President Obama and other Democrats are staking Ohio on the auto bailout. If they win here, it will be because they convinced Ohio voters that the economy is improving on President Obama’s watch and that Ohio is leading the way as a result of the auto bailout. They’re willing to give him another four years to do the same with the rest of the country. | Read More »
Courtesy of Google Maps (and HT: Al Jazeera), we can now see an up-to-the minute map of the protests spreading across the Middle East, northern Africa, and into Asia. It only takes about three seconds on the Al Jazeera site to see that they are driving the narrative that Muslims are (and should be) angry about the anti-Islam film. Here are some of the headlines | Read More »
You can’t make this stuff up. On a day when the Middle East is on fire (literally, as Joe Biden would say), the Obama for America – Ohio Facebook page thought it would be a great idea to cheer Obama’s faithful fans with this: Jay-Z and Beyoncé will be meeting up with the President for an evening in NYC sometime soon. And today only, you | Read More »
Gaffe -Noun: An unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder: “an unforgivable social gaffe”. From The Hill today: “Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) began resurrecting some of President Obama’s most famous gaffes on the campaign trail Tuesday, reminding a crowd assembled at a Pennsylvania steel plant of the president’s remark four years ago that some voters are “clinging to their guns | Read More »
“Over the last hundred years, look what we’ve done in this country in terms of civil rights, women’s rights, Social Security and Medicare and minimum wage and worker’s compensation and prohibition on child labor and clean air and safe drinking water and auto safety, seat belts, airbags. All these things have given people the ability to live thirty years longer longer. Back a hundred years | Read More »
By now we’ve all had time to absorb Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate. The responses have been mostly ecstatic from those on our side of the political spectrum, including words of support from Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Express, FreedomWorks, and Concerned Women for America. I suspect that some of these groups have been willing to overlook some of the clunkers in | Read More »
It has been fairly widely reported that fifteen military groups have filed a “motion to intervene” in the Obama for America vs. Husted case. I posted a diary last week claiming that the Obama campaign was suing to disenfranchise military voters. Since that time there have been various comments (including in response to my diary) citing an apparently unimpeachable source: Snopes, which has apparently debunked | Read More »
[promoted from the diaries as part of the Ambitious Writer's Program] On paper, the lawsuit is filed in federal court as Obama for America v. Husted. If you read the content of the complaint, it should actually be called Obama v. the U.S. Troops. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday: “Obama for America, the U.S. president’s re-election campaign committee, sued two Ohio officials over changes to state law | Read More »
If you had any doubt that our national leaders are more concerned about preserving their jobs than with preserving our Republic, Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-OH) End Government Shutdowns Act should quickly dispel those doubts. Portman, joined by Senators Tester (D-MT), Barrasso (R-WY), Boozman (R-AR), Coats (R-IN), Cornyn (R-TX), Enzi (R-WY), Hoeven (R-ND), Lee (R-UT) and McCain (R-AZ) introduced a bill today that will attempt to insulate | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Vladimir, an uneducated conservative blogger. The headline on the U.S. News and World Report website read: ”Sen. Sherrod Brown’s Wife Makes Conservative Blogger Look Silly.” On the WaPo’s Politics blog the headline read, “Connie Schultz hopes for ‘teaching moment’ on conservative blogger’s failed gotcha,” and TPM wrote about “A Reporter’s Failed Attempt to Sandbag Connie Schultz.” This (allegedly newsworthy) media frenzy | Read More »
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