The Other McCain

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

Does This Work As A Metaphor For This Congress And Administration?

by Smitty (via HuffPo) It looks to be a proper board, but the pack of goof on it, headed downhill with no safety gear or reasonable means of managing the thing, bring Nancy, Harry and Barry to mind: I’m not too sure if ABBA works as a proper soundtrack for the 111th Congress and the […]

Obama’s War on Food

Orit Sklar at Human Events explains how the Obama administration plans to decide what you eat: In the current regulatory environment, one may be certain that “recommendations” aren’t mere suggestions. The latest example that calls for a healthy read between the lines is this week’s big unveiling of the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) “Dietary Guidelines […]

John Boehner Unaware Of The Narrative That He Is A Mel Gibson Trainee

by Smitty Here is House Minority Leader John Boehner trying to sound firm and challenging with the President: If John read the Huffington Post, (scroll down for the full effect, including Tweets) he’d know that the new script calls for him to be a drunk-about-town. Whether or not, as my title implies, he’s being groomed […]

So-called Scholars Beclown Themselves

by Smitty Joe Gandelman The Moderate Voice says: A poll of 238 of the country’s top scholars has ranked Barack Obama among the the best Presidents — number 15 to be exact. George W. Bush has dropped from 23 to 39. While not wasting time over-rating W, how can you possibly put BHO in the […]

Boehner Punk-slaps POTUS

by Smitty “The American people want leadership from this White House, not childish partisanship.” Here is a link to his Stuck on Stimulus report. The good news? Dissent is no longer raaaaacist, even if dissent has not yet regained its ‘highest form of paaaaatriotism’ status.

Obamanomics: Failure Is The New Success

by Smitty Heritage has a piece entitled: ‘Why Obamanomics Has Failed – Annotated’. Questions beginning with ‘Why’ being quite a Smitty-magnet, let’s see what these esteemed think-tankers are swimming in. They pick up with Meltzer at the WSJ: ‘Why Obamanomics Has Failed’. RTWT, but I’ll summarize here. . . .they want new stimulus measures—which is […]

Smitty’s Three Word Immigration Bill

by Smitty “Enforce existing law” I’m not making it up. I’m married to an immigrant. There really is law on the books. People follow it. Bluegrass Pundit notes an AP article, which says: Latino leaders say they will work in coming months to pressure Republicans to give way and support an immigration bill – and […]

Gen. McChrystal Relieved of Command

This was predictable: President Obama has relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his command in Afghanistan, administration officials said. Obama will make the official announcement in a few minutes. UPDATE: Gen. Petraeus has been asked to take over in Afghanistan. UPDATE II: Sissy Willis on Twitter: The slur “General Betray Us” was coined by Keith Olbermann. And the […]

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