A gaffe, according to editor and columnist Michael Kinsley, is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. President Barack Obama made one yesterday when he did a Q&A with the House Republican conference – one no one seemed to notice. THE PRESIDENT: Tom [Price, R-Ga.], look, I have to say that on the -- let's […]
Yes, I watched the State of the Union speech Wednesday night. After suffering through 70 minutes of it, I was presented with a dilemma. I could blog about a speech that everyone and their mother had already blogged about or I could play Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect 2 won. I did make some comments […]
This sort of behavior is just bizarre. ow partisan can Congress get? Here's an instructive example from today: The Idaho Wilderness Water Facilities Act. You've surely never heard of it. It's an extremely obscure and non-controversial piece of legislation regarding certain water uses in two areas of Idaho wilderness. It has the support of both […]
Well, he’s had the media telling him how great he is 24 hours a day for 3+ years, so why wouldn’t he think this: [Retiring Rep. Marion] Berry [D-Ark.] recounted meetings with White House officials, reminiscent of some during the Clinton days, where he and others urged them not to force Blue Dogs “off into […]
I’ve just started reading Stephen Hunter’s latest novel, “I, Sniper” and it has perhaps the best opening pages of any book in recorded history. I just can’t describe the smile it brings to my face as characters not-at-all subtly based on Jane Fonda, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn get their just rewards in such detailed […]
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that when the First Amendment says “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech” that it actually meant that. At issue was a movie made by Citizens United – a corporation – that attacked Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Because Citizens United is a […]
So much for the “reality-based community.” Here’s The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel in The Wall Street Journal offering advice to President Barack Obama in the wake of the Democrats’ loss of their 60-seat supermajority in the Senate on Tuesday. And here's a no-brainer: After a year of being knifed by the GOP at every […]
At least I hope he isn’t. STEPHANOPOULOS: Robert Gibbs was saying that you were surprised and frustrated by the vote [in Massachusetts to elect Republican Scott Brown]. Is that accurate? OBAMA: Well, I think not last night, but certainly I think a lot of us were surprised about where this was going, about a week […]
UPDATE Had to swap out the video because some moron added some bolshevik storytelling graphic to it and ruined it. This one appears to be unadulterated.
So, you’ve got a huge political contest in your backyard that’s garnered interest from across the United States and if you can get through to your Web site, this is what you see: I’m not sure what that blank box in the top middle is supposed to have in it – if anything, but there […]