The Other McCain

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

Liberals Spinning S&P Credit Downgrade: BLAME IT ON THE REPUBLICANS!

Nothing is more amazing than the ability of liberals — both politicians and “journalists” — to synchronize their lies. In the wake of Standard & Poors downgrading of the U.S. credit rating Friday, the Democrat-Media Complex has now forged a consensus that this had nothing to do with massive two-year binge of deficit spending embarked […]

I … See … Crazy People

One of the amazing things about the whole debt-ceiling episode is how it has caused liberals to say stuff even crazier than the crazy stuff they usually say. Michael Lind at Salon: The debt ceiling crisis is the latest case in which the radical right in the South has held America hostage until its demands […]

Dow Drops 266 Points, Both Sides Race to Claim Defeat in Debt-Deal Compromise

Who didn’t see this coming? For months we were warned that financial catastrophe would ensue unless Congress raised the debt ceiling. So Congress raised the debt ceiling and . . . financial catastrophe: Stocks plunge as economic concerns grow Associated Press NEW YORK — A sell-off is erasing all of the year’s gains in the […]

Jonah Goldberg, in Fine Form

Worked up into a long-overdue rant: Tom Friedman — who knows a bit about Hezbollah — calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and “terrorists,” “terrorists” and “traitors.” They want to “end life as […]

‘That Evil Hour …’

How long, O Lord, how long? Where will it end? All I ever wanted out of this campaign was enough money to get out of the country and live for a year or two in peaceful squalor in a house with a big screen porch looking down on an empty white beach, with a good […]

Let’s Celebrate the Debt Deal!

“I stand here in abject stupefaction. The so-called ‘right’ or ‘Tea Party’ in this republic is being so thoroughly rolled and defeated that I am struggling to come up with an adequate violent submission metaphor that does not involve prison rape . . .” — Ann Barnhardt , American Thinker

House Passes Debt Deal 269-161

The latest news: The House on Monday approved bipartisan legislation to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling and reduce long-term budget deficits, endorsing the agreement President Obama struck with Republican leaders. . . . The bill now heads for a Tuesday vote in the Senate . . . The vote was 269-161, as Republicans largely […]

Pelosi to Dems: ‘Vote Your Conscience’

But Nancy, if they had a conscience, they wouldn’t be Democrats! OK, beyond the cheap snark, here’s a EuroNews video report, which you may enjoy merely for the narrator’s accent: Notice that even this lady with the weird foreign accent blames it all on “Republican right-wing Tea Party supporters.” And via Memeorandum and Breitbart, here’s […]

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