The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...because you can count on CBS suppressing the news of an upcoming Republican wave election.

CBS buries own poll showing GOP ahead in generic ballot

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news....

...for at least after re-election when it's too late.

Rush Limbaugh

//So the Washington Post today has a very long story -- for them, by their standards.  I mean, it's thousands of words.  So let me nutshell it for you.  Let me sum it up for you.  The Washington Post, through diligent journalistic efforts (otherwise known as hard work) has uncovered evidence that the White House knew about the Secret Service's prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia.

Now, this happened back in 2011.  The White House knew about this, despite the White House claims to the contrary at the time.  Old Jay Carney, the spokeskid, clearly went out there and told a whopper about it. (shuffling papers) I'm looking at the sound bite roster.  I thought we had it.  It doesn't matter.  Everybody remembers Jay Carney went out and totally denied it at the White House.  They were as shocked by it as anybody else.

It turns out they knew. //

Washington Post: A"ides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal."

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...and we don't have to be disturbed by all the self-righteous uproar when the Vice President tosses of casual bigoted statements from time to time.

Biden uses "shylock" to refer to lending practices.

Biden pulls off gaffe trifecta.

Biden is a Bozo.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...such as constant reports about boring subjects like how inflation is destroying the middle class.

//HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): New Record: Pound of Ground Beef Tops $4 for First Time. “Just five years ago, in August 2009, the average price for a pound of ground beef was $2.134, according to the BLS. The price has since climbed by $1.879 per pound—or 88.1 percent.”

Inflation is basically nonexistent, though, so long as you don’t eat, drive, or heat and cool your home.//

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...such as the re-assembly of the Russian Empire and the defeat of a pro-Western country.

//Make no mistake about this. The settlement is a deeply damaging blow to our values, to our prestige and to our geopolitical interests. The foolish and distracted Western policies that encouraged Ukraine into a confrontation with Russia in which the West was unwilling to back it; the shameful and feckless mix of triumphalist rhetoric and minimalist action; the cluelessness in the face of Putin’s skillful mastery of Western psychology and divisions; the miserable consequences of all this for the Ukrainian state: every country, every leader in the world has been paying close attention.

Historians, by the way, will also pay attention; the Obama legacy has been permanently tarnished. Unless some real changes take place, neither this President nor his close associates will cut an impressive figure when the accounts are drawn up.

The West may yet get its act together and come up with a coherent response to a war of naked aggression by an ugly despotism on its doorstep, but it would take more determination and imagination than is currently on display.

In the meantime, the Ukrainians are doing the only thing they can; like Hitler’s victims in the 1930s they are signing away territory and rights that they cannot defend and reflecting on the value of all those inspiring promises of support they received from their Western friends back when times were good and the bear was far away.//

But, you know, apres 2016, le deluge.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

Disasters everywhere and the New York Times notes - only now - that Obama has a false sense of self-assurance.

The nice thing about having a Democrat President is that there is never any bad news.

Via Instapundit:

//IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT, DON’T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL: “This past weekend, the American Political Science Association (ASPA) held its annual meeting in Washington, DC. It was a huge affair, involving 53 ‘divisions’ and 60 ‘related groups,’ and featuring more than one thousand separate panels. Here is the kicker: this year, there were no sessions at all devoted to an assessment of the foreign policy of Barack Obama, and not one panel was dedicated to an examination of Obama’s domestic policy. . . . The fact that there was nothing on the program of this year’s APSA pertaining to the Obama administration is a sign that there is nothing good to say on the subject, nothing to celebrate, and nothing to take pride in. Left with no recourse, the academy turns silent. It was eerie. It was as if there has been no Obama presidency. If I am right in my analysis, the complete absence of panels assessing Obama’s record is an indication that the academy now regards Obama as an indefensible embarrassment.”//

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

Russia invades Ukraine; Obama expresses concern.

Hey...isn't this like ....you know...bad news?

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...such as war in Europe.


Russia and Ukraine are in something of a shooting war.

Shouldn't this be a matter of come concern to us?

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...such as the President trading terrorists for a deserter.

Simon and Schuster refuse books on Bergdahl because it might hurt Obama.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...polls about falling presidential approval ratings are so depressing.

NBC Ignores Own Poll Showing 54 Percent of Americans Disapprove of Obama Job Performance

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news....

...a half trillion missing?  Don't worry.  I'm sure they will find it somewhere.

$619 billion missed from federal transparency site

If this had happened under Bush.....

It's a good thing we have a Nobel Prize winner as president instead of that cowboy....

//Putin Lashes Out as Poland Cites Invasion Threat//

That can't be good.

But, hey, it doesn't matter!

Nothing matters as long as we have a Democrat in the White House because ....

...the nice thing about having a Democrat is in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...such as you probably haven't even noticed the soaring inflation in food prices at all since the media is not covering that story.

To which I say: so what? None of those supposedly devastating critiques of the “inflation is real crowd” came even close to addressing the real problem for millions of American families: namely, that the prices of stuff they buy are growing a lot more quickly than the wages they use to buy that stuff. Yes, it’s nice that we spend a smaller percentage of our budgets on food than other nations do or than our grandparents did after World War II, but that’s cold comfort to a working mom trying to figure out how to buy $20 worth of meat with only $15 left in her pockets.

