Archives for the 'pols' Category
The Phillies Won!
Published on 5 Nov 2009 at 11:37 am.
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Filed under Obama, baseball, pols.
I would approve of this fine snark at Legal Insurrection, but then I’d have to think the New York Yankees and their Evil Empire are the GOP of baseball, and I can’t do that. As long as we’re plumbing the baseball-sports nexus, hope to change ”There’s always next year” to “There’s also next year.”
Speaking of next year, [...]
All Politics Is Local
Published on 5 Nov 2009 at 8:39 am.
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Filed under Obama, pols.
Congratulations, New Jersey and Virginia. You’re Obamically insignificant! Gibbs, Virginia and New Jersey politics are local. via CNN:
Live & Learn
Published on 28 Oct 2009 at 10:00 am.
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It’s about that partisan civility thing. Turns out, if you yell “You Lie!” and say things like “Kiss my gay ass!” there can be consequences. Not just consequences, but cleverly embedded snark! It’s Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s two-fer response to California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s request for help and his rude outburst. San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Tim Redmond: “Arnold to SF: [...]
First, Do No Harm
Published on 25 Oct 2009 at 9:10 am.
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Filed under crime, medicine, pols.
Wait a minute, that’s the Hippocratic Oath. Congress took the Hypocritic one. First, Make No Sense.
Mock As We Say!
Published on 22 Oct 2009 at 8:05 am.
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Filed under Obama, books, pols.
Not as we do!
Lefties resort to sexism vs. empowered woman! Again! (Caution: Don’t try this with the sitting president) Entertainment Weekly:
Quagmire!
Published on 20 Oct 2009 at 8:25 am.
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Filed under Obama, pols.
Sudden interest in health-care polling, now that one shows support for the public option. Cherry-picking Washington Post buries the fact that overall, Americans still don’t like the health care bill. And they don’t want to pay for it.
Rod Blagojevich For Special Envoy
Published on 20 Oct 2009 at 7:09 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, pols.
Karzai agrees to a runoff. Apparently there’s a backroom deal in the works to get around the lack-of-legitimate-government problem. NYT:
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Maine: Kids First, Cons Maybe After That
Published on 16 Oct 2009 at 11:51 am.
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Filed under medicine, pols.
Massachusetts is rushing swine flu vaccine to the prisons. Maine says, schools first, prisons … maybe later. Finally, a public official who says “It’s about the kids” and apparently actually means it. That doesn’t happen around here much. Boston Herald:
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America’s Big Balloon Ride!
Published on 16 Oct 2009 at 9:44 am.
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Filed under Obama, pols.
It’s health care! All over the news, big and puffy, out of control, going nowhere, with no one on board! Except the kid in the cardboard box, and Balloon Dad …
Obama, via Politico: “You guys said we did this for the show.”
Pelosi, via WaPo: “Appalled!”
Could be bad if it actually hits any power lines. OK, blowing some [...]
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The Woman Who Would Be Kennedy
Published on 16 Oct 2009 at 9:09 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
Apparently would prefer a coronation. Ducks tough questions. Even lets a reporter chase her. Hey … maybe she’ll make a great Kennedy after all. Boston Herald.
Meanwhile, the Herald’s Lauren Beckham Falcone goes all “high school” on the wannabe United States senator. I dunno, I wouldn’t take Becks up on that meet in the girl’s room if I were [...]
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Universal Health Care Mecca …
Published on 8 Oct 2009 at 11:24 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
Is like health-care hell for one universal health care advocate. The premiums in Massachusetts are too high, and the much-lauded universal health care system system … even a relatively conservative one pushed by a Republican, Mitt Romney … is a financial trainwreck that is dragging down the state budget and driving up my taxes. Former [...]
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Opportunity Knocks
Published on 8 Oct 2009 at 10:46 am.
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Rove at WSJ: Public support for health care reform tanking, could take Congressional Dems with it in 2010. The only part he doesn’t address is whether Republicans are positioned or even trying to do anything about it.
Half-Pregnant
Published on 7 Oct 2009 at 10:00 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, pols.
Obama rules out any big reduction in forces in Afghanistan but won’t say if he’s on board for the big win, as they used to say. NYT:
Wartime President Supported
Published on 6 Oct 2009 at 5:14 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, pols.
