The Other McCain

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

‘Pass This Bill!’ Or … Dont.

Not exactly news from Washington: President Obama launched another wave in his assault on Congress over his jobs bill Saturday, using his weekly radio address to urge Americans contact their representatives in support of the legislation. . . . Obama urged his audience to visit the White House website and read the bill for themselves. […]

Solyndra: Pump and Dump

A Wall Street Journal article quotes an investor in Obama’s bankrupt “green energy” boondoggle describing what the half-billion-dollar federal loan guarantee meant: “There was a perceived halo around the loan . . . If we get the loan, then we can definitely go public and cash out.” Ed Lasky at American Thinker explains: The huge loan […]

Solyndra as Symbol and Metaphor

“Where are you going to find a nickel’s worth of business sense in an administration where there’s no private-sector experience? And caution is for lesser mortals, not The One and his chosen crew.” — Glenn Reynolds, “SolarGate Update” The half-billion deficit dollars pissed away on a bankrupt boondoggle of “green jobs” may become the scandal […]

James Carville Brings The Funny

by Smitty Carville at CNN says that the White House should panic, emphasis mine: 2. Indict people. There are certain people in American finance who haven’t been held responsible for utterly ruining the economic fabric of our country. Demand from the attorney general a clear status of the state of investigation concerning these extraordinary injustices […]

Somebody’s Taking My Advice?

One hesitates to presume influence, especially when what one advises is just common-sense stuff that seems obvious. So yesterday I wrote that Republicans should “relentelessly expose the Solyndra scandal” and added: GOP presidential candidates can help maximize the impact of exposure by making Solyndra the focus of their attacks on the incumbent’s policy agenda. We […]

Obama’s Down. Can GOP Put Him Out?

“There is only so much disaster-control you can do. When you’re in a disaster, you can spin it as ‘not that bad’ or ‘not my fault’ . . . but you cannot actually spin or speechify a horrific state of affairs into a positive one.” — Ace of Spades, “Obama on the Ropes? Two GOP […]

Democrats Discover the SCOAMF Factor

“The Democratic Party’s rare loss of a congressional seat in its urban heartland Tuesday, accompanied by a blowout defeat in a Nevada special election, marked the latest in a string of demoralizing setbacks that threatened to deepen the party’s crisis of confidence and raise concerns about President Barack Obama’s political fortunes. . . . In […]

Not Even Chesley Sullenberger Could Have Made The Spruce Goose A Success

by Smitty Chesley Sullenberger is as close to immortal as a pilot can get, after his Hudson River heroics. But even that skill could not have made the Spruce Goose a success. Progressivism is the political equivalent of the Spruce Goose, on a variety of levels. However, BHO is no political Sullenberger, despite the prodigious propaganda […]

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