Oh Chairman Mao, Oh Chairman Mao, How Lovely Are Thy Branches

Merry Bizzaro Christmas! The White House Christmas Tree has ornaments featuring mass murderer Mao Zedong, a drag queen and Obama’s head pasted onto Mount Rushmore.

Nothing to see here people, move along…

“Why let a holiday season come between the White House and making some political statements? The White House pegged controversial designer Simon Doonan to oversee the Christmas decorations for the White House. Mr. Doonan, who is creative director of Barney’s New York has often caused a stir with his design choices. Like his naughty yuletide window display of Margaret Thatcher as a dowdy dominatrix and Dan Quayle as a ventriloquist’s dummy. For this year’s White House, he didn’t disappoint.”

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When Will Hot Air, Patterico and Red State Join the White House Press Pool?

Last month, the liberal website Talking Points Memo, joined the White House press pool.

Today, we learn the liberal website The Huffington Post is joining the White House press pool.

When will the White House press pool include Hot Air, Patterico and Red State?

I look forward to an official White House report from Hot Air’s Allahpundit that starts with the words “obligitory” or “heartache.”

Seriously though, how would HuffPo and TPM react if the shoe was on the other foot?

Indulge me as I state the obvious… Democrats won’t be in control forever and elephants never forget.

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On Those White House Party Crashers, Something’s Not Adding Up…

Party Crashers 1After Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed a party at the White House last week, the most obvious question was “how did this happen?” How did two wannabe reality TV stars waltz into one of the most secure locations in the country and even make contact with President Obama and Vice President Biden?

Obama himself immediately called for a probe. On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported:

“WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama asked for a full review of how a Virginia couple vying for a spot in the cast of a reality-TV show was able to crash Tuesday’s state dinner for the prime minister of India, a White House official said Friday.”

“Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan issued a rare apology, saying the service took full responsibility for the episode and was “deeply concerned and embarrassed.”

“White House aides added a new wrinkle Friday, saying the couple was photographed with Mr. Obama on the receiving line. They also had their pictures taken with Vice President Joe Biden.”

“The Secret Service has not ruled out pursuing criminal charges against the couple…”

Two US Senators agree with the Secret Service:

“WASHINGTON — Two senators said Sunday that authorities should pursue criminal charges against the Virginia couple who crashed last week’s state dinner at the White House.”

“You’ve got to send a strong deterrent that people just don’t do this kind of thing,” Democrat Evan Bayh of Indiana said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona agreed, saying, “If it’s a federal crime to lie to a federal agent, and these people didn’t tell the truth about their invitation, then they should be in some way brought to justice here, again, as an example to others not to do it.”

What’s curious is that Politico and other news outlets are now reporting that Michaele and Tareq Salahi have met President Obama before. They even have a photo of Obama posing with them on a prior occasion.

“While Washington has been abuzz over Thanksgiving weekend about Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashing the White House state dinner, it turns out that may not be the first time that the couple has met Barack Obama.”

“A photo on a website for international polo fans, shows Obama with the Salahis at an America’s Polo Cup event (the authenticity of the photo, dated December 2008, has not yet been verified, and one web post about it says it was taken in 2005).”

So which is it? Are these people a couple of pranksters who made a stupid decision, exposing dangerous holes in the Secret Service protection of the president, or do they know someone who helped them get into the party?

And if they knew someone who helped them get in, why would Obama demand a probe of how they got in, particularly if HE knew them.

None of it adds up.

There’s got to be more to this story.

In the meantime, these boneheads are trying to sell the details to the highest bidder.

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No Wonder the Economy is a Mess

The vast majority of the people in the Obama Administration who are trying to fix it have never had a private sector job. If you needed surgery, would you want the operation to be done by someone who specializes in writing academic medical textbooks?

“A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping the economy. It includes secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing & Urban Development, and excludes Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health, Education & Welfare, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security—432 cabinet members in all.”

chart of obama cabinet private sector experience

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SEIU Thugs Beat Down Worker – These People Have Access to the White House?

SEIU thugs – like the ones who violently attacked Kenneth Gladney back in August – attacked another man this week, this time a California state worker who was trying to expose their corruption.

CBS in Sacramento reports:

Ken Hamidi“A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose alleged corruption within the union.”

“Ken Hamidi is a state worker at the California Franchise Tax Board. Last night he walked into a union hall in Sacramento for an SEIU local 1000 meeting.”

“We had every right to be here, very simple; it wasn’t anything private or anything exclusive,” said Hamidi.”

“But Hamidi says the union members did not want him there.”

“Three, four people jumped at me, wrestled with me, then did all that,” said Hamidi. “I was covered in blood and then over to the emergency room.”

“Photos of Hamidi in the hospital show him bloodied from the brawl. So why did this happen? Besides being a state worker, Hamidi says he’s an unpaid reporter for a cable access show and a vocal critic of the SEIU. He calls the state workers’ union corrupt.”

The head of the SEIU is Andy Stern. Stern tops the list of influential visitors at the White House.Andy Stern

“The most frequent visitor included in the narrow sample was Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union and Mr. Obama’s top ally in the labor movement. Mr. Stern visited the White House 22 times, sometimes for health care or other public events in the East Room, other times for meetings with the president or aides like Rahm Emanuel, Peter R. Orszag or Ronald A. Klain.”

“The visit tally underscores the clout that S.E.I.U. and Mr. Stern enjoy in this White House, something that has generated consternation at times among business groups and envy among rival unions.”

We now have two documented cases of SEIU violence. They seem to lash out when people are doing something they don’t like or if they perceive someone as a threat. Yet they have direct access to our White House and our president.

Why?

Furthermore, why do Obama’s supporters try to create a false image of conservative Tea Party activists as potentially violent when it is the president’s cohorts in the SEIU who have now twice committed acts of violence?

The president himself speaking to Democrats just yesterday referred to anti-ObamaCare protesters in Washington DC as “the Tea Bag people.”

“According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care?”

Violent and corrupt thugs have access to the White House. Pro-American patriots are ridiculed by their president.

Now we know what Obama meant by “change.”

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VIDEO: Laura Ingraham Smacks Down the White House and the Media

Appearing on yesterday’s “This Week” with George Step-on-all-of-us, Ingraham smacked down Charles Gibson for not knowing about the ACORN scandal and the White House for going after FOX News more agressively than they’re pursuing terrorists.

This is classic Laura Ingraham and pure poetry.

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VIDEO: Krauthammer Explains Obama’s War on FOX

Quoth Charles Krauthammer…

“The great sin of FOX News is that it broke the monopoly of the liberal media. That’s the reason why it’s so wildly successful. I once said years ago that the genius of Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch is to have discovered a niche American broadcasting audience in news, namely half the American people…”

The White House is losing the battle against FOX News.

So says Helen Thomas, the New York Times and the American people.

Via the Weekly Standard.

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Obama All Wee Wee’d Up Over FOX News

For the cool, calm politician Obama was marketed as, he sure is getting his panties in a twist over Fox News. I guess if you’re used to giving reporters a thrill up their leg, it’s hard to deal with a network that refuses to just toe the line.

“Calling Fox News “a wing of the Republican Party,” the Obama administration on Sunday escalated its war of words against the channel, even as observers questioned the wisdom of a White House war on a news organization.”

“What I think is fair to say about Fox — and certainly it’s the way we view it — is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party,” said Anita Dunn, White House communications director, on CNN. “They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.”

“Fox News senior vice president Michael Clemente, who likens the channel to a newspaper with separate sections on straight news and commentary, suggested White House officials were intentionally conflating opinion show hosts like Glenn Beck with news reporters like Major Garrett.”

“It’s astounding the White House cannot distinguish between news and opinion programming,” Clemente said. “It seems self-serving on their part.”

Everything the Obama Administration does is self serving.

A commenter at Althouse (via Instapundit) nails it:

“He gets the Nobel Peace Prize one week, the next week he’s declaring war on Fox News and gay bloggers.”

Here’s Bill O’Reilly and Brit Hume on Obama vs. FOX News:

More at Memeorandum.

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When Art Doesn’t Inspire Confidence

According to the New York Times, this painting is hanging in the White House. It’s called “I think I’ll…”

I think Ill

I have a feeling Obama meditates on this painting whenever he is contemplating the current situation in Afghanistan.

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