Ezra Klein responds via Twitter. See below. There’s so much wrong in this column from Ezra Klein’s blog at the Washington Post that it’s hard to know where to begin. Ezra is waxing partisan about the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to be President Obama’s head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, trying desperately to find some justification for this unprecedented flouting of the Constitution. | Read More »
In Honduras, Iran, and now Egypt, President Obama chose to side with dictatorships over the democratic resistance. The unrest in Egypt is easily the most critical international crisis of the Obama Administration, and by all accounts the president is not handling it well. His ambiguous and overly cautious statements on the popular uprising in that crucial Middle East nation have managed only to alienate both | Read More »
Most of the president’s initiatives received only polite applause – totally in keeping with the dinner party rules imposed by Democrats. Pageantry, tradition, and protocol all play a big part in the annual State of the Union address. They are the reason that the speech is like no other in American political life. In recent years, another equally important element has joined those three: atmospherics. | Read More »
The American people are certainly resilient, but that doesn’t mean they want to be sitting ducks. Debra Burlingame, spoke exclusively to RedState in reaction to President Obama’s comment that America could “absorb” another terrorist attack. Ms. Burlingame is co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America and the sister of hijacked American Airlines flight 77 pilot Charles Burlingame. RedState asked Ms. Burlingame to | Read More »
President Obama’s much hyped Oval Office address on the Gulf oil disaster is being roundly criticized from the left and the right as lacking in substance and leadership on the spill but full of presidential inaction on the cleanup. An analysis of the number of words the president devoted to the four general topics of the speech shows that the critics are right. The problem | Read More »
“There is a cancer on the presidency. It has been growing daily for the past three months. It’s compounding, it grows geometrically now because it compounds itself. And there is no assurance that it won’t bust.” Former White House Counsel John Dean spoke those words to President Richard Nixon almost 40 years ago as the Nixon White House was desperately trying to cover its role | Read More »
Politico has a piece today on preparations President Obama and his inner circle are making for his reelection campaign, which the article states is set to launch early next year. Mike Allen reports that the campaign is likely to be run out of Chicago and staffed by a cadre of veterans from Obama’s 2008 campaign. Of particular interest given the news of the week is | Read More »
We take a break from the hyperventilating over the latest moves in the slow-motion kabuki dance that is the Obama Administration’s efforts to ram its federal takeover of the health care system down the throats of the overwhelming majority of Americans who oppose the various bills to take a look at what should be a much, much bigger story. Last week, Democratic Senate Candidate Joe | Read More »
As we approach President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address, it is worth taking a look at where Obama stands with the public one year into The One’s presidency. As previously discussed here, Obama began his term with higher approval ratings that any president since John F. Kennedy, and lower disapproval ratings of any president except George H. W. Bush. But a year | Read More »
To varying degrees, every presidential candidate makes promises during the course of the campaign that the realities of governing eventually cause the winner to break. But never has the US seen a president like Barack Obama, whose broken campaign promises far outnumber his fulfilled ones. The list is seemingly endless: no lobbyists in the administration, closing Guantanamo Bay, a tax cut for 95% of Americans, | Read More »
Just a year into the Obama Administration, things look very different than candidate Obama said they would last November. Both in domestic and international affairs, the first year of Obama’s presidency must by any objective standard be judged a dismal failure. His victories have largely been small and partisan, while his defeats have been large and bipartisan. Obama has been ridiculed even in his moments | Read More »
Over 90,000 Americans were killed in the Pacific during World War II defending the United States and the world from Japanese aggression. Thank God many of the survivors passed on before they had to witness the President of the United States bowing low to the Emperor of Japan. To those veterans of the Pacific still living today, I say thank you. And I apologize on | Read More »
MSNBC’s First Read reported last night that the Obama Administration is now saying that illegal immigrants will be specifically prevented from obtaining coverage under the president’s health care proposal. The chage comes on the heels of Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) “You lie!” outburst during Obama’s health care address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. Although the president denied from the rostrum of the | Read More »
Mark it down. President Obama’s “make or break” speech, as the media is portraying it, will be widely viewed as a success among the chattering class. It will be groundbreaking, visionary, full of clarity, and a “game changer,” as CNN has already labeled it. But sit tight, that’s just for a while. Patrick Rufini had it right on Twitter last night. Tmrw’s speech will be | Read More »
Facing growing public skepticism and falling approval ratings as a result of his push for nationalized health care, President Obama told a group in Virginia last week that he didn’t want, “the folks who had created the [health care] mess to do a lot of talking, I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.” It was a | Read More »
The White House’s actions in the health care debate have made clear the fundamental change from the Bush administration’s way of doing things that President Obama has brought to the White House. The Bush administration treated America’s enemies as dangerous threats bent on destroying the country and used every resource at its disposal to defeat them while respecting American citizens’ right to disagree with its | Read More »
If you want to figure out what a politician is up to, pay attention to what he accuses his opponents of doing. Chances are, the accuser is probably doing it himself. It is with that thought in mind that we take a look at President Barack Obama’s now infamous determination from afar that the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, “acted stupidly,” in arresting Harvard Professor, and | Read More »
Actually, the first half of this article from Peggy Noonan is not all that bad. But Ms. Noonan goes astray somewhere in between blaming Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for everything from all the ills of the Republican Party to the Kennedy assassination. This is the part I cannot abide: “Here’s why all this matters. The world is a dangerous place. It has never been more | Read More »
President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, has been deservedly criticized for her stated belief that minority judges make better decisions than “white males” because of their race, gender, ethnicity, and life experiences. The remark, repeated by Sotomayor in near identical form in speech after speech, has raised questions about her ability to be fair and impartial on the bench. Surprisingly less criticized | Read More »
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has come under fire for the following controversial comment that she made in prepared remarks at the University of California-Berkeley. “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Both the Obama Administration and the nominee herself | Read More »
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