Charlie Rangel: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
Even his fellow Democrats can’t deny he’s a crook. Isn’t it amazing that a guy who’s been in Congress since 1971 — and indeed was chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee — still manages to claim victimhood? “How can anyone have confidence in the decision of the ethics subcommittee when I was […]
Team Obama: No Moderates Allowed
Democrat pollsters Doug Schoen and Patrick Caddell raised eyebrows by arguing that President Obama could end gridlock by announcing he would not seek re-election in 2012. This argument was premised on taking at face value Obama’s 2008 campaign message that he wanted to unite the country and transcend partisanship. My friend Seton Motley is not so naive: Obama ran […]
Schadenfreude
Their misery makes me happy: After nearly two weeks of introspection, President Obama’s top advisers have concluded that the “shellacking” Democrats took on Election Day was caused in large part by their own failure to live up to expectations set during the 2008 campaign, not merely the typical political cycles and poor messaging they pointed […]
‘President of the Back of the Bus’
In order to keep the leadership perks for herself and fellow big-shot honky Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi created a meaningless “No. 3” position for James Clyburn. Michelle Malkin’s snarktastic reaction: Imagine if the Republicans created a figurehead position out of thin air to keep “the black guy” from making waves and challenging the two white people at the […]
Nancy Pelosi Tries to Evade Responsibility for Historic Defeat of House Democrats
At last count, losses for House Democrats appeared to total at least 63 seats, pending absentee ballots in some races and possible recounts in others. Among the defeated Democrats were such long-serving incumbents as Rick Boucher (14 terms, VA-9) and Paul Kanjorski (13 terms, PA-11), who had survived even the 1994 “Contract With America” GOP […]
Inspector General: Obama Administration Edited BP Oil Spill Report to Falsely Suggest Consensus for Gulf Drilling Ban
The administration’s six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico wasn’t “peer reviewed” at all. No, it was an executive decision by President Obama, and the report was then edited — apparently by a staffer for Carol Browner — to make it look like experts had “peer reviewed” that recommendation. The experts had complained in […]
‘A Deliberate . . . Systemic Campaign to Kill Obama’s Presidency in Its Crib’
Hey, did anybody else ever notice that Andrew Sullivan has a tendency to engage in hyperbole? What Sully portrays as a malign plot, I think most people call . . . politics. Or in Jennifer Rubin’s elegantly simple formula, “There is no getting around it. The opposition party must oppose.” For an Obamaphile like Sullivan, the explanation […]
It’s On: White Democrat Steny Hoyer Trying to Oppress a Victimized Minority
The victimized minority in this case being House Democrats: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is intensifying his push to capture the No. 2 post in the reshaped Democratic hierarchy, claiming new momentum in his clash with Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.). “Hoyer is going to win,” a source close to the majority leader told The Hill […]
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