The Other McCain

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

Does Anyone Else Remember …?

During the mid-term election campaign last fall, nearly every GOP congressional candidate was slammed by attack ads accusing them of favoring “tax cuts for companies that ship jobs overseas.” That accusation was made routinely (and misleadingly) against Republicans who had signed a no-new-taxes pledge from Americans for Tax Reform: Millionaire Tim Burns: Supporting Loopholes That Ship […]

Boehner 1, Obama 0

The White House caused a ruckus Wednesday by attempting to schedule President Obama for a speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7 — which just happened to be the date, scheduled months ago, of a GOP presidential debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. Say hello to “separation of powers”: Nobody […]

Alas, Tomorrow Is Not Election Day

Hot Air Headlines citing an article in The Hill about Obama’s prospects: “If the election were next Tuesday he’d lose. That’s how bad it is.” No doubt that is true — anyone can look at the polls pitting Obama against a “Generic Republican” and conclude the same — but the hypothetical “if” posits two scenarios that don’t […]

Obama Beats the Hurricane?

He saved America! “I want people to understand that this is not over,” President Barack Obama said Sunday evening from Washington. “The impacts of this storm will be felt for some time, and the recovery effort will last for weeks or longer.” Wait — “not over”? But by the time it finally came ashore in […]

I Was Just Wondering On Twitter. . .

by Smitty Given all the flood damage from Hurricane Irene, what’s the over-under on the amount of stimulus for the Northeast that the good President will call for in his Great Big Cure-What-Ails-You Speech in September? I’m saying $350 billion. Is that a sufficiently big number? We’re all surfers of economic fantasy now, For The […]

Storm Center Commander-in-Chief?

So I saw this headline at Memeorandum: Obama takes charge at hurricane command center And my natural reaction is, “Ri-iiiight.” Like he’s being the anti-Bush, scoring some image points by playing against the perception of his predecessor as having bungled Katrina. But what happened in New Orleans in 2005 — a Category 4 storm slamming […]

A: He Couldn’t Lead Two Nuns In One Minute Of Silent Prayer?

by Smitty Da Tech Guy poses the question: So how can we account for the president[‘s] poor polling within the military when the single most loyal group of supporters (Black Americans) are over-represented by almost 60% vs the general population?

Obama’s Erstwhile Allies: Left-Wingers Attack Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller

In February 2007, Iowa’s longtime Democratic attorney general Tom Miller endorsed Barack Obama, giving him an early boost in that key caucus state. Fast-forward to October 2010. The “robo-signer” scandal had brought into question the legal validity of tens of thousands mortgages involved in foreclosure proceedings. Miller was announced to head up the Mortgage Foreclosure […]

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