We have victory in Iraq due to our brave military members, the brave Iraqi’s who stood and fought for their country, and President Bush. But where is the MSM on this great day?

Iraqi government TV has been playing patriotic music to celebrate the U.S. military withdrawal from cities, towns and villages across the country, officially set to be completed by Tuesday June 30th.

Iraqi military vehicles were also covered with flowers to celebrate the event, and military parades, complete with band music, were organized in Diyala and Diwania provinces.

The government declared a “Day of National Sovereignty” to mark the event, and has invited ordinary citizens to join evening celebrations at Baghdad’s Zawra Park for a festival of music and poetry.

Interior Minister Jawad Boulani told journalists the U.S. withdrawal is almost complete and Iraqi forces are capable of maintaining order across the country. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not saying the President doesn’t deserve some recreation, but the standard I hold him to is, “What if Bush had done this?”

Similar to President Obama, President Bush took office with a recession leftover from his predecessor (though not as deep a recession). Six months into that recession, President Bush’s tax cuts had almost ended it. Six months into President Obama’s recession, his economic policies have statistically made things worse, and his efforts show absolutely ZERO hint of making things better (per uber-capitalists like Warren Buffet).

In light of all that, I think President Obama’s Luau was not a very tasteful event. His troops are at war. In Iraq-just days before leaving the cities-the enemy is on an offensive. In Afghanistan, the surge of troops has not abated the Taliban offensive. In Pakistan, air strikes against Al Queda are threatening to topple our ally. Tens of millions of Americans are out of work, have BEEN out of work for months, and more are losing their homes (the last I saw only 1 home had been “saved” by his home retention program). Read the rest of this entry »

Inspector Generals in this government are for one job, to work independently to ensure that the taxpayer is protected from government corruption and abuse.

Not in Obama’s government it seems. Three IG’s have been fired in the last week and some pushback has started. First in this list is Gerald Walpin. He reported to Congress about the settlement of 400 grand paid by Obama cohort Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, St. HOPE academy (a pet of Johnson) and former executive director Dana Gonzalez. He reported that Johnson was not being required to repay all the money he misused AND he would once again be able to manage federal funds…even after he has shown his true stripes.

Walpin’s audit found that the program could not prove it was doing criminal background checks, had taken more money than it was due, didn’t follow certain Americorps rules, failed to regularly file required forms, and did some sloppy record-keeping.

In all, Walpin questioned awards to the program of $16.1 million and $773,000, mostly on administrative grounds. He also says the government should stop the program and recover $75 million spent over the past six years.

CUNY pledged to make changes, according to the audit, but didn’t go all the way. It also refused to return any money, and defended its policy of accepting background checks supplied by the city Department of Education. The Corporation for National and Community Service — the official name of the agency Walpin oversees — refused to ask for any of the money back from CUNY.

In a letter [pdf] to CUNY president Matthew Goldstein, Walpin in essence says that the money CUNY gets from Americorps is redundant. Basically, CUNY doesn’t need it:

“The program doesn’t work because it adds no service to the community which is not already provided by the Fellows program,” Walpin writes. “Therefore, taxpayers are not getting their money’s worth. The [government] could accomplish its goals more effectively if the funds for these grants were used . . . in communities where the need exists.”

Now there are accusations of deleted emails: Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon’s second-in-command says North Korea’s missiles could threaten the continental United States if the reclusive rogue nation continues to develop its weapons.

Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn agreed with an assessment by Sen. John McCain that the U.S. should be prepared for a “worst-case scenario” with North Korea.

Pentagon officials also told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that North Korea is working with other nations, including Iran and potentially Syria, to develop ballistic missiles.

Well, they called it “fear-mongering” when Bush Admin made this claim, so I guess it’s still “fear-mongering.” Unless…it’s true.

ABC NEWS The good-government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, filed a lawsuit today to force the President Obama to share White House visitors logs with the public.

“We’re suing because the Obama Administration has made it clear that they are continuing the policies and practices of the Bush administration and claiming that White House visitors’ records are off limits to the public,” said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for CREW.

Weismann said White House visitors’ logs can “offer a great deal of insight about pressures and influences people can bring to bear on policies.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman are not supporting this effort.

By way of Gateway Pundit:

CBS compares Iran’s Holocaust denier, womens right’s abuser, America-hating radical to George W. Bush.

