for Reverend Al

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Alan Caruba:  Al Sharpton Seeing Red Over All-White Oscars . . . "This is the same man who has been rubbing elbows lately with the President of the United States (!) and hailed as a civil rights icon at a recent fund-raising event by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Obama hailed him for his “dedication to the righteous cause of perfecting our union”, whatever that means. As The Times reported, “Major corporations sponsored the lavish affair.”

 

"There is the reek of corruption surrounding Rev. Sharpton that speaks poorly of the high ranked politicians who lend him credibility and the corporations that help underwrite his blatant exploitation of racial events such as those in Ferguson, Missouri. It does not speak well of MSNBC that has provided him with a television show as a platform devoted to stirring up resentment among blacks."
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Mr. Caruba crystallizes his thoughts on this affair with these words:

I have reached an age where the analysis of every event in American life seems to come down to race, gender or some other factor often unrelated to what is occurring. We are too often a nation of unrelenting complainers unwilling to see what a great nation it is.

I can only speak for myself when I say I am deeply offended by the antics of Rev. Sharpton because he’s unhappy this year’s Oscar nominees are “white.” Last time I checked, not paying your taxes was a crime.

Oh, by the way, I will not be watching the Oscar awards. Other than the State of the Union speech, it is one of the most boring annual shows on television.

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Branco Cartoon – Hands Up, Wallets Out

 I give this next one a must-read as well:

Roger Simon; Oscar Report: Al Sharpton Calls Me a Racist!  "Maybe it’s actually a badge of honor — after all Sharpton himself makes Bull Connor seem like Martin Luther King — but the Rev Al has called me a racist because I am one of those (white!) Academy members who did not vote for Selma as an Oscar nominee.  I cannot tell a lie.  He’s right.  Not only that, I did not vote for the movie for screenplay either, the only other category for which I can nominate, since I am in the writers branch. "
. . .
"But I have bad news for Al.  I’m not going to pay him one penny to get one of his pseudo-papal absolutions saying I’m not really a racist (even though I was in the civil rights movement and a financial backer of the Black Panthers, to my ever-lasting shame)." . . .

US foreign policy vicars: a ship of fools.

 

No Room for Parody   "I was sound asleep when the phone rang and so I cannot be absolutely sure the conversation was not a dream, but it seemed real enough.

“ 'Hello,” the caller began. “My name is Mr. Mensch, I am president of the Parodists of the World, professional comedy writers, and we want to engage you in a suit against the administration for tortious interference with our livelihood.”

“ 'What exactly are you alleging, I mean specifics?” I responded.
He then launched into a litany of grievances against the administration which the Parodists claimed had made it impossible for them to continue making a living."... Read more:




 Thomas Lifson:  Worst. State Department. Ever.
"The State Department has been infiltrated. Not as much by communists or Islamists, but by morons.

"The Obama State Department has not only been downgraded to an afterthought, as foreign policy is controlled by a White House national security cabal that includes Valerie Jarrett and Ben Rhodes, it has been staffed by people who deeply humiliate us on the world stage.
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