The Thumpin’.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 29th at 09:00 AM  | 

Wait: I’ve seen this movie before. At the end of July 2006, I remember being… fairly optimistic about the Congressional elections. Oh, I knew that there were going to be problems. It was year Six of a Presidential administration, and the Other Side was kind of fired up. And, sure, the economy was slowing down a bit – we were all the way down to | Read More »

Michael Barone: Charlie Rangel not yet albatross*.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 20th at 11:33 AM  | 

(Via Instapundit) Contra Michael Barone (who I both like and respect), there’s a simpler answer to the question of why Speaker Pelosi hasn’t cut Charlie Rangel loose yet: by Democratic standards, he’s not particularly corrupt. We are after all talking about a political party whose collective inability to pay their taxes became the first national political joke of 2009. That being said, Barone’s point that | Read More »