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One thing is for sure. The president of the U.S. will not perform his job, he will not gather the proper experts together to formulate a best guess on the radiation heading our way. And he will not hold a press conference. Instead, he's heading down to South America, well out of the way of the radiation plume heading our way. If his wife and kids go with him, then you know it's going to be far worse than they are letting on.

The Middle East is afire with rebellion, Japan is imploding from an earthquake, and the battle of the budget is on in the United States, but none of this seems to be deterring President Obama from a heavy schedule of childish distractions. The newly installed tandem of White House Chief of Staff William Daley and Senior Adviser David Plouffe were supposed to impart a new sense of discipline and purpose to the White House. Instead, they are permitting him to showcase himself as a poorly focused leader who has his priorities backward. This morning, as Japan’s nuclear crisis enters a...

The government in Washington D.C. seems to be going out of its way to obfuscate and confuse the American citizens as to various economic factors and what the reality is of the situation the people find themselves in. Instinctively the people know matters are worse than what they are being told and with the most incompetent and unscrupulous resident of the White House in the country's history in charge there is great unease that their government is not being honest with its citizens. More than ever the American people deserve to be told the truth. Among the most confusing of...

My synopsis of the story: 1) The local Spring Valley, New York police and DEA raid the home of David McKay. 2) The raid resulted in the family being literally dragged out of bed and officers threatened they would kill the family dog. 3) David McKay was dragged out in the snow in his underwear and questioned about the whereabouts of the man they were looking for. 4) The DEA warrant was for a man who lived several houses a way. 5) The family's 8th grade daughter was removed from bed, dragged down the staircase, and held at gun point...

See Link for video summaries of Dupnik's historical positions on various questions of fact about the Arizona tragedy and related issues.( Unbelieveable incompetence for a law enforcement officer.) This post is for the record.

Here is video of RNC Chair Michael Steele being asked if he has given consideration to stepping aside as Chair of the Republican National Committee. Steele said, "I ain't going anywhere." He also said he and his fellow Republicans have a fundamentally different view of America. Steele said he believes we are an "exceptional people," while President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid "have a different view." Uh, we’ll see if Republicans agree that he should stay.

From the beginning of the week to the end, the president made crystal-clear to anyone who paid attention that he was over his head in this position and that he was startlingly disengaged in all but the most trivial of ceremonial matters. Obama's agents hammered out a proposed tax deal in which he seemed to play no significant role and which totally undercut his promise to end tax cuts for the rich. That redistributive, economically ridiculous position is one of the few things on which he has not heretofore been a slippery, tilting-at-straw-men con man. It is perfectly consistent with...

Must See Video. Joe Scarborough says he's been told by top Dems that Obama is incompetent. Mika is at a loss...

A US analyst says some officials in the White House and the administration are considering legal action to remove Barack Obama from presidency. "Right now, there is discussion in Washington and within the government of using the 25th amendment to the US Constitution to remove Obama from office," Edward Spannaus from Executive Intelligence Review said in an interview with Press TV on Friday. The amendment allows for removing the president if he/she has incapacity either physically or mentally. "In this case, Obama is mentally incapable of fulfilling the office of president," Spannaus went on to say. Referring to Obama's plummeting...

If this dopey quote had come out of Dubya’s mouth, tell me it wouldn’t already be a slogan emblazoned on a t-shirt at Zazzle underneath a Bush/chimp photo comparison: As the president walked around the restaurant, some cordoned-off reporters shouted out to him questions, including one about the war in Iraq. But the president was in no mood today to discuss the issue with reporters in that setting. He ignored questions for a bit, then turned to the reporters. “We’re buying shrimp, guys,” he said, smiling. “Come on.”

SNIP...I’ll reserve final judgment until I read the entire piece. But based on these excerpts — which presumably reflect the thrust of the 10,000-word article — what is striking is the degree of self-pity we find in Obama’s advisers, which is reflected in the president’s words and attitude as well. Team Obama sounds nothing so much as overmatched and overwhelmed, unable to understand what has gone wrong, and increasingly bitter toward the nation’s capital and the pace and nature of politics.

