The Other McCain

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

‘A Deliberate . . . Systemic Campaign to Kill Obama’s Presidency in Its Crib’

Hey, did anybody else ever notice that Andrew Sullivan has a tendency to engage in hyperbole? What Sully portrays as a malign plot, I think most people call . . . politics. Or in Jennifer Rubin’s elegantly simple formula, “There is no getting around it. The opposition party must oppose.” For an Obamaphile like Sullivan, the explanation […]

Good News: VotS Watches 60 Minutes
Bad News: Yes, It Is

by Smitty After weeks on his intrepid mission to view 60 Minutes and report on its contents to mortals of lesser fortitude, the score at the Valley of the Shadow is still ugly: 10 produced stories for the Left – 2 1/2 Ties – 1/2 point for the Right. It’s a step. Now improve. He […]

Congressional And Media Probes Into The Obama Admin Promise To Be Un-Boring

by Smitty The Constitution Club reports that, while the cat is away in India, the mice are playing a game of circle the mixed metaphorical wagons: Expect the trickle of leaks to go a-gusher in the coming days. Now that Obama has lost his rainmaker mojo and earned much enmity within his own party (not […]

Yeah, I Thought The 34 Ship Story A Trifle Inflated

by Smitty Having enjoyed a few deployments a couple decades ago, you don’t just go taking large amounts of warships and throwing them at places, unless they have names like San Diego or Norfolk. Singapore. Hong Kong. Then, you’re stuck anchoring out and taking barges in. Dealing with the sewage, fuel, trash, and fresh water […]

Obama Presser: ‘Twas Ever Thus

by Smitty Jonah Golberg: During his press conference [03 November], President Obama insisted that the American public doesn’t want to “re-litigate the past.” Roughly four minutes later, he insisted that he inherited the deficit, which got worse because of a recession he inherited, as well. Somehow Obama forgot to mention that he increased spending 23 […]

234 Years Later, Obama Hardly Resembling Washington

by Smitty Not quite 234 years ago, original Tea Partier and future first POTUS George Washington crossed the Delaware River to put the hurt on forces of the Ruling Class overlords encamped at Trenton. A couple centuries later, and things are reversed. Now, via AmericanGlob the POuTUS has become the Ruling Class overlord, and must […]

TARP Watchdog Report: Administration ‘Manipulated’ Data to Hide AIG Losses

They tried to “hide the decline,” so to speak: In a scathing 338-page report released today, a federal watchdog exposes the failure of the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout and suggests Treasury Department officials engaged in a politically motivated attempt to hide losses at bankrupt insurance giant AIG with “manipulated” data. “Treasury should have disclosed that […]

The First Rule of Cliffs

It seems like eons ago, but actually it was only December 2008, when I examined the proposed neo-Keynesian economic agenda of the ascendant Democrats and said, “It Won’t Work.” Obamanomics is still not working and a new blog points out that, in the case of our president, persistence is more vice that virtue: Obama gave a […]

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