For a guy who has a reputation in the media of being such a smooth talker, President Obama sure suffers from more than his share of foot-in-mouth incidents. I don’t want to get too deep into the trees of the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates kerfuffle (see Patterico for some of the best analysis), but […]
House Democrats have taken the unusual step of barring their GOP counterparts from sending out informative mailers to their constituents with this chart outlining the Democrats’ healthcare plan. [Click picture for full-size PDF document] I get these mailers from time to time and I must confess I usually spend a grand total of 60 seconds […]
The Associated Press has done the job of checking some of Obama’s statements against what I like to call “reality.” You shouldn’t be surprised that Obama doesn’t come out looking especially honest. You should read all of them, but this whopper I’ve just got to share with you. OBAMA: "You haven't seen me out there […]
The classic TV show “Hogan’s Heroes” featured a stocky Sgt. Schultz who could be counted on at least once an episode to unequivocally state: “I know nothing. Nooothinnngg!” In a conference call with liberal bloggers this morning, Obama revealed that he’s “not familiar” with the House version of the health care reform bill he’s been […]
President Barack Obama has got some members of his own party up on Capitol Hill in a tizzy over something he vowed during the campaign he wouldn’t do – using signing statements to ignore selected provisions of bills passed by Congress. Four senior House Democrats on Tuesday said they were "surprised" and "chagrined" by Obama's […]
Let’s start with the old legal adage: When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. When both are against you, attack the plaintiff. - R.Rinkle Yesterday, we got this from Larry Summers, one of President Obama’s top economic advisors: Of all the statistics pouring into […]
This hasn’t gotten anything in the way of coverage in American media, but a Catalan newspaper is reporting that the results of the Honduran referendum on expanding President Manuel Zelaya’s term – the one that never actually occurred – were found on computers in the presidential palace. That’s right, before a single illegal ballot had […]
The testimony is complete and Judge Sonia Sotomayor will certainly become the next Supreme Court justice – not that she has earned it. Having watched much of the testimony and read lots of transcripts, I’ve come to the conclusion that Sotomayor is either a Roberts/Alito/Scalia/Thomas clone or a baldfaced liar. I don’t think President Obama […]
You know the one, about no person making less than $250,000 having any of their taxes raised. Well, forget about it. The Senate Health, Labor and Pensions committee unveiled its plan today – and it should come as little surprise that this plan would break Obama’s tax promise. (The Senate did unveil that plan, but […]
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy used to be a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee until he got kicked out for failing to be able to keep a secret. If there was any justice in the world, he’d get kicked off the Senate Judiciary Committee for failing to tell the truth. As Byron York […]