Tag Archives: Obama

Rats in the Progressives’ Cage

Posted on August 21, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The Obama administration is pushing the controversial agenda of “regionalism.”  And it will transform the way you live and the community you live in… regardless of whether you like it or not.      Allegedly, it is about “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” … Continue reading →

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I Always Feel Like Obama’s Watching Me ♪ ♫

Posted on August 20, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Brilliant parody of Obama & the NSA set to the tune “Someone’s Watching Me” from Taiwan’s NMA. Tweet

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When You’ve Lost Alfred E. Neuman…

Posted on August 11, 2013 by The Political Hat

     MAD Magazine’s October issue takes on the entire domestic spying scandal in a way that might not seen too kindly by some Obama supporters.      There probably won’t be much fall-out, since MAD Magazine is way above the heads of most … Continue reading →

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America’s Marxist Future?

Posted on August 8, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Under Obamanomics, people have been dropping out of the workforce, which results in an artificially low unemployment rate.  The labor participation rate has been stagnant, or depressed, if you will.  What is most worrisome is that the jobs that America … Continue reading →

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The Nudging of America

Posted on August 7, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The Obama administration is hiring a “Behavioral Insights Team” in order to tweak and alter people’s behavior without them noticing.  Such dark shenanigans are referred to as “nudges,” the term deriving from Obama’s fellow traveler Cass Sunstein.  The problem with … Continue reading →

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Summing Up the Obama Administration Succinctly

Posted on August 2, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Within hours of the Obama administration putting up a website to provide small businesses “A One-Stop-Shop on the Health Care Law for Businesses Big and Small” (in the words of Valerie Jarret), that very same website crashed.      As tempting as … Continue reading →

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The Coming Cyanofication of Texas?

Posted on August 1, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Attorney General Eric Holder is suing the state of Texas in order to bring the state back into “pre-clearance” status under the Voting Rights Act.  Ever since the U. S. Supreme Court ruled the nearly half-century old list of states … Continue reading →

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Tales from a Topographic Presidency

Posted on July 29, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Obama has given yet another lengthy speech where he will yet again pivot towards the economy.  It was long and repeated many of the same inane bromides and mindless drivel that his even more mindless supporters eat up like a … Continue reading →

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“Justice” as Social Engineering

Posted on July 26, 2013 by The Political Hat

     For the Progressive left, “justice” requires a superficial equality of outcome (those who are “more equal than others,” excepted, of course).  To achieve these aims, they must play the social engineer, thus treating individual human beings like simple cogs in … Continue reading →

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We Have Met the Enemy…

Posted on July 25, 2013 by The Political Hat

…and he is us.      The modern Progressive movement, before them the Jacobins of the French Revolution, and through communism and fascism, have all fundamentally been collectivist ideologies that put forth that the volonté générale of the hoi polloi is revealed … Continue reading →

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