The Other McCain

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

Heh: ‘Organizing For Access’

by Smitty We really need to elect a Republican President, so that bad things can again be bad.

#OccupyResoluteDesk: ‘I Take A Balanced Approach To Imbalanced Budgets’

by Smitty “Paul Ryan, today, put forward his budget,” says ABC, “and he says, he’s challenging you to come forward with a budget that also reaches balance. Are you going to do that?” “No,” Obama says. “My goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance,” Obama said. “My goal […]

Lying by Euphemism: ‘New Revenues’

Journalism is supposed to be about truth. Jackie Calmes and Jonathan Weisman of the New York Times are engaged in deception: With Republican leaders in Congress forswearing budget negotiations over new revenues, President Obama has begun reaching around them to Republican lawmakers with a history of willingness to cut bipartisan deals. “New revenues” = INCREASING TAXE RATES. President […]

Power Line Got That Backward

by Smitty Power Line points out that the Meteorologist-in-Chief is full of hooey, per this 13-word SOTU passage: Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense. But it’s not that this particular crap-shot to the dome is unusual. Even the famous electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket was delivered in […]

‘He Would Fain Have Had It’

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) “I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it. It was mere foolery. I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown (yet ’twas not a crown neither, ’twas one of these coronets) and, as I told you, […]

David Weigel Just Doesn’t Get That There ‘Leadership’ Thingy

by Smitty Peddling his JournoList wares at Slate, Weigel reveals a bit of density, emphasis mine: Republicans have one goal, running through all of these negotiations. They don’t want sequestration to be replaced by tax revenue. Any tax revenue. Forcing the president to swallow $85 billion in cuts this year would do that. They’ve got […]

‘Evolution,’ Complete

You knew this was coming, right? Completing what President Obama called his “evolution” on the question of gay marriage, the administration late Thursday called on the Supreme Court to strike down California’s voter-passed initiative invalidating same-sex marriages. In the new brief, the Justice Department argues that the ban on gay marriage violated same-sex couples’ constitutional […]

Congressman @SteveStockmanUS Exposes Obama’s Anti-Gun Spambots

Finally, at least one Republican is getting tech-savvy: A Texas Republican on Monday said President Obama’s gun control campaign is a fraud based on fake messages over Twitter. Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) accused Obama of trying to make support for his position look stronger than it really is by flooding Twitter with messages from people […]

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