RE: President Obama, Meet Reality
Saner liberals are nervous. Ruth Marcus, who is rooting for ObamaCare to pass, can do the math. Yeah, there might be 50 votes to jam through the Senate whatever can be jammed through via...
View ArticleTrying to Reinvent Obama
Dee Dee Myers is the latest Democrat to step forward offering advice to Obama. Her bottom line: change your personality. She finds him “calm,” “cool,” and “self-possessed.” The result, she says: But...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
No (except from the Obami): “Does anyone think that Iran would be shipping arms to terrorists or building nuclear weapons if it was a democracy?” asks Elliott Abrams. Predictable (when you nominate...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Rep. Bart Stupak’s seat is now a “toss up.” The ObamaCare vote may turn out to be historic after all. Nate Silver proclaims: “Generic Ballot Points Toward Possible 50+ Seat Loss For Democrats.” Charlie...
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Eric Cantor blasts Obama’s change in Israel policy: “While Israel continues its search for a reliable partner in peace, Palestinian terrorism is still celebrated in the West Bank and Gaza. Despite this...
View ArticleRE: The Tax Issue Is Back
As I’ve noted before, Obama has brought the tax issue roaring back. Nothing like a liberal president willing to raise taxes on the non-rich (after promising not to), small businesses, and capital...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Among the top 10 places Ahmadinejad won’t be going to in New York: “Down on Houston Street sits Katz’s Deli, a venerable New York institution since 1888. But Ahmadinejad’s punim is unlikely to join the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Ben Smith spots bias at the Washington Post. CEOs spots the worst place to do business: “California ranks last among the states and Washington D.C. as a place to do business, according to Chief...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Quit
The special election in Hawaii has turned into another Democratic fiasco. As this report explains: Despite spending more than $300,000, frustrated House Democrats may abandon efforts to win a special...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Sigh: “The heads of the Democratic and Republican parties on Sunday criticized controversial comments made by two Senate hopefuls in their own parties, but each stood behind their candidacies [Rand...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
How could Rep. Joe Sestak think he was supporting Israel when he called for a “fair” UN Human Rights Council investigation of the flotilla incident? The UNHRC has appointed its kangaroo court. (The...
View ArticleMassachusetts Dems Still Trying to Reverse Bush v. Gore
It’s a little late to help Al Gore, but the loyal Democrats of Massachusetts are still trying to reverse the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. The Bay State’s legislature ratified a bill today...
View ArticleThe Increasingly Self-Pitying Obama White House
According to the preview offered by Vanity Fair: [Todd] Purdum spends a day inside the West Wing and talks to Obama’s top aides, who tell him about the challenges of playing the Beltway game, ugly as...
View ArticleGetting Obama Half-Right — and All Wrong
Newt Gingrich has created a new controversy with remarks to National Review Online: “What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you...
View ArticleObama’s One-Man Wrecking Crew
If possible, Obama has done still more harm to the Democrats who are on the ballot this year. Liz Cheney of Keep America Safe was fast on the draw, calling for Obama to explain what he meant about...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: The Rubio-Obama Analogy
Jonathan, I agree with you completely. What’s interesting is that Rubio not only claims an affecting personal narrative; it’s a narrative that incorporates an organic backdrop of American...
View ArticleRecap
What happened? First the body count. The GOP picked up 64, lost three, and has a net pickup so far of 61. However, about a dozen seats are still undecided. The final total is likely to be in the high...
View ArticleExemptions Granted by U.S. Prove Iran Sanctions Won’t Work
Those aware of the profound nature of the threat that an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose to the West and to Israel have long been assured by the Washington foreign policy establishment that if...
View ArticleJudges’ Vacation on the Public’s Dime
The General Services Administration outraged taxpayers last month after news broke that it had taken a ritzy, $800,000 trip to Las Vegas on the public dime. But now it looks like the 9th Circuit Court...
View ArticleRemembering Daniel Inouye
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Daniel Inouye, the son and grandson of Japanese immigrants, was 17. “I was filled with grief as I came to the realization that the pilots who had...
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