The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Why The Sudden Bi-Partisan Financial Regulation Interest?

by Smitty After the economic stun-ulus, auto takeover and the ObamaCare fiasco, the default position amongst conservatives is that the 111th Congress couldn’t lead two nuns in one minute of silent prayer. Now the Senate is setting about considering Wall Street regulation, to howls of derisive laughter, combined with angst at the economic sodomy to […]

Take a Chill Pill, Phil

My friend Philip Klein of the American Spectator goes into Eeyore mode over the prospect of a three-way Florida Senate election with “independent” Charlie Crist: Yet, while a Quinnipiac poll taken last week found that he trailed Marco Rubio by 23 points in the primary, it also found that in a general election, Crist leads […]

How to Lose Your MSNBC Anchor Gig

Describe Keith Olbermann as “angry”: A week-long anchoring stint on MSNBC by Donny Deutsch ended abruptly on Wednesday, and four people briefed on the decision said the cancellation stemmed from an unflattering mention of that channel’s No. 1 anchor, Keith Olbermann, a day earlier. Mr. Deutsch had labeled his hour on MSNBC “America the Angry,” […]

Dear Andrew Sullivan

You don’t have a uterus. That’s not your fault, but it’s not Sarah Palin’s fault either, and it’s long past time for you to stop obsessing about the governor’s uterus. “Legitimate questions of fact! Relevant questions!” You’re sick, Andrew. Get help.

How to Get Re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano

No, I still haven’t succeeded in my seven-month-long crusade to get re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano (she’s got nearly 800,000 followers), but I continue studying her Twitter habits, like a lion watching a gazelle beside a watering hole on the Kalahari plain. And it appears that celebrity sleaze-merchant Perez Hilton has broken the Milano Code. Evidently, one way […]

Liberals Scream: ‘No Fair! Conservatives Are Infringing Our Monopoly on Gay-Baiting Republican Closet Cases!’

As Professor Donald Douglas points out, that is the essence of liberal blogger Steve Benen’s concern-troll post at Washington Monthly: I’m not generally in the habit of defending Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), but some of the abuse he’s been receiving from the right is ridiculous. . . . For the record, I neither know nor […]

SIGTARP Report Confirms: Homeowner Bailout Program Won’t Fix Housing Crisis

Connie Hair at Human Events reports: A new report released yesterday (.pdf) by Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) warns that Obama administration efforts to bailout homeowners through the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) are ineffective and will not stem the sweeping tide of foreclosures. The $75 billion HAMP […]

If Marco Rubio Is Stalin, Who Is Crist? And What Does That Make John Cornyn?

Chris Matthews gets another thrill up his leg: Republican purge. Arlen Specter is out. John McCain, Charlie Crist and Robert Bennett are all being threatened on the right. Is this anyway to run a party or run it into the ground? . . . [W]hat happens to Republicans who don’t march to the right wing […]

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