Colorado’s Jr. Senator, Democrat Ken Salazar, was in the inenviable position on the Senate floor this afternoon of being the designated “objector” for Senate Democrats.
Yep, that’s right. There now exists video of a Democrat voicing opposition to drilling off the outer continental shelf and ANWR even if the price of gas at the pump reaches $10 per gallon.
In a can’t-lose Democrat year, the Democrats are doing everything they can to give the GOP a chance.
For someone with a Harvard Law School degree, Sen. Barack Obama’s sure got a bad case of the stupids.
Regular tune-ups + proper tire inflation = All the oil off the outer continental shelf + Alaska
Thats so incredibly not true that it’s jaw-dropping. Yeah, try to sell that to commuters getting hammered by $4 a gallon gasoline
John Hinderaker at Powerline does some math, and discovers that it would take approximately 11,308 years of universal, proper tire inflation to equal what’s available in all the areas Obama doesn’t want us drilling.
McCain needs to beat this like a cheap drum.
Yes, an earthquake hit southern California shortly before noon Tuesday.
It was magnitude 5.4.
Yes, most of us noticed it.
No, no one got hurt.
No, nothing was damaged.
We’ve been through it before.
It’ll happen again.
There was no reason for the news channels to run all-quake, all-the-time for the next three hours.
The best part was Fox News running a video feed from a helicopter showing “evacuees” gathered outdoors on a football field. After zooming in a little bit, it turned out they weren’t evacuees, but instead a marching band practicing its field show.
Let’s make a deal: We won’t call, message or go crazy every time there’s a tornado warning in the Midwest, if you won’t bug us unless the quake is at least magnitude 6.5.
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was indicted yesterday for allegedly receiving gifts from the now-defunct Veco oil company.
A federal grand jury in the District accused Stevens of concealing on financial disclosure statements lucrative gifts from the now-defunct oil company Veco and its top executives, including a Viking gas grill, a tool cabinet and a wraparound deck. At one point, Veco employees and contractors jacked up the senator’s mountainside house on stilts and added a new first floor, with two bedrooms and a bathroom, the indictment says.
Stevens was an embarassment before he was indicted. Now he’s an embarassment and a huge liability. He should be defeated in the upcoming GOP Alaska primary. If not, the Democrats will be one seat closer to their 60-vote goal in the Senate.
This post has been updated
One of the best Republicans in the U.S. Senate is Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. The ob/gyn who first won a congressional seat in 1994 — and continued to deliver babies on weekends — is now in the Senate, where his focus on fiscal restraint has won him the moniker of “Dr. No.”
Coburn has become a thorn in the side of Democrats — and some profligate Republicans. (Coburn and I have something in common — we’ve both ticked off Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.)
Today, Sen. Harry “Taxes are Voluntary” Reid, is packaging together some disparate pieces of pork — some of it good, all of it duplicative of other government efforts — in an effort to break Coburn’s “holds” on the legislation.
Both the New York Times and Washington Post have pieces on Coburn and Reid’s unprecedented move to thwart a single senator.
I encourage you to read them both and note the subtle and not-so-subtle differences in how Coburn is portrayed and the quotes from selected people (specifically Sen. Dick Durbin) used to describe Coburn.
Finally, I want to note what really drew my attention to this story — the version transmitted on the wires by the Times that includes at least one line that doesn’t appear in the story on the Times’ Web site.
Some of Coburn’s colleagues are strong supporters, saying his insistence on a fuller debate has improved bills and saved money. “I think Coburn is one of the hardest-working senators and maybe one of the smartest,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. “People who read a bill and have constructive suggestions ought to be respected rather than criticized. What the Democrats want to do is intimidate people to give unanimous consent, and that is not in the tradition of the Senate.”
Even some Democrats have a grudging admiration for Coburn’s determination, and they distinguish him from other Senate archconservatives whom they see as more interested in gumming up the works. They point out that Coburn has shown an occasional willingness to make concessions, as he did after long months of effort with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., on a genetic nondiscrimination law. And he has worked with Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, a fact that the Democratic presidential candidate has proudly referred to when talking about his ability to reach across the aisle. The two even shared a hug when Obama returned to the floor recently.