Taking advantage of Americans' propensity to back an underdog who at least seems to be giving it the ole college try, Obama still stumbles from failure-to-gaff-to-failure as he continues to play the idealistic, well-intending rookie manager. Didn't everybody root for Frank Robinson when he took the helm of the '75 Indians... fending-off mean ole racists like Gaylord Perry in the process? Meanwhile -and by design- a grinning Obama steamrolls our society flat so he and other "progressives" can replace all he was raised to despise. The C'mon, let's all root for Barry spiel relentlessly pounded into our skulls by the...

There comes a point in time when the cumulative actions of an individual or regime has become so outrageous that not only do they need to be called out but removed from a position of power. Over the past 19 months the country has endured a litany of embarrassment, missteps and outright criminality. The Obama regime has finally if not inevitably gone too far. Among the many questionable actions of the Obama regime the country has been forced to endure is the continuing failure in regards to the oil spill clean up. Not only was the regime inept in its...

This liberal editor of US News and World Report and owner of Long Island's New York Daily News has got to rank amongst the mostly deeply disappointed of Obama voters from the sound of it. Clearly an intelligent man, what happened then to Zuckerman and so many of these "thinking" individuals in 2008... when an unwritten affirmative-action agenda and marketing considerations took precedence over all sensible prerequisites and due-diligence... and in filling the most powerful executive position on Earth, good grief. But now that he's come out of the ether, Zuckerman is one of Obama's harshest critics- talking to Neil...

LOS ANGELES — If the mark of a real independent is lack of friends, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the quintessential nonpartisan in American politics right now. His approval rating has not risen above 30 percent since May 2009. California remains in deep fiscal distress. He is despised by the state’s workers (whose pay he cut), Democrats (who loathe his aversion to new taxes and his desire to cut entitlements) and Republicans (who wish those respective aversions and desires were stronger), as well as college students, public school parents and people who hate the smell of cigars. As Governor Schwarzenegger prepares...

The country faces grave danger immediately ahead. Increasingly, people agree with Pamela Geller's sentiments: I have come a long way from when I would listen with trepidation and fear for our nation, so under his spell was America. He [Obama] has long since been exposed as a clown. And folks, if they listen, can't help but see that. Watch him, and sit back and laugh. This nation has indeed come a very long way in a very short time with respect to its perception of its President. It took less than a year for the exultation that accompanied Obama's election...

Typically, I try not to write when I'm angry about something. This week, however, that is proving to be well nigh impossible. How can I not be just a bit miffed about the way our ostensible President has been handling the oil spill crisis currently taking place in the Gulf of Mexico? Perhaps it is because I don't suffer fools lightly, but the stunning, nay, mindboggling incompetence emanating from our government, and especially its executive branch, is pushing me past even my expectations for governmental ineptitude. The "Peter Principle" is a well-known principle of hierarchical organizations. At its simplest, it...

FReepers, please create a FreeRepublic photo record here of what happens when a community organizer thug is given the most important job in the world. The empty suit, who currently occupies the Oval Office, has no ability whatsoever to lead in a crisis. God help our republic.

(VIDEO AT LINK) Rudy Giuliani on MSNBC's "Morning Joe": "Boy, you guys really give this guy a break that is beyond...They'd have been working on impeachment of Bush by now. If Bush were the president and handled it this way, there'd be like a movement to throw him out of office." "Just try to be fair." Mika Brzezinski asks Giuliani "What would you do?" "I know exactly what I would have done. The first thing I would have done is to bring in outside experts who knew as much or more about this than BP because I wouldn't trust just...

Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman react to President Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill. Here are the highlights of what the trio said: Olbermann: "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days." Matthews compared Obama to Carter. Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said." Matthews: "No direction." Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough."