The Other McCain

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Pole Position: Phoning It In Insufficient

by Smitty HotAir reports that our perpetually potted President may have some difficulty getting the Polish feathers unruffled with the standard Choom-Ba-Yah approach to diplomacy. Everybody seems to think that this is just some minor gaff. However, when you consider past rhetorical flourishes like Acheson’s speech that preceded the Korean War, the wobbly nature of the […]

Choom-ba-yah My Lord, Choom-ba-yah

by Smitty Delightfully over-the-top: via Bluegrass Pundit

Have Years Of Exposure To Biden Left Obama Totally Potted?

by Smitty Via Ace comes another OPRA* moment: Maybe this is a deliberate chaser insult to follow the under-bus toss exemplified in canceling Theater Ballistic Missile efforts: Two recent editorials from Heritage fellows have criticized the Obama administration for abandoning Eastern European allies. According to the editorials, Obama has given up proposed missile defense sites […]

So You’re Telling Me 1 In 3 Vets Favor #OccupyResoluteDesk?

by Smitty The Blaze relates a Gallup poll showing 58% of veterans favor Romney to 34% for BHO. Gallup theorizes: Men who serve in the military may become socialized into a more conservative orientation to politics as a result of their service. We had this one guy on USS Two Ships Ago, whose last name […]

How Did Fausta Miss That Joke?

by Smitty Normally she’s got those dots connected in a jiffy:

S.E. Cupp Photoshop Was Foul; What About Roseanne’s Glasses?

by Smitty This blog was distracted by the #BrettKimberlin story and caring for a 10-month-old, respectively. So we’re just catching up with Really Important Things, like the tawdry attack on S.E. Cupp in Hustler. As if Newsweek needed any more pornographic ideas for its covers. Green Party presidential hopeful and all around ignis obscurus Roseann […]

Only Another 21 Or So ‘Worst Weeks Ever’

by Smitty . . .until Americans can tell BHO just how much we love him, with finality. Via Red Alexandria. I can only predict the news will get weirder between now and then. Hayward at Human Events: What I believe we are seeing here is the beginning of a “preference cascade,” a term made popular […]

Senator Coburn’s ‘Debt Elimination Ordnance (DOE)’ Adventure

by Smitty Now and then it’s healthy to step outside of Obama’s ‘Real World’. To breath some fresh air. To ponder existence beyond the orbit of the Obamas, Kimberlins, and #Occupy hippies. The Left’s controlling 1% makes for a long, strange, dangerous trip. One of the handful of political leaders worth two hoots today is […]

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