• Barack Obama,  Michael Ramirez

    The Three Stooges of the Obama Administration Via Michael Ramirez

    January 8, 2013 /

     

    If the Republicans allow RINO Chuck Hagel to be confirmed, the military will surely decline.

    Even New York Times columnist David Brooks understands what Obama is doing with the Chuck Hagel appointment.

    As the federal government becomes a health care state, there will have to be a generation of defense cuts that overwhelm anything in recent history. Keep in mind how brutal the budget pressure is going to be. According to the Government Accountability Office, if we act on entitlements today, we will still have to cut federal spending by 32 percent and raise taxes by 46 percent over the next 75 years to meet current obligations. If we postpone action for another decade, then we have to cut all non-interest federal spending by 37 percent and raise all taxes by 54 percent.

    As this sort of crunch gradually tightens, Medicare will be the last to go. Spending on things like Head Start, scientific research and defense will go quicker. These spending cuts will transform America’s stature in the world, making us look a lot more like Europe today. This is why Adm. Mike Mullen called the national debt the country’s biggest security threat.

    Chuck Hagel has been nominated to supervise the beginning of this generation-long process of defense cutbacks. If a Democratic president is going to slash defense, he probably wants a Republican at the Pentagon to give him political cover, and he probably wants a decorated war hero to boot.

  • Barack Obama,  Michael Ramirez

    Michael Ramirez: Don’t You Have Something More Important?

    September 24, 2012 /

     

    Chris Muir’s Day By Day cartoon is down for a few days for upgrades, so I will bring you one of my other favorite cartoonists, Michael Ramirez.

    Ramirez’s point is that shouldn’t the President be discussing more substantive issues with the state of the nation as it is?

    But, remember Obama’s primary goal is to win re-election. Why talk policy if the media will allow you to do “fluff” interviews and coast to victory?

    I am feeling that even should Obama win re-election, that he will be a “lame duck” the minute he is sworn into office. Now, can Mitt Romney step up his game in the next 43 days and hold Obama accountable?

    Somehow, I doubt it.

  • Barack Obama,  Gay Marriage,  Michael Ramirez

    Michael Ramirez on the Obama Gay Marriage Flip Flop

    May 15, 2012 /

    Source: news.investors.com via Gregory Flap on Pinterest

    Michael Ramirez has it exactly right with President Obama whoring himself out to the Hollywood Homosexual community for campaign cash.

    Last week, Barack Obama finished “evolving” on same-sex marriage with his statement endorsing legalization.  Entirely coincidentally, that was just in time for a big Hollywood fundraiser at George Clooney’s mansion that raised $15 million for Team Obama’s coffers after reports of anger in the entertainment industry began to percolate in the media.

    Pretty despicable conduct from the President which will bite him in the ass this November.

  • Barack Obama,  President 2012

    President 2012: Obama Heads Off to Chicago Birthday-Themed Fundraiser While Approaching Jimmy Carter Territory

    August 3, 2011 /

    Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez

    Aren’t Americans tired of this charade of a Presidency?

    But the debt debate made it clear that Obama’s idea shop is running on fumes. Like a broken record, he’s stuck on the same song — bigger government, higher taxes. No matter the circumstance, he repeats the mantra.

    For such a smart guy, he’s proving to be a slow learner about what works, and doesn’t. He, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid had their unfettered way for two years, and they blew a giant hole in the budget without getting much bang for taxpayers’ bucks.

    Unemployment is a staggering 9.2 percent and rising, and most economists believe the economy is in serious danger of a double-dip recession. Obama’s answer: Let’s do it all again.

    He gives lip service to the pain of the unemployed and underemployed, then trots out the old ideas. Usually he doesn’t even bother to repackage them.

    Maybe he hasn’t noticed or doesn’t care, but the country is giving up on him. The shellacking his party and policies took in the 2010 midterms would be repeated if there were an election today. He’s sinking, and his approval is now a woeful 40 percent — that’s Jimmy Carter territory.

    The polls are NOT encouraging for President Obama but he doesn”t seem to care. I guess he believes his teleprompter and smile with his Facebook friends will turn out the needed votes for his re-election.

    Obama thinks WRONGLY.

    So, Mr. President have a good birthday but if I were you, I would go to the concert. Next year, you probably won’t enjoy it.

  • Anthony Weiner,  Mark Steyn,  Michael Ramirez

    Mark Steyn: Weiner Helping Junk the Country

    June 4, 2011 /

    Mark Steyn

    This is hilarious – so read it all.

    After the tumult of the First World War, noted Winston Churchill, only the intractability of the Irish Question had emerged unscathed:

    “Great Empires have been overturned. The whole map of Europe has been changed,” he told the House of Commons. “But as the deluge subsides and the waters fall short, we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again.”

    And so it goes after another tumultuous week in American politics. Nearly a third of homeowners are “underwater” – that’s to say, they owe more on their mortgages than the property is worth. Private-sector job growth has all but vanished. The House of Representatives voted not to raise the debt ceiling.

    But as the debt ceiling subsides – or, at any rate, stays put – we see the dreary steeple of Anthony Weiner emerging from his Twitpic crotch shot.

    For the benefit of the few remaining American coeds Rep. Weiner isn’t following on Twitter, the congressman’s initial position when his groin Tweet went viral was that his Twitter had been hacked. Could happen to anyone. From last Thursday’s edition of The Daily Telegraph:

    “British intelligence has hacked into an al-Qaida online magazine and replaced bomb making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.”

  • Michael Ramirez,  Obamacare

    Obamacare: The 47 Million Uninsured

    July 27, 2009 /
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    Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez

    And, the costs of Obamacare?

    For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat’s health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan touted by the White House as crucial to paying for the bill would actually save almost no money over 10 years.

    A key House chairman and moderate House Democrats on Tuesday agreed to a White House-backed proposal that would give an outside panel the power to make cuts to government-financed health care programs. White House budget director Peter Orszag declared the plan “probably the most important piece that can be added” to the House’s health care reform legislation.

    But on Saturday, the Congressional Budget Office said the proposal to give an independent panel the power to keep Medicare spending in check would only save about $2 billion over 10 years– a drop in the bucket compared to the bill’s $1 trillion price tag.

    “In CBO’s judgment, the probability is high that no savings would be realized … but there is also a chance that substantial savings might be realized. Looking beyond the 10-year budget window, CBO expects that this proposal would generate larger but still modest savings on the same probabilistic basis,” CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf wrote in a letter to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Saturday.

    Some reforms ultimately will be passed by the Congress but Obamacare?

    I don’t think it will happen.

    If it does, the GOP will roll most of it back after the 2010 and 2012 elections.

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