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 […]
Corrupt GOP Congressman Rick Renzi is attempting to hide behind the Constitution's speech and debate clause -- federal prosecutors are having none of it. Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to deny retiring U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi's bid to have corruption charges against him dismissed on constitutional grounds. Renzi's lawyers last month alleged that FBI […]
For the record, my position on campaign financing is that candidates should be able to take unlimited amounts of money from American citizens (no donations from foreign entities) with the requirement that the name and amount of the donation must be disclosed online on the campaign's Web site within 48 hours of receipt. Having said […]