Here is a laughable quote from Mr. Daily Kos himself:

We have to show we are different than Republicans by refusing to tolerate any corruption in our ranks.

Is he joking? Democrats have a long history of not only tolerating but condoning corruption in their party. Murtha himself has a long record of corruption that has been excused by the Democratic Party. There is, of course, rampant corruption in the Democratic Party that Daily Kos has most certainly turned a blind eye to or made excuses for over the years. Even now, Obama can’t seem to nominate anyone who pays their taxes, and that is barely the tip of the iceberg.

Republicans have a much better record of weeding out the corrupt elements of their party than the Democrats do. A Democrat under federal investigation is more likely to be offered a powerful chairmanship than to be ousted by this party leaders. A Democrat who has an affair with an underage campaign worker is more likely to be reelected than incarcerated. 

Sorry Kos, abandoning a sinking ship because you have no choice doesn’t give you the high ground on ethics. Applying the same standard to both parties would give you more credibility.

For someone who has tripled the national debt in a matter of weeks, he is apparently doling out loads of cash for everyone but those who have been wounded fight for their country…

The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he is “deeply disappointed and concerned” after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.”It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan,” said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion. “He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.” 

Just goes to show you how little Obama cares about our military.

Duh.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy from participants in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.

The economists’ assessment stands in stark contrast with Mr. Obama’s popularity with the public, with a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll giving him a 60% approval rating. A majority of the 49 economists polled said they were dissatisfied with the administration’s economic policies.

On average, they gave the president a grade of 59 out of 100, and although there was a broad range of marks, 42% of respondents rated Mr. Obama below 60. Mr. Geithner received an average grade of 51. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke scored better, with an average 71.

Doesn’t shock me one bit. The entirety of Obama’s young presidency can be described as an epic failure… He’s proven that he wasn’t ready for the job.  You liberals should have listened to us.

Oh, you can smell the hypocrisy.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: “I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.”

Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president.

“We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him,” Greenberg admitted.

The pollster added with a chuckle of disbelief: “They don’t want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails.”

Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced: “Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!”

Additionally, according to a poll taken is 2006, a majority of Democrats wanted Bush to fail.

And you better believe I want Obama to fail. For the good of the country I want Obama to fail.

Mark has informed me he is taking his father to the hospital. Please keep him in your prayers.

UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: Thanks to all for your prayers. Dad has internal bleeding in his bowels and will be receiving a transfusion. This is all related to his other health issues and so the current outlook is unknown, but exceptionally serious. I’ll know more by tomorrow.

How much more of this are we going to take?

The election of Barack Obama offered the promise of a new set of fixes for the financial crisis and the economy, a do-over that might help nurse the stock market back to health.Since then, the market hasn’t just gotten worse — it’s turned in its worst performance ever for a new president.

The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen 21 percent during Obama’s first seven weeks in office. Count back to Election Day and the results are even bleaker: That afternoon, the Dow closed at 9,625. Now it stands at 6,547, a loss of 32 percent.

Obama’s ardent defenders will try to shift blame on Bush, but the markets clearly aren’t comforted by Obama’s proposals, and instead of easing tensions, he exasperates them. 

Market analysts usually play down the influence of presidents on the market but say this time could be different as taxpayer dollars prop up private companies and Obama’s first proposed budget stands at $3.6 trillion, with a gaping deficit.

In this case, said Wachovia Securities chief market analyst Alfred E. Goldman, investors are saying “they have no confidence in the stimulus package doing much stimulation anytime soon. And they’re greatly concerned about the size of the budget.”

On some of the most wrenching recent days in the market, it’s been easier to connect cause and effect.

The Dow sank 4 percent on Feb. 10 as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled a new bank bailout plan that Wall Street immediately criticized as laughably light on details.

Several weeks later, investors shaved another 4 percent off the Dow after the government agreed to give insurer American International Group an extra $30 billion, bringing its loan total to $180 billion.

Now the Dow seems to drift lower day after day, with Wall Street waiting for clarity and selling in the meantime.

Investors want to know when and how the government will cleanse banks of bad debt and whether it will suspend accounting rules requiring companies to value assets at current market prices.

As the brilliant Thomas Sowell said, Obama should resign… maybe then the economy will get better.

This morning a blog post I wrote for the American Issues Project was published on their site. Do check it out. I have recently joined them as a blog contributor, and will post there a few times a week.

Is this straight out of George Orwell’s 1984, or much ado about nothing?

ChangeTracker, our handy tool that watches for changes on White House Web sites, noticed wide changes to the whitehouse.gov biography of George W. Bush.

References to Bush creating “prosperity” through “an ownership society” are stripped in the new version, and praise of the No Child Left Behind Act has been softened.

We contacted the White House for comment, and a spokesman told us that the version of the biography currently on Whitehouse.gov is actually not new, but an old one written at the end of the Bush administration.

Our research says otherwise. The biography preserved in the National Archives is a near-perfect match for the old version, suggesting that the version now on Whitehouse.gov is, indeed, new. (Peter Bray, founder of Versionista, the system that drives ChangeTracker, just wrote a piece in Slate about the changes.)

Politics and Critical Thinking finds the whole thing suspicious…

Is this standard practice or even a big deal? I don’t know, but for some reason I found this unsettling because of the sneakiness and denial. There is much truth in the statement, “To the victors go the spoils.” But that is usually left to a conqueror, not a publicly elected official. I just wonder how many more “changes” they are going to enact when it comes time to start covering for their failures?

Good question.

Obama took a question from the New York Times asking if he was a Socialist. He brushed off the question and later felt the need to call reporters from the Oval Office to “clarify” his response.

oF course, the question is rather silly… we already knew he was (and is) a Socialist.

Can someone say “too little’ too late?”

President Barack Obama has chided his attorney general, Eric Holder Jr., for describing America as a “nation of cowards” when discussing race, wading into a tumult that flared over Holder’s indictment of the way this country talks about ethnicity.

“I think it’s fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language,” Obama said in a mild rebuke from America’s first black president to its first black attorney general.

In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, the president said that despite Holder’s choice of words, he had a point.

“We’re oftentimes uncomfortable with talking about race until there’s some sort of racial flare-up or conflict,” he said, adding, “We could probably be more constructive in facing up to sort of the painful legacy of slavery and Jim Crow and discrimination.”

In fact, not only was this too little too late, but Barack Hussein Obama essential agreed with Holder’s ridiculous assertion.

It seems like everyday Obama is determined to prove to the country that he wasn’t ready to be president. Between his failure to put a cabinet together or nominate individuals who aren’t ethically challenged, abandoning his campaign promise of bipartisanship, blatantly lying about earmarks in the stimulus bill, growing the national debt in 8 weeks quicker than any past president has, attacking his media critics, or insulting the UK, it is quite clear this guy is an amateur who has no business in the White House.