Update by Jeff 3/20/11 22:15: According to Jake Tapper, it now appears that SecDef Gates is warning against setting any goals for this action whatsoever. How’s that for clarity and sound military strategy? Update by Jeff 3/20/11 18:10: The muddling continues, as it’s being reported that SecDef Gates, who initially opposed any action in Libya, is now opposing any action that would specifically target Qaddafi. | Read More »
Lobbyists in the Administration = No Lobbyists Allowed 9,000 Earmarks in a Spending Bill = The First Step Toward Ending Earmarks $2,000,000,000,000.00 in Debt-Growing Wasteful Spending = a Return to Fiscal Responsibility Running Roughshod Over the Minority = True Post-Partisanship We’re all familiar with these (and dozens more) examples of President Obama’s (D-IL) penchant for promising the opposite of what he plans to do, and | Read More »
Just hours after the House Democratic leadership forced President Obama’s $3,600,000,000,000.00 budget for fiscal year 2010 through the House Budget Committee, the House GOP unveiled their alternative to the president’s astronomical spending bill (the GOP document can be seen here, courtesy of good friend and RS contributor Dan Spencer). President Obama has pulled out all the stops in pushing his multi-trillion-dollar budget, which even USA | Read More »
Both candidates looked flat to me, though I was clearly being harder on Sen. McCain than several of my colleagues, whose instant messages and emails seem to overwhelmingly support McCain as the sound winner of this go-round. My thoughts, added as the debate went on, below the fold.
Have you ever heard of Oleg Lyubner? No? I hadn’t either until recently. For background information, Lyubner is a publicist for Workman Publishing, the publishing house responsible for popular books like 1,000 Places to See Before You Die and slightly less mainstream works like The Bathroom Humor Page-a-Day Calendar and Bad President, a “humor” book about George W. Bush. So, why does Lyubner matter — | Read More »
Five Eight times tonight the freshman Democrat Senator from Illinois has responded to questions and McCain answers by saying, “John is right.” Further, he listened to McCain’s exceedingly knowledgeable response on Georgia by saying, in essence, “What he said.” Tonight, Senator Obama has reinforced the simple fact that – if he can shed the arrogance he wears on his sleeve – he is very well | Read More »
Sen. Obama has given McCain several openings so far in the debate; to this point, the Republican nominee has only taken a few of those opportunities to go on the offensive. From Obama’s claim that he warned the administration and the Congress Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when it was McCain who attempted to actually deal with that mounting crisis through legislation, to Obama’s claim | Read More »
Depending on where you sit, this move could be viewed as an act of sheer genius or of absolute political suicide. I tend to lean toward the former, while acknowledging that this play could still go very, very wrong. Here’s why: With this suggestion that the Presidential campaign be put on hold, and the Friday night foreign policy debate be delayed, John McCain is saying | Read More »
The latest New York Times hit job on the McCain campaign was met with the sternest rebuke yet of the segment of America McCain once called his “base.” On a conference call about the latest McCain ad, called “Chicago Machine” and featuring information on Barack Obama’s ties to convicted felon Tony Rezko, William Daley, corrupt State Senate resignee (and former Obama mentor) Emil Jones (D), | Read More »
Earlier this week, I suggested that, if he really is in possession of superior knowledge and a foolproof plan to pull America’s financial system out of its current deepening hole, Barack Obama should put his money where his mouth is, show up in the U.S. Senate (where he’s currently being paid to be), and propose that plan in the form of legislation. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t | Read More »
On September 12, Barack Obama declared he was going to “take off the gloves” (at the least the fourth time he has made that claim this campaign season) and begin his campaign anew, dedicating himself to the home stretch with a renewed purpose and an eye on the November 4 prize. The “final stretch” was beginning, and, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe declared in an | Read More »
Barack Obama shot off at the mouth at a Sunday evening speech in Michigan, saying the following: We are going to change our foreign policy, because I am tired of listening to folks who talk tough and act dumb. If John McCain wants to have a debate about foreign policy, I am happy to have that debate. If Barack Obama making recklessly aggressive statements and | Read More »
Sarah Palin Barack Obama Office being sought Vice President President of the United States and Leader of the Free World Full name Sarah Louise Heath Palin Barack Hussein Obama II Nickname Sarah Barracuda Barry Obama; “The One” Public opinion Smoking hot in a “naughty librarian” sort of way May be The Messiah Age 44 48 Children 5: two sons, three daughters 2: two daughters Religion/Church | Read More »
The Obama campaign was quick to respond to John McCain’s surprise selection of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as his running mate, releasing this statement this morning: Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil | Read More »
The McCain store is selling stickers and buttons, seen at right (click for larger image), for the newly announced 2008 GOP ticket. Sharp, eh? I especially note the fact that McCain and Palin’s names are in the same font and the same color, representing their team attitude with regard to the campaign. The only thing that differentiates them is vertical positioning — as the presidential | Read More »
With a hat tip to RCP’s Tom Bevan, Democrats Ken Salazar and James Clyburn are testing out lines of attack against McCain’s apparent Veep nominee, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — and, quite frankly, if this is the best they can do on a Friday morning, (a) they don’t have much to go on, and (b) their heads must still be spinning from the masterful job | Read More »
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), House Chief Deputy Minority Whip, has been asked to provide “personal documents” to McCain vice presidential vetters, according to a report made this afternoon. “Cantor through a spokesman declined to comment,” said the AP report. “McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said the campaign would have ‘no comment on anything related to the vice presidential issue.’” Further, McCain representatives neither confirmed nor denied | Read More »
Only to an addled mind could the McCain advertisement below, which compares Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in terms of experience, qualification to lead, and sheer celebrity, be conceived as race-baiting. Unfortunately, the New York Times and their fellow Obama-at-any-cost diehards are just addled enough to try to make that argument. Today the Times‘ editorial board wrote: The presumptive Republican nominee has | Read More »
On May 16, Barack Obama bravely declared that he would debate John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee “anywhere, anytime.” “If John McCain wants to meet me anywhere, anytime, to have a debate about our respective policies in Iraq, in Iran, in the Middle East or around the world, that is a conversation I am happy to have,” said Obama to an adoring audience of “reporters” | Read More »
Barack Obama’s campaign strategy of purposely distorting his opponent’s statements, then running for cover claiming that he is being “attacked,” was on full display today at a Springfield, Missouri campaign stop. “[A]nxieties seem to be growing with each passing day,” said Obama, taking a page from the oldest book that Democratic politics-as-usual has to offer (the one in which the sky is always falling, and | Read More »
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