A lot has happened since Perry told us ten months ago to stop whining. Did events prove him right or wrong? Was his inexplicably bizarre method of averaging four years’ worth of inflation data actually an effective way of predicting future price growth? Let’s take a look:

It turns out food prices have soared since he so confidently told us to shut up about them. The chart above shows the rapid disparity between food price growth and wage growth since Perry issued his “stop whining” directive. No joke: compared to less than a year ago, egg prices are up 13 percent. Beef is up 10 percent. Pork is up more than 9 percent. Fresh fruits are up over 7 percent. Overall, the prices of food at home are up 2.3 percent, while average hourly wages are up only 1.4 percent. In other words, food prices are growing 64 percent faster than wages.

The overall trend since the end of the recession in June of 2009 is no different. Food price growth is outstripping wage growth:

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

Here's why and what you haven't been hearing.

The Obama administration is restricting media access to the Border so that you won't hear about terrorists, disease and gangs.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...because the mainstream media journalists are just Democrat operatives with bylines.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

....such as that our allies think we are a joke.

A Polish news magazine said on Sunday it had obtained a secret recording of Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, in contention for a senior European Union job, saying that Poland's relationship with the United States was worthless.

The Wprost news magazine said the recording was of a private conversation earlier this year between Sikorski and Jacek Rostowski, a member of parliament with the ruling Civic Platform who until last year was finance minister.

The magazine did not say who recorded the conversation, or how it obtained the recording.

Aides to Sikorski and Rostowski said they had no immediate comment. A government spokeswoman said it was hard to form a view based on a few excerpts of a conversation, but there might be a comment later.

According to a transcript of excerpts of the conversation that was published by Wprost on its Internet site, Sikorski told Rostowski: "You know that the Polish-US alliance isn't worth anything."

"It is downright harmful, because it creates a false sense of security ... Complete bullshit. We'll get in conflict with the Germans, Russians and we'll think that everything is super, because we gave the Americans a blow job. Losers. Complete losers."

The nice thing about having a Democrat inthe White House is that there is never any bad news...

...like scandals involving the "loss" of 2 years of Lois Lerner's emails.

//Writing yesterday about the IRS’s amazing loss of more than two years of Lois Lerner’s emails (“Where’d they go? They were here just a minute ago!”), I wondered in passing how the Extended White House Public Relations Office, e.g., the New York Times, MSNBC, et al. would handle the news. The Nixon White House, you’ll recall, found quite a lot of the morning’s scrambled on its collective countenance when 18 and 1/2 minutes of audio tape somehow—somehow!—went missing as the Watergate scandal unfolded around the president. 

What a godsend to the guardians of our “Right to Know” Watergate was! Day after day, week after week, month after month, the front pages and editorial pages of our former Paper of Record were full of stern admonitions about that egregious abuse of executive power. You could not look at the paper without a synesthetic shudder: Reading it, you could almost hear them licking their chops as their prey—the dastardly Richard Nixon—came ever closer to his doom.

So how does the New York Times handle this extraordinary loss of two years’ worth of Lois Lerner’s emails?  (“Really, they were here just a minute ago. We were just about to hand them over to Congress when, gosh darn, they just vanished.  Damndest thing.”)

This will amaze you, I know, but it is true: the New York Times  today devotes zero words to the story. Take a look at the front page here:  Nothing. There are a couple of articles about Iraq’s descent into chaos—Iraq, the country whose transformation Joe Biden, in 2010, called one of the “greatest achievements” of the Obama administration. “I’ve been there 17 times now,” the vice president told Larry King.  “I know every one of the major players in all of the segments of that society. It’s impressed me. I’ve been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.” But I digress . . .

What else do we have on the front page?  Warnings about a connection between obesity and liver disease. Something about the tea party in the aftermath of David Brat’s upset victory in Virginia and a story about restauranteurs upset by apps bypassing maitre d’s in securing good tables at posh eateries. The public has a right to know these things. There is also advance word about a coming article about the entertainer “Beyoncé the Boundless” (they teach alliteration in J school), the soccer games in Brazil, and sundry other topics.

What about the missing emails?  Nary a word on the front page. Or the next page. Or the next or the next.  The editorial page has a stern piece about “The Soros Cycle of Endless Cash”—oh, wait, no, it’s not about the left-wing billionaire George Soros. My mistake. What he does with his money is his business. It’s about—can you guess?—yes! The Koch brothers, the men the Times just loves to hate. But about the missing emails in one of the most disgusting political scandals in recent times, the deployment of the IRS with its virtually unlimited powers, against political opponents of the administration? Nothing. Nada. Rien.//

If we believe that they are not crooks, then we should fairly conclude that they are too incompetent to handle foreign policy or health care or the border or the government.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

You know, I've said it before, Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades.//

Liberal Law Professor Jonathan Turley

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

Atlantic magazine opines that Obama POW trade "weakens the rule of law."

What's alarming is the unlawful way that the Obama administration carried out the swap. The law requires 30 days' notice to Congress before a Gitmo detainee is transferred or released. The White House has now brazenly flouted that requirement. And the precedent being set by Team Obama is problematic in the same ways as the executive-branch power grabs that happened during the Bush Administration. In fact, Senator Obama was a critic of the logic he has now shamelessly adopted. He decried signing statements, for example, but cites a signing statement of his own as if it is a defense against violating the plain text of what he signed.

The illegality of the Obama Administration's actions is underscored by the way their story keeps changing. The White House began by hinting that the 30-day notification requirement is unconstitutional. But it is unwilling to press that claim. Its current position is that Congress didn't intend the law to say what it says.

It must be dawning on the media that in two years there could be a Republican in the White House and they need some credibility to go on the attack again.

After all, what's different about this time and the re-writing of Obamacare or Immigration Law or using the IRS to attack political enemies or stonewalling the release of information on Benghazi?