My head is starting to spin. Luckily for me, Conor Clarke can make some sense of it all: What’s the logical conclusion here? Do we boycott and counter-boycott, until we’ve whittled ourselves down to country of red and blue companies as well as red and blue states? There’s nothing to stop us. Fox is well [...]
I’m not a huge fan of Congressman Frank. However, I will say that in this video he is exhibiting the best retort to a nutter that I’ve seen. Anyone who compares the President of the United States (any POTUS) to Adolf effing Hitler deserves to be verbally abused in this manner. Period. If you don’t [...]
The following editorial from Steven Pearlstein is one of the more clear headed I’ve read on health reform, the public option and why co-ops could be better. So I’m going to excerpt a little more than I usually do. First, on why health reform is needed and why the magic of the market isn’t helping [...]
Sorry I’m late. Let’s start with the back and forth on Astroturfing that, for me, culminates with this comment from mw: If we agree that there is no difference in political tactics between Bush/Rove and Obama/Axelrod, that both bring an identical “end justifies the means” ethos to their political shenanigans, that both are willing to [...]
What do George Bush, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama have in common? Cindy Sheehan. The anti-war protester who used to stake herself at George Bush’s ranch in Texas will now follow the Obamas’ to their vacation at Martha’s Vineyard. Her cause is to protest the continuing wars in the Middle East. She also ran against [...]
Not that this is any surprise, but the speed in which they’re signaling they won’t accept any reform package is startling. Just check out what Senator Jon Kyl is saying today… President Barack Obama has vowed to veto any bill that would increase the deficit over the long term, but Kyl said that a revenue-neutral [...]
You may have heard about this before, and one Florida lawmaker is finally doing something about it. Yes, I realize these laws are meant to prevent repeat offenses, but either up the penalties for those offenses or just leave them be. Once somebody gets out of prison, that should be it. End of story. If [...]
Looks like the left is realizing that the bait and switch was in from the start and now the White House is trying to do a little damage control. But let’s not kid ourselves…it wasn’t just Sebelius who said it. Obama said it too. In fact, her response was after she was asked a question [...]
At first glance, this would appear to be a huge step towards peace with the troubled nation. But it’s simply a reopening of the border so the North can make some money from the South. Still, a positive step and one worth noting. From Reuters: North Korea said on Monday it had agreed to reopen [...]
As this health care debate has dragged on, Obama has taken a lot of shots from both the left and the right. From the left comes the charge that he hasn’t taken more control over the debate or the legislation, but I wonder if they’ve forgotten what happened in 1993 or if they’re just ignoring [...]
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