Robert Laurie

Healthcare.gov built on ten year old tech, needs six months of upgrades, may be un-fixable

Don't worry. It's just glitches. There's nothing to see here. Please, move along. In a few days, everything will be right as rain.

Iconic Bonnie Doon ice cream factory closing - thanks to Obamacare

According to the owners of the Bonnie Doon ice cream factory in Indiana, Obamacare has forced them to shut their doors. They admit there are other factors - including the realities of trying to operate a small business in the Obama economy - but they say the number one reason they're closing is the impending cost of Obamacare implementation.

Mainstream news starting to learn that Obamacare might not be all its cracked up to be

"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan." That was the Obama mantra throughout 2009 and 2010. Those happy with their plans wouldn't see any change. Plus, Obamacare was going to make insurance cheaper, easier to get, and better. People would save an average of $2,500 a year. The mainstream media gleefully parroted the President, and they were more than happy to defend his lies at every opportunity.

Boehner unveils, pushes, new plan to end shutdown - Obama rejects it instantly

This morning, Dan Calabrese outlined the soon to be finalized Senate "compromise" that would end the shutdown and raise the debt limit. Not to be out-surrendered, this morning at the House Republican conference John Boehner unveiled a similar plan. The speaker's white flag looks an awful lot like the one emerging in the Senate, with a couple key differences.

It’s been two weeks, and CNN is STILL trying to sign up for Obamacare ...unsuccessfully

Hey, remember that time that no one could buy anything from Amazon.com for two weeks? No? OK, well, how about that time that no one could sign into their iTunes account for two weeks? Surely you remember that, right? No?

Obamacare rollout has been ‘Excruciatingly embarrassing’ - says Robert Gibbs?

In much the same way that Barack Obama has bumped Jimmy Carter up a notch on the list of worst Presidents, Jay Carney has retroactively improved the image of former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. By bringing a whole new level of sleaze, creepiness, and arrogance to the job, Carney has made Gibbs' lie-for-a-living performance look downright palatable. So, maybe it's no surprise that Gibbs is still out there doing what he does best: spinning Obama's failures.

If you want to heckle Ted Cruz, you’ve got your work cut out for you…

If you're going to show up at a speech and heckle the man on stage, you'd probably better make sure he's not a cum laude Princeton graduate and a world renowned debater. Ted Cruz is just such a guy, and he's probably not someone to whom you want to start mouthing off. This is especially true if you're some low level Organizing for Action goon who's packing little more than a high school diploma and a headful of barely controlled rage.

MSNBC: Ted Cruz, and Republicans who agree with him, don’t love their country

Ladies & gentlemen, it's finally happened. We've learned just how nuts an MSNBC host has to get in order to get Joe Scarborough to show a little backbone. It happened this week, during a "Morning Joe" segment on Harry Reid's federal shutdown.

AP Buries the lede as Obama approval plunges to 37% - Mainstream ignores

UPDATE: My numbers below are slightly off. Actually, Barack Obama is polling two points LOWER than George W. Bush during the same point in their Presidencies. Bush hit 39% in the AP/Ipsos poll conducted October 3-5 in 2005 - and that was while the media hammered him with the Hurricane Katrina story.

Obama phones Boehner, says he won’t ‘negotiate’ until he’s given everything he wants

A short time ago, CBSNEWS' Mark Knoller reported via Twitter that President Obama has placed a phone call to John Boehner. The content of that call contained all the honor, humility, and grace that you would expect from our current Commander In Chief. According to Knoller, Obama told the Speaker that he still refuses to negotiate - unless certain conditions are met.

Pete King continues self destruction - says ‘Cruz & his allies’ aren’t conservatives

Whatever happens with the budget and Obamacare battles, one thing is certain. The RINO wing of the GOP has placed itself in a no-win scenario. If congressional conservatives manage to win their fight, the RINOs will have been outed as the Neville Chamberlains of American politics.

Senior White House official: ‘It doesn’t matter to us’ how long shutdown lasts . . . ‘we’re winning’

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting quote from a senior administration official, who outlines his deep concern for those effected by the federal shutdown:

Harry Reid: ‘Why would we want to’ help one child with cancer?

Yesterday, during a press conference, CNN's Dana Bash had a simple question for Harry Reid. Republicans in the House were promising to pass a CR funding the National Institutes of Health - thus allowing NIH research into childhood cancer to continue despite the shutdown - and Bash wanted to know if Reid and his cronies would allow it to pass the Senate.

Orders to close World War II Memorial coming directly from White House

Yesterday, groups of World War Two veterans did the unthinkable. After the White House denied a request to let veterans tour their memorial, the vets defied the feds and stormed the barricades. It was a defiant act that spat in the face of Harry Reid's decision to shut down the federal government. Today, we're learning that not only has the administration doubled down on its decision to keep vets from entering the site, but that the orders to do so are coming directly from the White House.

MSNBC ‘journalist’ tries in vain to sign up for Obamacare - hilarity ensues

Yesterday morning, as the Obamacare exchanges came on line across the country, the media was falling all over itself to explain the new system. If you watched any of the mainstream coverage, it was generally fawning. Most reports focused on how easy, inexpensive, and long-overdue Obamacare truly is. As always, MSNBC - that bastion of thoughtful left-wing analysis and propaganda - was there to do its part.

WWII veterans defy shutdown, storm WWII memorial

Yesterday, four busloads of World War Two veterans arrived at Washington D.C.'s WWII memorial. For some, the journey had been a difficult one. Their trip was long, all were elderly, many were wheelchair bound, and as they arrived at their destination, they were greeted by an unpleasant sight.

RUMOR: CNN to drop embarrassing anti-gun crusader, Piers Morgan

OK everyone; take this one with a grain of salt because - for now - it's all very hush hush. FTVLive, a website focusing on behind the scenes news and rumor from America's TV Newsrooms is reporting the CNN has finally had enough of Piers Morgan. His show "Piers Morgan Live" has become famous for its dismal ratings, an atrocious penchant for half-baked belligerence, and an ill-conceived, ill-informed, anti-gun crusade.

MSNBC: Administration banking on media to blame Republicans for shutdown

It's pretty rare that MSNBC gets something right. Usually, their ranting is the kind of delusional left-wing race baiting predicated on falsehood and fantasy. Every once in a while, though, they let the mask slip and tell the truth. MSNBC's senior political analyst, Mark Halperin, did just that on today's installment of "Morning Joe."

Obama ally Jennifer Granholm - Syria, Iran more ‘rational’ than GOP

Jennifer Granholm is the former Governor of Michigan who's most often thought of as the worst in the state's history. She's also the former host of CurrrentTV's "The War Room," a former crazed speaker at the Democrat National Convention, and a former green energy guru. She's a whole lot of "former" things. Currently, she's a raving hack who will say virtually anything if it will get the attention of her friend and ally Barack Obama.

CR passes cloture, 79-19; meet the Republicans who voted for it

As Senator Cruz said, "a vote for cloture is a vote for Obamacare." About an hour ago, the Continuing Resolution which defunded the affordable care act passed its cloture vote and, only a few minutes later, Senate Dems voted to strip the "defunding" language. They also removed a debt-limit provision and altered the length of the CR from December 15th to November 15th. The shortened time frame is designed to aid Democrat strategies that will seek to eliminate the sequester.