Tim Pool schools mainstream media - at the Whitehouse!

Go Tim:

Which Christmas would you prefer?

Which White House Christmas would you prefer to experience? For me this is an obvious choice.  The Jill Biden stuff isn't over the top awful, but it's not good. It's fairly bad. But the Melania Trump versions were excellent.

Tell it

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Climate Change is back for useful idiots

The latest effort by the White House is exactly what my next post (later this morning) will be about. 

Saul Goodman got a job at the White House?

When did the White House decide that Saul Goodman would make the perfect sign language interpreter for press briefings? I'm just asking for a friend...

Saturday Learning Series - The White House

A walk through of the White House?  Cool.

A reaction to Don Lemon's silly reaction to Kanye West and Donald Trump

An interesting, quality reaction to the Kanye West meeting with Donald Trump at the White House, and specifically CNN's Don Lemon's reaction to that meeting.

White House leaker caught

It's no surprise the leaker was an avowed Bernie Sanders supporting socialist.  This is against the law. It's counter to national security.  She will and should be, imprisoned if proven guilty in court.  It sounds like she has already implicated herself.

The (White) House of the Unbelievable

The White House has become so wrapped up in their spin that they are now even having trouble convincing the liberal media that they have a coherent story about the president's focus on matters of real national importance rather than say fundraising for Democrats or vacationing.  And the unbelievable versions of 'the truth' they keep forwarding on Benghazi, or the continuing IRS scandal, or the immigration problem, Gaza or Russia just don't seem to make any sense or have any coherence let alone any level of believability.

Read the links and tell me you can still find believability in the is president and his team.

You think they'd learn to shut up like they have on the targeting of Christians in the Middle East when even the U.N. responded to that one.  But they just can't seem to do that when it comes to trying to make themselves look good.  The irony is that the outcomes are 180 degrees the polar opposite of their intentions as the truth trickles out anyway.  Unbelievable.

Podesta joining Obama carries implications beyond Obama

John Podesta, former Clinton Chief of Staff (1998-2001) is joining team Obama and it is purely as a result of the presidents abysmal and dropping job approval ratings.  It's a political move through and through.  Expect Podesta to clean house with White House staff, or at least appear to clean house in order to put some support and to the hopes of Democrats, a floor under Obama's flagging job approval ratings.  Whether it works or not remains to be seen, although for it to make a difference, it would have probably had to have happened a long time ago.  The damage is probably irreparable by now.  The real implications however, lie elsewhere - many of them, with Clinton.

Expect to not see this.  But it will still be there.

Firstly, a lot of  supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline project initially viewed Podesta's onboarding as a death knell for the project.  They were right to worry.  Although news came out that he will recuse himself from Keystone XL discussions, it isn't like he won't discuss the matter with Obama in private.  It still portends bad news for the pipeline's supporters.  There isn't really going to be a firewall between him and Obama on the pipeline.

It also should retroactively raise an eyebrow for those who supported Bill Clinton's presidency if they care at all about jobs and his legacy as the supposed economic wunderkind (no, you can thank the Republican wave of 1994 for the economic resurgence during the Clinton presidency).  If Podesta does and did value vague, half-truth climate histrionics over jobs and economic prosperity, then what does that say about him being part of Bill Clinton's inner circle?  It means that Clinton may very well have been on the same page, despite being able to read the tea leaves on public sentiment about economic growth and prosperity post-1994.

Another Clinton angle is that Podesta would certainly be a member of a Hillary Clinton presidency and getting Podesta in there can serve as an ear and a heads-up to Clinton about decisioning coming out of the White House.  She'll be better prepared to comment on presidential items as she will have advanced notice and time to prepare.  Additionally, Podesta "cleaning house" might be designed to serve as window dressing from Obama's perspective, it could also help clear the way to put Clintonian elements in key positions for her coming presidency.  Should she win, she could hit the ground running so to speak with her agenda.

Frankly I'm much more worried about the Clinton implications than the Obama implications of Podesta coming on board with the White House.

Friday Musical Interlude - Truth (especially for Obama)

Here's a song for the scandal-ridden White House and it's dear leader.

Alexander - Truth.

But I'm only loving only loving only loving

Only loving the truth.

The White House Doesn't Understand This

White House spokesman Jay Carney this week felt it important to differentiate between America and this movie that riled up the Muslim world.  Unfortunately, there's something the White House is clearly not understanding.

Via Mediaite;

This is a fairly volatile situation, and it is in response not to U.S. policy, not to, obviously, the administration, not to the American people. It is in response to a video – a film – that we have judged to be reprehensive and disgusting. That in no way justifies any violent reaction to it. But this is not a case of protests directed at the United States, writ large, or at U.S. policy. This is in response to a video that is offensive and – to Muslims.

The apparent missing knowledge: the Muslims offended by the movie do not make the same distinction Carney mentions. It's not like they are burning rolls of celluloid - it's American flags they are burning.

The Finish

So the race for the White House is still tight. Either Mitt Romney is being mistreated by systemically, deliberately faulty polling - the oversampling of Democrats relative to Republicans and Independents, adults instead of likely voters - or the race is indeed close.

Either way the contender will have to get the White House the old fashioned way - he'll have to earn it, to paraphrase John Houseman.

The more I think about that the more I like it. After all, the economy being as bad as it is presents a reason not to vote for the current guy, but it doesn't make the case for the other guy. That's how we ended up with BHO.

Romney needs to earn his presidency. He needs to fight for it. He can't coast into it on Obama's badness or else we will get yet another ersatz president. Romney needs to do more than he has done to date. He's presented the case that he has business experience. He used the convention to humanize himself.

