Poking around Editor & Publisher for the previous post, I came across editor Greg Mitchell's latest column defending the early media narrative that Barack Obama was breaking new ground. The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) study asserting that Barack Obama actually raised most of his campaign money from "larger" not "small" donors has gained wide, often […]
The Capitol Visitors Center opened this morning -- late and over budget. Senate majority leader Harry Reid had the following to say: The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: […]
President-elect Barack Obama isn't even in office yet and some in the punditocracy are already giving him credit for having won the war in Iraq. The New York Times' Thomas Friedman: In the last year, though, the U.S. troop surge and the backlash from moderate Iraqi Sunnis against Al Qaeda and Iraqi Shiites against pro-Iranian […]
President-elect Barack Obama announced the people he plans to nominate for a variety of positions in his administration earlier today. Oddly enough, it appears that he is going to pay Hillary Rodham Clinton less to serve as Secretary of State than he would just about anyone else for the same job. (See the "Saxbe fix" […]
Needless to say, if the GOP's top tax policy legislator had as many problems as Charlie Rangel does, he'd be drummed out of town. Representative Charles B. Rangel’s legal team is reviewing his tax records to determine whether the congressman received a homestead exemption on a house he owned in Washington while living in several […]
President-elect Barack Obama senior adviser David Axelrod was on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday and had this to say: [Fox News Sunday host Chris] WALLACE: Let's turn to the national security team that President-elect Obama is expected to announce after Thanksgiving. And again, let's look at the key leading players. FOX has confirmed that Hillary Clinton […]
Earlier this month I wrote that if President-elect Obama and his wife decided to send his daughters to a public school in the Washington, D.C. area, I'd have a minor heart attack. Well, no worries for my ticker: Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter confirms to CNN the Obama daughters will attend Sidwell Friends school in Washington, […]
Far too many Obama supporters see him as some sort of saint. This causes them to say some really ridiculous things. Former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, who famously tossed his credibility in the dustbin to ally himself with the Democrats had this to say about Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahiri's missive on the president-elect: […]
The truth is, you could probably find some McCain voters who are equally ignorant as these people. Of course, the mainstream media would jump all over this if McCain voters were the ones to made to look like fools -- especially when they named Fox News as their source. Don't expect NPR, PBS or The […]
Here are some stories that have been cluttering up my Firefox browser tabs and might interest you: What's the matter with Kansas? Some Obamatons are already pushing for a federal holiday for their revered leader. Gazillionaire Warren Buffett wants the Estate Tax raised and the rich to pay more in federal taxes -- then why […]