This hasn’t happened in what, nearly seven years now. I mean, not without a lot of kicking and screaming. Democrats say they’ll support a wartime president, with American troops in the field, and vital national and global security interests at stake. OK, that’s not exactly how AP put it.
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Consulter In Chief
Published on 6 Oct 2009 at 10:18 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, pols.
The president is bringing in Congressional leaders, both parties, to talk about Afghanistan this afternoon. In the long, slow march to deciding whether to fight or not, it’s a key moment which may provide important clues about which way he’s leaning or whether, as has been the case with other major agenda items, he intends to let [...]
Nobel Thoughts
Published on 5 Oct 2009 at 9:45 am.
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Filed under media, pols.
Nobel Economics Laureate Paul Krugman at NYT is a little late to the Olympian commentary windsprints, but like most on his side of the ledger, is less interested in what the Battle of Copenhagen says about the president’s political instincts and use of his office, and more interested in sniffing disdainfully at the opposition. But he makes an [...]
Hondo No-Go
Published on 2 Oct 2009 at 11:51 am.
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Let’s see, sitdowns with tyrants in Syria and terrorists in Gaza, lifting travel bans to Cuba and representing Iranian interests in Congress, OK. Visit to a democracy in the throes of a constitutional crisis, where the army was recently forced to impose the high court’s will to remove a lawbreaking wannabe despot … no go. The Hill: Senate FR Chair Kerry [...]
She’s Got It Covered
Published on 2 Oct 2009 at 10:30 am.
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Filed under books, pols.
Via Surber, Palin’s not-yet-released bestseller,* Going Rogue, gets a cover. Hmm. I’m getting “hot, engaging, yet visionary” off that.
* For more on how right titles are beating left titles like a rented mule: No. 1 In Books.
Rumors Of Anti-War …
Published on 2 Oct 2009 at 8:22 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, pols.
Coming in from various quarters. There’s backroom manuevering. Talk of retreat. Surrenderists ascendant?
Good news first. Obama’s actually met with his Afghan War commander. He managed to squeeze in a meeting with McChrystal on the tarmac at Copenhagen, while nursing his IOC hangover. USA Today:
Neanderthal Pride
Published on 1 Oct 2009 at 1:32 pm.
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Filed under Neanderthals, pols.
CNN: Grayson calls Republicans “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.”
Look, I really don’t want to get into the anti-Neanderthalism, though I think it’s deplorable we can’t have a political discussion in this country without people resorting to overt species-ist attacks.
High Road Located
Published on 1 Oct 2009 at 8:39 am.
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Filed under France, moronocy, pols.
CNN: GOP suspends plan to seek condemnation of Rep. Alan Grayson, D- Fla., for saying the GOP health plan is “die quickly.” Good move. Leave the apology-mongering and the low road to them. And give them enough rope. Politico: Grayson, “I’ll apologize to the dead,” likens health-care status quo to the Holocaust.
Great minds think alike. Allahpundit [...]
Attack Ass
Published on 29 Sep 2009 at 9:17 pm.
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Interesting exchange as Chris Cillizza at WaPo’s The Fix says the Dems need a high-profile attack dog on health-care to counter in the GOP pushback.
The DNC’s Kicking Ass blog says no they don’t.
Yeah, What They Said …
Published on 29 Sep 2009 at 8:09 am.
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Steyn, channeling Marcus Lloyd, on the left, racism and allowing one’s hypocritical adversaries to set the terms.
Gates
Published on 27 Sep 2009 at 8:26 pm.
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Filed under Obama, pols.
Very much enjoys working for Obama. Or maybe, he prefers it to not working for him. Which might be a good thing, considering …
So when it comes to Afghanistan, is Gates sucking up or standing up? Kicking off the Gates news with a Cabinet member’s obligatory suckup, here he is at CNN:
The Kennedy Seat
Published on 24 Sep 2009 at 1:33 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
UPDATE: It’s done. Kennedy hanger-on Paul Kirk gets the interim gig. Boston Herald. Kirk accepts with “sincere humility,” managing to sound suckuppy about being the beneficiary and instrument of utter arrogance. Back to the original post. Change all “woulds” and “ifs” to “hases” “dids” and “wills” below:
I don’t know who died and made that a Kennedy seat [...]
Don’t Forget Deval!
Published on 20 Sep 2009 at 10:12 am.
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Filed under Obama, pols.