CBS republishes vile New Republic article–
Meet Iran’s George W. Bush

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A few days ago ABC noted a list of the top 100 political blogs and Flopping Aces made the list. Number 62 to be exact, ahead of some might fine blogs (take it with a grain of salt tho….check it out, Hot Air and Ace of Spades didn’t make the list, wacky). The sad thing is that these blogs are pretty much the only source for information that would dare be critical of Obama seeing as how our msm display a embarrassing amount of bias for him. For example, Evan Thomas of Newsweek calling him some kind of god:

Granted, he is not calling him God but rather, literally, saying that compared to other men he is all-knowing and all-powerful.

Then we have Brian Williams who’s “unprecedented” access to the White House led him to produce an embarrassing lovefest for Obama. It was so bad even Jon Stewart, a man not know for unbiased opinions, had to make fun of it: Read the rest of this entry »

Andy McCarthy demolished White House Official Austin Goolsbee’s interview this morning:

I caught a panel on which Obama economic advisor Austin Goolsbee conceded that the administration had previously predicted unemployment would top out at around 8%, that it was now up to 9.4%, and that double-digit unemployment was a distinct possibility in the near future. Goolsbee didn’t resort to the administrations’s blather about “saving or creating jobs,” but he did repeat its fustian about how last month’s loss of 345,000 jobs (resulting in a half percentage point jump in the jobless rate) is somehow good news because it beat predictions (I don’t recall him saying whose) of even more dire loss numbers. It made me wonder why, if those predictions either existed or were serious, the Obama administration would have previously predicted that unemployment would top out at 8%?

Goolsbee then laughably intimated that the steep jump in the jobless rate could be attributable to hopeful signs that the economy is improving. Huh? See if you can follow this: he says flashes of hope that we are on the verge of a revival have purportedly caused previously uncounted jobless people to seek (but not find) work — that is, they waited out prosperous times, deciding to leap into the job hunt only when hundreds of thousands of heretofore gainfully employed people got pink-slipped and began competing for a declining pool of jobs.

Goolsbee wasn’t done with his idiocy. He does the typical Obama move….blame Bush:

We are only in this situation because somebody else kicked the can down the road, and that’s really an understatement. They shook up the can, they opened the can, and handed to us in our laps. Senator Shelby knows that to be true. When George Bush put money in to General Motors, almost explicitly with the purpose, how many dollars do they need to stay alive until January 20th, 2009? There was no commitment to restructuring, to making these viable enterprises of any kind.

The Senior White House economic advisor to President George W. Bush, Keith Hennessey, lays out the facts and shows that not only was Goolsbee’s accusations wrong but inflammatory. It’s a long and detailed post and I would recommend you go read it but here’s the summary: Read the rest of this entry »

Real headline today:

Obama’s Flip-Flops for the Public Good

Are you effin kidding me?

Overall, however, Obama has been praised for his flexibility, not condemned for his flip-flops. One reason, pollsters say, is that he seems such a contrast to the still-unpopular Bush, who was the opposite–stubborn and set in his ways. “When presented with a tough problem where a change of course was called for, Bush just dug in. He felt that it was weakness to change his mind,” says a senior Democratic strategist. He cites Bush’s positions to limit stem cell research, oppose legislation expanding healthcare for children, enact partial privatization of Social Security, and pursue the Iraq war. In contrast, he says, “Obama is willing to change course if he feels it’s needed. The American people will still support him if he is not seen as doing it for political reasons.”

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In the end, Americans will understand and accept a president who changes course, as long as he does it for the public good or to acknowledge new realities, not for crass partisan reasons or to curry favor with particular interest groups. But there is hell to pay if a president breaks a fundamental promise and can’t justify it. Perhaps the best example is George H. W. Bush, who violated his “read my lips–no new taxes” pledge from the 1988 campaign. Partly as a result, Bush lost his re-election bid in 1992.

Ok, I’m not that shocked. Many here have predicted the media would start to spin the unspinable…and they’ve done it with gusto. Read the rest of this entry »

Today is Friday, and I saved this article from yesterday. Why? Well, yeah there was a lotta news to talk about-important stuff like a possible bomb going off on a plane in the Atlantic, Obama’s rehash of an old Bush speech that got completely the opposite reaction (all he needed was shafts of light to break in from the heavens above to really make Chris Matthews and MSNBC weep). Lots more. Yet, this one little article almost slipped under the radar, and it’s the one I’ve been looking for over the past year.

