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    Steve Benen Is Shocked To Find That Some People Don’t Like Signing Statements

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  June 20th at 07:06 PM  | 

    Expecting consistency from left-wing political activists is folly, but rarely does one get such a glaring example as the Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen on presidential “signing statements.” Watch, and your head will spin. During the Bush years, liberal commentators suddenly discovered that they didn’t like the longstanding practice of “signing statements” by which the President offered his own interpretation of legislation he was signing, in | Read More »

    Left-Wing Bloggers Say The Durndest Things!

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 02:15 PM  | 

    Somebody should ask Robert Gibbs if he agrees with the assessment of a leading left-wing blogger that President Obama hasn’t been “even half-competent in the White House.” See, every now and then, I engage in back-and-forth on Twitter with some of the left-wing bloggers. Sometimes it’s pointless, but sometimes it’s revealing, and this is one of those examples. I and a few others were tweaking | Read More »

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    No Quarter: How Left-Wing Blogs Seek To Destroy Us Rather Than Debate Us

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  March 19th at 03:13 PM  | 

    If you have been reading or writing blogs for some time, you may recall the early, heady days of the blogosphere back around 2002-03. Many of us old-school bloggers started back then (I started writing baseball on the web in May 2000, and political blogging in August 2002; RedState wouldn’t be founded until the summer of 2004). The blog world was a small town in | Read More »

    Code Words: John McCain Is Doubleplus Unyoung

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  July 16th at 03:18 PM  | 

    If ever you wanted a perfect illustration of the difference between the coordinated, top-down nature of the activism of the online Left and the way normal people think and write, check out Jim Geraghty’s review of how they refer to John McCain: The liberal blog The Carpetbagger Report uses the word “confused” in almost every post about McCain; same deal at ThinkProgress. At AmericaBlog, the | Read More »