The President of the United States pokes his nose into New York politics, urges Gov. David Paterson to back out of the race due to his dismal poll numbers. NYT:
Bring Us Your Pimps, Your Hos, Your Scamming Community Organizers Yearning To Breathe Free
Published on 18 Sep 2009 at 7:58 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
In the 345-75 vote to cut ACORN off at the knees, the Massachusetts delegation votes agaist cutting off ACORN, with the exception of John Tierney, who voted no, and Barney Frank, who didn’t vote. via Boston Herald.
That means eight of the “No” votes, or better than 10 percent, were provided by the Bay State.
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Panic Attack
Published on 17 Sep 2009 at 10:50 pm.
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The racists are about to form a lynch mob. At least, I think that’s what Pelosi is trying to say through the sobs, in a tearful fit of panic-mongering. Or maybe it’s just panic. Turns out the Dems and their fellow travelers can dish out the inflammatory political rhetoric, can’t take it. RealClearPolitics.
This of course [...]
Democratic Fundraising Push
Published on 15 Sep 2009 at 11:52 am.
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Filed under moronocy, pols.
For the campaign to re-elect Joe Wilson presses ahead, with a House vote to reprimand him planned for today. Washington Post. Let’s $750,000 in 48 hours after shouting … curious to see what rolls in with censure.
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As Goes Massachusetts
Published on 10 Sep 2009 at 10:10 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
So goes the nation. I’ve said it before, turns out it’s true. And we’re getting ready to bollix another one.
Organs For Health Care
Published on 9 Sep 2009 at 12:00 pm.
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Filed under China, Obama, media, moronocy, pols.
It’s always astonishing to see, just when you think Friedman has completely lost his mind, he always has a little more left to lose. Here he is, saying we should be like the People’s Republic of China, model of modern advancement, thanks to the efficiency of its “one-party autocracy,” as opposed to our “one-party democracy.”
I’m not going [...]
A Bus Named Gutlessness
Published on 9 Sep 2009 at 8:46 am.
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Filed under Obama, pols.
Great week for the bus! First Van Jones, now the public option! NY News: President Obama’s health care speech will lack demand for a public option.
The bus pictured above actually is operated by earnest fellow traveling union thugs. On Team Obama’s bus, the big wheels keep on rolling, proud Obama keeps on throwing things under the [...]
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Required Reading
Published on 2 Sep 2009 at 9:25 am.
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Filed under Obama, books, pols.
At the high school in la-di-da Hingham on Boston’s South Shore: “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.” Parents complained, and the principal said their kids could read another memoir of their choice. She just never told all the other saps, who got stuck reading the vanity campaign tome. Boston Herald:
Pay As We Say
Published on 2 Sep 2009 at 7:29 am.
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Not as we do. Actually, that probably should be “booze as we say … ” A Massachusetts Democratic state rep who voted to raise alcohol taxes and slap the increased state sales tax on hootch on top of that is caught buying bottles across the border in New Hampshire. A classic tabloid gotcha, it’s a [...]
Radical Surgery
Published on 2 Sep 2009 at 7:18 am.
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Filed under media, pols.
Contemplated. My adversaries across the Expressway on Morrissey Boulevard set down their burden of Democratic water for a minute and candidly explain how Senate Dems, staring in the face of failure on their plan to re-engineer vast swathes of our economy, are gearing up to ram socialized medicine through with the “nuclear option,” a little used skid-greasing procedure [...]
American Royalty
Published on 31 Aug 2009 at 8:16 am.
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Filed under media, pols.
The lefty sockpuppet also known as Glenn Greenwald is right. This nation might as well embrace royalty and be done with it. The only part I don’t get, is how he can get snarky about the fact that Jenna Bush just got a part-time TV gig, without once mentioning the colossal royal funeral we just witnessed or [...]
Double Reverse Wack-A-Mole
Published on 30 Aug 2009 at 9:35 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Pakistan, pols.
It’s the latest in Democratic strategic thinking. Sen. Russ Feingold in the Wall Street Journal. Bear with me, because this is really complicated, and also doesn’t make any sense. But I think this is how it works.
Remember when the Dems said the Iraq war was bad, we needed to get out, because all we were doing was [...]
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Legacy
Published on 29 Aug 2009 at 9:25 am.
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Filed under Boston, history, pols.
As they hold a funeral mass for Ted Kennedy and bury him today, here’s some praise for the dead. It’s why they loved him. A couple of quick links to demonstrate the good he did as he attempted to redeem himself from the shame of Chappaquiddick, and to demonstrate his application of his considerable influence and political skills [...]
