You know what really grinds my gears? Andrew Card. (okay, so that’s more of a ‘who’ rather than a ‘what’… but I digress) In an interview with Michael Medved, the former White House chief-of-staff to George W. Bush said: I found that Ronald Reagan and both President Bushes treated the Oval Office with tremendous respect. [...]

Bad things come in threes, eh? From AP: On paper, Killefer brought impressive credentials to the two jobs Obama selected her for: deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, which requires Senate confirmation, and a new White House post, chief performance officer for the entire federal government, which does not require [...]

It starts with an editorial in today’s New York Times: When President Obama nominated former Senator Tom Daschle to be his secretary of health and human services, it seemed to be a good choice. Mr. Daschle, as the co-author of a book on health care reform, knew a lot about one of the president’s signature [...]

Looks like the Republican senator will be attempting to join the Obama administration since a press conference is set for tomorrow morning. And my guess is that he’ll get confirmed immediately. Now, there had been speculation that Obama’s team was picking Gregg to swing the senate to 60 Dem votes, but that was quickly put [...]

So says the CBO’s official score of the plan. Does that mean the plan will stimulate the economy? Well, it depends on how you look at it. Because while I agree that more money could be allocated for pure infrastructure projects, states are suffering BIG budget shortfalls and they need help immediately so they can [...]

I honestly thought he’d have more problems, but it became pretty clear last week that the Marc Rich stuff really wasn’t as big of an issue as many thought. Long story short, he sailed through with 75 votes for and 21 against. NY Times has more… At one time, Republicans indicated that they wanted to [...]

When the important matters of our day are all but forgotten, I think the Clintons will still be remembered, if not accurately, then at least as meaningful figures of their time. Inside that couple is a Shakespearean play. Too bad all we have so far is Primary Colors. As you all know, today marked Hillary [...]

A quick hello to all of the Donklephant community. I go by the somewhat-original moniker ‘The Pajama Pundit’ and I blog daily (hourly?) at ThePajamaPundit.com. Big thanks go to Justin Gardner for giving me a shot to post here. I’ve been an avid reader and fan of Donklephant for a long time and to be [...]

…and why the numbers still don’t add up. So, I was going to drop this whole PJM subject, but then I saw a new comment in my previous post, “Where Did The Pajamas Media Money Go?” What it reveals is that my estimates for how much they paid their bloggers actually overshot the mark. So [...]

Once again the topic is the economy, but more importantly I’m hearing a lot about clearing this debt off the banks’ balance sheets. Could this mean a new round of bailout money? Let me just give some friendly advice to Dems…quit using John Kerry as a surrogate on the economy. It’s not that he doesn’t [...]

…another goes up.

This is pretty fun. Life imitates art imitates life.

I’m still getting used to seeing our President using YouTube on a weekly basis. One thing’s for sure…Obama keeps hammering on that post-partisan message and continues to manage expectations about how quickly the stimulus will take effect. And to the point about greed, Wall Street bonuses are squarely in his crosshairs and I can only [...]

A familiar name that’s often demonized, but a good call is a good call. From Financial Times: On Friday, August 17 2007, 21 of Wall Street’s most influential investors met for lunch at Hector Makinaw’s Southampton estate on the eastern end of Long Island. The first tremors of what would become the global credit crunch [...]

Yesterday, I reported how the numbers behind the demise of the PJM ad network didn’t seem to add up, and now a very angry Jeff Goldstein digs into Roger Simon’s reasoning too. First, I think it’s important to reprint what Simon said because without it you probably won’t understand what Goldstein is saying. From Simon… [...]

The usual caveats apply here (just one poll, etc.), but Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg is seeing some pretty disturbing trends for Republicans come 2010 if they don’t get behind this stimulus package. From CQ: A survey of 1,200 voters in 40 traditionally Republican congressional districts now held by Democrats Greenberg’s firm conducted between Jan. 14 [...]

Two days ago, the Commerce Department reported that during the fourth quarter of 2008, real gross domestic product decreased at an annual rate of 3.8%. Bad news, to be sure, but in a sense, not so bad, since most economic forecasters had been expecting a more severe drop of 5% to 6%. In virtually all [...]