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Why Executive Experience Matters: President Obama Still Organizer-In-Chief

Here’s a list of things a community organizer never has to do. He doesn’t have to: Make tough decisions Make payroll Hire and fire Do the actual work Live with the consequences Here’s a list of things a president must do: Make tough decisions Hire and fire Do actual work Live with consequences *funding optional and dependent on Congress aka The Board
Liberty Pundits Afternoon News, Wed., June 16, 2010

Is it polite to laugh at the President of the United States? I admit that I went through the “someone needs a hug” phase. But his unrelenting arrogance killed that rather quickly. So now I see something like a rat going through a maze: He can smell the cheese but keeps on finding dead ends, so he backs up and tries another path.
Backgrounder from Rep. Roskam on Medicare Fraud

Here’s some advance information in prep for Rep. Roskam’s testimony in front of the House Ways & Means Committee on Medicare fraud: Roskam’s Straightforward Fix to Medicare Fraud Predictive modeling technology would save billions
US House Morning Whip-Up, Wed., June 16, 2010

The definition of a tough crowd? When Obama sycophants like Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and Ezra Klein all give the President’s speech the worst reviews since the latest Ben Affleck movie, there’s not a whole heckuva lot for the MWU to add. Perhaps Olbermann said it best (didn’t think you’d ever see that line, did you?
US House Evening Whip-Down, Tues., June 15, 2010

57 days after oil spill began, President Obama, along with his most trusted advisor, Ted Teleprompter, will address the nation tonight about the horrible situation in the Gulf. We’ve read that much of the speech will have absolutely nothing to do with fixing the leak. Right now, people across the country are unanimous in their desire for the leak to be plugged and the mess to be cleaned up, period. Diverting attention and resources to other ideological or reactionary pursuits is not the answer right now.
Funny: TX-22 dems nominate LaRouche devotee - Impeach Obama platform

"One of the strangest results of the Texas Primary on March 2nd was the nomination of one Kesha Rogers as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the 22nd District which encompasses a four county area in and around Houston and includes a lot of aerospace workers at the Johnson Space Center. Kesha Rogers won her nomination by tooling around in a sound truck, proclaiming the slogan ‘Save NASA.
A Dingocrat Leaves 'Animal House'

The DC townhome occupied by some of Congress's most far-left Democrats --- Dick "Our Troops Are Like Nazis" Durbin, Chucky "Don't Stand Between Me and a TV Camera" Schumer, and Califnornia's George Miller, is apparently a fetid pigsty. Representaive Bil "I Love Hugo Chavez!" Delahunt is departing the townhome when he leaves Congress.

Apparently, Democrats like to wallow in filth literally as well as metaphorically.
The California conundrum

Some Republicans believe that, if 2010 turns out to be the kind of year it may be shaping up to be, the Party can pick up the California Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer. In theory, this view may be reasonable. But first, the Republicans must nominate a strong candidate.
Kent Conrad can't do math: Thinks 0.28% is a big number

Here we go. Let Kent speak for himself: While some have described reconciliation -- a process that requires only a majority vote in the Senate to pass legislation that reduces the deficit -- as an obscure, rarely used procedure, the truth is that it has been used 22 times since 1980, with 16 of those times occurring when Republicans controlled the Senate.
Patient Destroys Doctor's Anti-ObamaCare Posters

President Obama's health care reforms have already undermined one doctor/patient relationship. Barbara Gabriel who is expecting her first baby was a patient at The Woman's Group, a Tampa obstetrics and gynecology office where she had been seeing Dr. Madalyn Bulter, one of the office's founders. Dr.