Sat05182013
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Business as usual.
Normally, the reward for large-scale fundraising in winning presidential campaigns is an ambassadorship or a spot on an advisory panel, but Barack Obama came to Washington on a promise to change “business as usual.” And he has, according to ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity. Not only did rainmaker Steve Westly get a [...]
"Not dealt with" in "this legislation."
Laura Ingraham gets Evan Bayh to admit the obvious on her show yesterday, and holds him accountable for allowing ObamaCare to pass. Bayh laughs that off by saying “that’s true of anyone who voted for [it],” to which Ingraham responds that Bayh’s the only one on her show at the moment. The former Senator from [...]
Speech therapy?
In my latest column for The Week today, I use the Academy Award-winning film The King’s Speech to bookend my point about the incoherence of the Obama administration on its Libyan adventure. Like King George VI, Barack Obama needed to demonstrate leadership, inspire a nation, and give a clear account of why the nation’s forces [...]
"Lowest approval, re-elect score ever."
We can officially call the post-New Year bump in Barack Obama’s job approval ratings finished. A new poll out this morning from Quinnipiac of over 2000 registered voters nationwide puts Obama’s approval level at 42%, the lowest in any Q-poll for Obama, with 48% disapproving. His re-elect number is actually even lower: American voters disapprove [...]
"Obviously, my analysis is going to change as facts on the ground change."
Newt Gingrich has taken a bit of a beating over the last couple of weeks over alleged changes in his position on using military force in Libya. Critics accused the potential presidential candidate of simply gainsaying whatever Barack Obama did and not holding a consistent position on how the US should handle the crisis in [...]
Col Qaddafi, in the Sandlot, with a JDAM.
President Obama seemed, in his speech on Libya Monday night, to have to back himself by process of elimination into the one particular solution he has chosen. He accomplished this through navigating between a series of arguments against implied strawmen, and a set of positive statements. The reasoning seems to have gone something like this: [...]
Alarm bells.
It’s not just Wisconsin. John Kasich in Ohio and Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania have seen their ratings sour too. But with Walker’s polls now negative and the state supreme court election next week looking like a bellwether for left/right grassroots enthusiasm, he’s wondering if the moment has passed. In addition, both parties have threatened to [...]
Southern comfort.
Alternate headline: “Haley Barbour figures out way to alienate entire conservative blogosphere.” In the unlikely event that you need it explained to you why this is such a good idea, here you go. Representatives of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour have been trying to set up a time with Huckabee aides for the two Southern governors [...]
Endgame?
Do they know that? The big news this morning was that Libyan rebels were retreating from outside Sirte in disarray, which explains why the noises about arming the opposition are growing louder. In fact, Brian Williams asks him point blank here whether he’s prepared to arm them and The One, characteristically, votes present: He hasn’t [...]
Remember how the state’s Legislative Reference Bureau published the law on Friday, arguing that because the judge had only mentioned the Secretary of State in her TRO and not the Bureau that it technically wasn’t barred from acting? Well, everyone’s barred now. “Further implementation of the act is enjoined,” said Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi. [...]
This may be the first time that this particular permutation of “apology” has been offered for dropping a C-bomb on someone. A forthright apology would be one thing, a “sorry if you were offended” dismissal would be another, but he’s almost trying to mesh the two. E.g., yeah, she really is a c*** — but [...]
The smartest man in the Senate.
The funniest part of this is that even now, after more than two years of heavy breathing from liberal media about how extremely extremist those extreme tea partiers are, the Democratic brain trust still needs a heads up on how properly to smear budget-cutting conservatives. I always figured they just committed a bunch of pejoratives [...]