The article comes from leftist writer, Dana Milbank, of the Washington Post. There’s not one bit of neocon, Republican yada yada yada about the sourcing. No, this article is about the message of the left from the left. We are constantly told that there’s no leader on the right, but on the left… it’s gone completely unreported and even denied en masse that there is confusion below the unconditional adoration of Obama’s Cult of Personality.

Yet, the big blue door is creaking open, and we’re allowed to see inside. Beyond the glory of the man-God Obama rests the question we here at Flopping Aces have been asking since before the November election, “WHY?”

Why elect a complete amateur who doesn’t take responsibility, who can’t make a decision unless it’s a compromise, who has never accomplished anything other than being elected? Why back Obama’s foreign policy when it’s the same as the ultra-hated Bush’s (just done without decisiveness)?

Finally-FINALLY the left is starting to wonder itself.

For the past few years, liberal activists have gathered in Washington each spring for the Take Back America conference, where speaker after speaker — Obama sometimes among them — would give rollicking denunciations of the Bush administration before packed rooms of partisans.

But now that Obama has actually taken back America, the activists at this year’s gathering feel a bit like the dog that finally caught up with the car. Organizers changed the name from Take Back America to America’s Future Now, but that didn’t prevent a sharp decline in participation.
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Which one gave this speech: Obama or Bush? (ironic that both were given in June too)

For too long, the citizens of the Middle East have lived in the midst of death and fear. The hatred of a few holds the hopes of many hostage. The forces of extremism and terror are attempting to kill progress and peace by killing the innocent. And this casts a dark shadow over an entire region. For the sake of all humanity, things must change in the Middle East.
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As apologist-in-chief Obama embarks on his grand and noble adventure to declare to the Muslim world that America is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world, a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey of 1,010 Americans by telephone (for whatever it’s worth):

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Shortly before President Obama departs for a trip to the Middle East, a new national poll suggests that one in five Americans has a favorable view of Muslim countries.

46% apparently have an unfavorable view of Muslim countries (again, taking polls for what they’re worth), a 5% increase since 2002.

Gee…I wonder why? Is it because America is bigoted? Prejudiced? Watches too much Fox News?

Or maybe it’s due to the fact that there is quite a bit that is dysfunctional in many Muslim countries. And then of course, there’s the whole Islamic terror-thing.
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Not a day goes by when President Obama and/or his administration tell us that The Great Recession is something they inherited. Yes, it started in 2007, and yes, it got worse from 2007 through 2008, but when President Obama took office….that’s when it REALLY got worse.

Moreover, President Obama “inherited” this economy not from a President (because President Bush was a lame duck President in 2007 and 2008), but from a Democratic Congress of which
HE WAS A MAJOR LEADER. It’s true to say that President Obama inherited the economic recession, but he inherited as much or more from Senator Obama than from President “The Democrats’ Congress has more power than me” George Bush.

As they say, WELCOME TO THE SUCK President Obama

One can honestly wonder when he’s gonna man up and take responsibility for the jobs lost on his watch?

Moving on from President Obama, one can more importantly wonder, what happened to the economy when Democrats started running Congress in 2007? Hmmmm… Can anyone say MIDTERMS?

Yesterday Mike wrote about how Obama appointee’s dropped default judgments against some black panthers who intimidated voters on election day asking:

Readers may recall the political firestorm which descended on President Bush when he fired three U.S. Attorneys. Will there be a similar firestorm for the direct political interference in this case to protect voting rights of people who might not vote for Obama?

There is video on the post of the black panthers holding clubs and standing at the entrance to a polling place. Michelle Malkin has the affadivit from one witness, Bartle Bull, a long time civil rights activist who worked as a lawyer for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Mississippi during the 60’s. Bartle describes how this was the worse voter intimidation he has seen since the 60’s and that he even heard one of the men say “you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.”

Someone found the video:

In my opinion the dropping of default judgments against these men by political appointees of President Obama AND the fact that there is no cries for investigations by the left just shows us how hypocritical they are.