Tag Archives: President Obama

Louisvillian name dropped by Obama, criticizes gov’t. over potential shutdown

April 7, 2011 – 12:44 pm

Burning up the Kentucky blogosphere today is the story of J.T. Henderson, a Louisville man who President Obama mentioned by name during a press conference after ABC News ran a story featuring Henderson’s answer to the following question: How would a government shutdown (aka The Paul Ryan/Hal Rogers Death-Budget)  effect your family’s day-to-day life? Writing [...]

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Yarmuth named to Oversight Committee

January 21, 2011 – 4:35 pm

In the minority for the first time since being elected to Congress in 2006, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., has been appointed to the high-profiled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a panel that is expected to evaluate a number of important issues in the federal government. From Yarmuth’s office: “Over the last four years [...]

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Yarmuth blasts extension of Bush tax cuts

December 17, 2010 – 9:05 am

After breezing through the U.S. Senate, the tax-cut compromise between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans easily cleared the House of Representatives, providing a two-year extension for all tax cuts that were due to expire Dec. 31. The bill passed 277 to 148 with bi-partisan support and now heads to the president’s desk after overcoming [...]

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Tweets could shed light on ‘half-breed’ comment

August 10, 2010 – 5:04 pm

The uproar over 84 WHAS radio personality Mandy Connell calling President Barack Obama “a young half-breed man” has subsided, but it seems those racially insensitive comments may not have been the first the conservative host has used. A Twitter account that appears to belong to Connell contains attacks on Obama and possible racist language, including [...]

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Gov. Daniels’ potential 2012 presidential bid

June 18, 2010 – 12:02 pm

Our neighbors to the north might want to pay attention to the growing speculation that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is on the GOP short list of potential nominees for president in 2012. The diminutive Republican (he stands just under 5’7″) has seen the states unemployment rate go down in the past year, along with property [...]

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Should Obama ‘dumb it down’?

June 17, 2010 – 10:22 am

The media punditry continues to slice and dice President Obama’s speech on the gulf oil disaster, but an interesting observations was made by Paul J.J. Payack, president of Global Language Monitor, an Austin, Texas-based company that analyzes word usage and word choice. Even though the Oval Office address was written at a 10th grade level, [...]

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Poll Shows Fickle Americans Support Health Care Reform

March 23, 2010 – 3:47 pm

And to think all it took was passing the damn bill… A new USA Today/Gallup poll has confirmed what Republicans do not want you to know, which is that a majority of Americans (49 percent) believe that Sunday’s passage of health care reform legislation was “a good thing” as opposed to “a very bad, evil [...]

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Shitting In The Wind

February 25, 2010 – 6:57 pm

That’s basically the only metaphor I could think of while watching today’s mega-hyped health care summit: You’re walking down the street, somebody yells at you from their window, “Hey, look at this!” and then proceeds to stick their ass into the frame and, from a decent height, defecate onto the sidewalk below. You can’t deny that the [...]

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The Amazing Obama-Man!

February 23, 2010 – 5:20 pm

With advent of the White House’s own (decidedly socialist) health care bill, deregulating the economic influence of Timothy Geithner and unrelated news that Dick Cheney suffered a heart attack, there’s once more a reason for progressives to get excited about President Obama. And what better way to celebrate the President’s latent progressive-streak than a series [...]

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Abramson + Obama = ♥

January 19, 2010 – 5:52 pm

For the eleventy-billionth time, Jerry Abramson is meeting with Barack Obama in Washington D.C. to talk about things like job creation, fat kids and potentially why Harry Reid is so full of racism. Under the purview of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, here’s a glimpse at Jerry’s three-day itinerary. Part of the White House discussion [...]

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