https://hotair.com/author/jimmie/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 06:28:52 -0400<![CDATA[By now, I&#8217;m sure you all know that Katie Couric, who must by law be described with the adjective &#8220;perky&#8221;, has stepped down as anchor of the CBS Evening News after several years of doing to her ratings what hiring an elderly mule as a CEO would do to the stock of Apple. Her replacement is likely to be veteran 60 Minutes reporter Scott Pelley. Pelley, as CBS was proud to note, is an actual journalist who is responsible for half the awards won by his former show over the past several years.]]>Tue, 03 May 2011 14:35:24 -0400<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2011/05/03/swapping-bias-for-bias-at-cbs-couric-out-pelley-in-n177960<![CDATA[According to The Politico, the White House has a couple revisions to the story it told us yesterday of what happened inside Osama bin Laden&#8217;s compound in Abbottabad. The most notable change thus far to the story we heard yesterday from Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan and the Pentagon is that bin Laden didn&#8217;t pick up a gun and join the fighting.]]>Tue, 03 May 2011 13:20:04 -0400<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[birthers]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2011/05/03/the-story-shifts-on-the-abbottabad-raid-n177952<![CDATA[With gasoline prices climbing toward $5 a gallon faster than a cat going up a tree while being chased by a pack of hellhounds, it&#8217;s become difficult for even the most obtuse politicians to ignore the clamor from the American public. &#8220;Drill, Baby, Drill&#8221; is fast becoming the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tread on Me&#8221; of our day. Even Bill Clinton agrees that it makes no sense for our vast resources to lie untapped right now.]]>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:30:22 -0400<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2011/04/29/know-whatll-help-you-with-high-gas-prices-a-democratic-form-letter-n177888<![CDATA[Just when you think the world can&#8217;t get any more crazy, it pulls over to a siding and hooks another car on the Crazy Train. This past Sunday, police in Britain actually arrested a keytarist named Simon Ledger for singing Carl Douglas&#8217; &#8220;Kung Fu Fighting&#8221;.]]>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:20:29 -0400<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[China]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2011/04/28/his-kung-fu-was-strong-but-not-strong-enough-to-beat-political-correctness-n177855<![CDATA[If you had any doubt that Obamacare was a huge scam, let Jamie Dupree blast it away like an oyster cracker before a sandstorm.]]>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:48:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2011/04/03/and-the-winners-of-the-first-obamacare-payout-lottery-are-not-the-taxpayers__trashed-n177359<![CDATA[Okay, I admit right up front that this isn&#8217;t a heavy story and that, normally, I could care less about the political opinions of pop stars. But, come on, folks. This is Justin Bieber we&#8217;re talking about here! We bloggers are a mercenary lot who&#8217;ll find reason to write about almost anything if it&#8217;ll bring us that sweet, sweet blog traffic.]]>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:48:51 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2011/02/16/the-home-of-hunter-s-thompson-brings-you-justin-bieber-political-pundit-n176467<![CDATA[As we learned from Allah yesterday, House Republicans are going after the big entitlement programs in the 2012 budget. We all know we can&#8217;t get control of government spending until we wrestle Medicaid and Social Security into submission, but we also know this is likely to be the toughest political fight most of us have seen in our lifetimes. President Bush took a run at Social Security reform in 2005, but was undone in part by Republicans who lacked the courage to breathe the words &#8220;partial privatization&#8221; within 100 yards of a registered voter.]]>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:40:30 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[Egypt]]><![CDATA[entitlements]]><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]><![CDATA[Paul Ryan]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Social Security]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2011/02/16/why-we-must-spring-the-presidents-budget-trap-n176463<![CDATA[We conservatives give the MSM a lot of heat for its bias, but Alexander Bolton at The Hill had a story Wednesday for which we should commend him. He noted that the SEIU, which had led the charge against the GOP effort to repeal Obamacare, is one of the unions that has obtained wavers from the White House to exempt thousands of its employees from the onerous Obamacare requirements.]]>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:21:05 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2011/02/04/seiu-riding-the-waiver-wave-n176229<![CDATA[The Church of Global Warming has faced an uphill battle lately. The average person is not likely to accept the message that the planet is warming and that only an unprecedented shift of power and money to progressive policy makers will brings things back to normal once they&#8217;ve lived through a couple horrible winters and witnessed the massive fraud perpetrated by the climate science community. So it has come to pass that the number of Britons who believe that global warming is both real and dangerous has shrunk rapidly in the past four years.]]>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:32:57 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[global warming]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2011/01/29/global-warming-alarmists-in-retreat-glaciers-not-so-much-n176115<![CDATA[For reasons I can&#8217;t quite fathom, progressives have decided that one of the big stories this week should be whether or not Speaker Boehner will change the name of the &#8220;Repealing The Job Killing Health Care Law Act&#8221;. Apparently, &#8220;job killing&#8221; is now verboten speech, lest some barely-hinged right winger mistake a Democrats for a job and kill&#8230;wait&#8230;mistake a Democrat for Obamacare and&#8230;]]>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:00:23 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]><![CDATA[john boehner]]><![CDATA[Progressives]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2011/01/18/alternate-names-for-the-repealing-the-job-killing-health-care-law-act-n175879<![CDATA[Most people, including me, tend to think that balancing the budget is a Herculean task. I look at the yearly deficit numbers racked up by our self-proclaimed Blue Dog President and I wonder how we can ever bring those long, long red lines to zero. All the proposals, from the left and right have been reported by the MSM as being full of misery and woe and none of them get us to a balanced budget in less than twenty years. We all know we don&#8217;t have that kind of time.]]