Breakfast Scramble: Obama Fades Into the Sunset

The lame streamers said a lot  about Barack Obama in the Aught Eight campaign.   Was any of it true?   From Rosslyn Smith  American Thinker:

If anything, Obama’s situation is almost the opposite of Truman’s. Obama has long dwelt inside

Dumbo’s Economics, how bad are Barack Obama’s economic policies?  So bad that his own chief of staff, Bill Daley has trouble defending them, from Matthew Boyle, Daily Caller:

White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley took heat from

Dumbo does not do economics, more evidence that Barack Obama lacks any understanding of economics, from Fox News:

It was explained to Obama that the permitting process can delay projects for “months to years … and in many

The O-conomy, from Jim Geraghty, National Review:

Since January 2009, American businesses have faced at least three big potential risks to their bottom line besides the lingering effects of the 2008 crash: A) the possibility of tax hikes

How dumb is Dumbo I:

Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama used an immigration speech Tuesday to take a jab at News Corporation CEO, Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News Channel.

Obama quoted the CEO, an Australian native,

Geraghty’s Law Redux,  Jim Geraghty, the author law o eponymous law wins yet another convert,  from Micheal A. Walsh, New York Post:

After weeks of warning of the apocalypse, the leader of the Democratic Party, who never met

FDR brought  Americans the New Deal.

HST gave us:The Square Deal

FDR: The New Deal

JFK:   The New Frontier

LBJ: The Great Society

Barack Hussien Obama: The New Reality?

Hat tip:  Tim Williams and Jim Geraghty, Campaign Spot.

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Starting to catch up on my reading. As it has been in the past, James Joyner’s Outside The Beltway is among my first stops:

John Hawkins‘ unscientific survey of conservative bloggers on The 25 Worst Figures In American History

Earth to WaPo, come in please. Tim Talley, Associated Press. “Clinic: New Okla. abortion law hard on patients.”    While Oklahoma abortion law may, or may not, be hard on patients, actually mothers, it is even harder on

Chicago Way is a two way street, from John Kass, Chicago Tribune:

It’s no secret that some in journalism get offended when anyone dares mention that the president was involved in Chicago politics. But the filing is not

Liz’s radical idea, Elizabeth Cheney at SPLC, via Andy McCarthy, National Review and Jennifer Rubin, Commentary:

In the era of Obama, American allies have their loyalty met with humiliation, arrogance and incompetence. The shabby reception Israeli Prime Minister

Geraghty’s Law, the deluxe collectors edition, Jim Geraghty, National Review:

BARACK OBAMA

A Long Post: The Complete List of Obama Statement Expiration Dates

By popular demand, a comprehensive list of expired Obama statements…

Holy Cow! MSNBC discovers the

Eric Massa (NY-29) Will not seek re-election, Bob Recotta, Corning Leader:

First-term Democratic Congressman Eric Massa announced Wednesday he will not seek re-election.

Massa, a Corning resident who unseated John R. “Randy” Kuhl Jr. in the 29th Congressional

I have followed but not commented on the NY-23 race.    As New Gingrich did, it was possible to make a case for the republican candidate Dede Scozzafava, and it is also possible, as Michelle, did to make the case for

Jim Geraghty’s Law, National Review

All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.

The one, January 20:

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and