That leaves two tasks for him to complete. He has to present his plan for recovery. It needs to be comprehensive but simple enough to make a sound bite. It needs to be convincing and realistic. It has to appeal to voters and it has to have measurable goals.

The other thing he needs to do - beat Obama in the debates. Convincingly.

If he does those things well, he'll have earned the confidence of the American electorate and the presidency.

We can't wait says Obama. But you know we will.

I don't know if the White House has figured out that we've figured out the cynical process of a late Friday news dump so that unappetizing news items get the weekend to cool down and hopefully will be forgotten before Monday.  But either they've caught on and started dumping stupid news items in other time slots, or else they've been doing that all along and we haven't caught on that every single thing out of this white House is bad.

Catholic? Happy with this?

Via WSJ:

The White House said Thursday it has no plans to reverse course on its decision to require that all employers cover contraception in their insurance plans, despite a wave of criticism from Republicans and Catholic leaders.

After a bruising week for health officials on the issue, the White House arranged a conference call with reporters to address what it called “confusion” over the policy. It also put up a blog post by Cecilia Munoz, director of the House Domestic Policy Council, pointing out that “no individual health care provider will be forced to prescribe contraception” and “no individual will be forced to buy or use contraception.”

And White House press secretary Jay Carney said at Thursday’s afternoon briefing that there was “not a debate” over reversing the decision. “The decision has been made, and it was made after careful consideration,” he said.

Especially in light of this;

The world's leading breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, struggled on Thursday to defuse a growing crisis over its decision to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion and birth control services.

The sudden rift between the two top U.S. women's health advocacy groups triggered a furious debate on social media sites between supporters and opponents of abortion rights.

Democratic lawmakers called on Komen to reconsider its move as the organization was thrust into the center of an intractable dispute that some say will hamper its work for years to come.

And much more importantly, the ridiculous hypocrisy of this;

This morning, at the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama cited Scripture as justification for his policy agenda — from reforming health care to ensuring that financial institutions play by fair rules to taxing the rich.

Catholic?  Vote liberal?  Time for a re-think of either your vote or your religion.  You can't do both. 

White House Miffed as GOP block La Raza ambassador confirmation

Spoiler alert!

The White House Press Secretary played the obfuscation card today on an ambassador appointment;

Today a partisan group of Republicans in the Senate blocked our Ambassador to El Salvador from returning to her job, choosing instead to play politics with America’s national interests. Ambassador Aponte has served our nation with distinction over the past year, accumulating an impressive list of accomplishments that included negotiating a Partnership for Growth between the United States and El Salvador that is critical to our economic and national security interests in the region.

The first problem is that the Democrat controlled Senate was where the nomination failed;

Senate Republicans on Monday blocked President Barack Obama’s nominee to be ambassador to El Salvador, drawing a sharp rebuke from the White House which accused them of playing politics with the nation’s interests.

On a vote of 49-37, the Senate refused to move ahead with the nomination of Mari Carmen Aponte, a Washington lawyer and Hispanic activist. She has served as ambassador in San Salvador since September 2010 after the president, facing GOP opposition, made her a recess appointee. Her temporary tenure is to run out at the end of the year.

Here's the second problem she served as a director at the National Council of La Raza in one of her roles prior to her recess appointment to her ambassadorship.  La Raza, in case you haven't heard isn't exactly America-friendly;

The progressive politically-connected National Council of La Raza has been a staple (illegal) immigration advocacy group on the left and has long benefited from the generous support of government financial grants. But according to an investigation by Judicial Watch, federal funding of the group “skyrocketed” shortly after one of its top officials got a job in the Obama White House.

Cecilia Munoz, La Raza’s senior vice president and lobbyist, joined the Obama administration as director of intergovernmental affairs in 2009. Since then, Judicial Watch reports, federal funding being poured into the organization has more than doubled...

But it appears, they are nevertheless, well-connected.  The spin on the 'filibuster' nevertheless, will go on but that does not mean the GOP should cave on blocking this appointment, and we shouldn't expect that they will.

White House offers the addict's defense

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has offered up the addict's defense on the balanced budget amendment. It's not even stage 1 defense: we're okay, we don't have a problem. When an addict can no longer deny they have a problem to others, they can still be in denial to themselves. Stage 2: We can fix ourselves, we don't need help. The translation is we don't want help. It might be hard to determine if the subject really does feel like they need help or still think there is no problem.

Communism is always infiltrating. Always.

I'm sure many people are aware of how communism has attempted to infiltrate America and Europe using any and all means possible.  If you aren't convinced, watch this global warming documentary and take note of the new home for socialism and communism - man made global warming. It doesn't end there.  It doesn't end anywhere.

MSNBC's QB is the WH.

You already know this to be true, but the contempt and arrogance displayed in the last 10 seconds of this video still make it a must see.

Via Breitbart,

After the November elections, maybe the Tea Parties can turn their energies to MSNBC for a couple of months. I'm sure it wouldn't take much effort to get there 3,610 viewers to wake up and turn the channel.

Thousands of Bees Swarm White House

According to The Hill, thousands of bees swarmed the White House today.

A swarm of "thousands of bees" gathered outside the White House this morning.

The small army of insects hovered as Obama tried to leave the White House to play basketball at Fort McNair, according to a pool report.

By the time the president returned at noon, the bees were apparently nowhere in sight.

I'm not surprised - there hasn't been an A or an A+ in the White House for some time now.  And by the looks of it the bees cleared out too.  The President is down to the C's now.