The bolded text was transmitted over the wires — repeatedly. The version I e-mailed to myself was the second version (aka 1STLD-WRITETHRU) transmitted, which made a minor wording change in the eighth paragraph. (The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat ran the version with this wording in it.)
Ted Kennedy isn’t a liberal — but Coburn is an “archconservative.”
You stay classy New York Times.
UPDATE
The Senate GOP has done the right thing and has sided with Coburn.
Brother Gerard Baker of the Times of London has this reading from the book of the Obamessiah.
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”
It gets better. Read the whole thing.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is a complete moron. Her question at yesterday’s joint press conference between the Obamessiah and French President Nicolas Sarkozy was the height of stupidity.
Do you remember when your elementary school teacher told you there was no such thing as a stupid question? She was lying to you. There is such a thing as a stupid question, as Amanpour proves. The French “youths” — a clever euphemism for “Muslims” — who rioted several years ago, destroying hundreds of thousands, or possibly millions, of euros worth of property were scum. Why should the fact that those “youths” happen to share the same skin color as Obama have anything to do with how Sarkozy feels about Obama?
Thugs are thugs and presidential candidates are presidential candidates and the color of their skin has nothing to do with it — unless you’re a bigot.
Wondering where the bigot is in that video? The bigot is Amanpour.
I guess there’s only so many cartoon ideas to go around:
Pulitzer-Prize winner Michael Ramirez of Investors Business Daily on July 15.
And today, Jack Ohman of The (Portland) Oregonian:
Oops.
Occasionally I’ll come across someone who’s boasting about this or that and I’ll say, jokingly, that I’m going to go and grease the doorway so we can get their ego out the door.
I’m not sure there’s enough grease in the world for Sen. Barack Obama. From an interview with CBS News’ Lara Logan:
Logan: “Okay, last question: There is a perception that you lack experience in world affairs.”
Obama: “Right.”
Logan: “Is this trip partly aimed at overcoming that concern, that, you know, there are doubts among some Americans that you could lead the country at war as commander in chief from day one?”
Obama: “You know, the interesting thing is that the people who are very experienced in foreign affairs, I don’t think have those thoughts. The troops that I’ve been meeting with over the last several days, they don’t seem to have those doubts. The objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to ten years.
“It’s important for me to have a relationship with them early, that I start listening to them now, getting a sense of what their interests and concerns are, because one of the shifts in foreign policy that I want to execute as president is giving the world a clear message that America intends to continue to show leadership, but our style of leadership is going to be less unilateral, that we’re going to see our role as building partnerships around the world that are of mutual interest to the parties involved. And I think this gives me a head start in that process.”
Logan: “Do you have any doubts?”
Obama: “Never.”
Never?
And liberals yell and scream about how George W. Bush is so sure of himself and he never admits he’s wrong… Bush is a piker compared to Obama — who has even less experience than Bush had before running for office.
And about never admitting you are wrong, here’s Obama with ABC News’ Terry Moran:
So far this month, five U.S. troops have been killed in combat, compared with 78 U.S. deaths last July. Attacks across the country are down more than 80 percent. Still, when asked if knowing what he knows now, he would support the surge, the senator said no.
“These kinds of hypotheticals are very difficult,” he said. “Hindsight is 20/20. But I think that what I am absolutely convinced of is, at that time, we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with, and one that I continue to disagree with — is to look narrowly at Iraq and not focus on these broader issues.”
Of course, if hindsight is 20/20, then in hindsight you change your position. For Obama, hindsight isn’t 20/20. Once again, if stubbornness is one of President George W. Bush’s flaws, then Obama has the same thing in spades.
How ideologically blinkered do you have to be to answer this question the way Obama did?
It’s a world not so different from ours, except here, fonts come alive.
Now you know what someone who works with fonts every day has to deal with.
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