Biden's Bunker

Nostalgic Already?

Looking for Tea Leaves in Obama’s Sliding Numbers - President Obama returned from his trip to Asia facing some unsettling news: two new polls showed that his approval rating had dipped below 50 percent for the first time. (New York Times - November 23, 2009). 

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Joe Wilson Was Right

Paying for the benefits of "undocumented Democrats" with funds borrowed from China. Not exactly the change people expected.

BTW, President Obama's exact quote on the issue in September of this year was: "the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."

From the Washington Times:

Health bills fail to block illegals from coverage Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama's explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Maybe Joe Biden invited them and just forgot to tell somebody.

From AP News:

Secret Service: Crashers posed no danger to Obama The Secret Service maintains that President Barack Obama was never in danger at a state dinner after an uninvited Virginia couple got through security, but it wouldn't comment on whether anyone is screened for radiological or biological weapons. ...Michaele and Tareq Salahi went through the same security screening for weapons as the 300-plus people invited to the dinner Tuesday for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Sending Out an S.O.S.

And who is better to inform the world about what it needs than Sting?

From the AP:

Sting: Obama best person to handle world's 'mess' Sting isn't a religious man, but he says President Barack Obama might be a divine answer to the world's problems. "In many ways, he's sent from God," he joked in an interview, "because the world's a mess."

Figures Lie and Liars Figure

Because paper don't care what you write on it.

From the AP:

STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus jobs overstated by 1,000s An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports. The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, or one in six, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts. The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.

No Friend of Bill

To paraphrase The Hollies: He ain't heavy...he's her husband.

From USA Today:

Barack didn't pick Hillary because of Bill One of the newsweeklies, Time, has excerpts from the new book by Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, and he confirms something we though we knew: Barack Obama passed over Hillary Rodham Clinton. Here is Plouffe's take. ("Ax," by the way, is senior adviser David Axelrod): ...we narrowed the list down to six. Barack continued to be intrigued by Hillary. "I still think Hillary has a lot of what I am looking for in a VP," he said to us. "Smarts, discipline, steadfastness. I think Bill may be too big a complication. If I picked her, my concern is that there would be more than two of us in the relationship."

The Name Game

How about "Medical Manna?"

From the Associated Press:

Pelosi: Health care 'public option' needs new name House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a government-sponsored public option for health care lives. But it may be going by a different name. In an appearance at a Florida senior center Monday, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as "the consumer option." Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, appeared by Pelosi's side and used the term "competitive option." ...Pelosi says the term has been misrepresented and creates the impression that taxpayers will foot the bill for health care. Wasserman Schultz says she expects the speaker to give the new wording a test drive when she returns to Washington.

Southern Comfort

Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

From the Miami Herald:

Democrats brace for end of Virginia winning streak The Democrats' decade-long push into Virginia -- a national bragging point that they were moving into the once-solid Republican South -- may be coming to an end. Polls suggest that the Republicans could win the governor's office on Nov. 3 for the first time in more than a decade. One of only two statewide races this year -- the other is the governor's race in New Jersey -- the Virginia contest is being watched as a referendum not only on the Democrats' appeal in the region, but also on the party's agenda next door in Washington.

The Space Between...His Hears

Comic Jim Norton had the best line about this on Red Eye: "I don't want to hear David Matthews' views on racism any more than I want to listen to David Duke discuss mediocre dentist office music."

From CNN:

U.S. racism 'everywhere,' says Dave Matthews CNN: President Carter said he thinks that a lot of the animosity directed toward President Obama is race related. Dave Matthews: Of course it is! I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here -- I just see it everywhere. There's a good population of people in this country that are terrified of the president only because he's black, even if they don't say it. And I think a lot of them, behind closed doors, do say it.

(Whew) Now We're All Perfectly Safe

AND they did it without Superman. 

From MSNBC:

U.N. approves resolution to rid world of nukes With President Barack Obama presiding, the U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously endorsed a sweeping strategy aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons and ultimately eliminating them, to usher in a world with "undiminished security for all."