Dems In Mourning
Published on 27 Aug 2009 at 9:20 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
His friend of many years’ body not yet cold, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shows the depth of his grief. Boston Herald:
The Bay State political landscape Sen. Edward M. Kennedy dominated for four decades has been thrown into disarray by his death, as local pols face national pressure to appoint a temporary replacement and potential successors quietly [...]
Ted Kennedy
Published on 26 Aug 2009 at 8:34 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
Won’t be down to breakfast. Boston Herald covers it, from iconic liberal lion, life of privilege marked by tragedy and scandal, dead in his sleep at 77 after a brave battle with cancer, to the succession fight/posturing/charade to come. The fix wasn’t quite in yet, but the hacks are putting their heads together to overturn the 2004 Kennedy-backed legislation [...]
Failure Accompli
Published on 24 Aug 2009 at 11:23 am.
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Filed under Obama, medicine, pols.
The excuse-making starts. Here’s the Daily Beast with Yglesias, the 20-something boy wonder whose long view of history convinces him failure is not only unavoidable, it’s laudably presidential. The notion that it might be due to inexperience, hubris, poor political skills, gross incompetence, that kind of thing, isn’t addressed in Matt’s explanation of why a big [...]
The Verbiliousness Of The Impotently Indignant Sockpuppet
Published on 23 Aug 2009 at 3:15 pm.
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The sockpuppet currently blogging as Greenwald fumes, at length, about the majority party’s inability to legislate its way out of a paper bag. Apparently it’s because the Blue Dogs, in addition to being the only ones who make any sense, are also the only ones with any backbone or political sense. OK, that’s not exactly ow [...]
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Meaningful Debate
Published on 11 Aug 2009 at 9:23 pm.
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Filed under Obama, medicine, pols.
Obama gets the one he’s been looking for in New Hampshire. Whitehouse.gov:
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Portsmouth! Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Everybody have a seat. Oh, thank you so –
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you!
Civic Involvement Decried
Published on 7 Aug 2009 at 8:46 am.
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Filed under America, Norman Rockwell, Obama, media, pols.
Paul Krugman among others are fully handwrought over the latest expression of American democracy, decrying the fact that citizens are involved, that they give a damn what their government is doing, that they are mad as hell, etc. Krugman wants to know whatever happened to Rockwellian democracy.
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Chaos
Published on 22 Jul 2009 at 9:13 am.
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In the enemy camp. Always a good sign. Better when there’s signs of panic. The Hill on much gnashing of teeth, rending of garments, wails from the city walls as Dems attempt to seize defeat from the jaws of victory re health care. Kind of reminds me of when they tried to end the Iraq war with that [...]
Cheney Tried To Keep Secret Stuff Secret
Published on 12 Jul 2009 at 12:21 pm.
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Filed under Cheney, Intel, pols.
It’s yet another a big scandal revolving around our Dark Lord Cheney, evil be his name. Maybe he didn’t want Congress to blab about it, or the New York Times to tell al-Qaeda about it. No word yet on what the big secret program was, though this, buried in the NYT article, is interesting:
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Economic Credulus
Published on 11 Jul 2009 at 11:11 am.
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Filed under Obama, hacks, money, pols.
Obama rejects a second stimulus. Coming from the Hero of Guantanamo and Savior of America’s Image Abroad, I believe that. via the Boston Herald:
The Guys Doth Protest Too Much
Published on 7 Jul 2009 at 7:58 am.
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Kristol at the Washington Post defends Palin against the media and the GOP establishment. It’s faint praise, but far from damning. Nothing like an establishment elite explaining to the others that they don’t own this thing, the people do.
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Politburo Mulls Airbrushing Reagan
Published on 3 Jul 2009 at 9:05 am.
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Filed under commies, moronocy, pols.
Barbara Hollingsworth, Washington Examiner:
At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic [...]
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Clown Wins Senate Seat
Published on 30 Jun 2009 at 10:27 pm.
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Smile! Comedian gives Dems their super majority. Seems appropriate it should happen this way. Not the drawn-out, months-long court battle part, though that did cut into Franken’s term. The fact that it took Bozo* winning to make them theoretically filibuster-proof. Now, everytime they bulldoze something through, it will be because Minnesota sent in a clown.
Politico with the news, roundup at [...]
