Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee takes a jab at John McCain: “With all due respect, Sen. McCain dramatically suspended his campaign and flew back to Washington not to champion those conservative Republicans [in the House], but to join meekly with Barack Obama in voting for the bailout, a bailout most American opposed,†he said. Huckabee [...]
Citi is getting a third bailout, but some in congress still have questions about the last two. This is Lagan from ANP, The once almighty Citigroup is now getting a third lifeline from the U.S. Treasury. This new bailout follows on the heels of a Congressional Oversight Panel report revealing that Citigroup underpaid Treasury by [...]
Another unforced error from that widely panned rebuttal. First, the original story in his own words… During Katrina, I visited Sheriff Harry Lee, a Democrat and a good friend of mine. When I walked into his makeshift office I’d never seen him so angry. He was yelling into the phone: ‘Well, I’m the Sheriff and [...]
Just to give you some sense of how bad those GDP numbers are… We’re officially in cliff diving territory. (Source: Wash Post) Tweet
Tweet
With the employment numbers yesterday and now these GDP numbers today, I think it’s safe to say that the economy is not getting better. In fact, these new GDP numbers signal that economists have no idea how bad it may get since it’s much worse than the initial number they were predicting. From CNBC: The [...]
The Department of Defense has altered the policy concerning the photography of America’s returning war dead. Now, news organizations will be allowed to photograph and disseminate photos of flag-draped coffins — as long as the families of the fallen soldiers give permission. While the no-photographs policy has been in place since 1991, the issue became [...]
Some good news for free speech today: the Senate has used its oversight authority to bar the FCC from reconsidering the Fairness Doctrine. While President Obama has publically opposed reinstating the arcane rule that required equal time on the airwaves for opposing political views, Republicans wanted to make sure the Democratic-controlled government didn’t recreate the [...]
Looks like Rush really thinks that Jindal could be the guy to lead conservatives out of the wilderness. Otherwise he never would have gone this far out on a limb to defend such an indefensible performance. I wonder if we’ll start to see some backtracking about Jindal’s speech from the right-wing media after Limbaugh’s call [...]
Much higher than expected.
All we ask is you keep your language clean and your arguments sharp.
Welcome.
You are currently browsing the Donklephant weblog archives for February, 2009.