>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:15:00 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[entitlements]]><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2010/12/06/want-to-balance-the-budget-its-easier-than-we-think__trashed-n175137<![CDATA[Breitbart&#8217;s news site has an interesting article about how nearly 2000 very rich people are lobbying the Democrats to raise taxes on &#8220;the rich&#8221;, defined as those people who make over $250,000 a year. Laying aside the issue of whether a small business owner who reports that income on an individual tax return (and there are quite a few of those folks) is &#8220;rich, I&#8217;d like to issue a challenge to the wealthy letter-signers who feel it&#8217;s okay to force other people to live under their moral code.]]>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:45:35 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[Progressives]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2010/11/27/when-i-can-becomes-you-must-n174978<![CDATA[It&#8217;s not just high-profile targets that are at-risk, folks.]]>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:00:54 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Oregon]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2010/11/27/somali-born-teen-arrested-after-attempting-to-detonate-a-car-bomb-in-oregon-n174966<![CDATA[When Rahm Emanuel resigned as President Obama&#8217;s Chief of Staff, everyone and his brother assumed he did so to assume the Mayoralty of Chicago.]]>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:50:45 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[Illinois]]><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2010/11/26/election-law-to-rahm-no-mayors-race-for-you-n174953<![CDATA[As you gathered with family and friends for Thanksgiving, you may have run into a dilemma. Traditionally, the dinner feast ends with an array of delicious pies &#8212; apple, pumpkin, pecan, or even cherry. In years past, we gluttonous Americans simply dug into those bakery treats with scant consideration for our health and welfare or, worse, the health and welfare of our children. Thankfully, though, we have a First Lady who cares for us enough to scold us for being a nation of fat loads of blubber.]]>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:07:11 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2010/11/25/a-nation-rejoices-michelle-obama-okays-thanksgiving-pie-n174949<![CDATA[None of us expected that Republicans members of Congress would easily lay down the re-election security binkies we call earmarks. There were always going to be holdouts like Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) and Senator James Inhofe (R-Porkopolis) who we&#8217;d have to crowbar into grudging, grumbling compliance. However, our task is going to be much more difficult if we can&#8217;t keep the more stalwart earmark foes in line.]]>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:45:06 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Arizona]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[earmarks]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2010/11/24/kyl-i-know-i-said-i-was-against-earmarks-but-just-one-wont-hurt-right-n173101<![CDATA[Of all the stories of the great Republican wave election of 2010, one of the stories that didn&#8217;t get wide play is just how dominant the GOP was in state elections. Republicans claimed a record 680 state legislative seats around the country, 52 more than the old record, set by Democrats in 1974 and 208 more than they picked up in the 1994 Gingrich Revolution. The right now controls both chambers of 26 state legislatures.]]>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:35:28 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Alabama]]><![CDATA[Chris Christie]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[Georgia]]><![CDATA[Louisiana]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[South Dakota]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2010/11/23/the-republican-wave-isnt-quite-finished-yet-n173084<![CDATA[For at least the past month, Afghan officials assisted by NATO and US diplomats, have been meeting with a man who identified himself as Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. Mansour is one of the highest-ranking members of the Taliban, perhaps second only to Mullah Omar. The intention of the meetings, shrouded in secrecy as they have been, have been either to broker a peace between the Taliban and the Afghan government or to arrange a formal exchange of prisoners. To be honest, no one is entirely sure because the Karzai government hasn&#8217;t been particularly forthcoming with the press about the issue.]]>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:00:10 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]><![CDATA[al qaeda]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]><![CDATA[National Public Radio]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Taliban]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]><![CDATA[War on Terror]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2010/11/23/smart-diplomacy-afghans-and-nato-duped-by-lowly-shopkeeper-n173072<![CDATA[Politico has an article today on the inner workings of Sharron Angle&#8217;s losing campaign that should provide instructive to the right as we look toward the 2012 election. You might recall that Angle shocked more than a few political observers when she won the nomination thanks to an immense push from local Tea Party organizations as well as a couple outside groups. She then went on to squander a considerable lead and lose handily to Harry Reid. It turns out that the campaign was doomed nearly from the day Angle won the primary thanks largely to amateurish leadership.]]>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:17:31 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[GOP]]><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]><![CDATA[Nevada]]><![CDATA[Republicans]]><![CDATA[tea party]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2010/11/22/nevada-epilogue-amateur-candidates-often-run-amateur-campaigns-n173048<![CDATA[In certain Democratic hearts, there lives a dream barely spoken aloud, a dream of a champion who will run against Barack Obama in the 2012 primaries and vanquish him to outer electoral darkness where there is only weeping, the lecture circuit, and maybe the Secretary General&#8217;s seat at the U.N. In that dream, the name of the champion &#8212; Hillary Clinton &#8212; is enough to thrill the heart of even the most jaded Democrat.]]>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:45:00 -0500<![CDATA[Jimmie Bise, Jr]]><![CDATA[2012 election]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]>https://hotair.com/jimmie/2010/11/22/hillary-i-will-run-no-more-forever-n173039