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 […]
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 […]
But only to note that President Barack Obama has done a full-flop on the benefits of independent politicians.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano would be advised to never speak in public again. Where has this woman been since 9/11/2001? She really thinks that it’s a new tactic of using a single suicide bomber? Maybe she’s never had to take off her shoes at the airport. There’s been some criticism in the […]
President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have decided that the man who attempted to blow up a plane in midair and kill nearly 300 people is a common criminal who deserves all the rights granted citizens of the United States. In an interview yesterday on “Fox News Sunday,” assistant to the president for […]
Or maybe we do. From Bill Roggio: The British are all smiles over the release of Peter Moore, a British citizen who was held hostage by an Iranian-backed Shia terror group in Iraq. But there is little talk about the price paid to secure Moore's release. The US military has freed Qais Qazali, the leader […]