Rep. Paul Ryan pwns Obama

Rep. Paul Ryan pwns Obama.  The looks on Obama’s face are just priceless.  I hope Mr. Ryan gets more of the GOP spotlight.  Check it out:

Rhetoric Vs. Results: Exploring The Democrat Record On Jobs

A new video from Eric Cantor:

Lincoln Day Dinner

Just an FYI to all, the annual Lincoln Day Dinner hosted by the Knox County Republican Party is coming up on Saturday, February 27.  Details here.

Morning Update

Sisk drops out of the race for Trustee

Knox County Trustee Fred Sisk told the Halls Republican Club tonight that he is withdrawing from his race for re-election in the Republican primary, leaving John J. Duncan III as the only candidate for the post.

A little breakdown on Bill Haslam’s $5.7 million raised

Of the $4.2 million balance in Bill Haslam’s gubernatorial campaign account at last report, about $1 million cannot be spent in the Republican primary and another $1 million has since been spent on broadcast advertising.

County Commission not using their online message board

An online tool touted as a way for Knox County commissioners to communicate without violating the “sunshine law” sat idle for three months until a reporter began asking commissioners Monday about its lack of use.

State Sen. Mike Faulk tells his side of SJR 682

…a proposed amendment to the Tennessee Constitution by outgoing Senator Mae Beavers to require a 2/3rds vote of both the House and the Senate to break what in Tennessee is commonly called the Copeland cap-the restraint on spending in Tennessee law which is meant to say that State spending cannot exceed the estimated growth in Tennessee’s State economy.

“If this amendment passes, 12 Senators could conceivably hold up the passage of a State budget for partisan reasons while the other 120 members of the General Assembly favor the budget,” Faulk told The Examiner over the weekend, “I’m not prepared to openly support an approach that could allow that to happen.”

President Obama is “agnostic, in terms of solutions.”

No, I’m not making that up.  President Obama said: “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”  Wait, wait, LJB, you say, surely there’s some context here.  There is.  And you won’t like it:

President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.

Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office interview, said that a presidential commission on the budget needs to consider all options for reducing the deficit, including tax increases and cuts in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” the president said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”

Obama repeatedly vowed during the 2008 presidential election campaign that he would not raise taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 and households earning less than $250,000 a year. When senior White House economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner suggested in August that the administration might be open to going back on that pledge, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs quickly reiterated the president’s promise.

I’m not buying it – President Obama is no agnostic, he’s a true believer (in taxing and spending us into oblivion).  Have a hopenchangey day!

Hat tip: Instapundit.