It’s Getting Ugly for the Democrats
Earlier today, I quoted William Galston telling the Financial Times: “Just as BP’s failure to cap the well has been so damaging, Obama’s failure to cap unemployment will be his undoing. There is...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Worst press secretary in recent memory? Chris Cillizza says he is at least the winner of the “worst week” designation: “It took only 17 words ['there is no doubt there are enough seats in play that...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
It’s not just that Journolisters (Journoapparatchiks?) are foul-mouthed; they need to get out more, says Jeffrey Goldberg about the lefties’ vulgar insult of Nascar fans: “It is true, in my limited...
View ArticleThey Don’t Have George W. Bush to Kick Around Anymore
To a greater extent than any administration that preceded it, the Obama team has obsessively blamed its predecessor for everything and anything. The public, however, has not been distracted. Americans...
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Israel can bank on the Tea Partiers (but the ”pro-Israel left” – an oxymoron if there ever was one – not at all): “Now that the congressional supporters of the Tea Party movement have formed their own...
View ArticleLatest New Lows
I suspect it’s going to get worse for Obama after the full impact of his Ground Zero debacle is measured but he’s hitting new lows in approval nearly every day. Today is the trifecta at...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Obama has managed to revive the conservative movement, drive independents into the GOP’s arms, sink his own party’s fortunes, bring Sarah Palin and Howard Dean together (on the Ground Zero mosque) —...
View ArticleGerson vs. Robinson
You have to give the Washington Post credit — their editors certainly offer a contrast on their op-ed pages. Today, needless to say, you have a Michael Gerson and Eugene Robinson. The difference is...
View ArticleNot Obama’s Katrina
In his interview from New Orleans yesterday with NBC’s Brian Williams, commemorating the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Obama assured the world that his handling of the oil spill in...
View ArticleWe Miss Bush!
This, from Democratic pollster Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling, caused quite a stir yesterday: “[B]y a 50-42 margin voters [in Ohio] say they’d rather have George W. Bush in the White House right...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Ben Smith has this right about a new, fantastical Vanity Fair piece: “you can really write anything about Palin.” Michael Goldfarb has the goods on the “moderate” Ground Zero mosque builders. It seems...
View ArticleWhy Does He Look So Uncomfortable?
Forget for a moment the substance of Obama’s Iraq war speech. A number of observers remarked that he looked plain uncomfortable and that his speech was “flat.” (Said one: “Why bother with a speech...
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Only now does Barney Frank fess up that he missed the Freddie and Fannie debacle. “I was too late to see they were a problem. … I did see them as an important source of rental housing. I did not...
View ArticleObama Out of Steam
No one can hold a candle to Obama when it comes to whining and self-pity. He’s been misunderstood, he says. His opponents are so, well, oppositional. The media is insistent on getting answers and...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Indignant are the elite opinion makers. “The editor of Vanity Fair is in dudgeon over last week’s election. … They heard this wave of Dem/lib defeats was coming, but it’s just possible they didn’t...
View ArticleHypocrisy Run Rampant
The deepwater-drilling ban caused great economic hardship to the Gulf states, which were already reeling from the BP oil spill. Now we know that the decision was based on falsified science: The White...
View ArticleA Drilling Ban Flip-Flop
NPR reports: The White House won’t allow any new oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico for at least the next seven years because of the BP oil spill. A senior administration official told The...
View ArticleAssange Now Blackmailing the U.S. Government
Some Julian Assange supporters have dismissed the potential national-security risk of WikiLeaks as an unfortunate, but unavoidable, consequence of the fight for more government transparency. But now...
View ArticleSo Much for Twuth
The year’s most retweeted tweet on Twitter (sorry for that ridiculous string of words) was Stephen Colbert’s June 16 gag,”In honor of oil-soaked birds, ‘tweets’ are now ‘gurgles.’” It’s a great line,...
View ArticleRE: Left Shamelessly Seeks to Exploit Arizona Tragedy
Less than 24 hours after the story of the Arizona shooting first broke, Americans woke up to Responsible-Rhetoric Sunday. Every newspaper and news-analysis show piously raised questions about the...
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