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Axelrod Interviewed By Strolling Drone

by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty [Strolling Drone correspondent Sissypuss interviewed former Obama Administration political guru David Axelrod for its June 01, 2013 edition. This is a wide-ranging retrospective look at the Meltdown of 2012, the fallout from that, and what he’s been doing since he gave up politics in June 2012 for the other love […]

Boehner: Obama ‘Picking a Fight Where One Doesn’t Exist’ on Student Loans

“No one wants student loan interest rates to go up,” House Speaker John Boehner told Candy Crowley in an interview aired today on CNN’s State of the Union. “For the president to politicize this for his own re-election is picking a fight where one doesn’t exist.” Boehner pointed out that President Obama signed “the payroll […]

Obama Ad: If Romney’s Extremities Get Any More Extremely Extreme, His Limbs Gonna Fly Off And Hit Somebody

by Smitty This Obama campaign ad is kind of a hoot: I suppose the point here is to terrify the ‘hen-house’ with the notion that Mitt is some big, bad wolf. Thoughts: Are women, in general, the kind of dupes implied by this ad, who can easily be driven about the chicken coop with plays […]

“Weekend At Bin Laden’s”

by Smitty Click for source: I, for one, think that #OccupyResoluteDesk should stay in broken record mode about bin Laden. The more Obama and his sycophants natter on about the One True Accomplishment of this administration, the more solitary it looks, and the more stark the contrast with the rest of the unfolding disaster that […]

Lying Liar: ‘I Never Lie,’ Says Jay Carney

The Washington Free Beacon cites a list of fibs, fables and dubious half-truths told by the White House spokesman, and quotes what Jay Carney said today at a luncheon event: “[W]hen I go and stand up in front of the podium, in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say […]

Contemptible Attorney General Found In Contempt Of Congress

by Smitty Breitbart: Republican House leaders are finally holding Attorney General Eric Holder accountable for some of his actions. Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, drafted a 48-page contempt of Congress citation against him. The charge? Repeatedly obstructing and slowing the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious. This […]

First Person Plural: The John Edwards Scandal and America’s Discredited Elite

The pronoun obtrudes in this item on the John Edwards trial: What did Young, or any of us, see in Edwards? What did Edwards see in Hunter, for whom he risked his marriage, despite telling Young, according to his testimony yesterday, “that she was ‘a crazy slut,’ and there was a ‘one-in-three chance’ that it […]

#SaySomethingNiceAboutObama

by Smitty TweetDeck informs me that there have been 61 retweets, a personal record: I had a couple of other good riffs, available here a price that will shock you. Update: Daily Pundit thinks it ‘snappy’. Thanks, boss!

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