The Definition of Stupid: Another Legislative Surrender

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 11th at 03:58 PM  | 

Get ready for another weak ground out into a double play in the upcoming budget battle. Shortly before the August recess, we reported that Republicans planned to pass a clean 6-month CR which funds Obamacare and appropriates $1.047 trillion in spending – commensurate with Obama’s request instead of the House budget.  The idea behind the “deferment” strategy was twofold; to delay the major battles to | Read More »

Obama Does Radio Interview on 9-11. No Mention of 9-11.

By: Ben Howe (Diary)  |  September 11th at 01:56 PM  | 

The headline speaks for itself. I tried hard not to get political today, but sometimes you have to call out insensitivity when you see it. It started with Joe Biden’s reference to Flight 93 as a “bittersweet” memory (though some are giving him the benefit of the doubt on that one) and then it was The Onion joking about 9-11 on their site and twitter | Read More »

Bill Clinton’s Bounce: How Media Conventional Wisdom Works

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 11th at 03:30 AM  | 

Polling is reflecting Bill Clinton’s bounce out of the Democratic National Convention. You wouldn’t know that if you listened to most of the media, but the bounce belonged not to Obama, but to Clinton. Fortunately for the GOP, Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton. It must privately grate on Barack Obama. The media narrative is all about Barack Obama. He’s going to win. He’s ahead. | Read More »

India, Abbottabad, and Osama bin Laden: Did New Delhi Assist the U.S. on Operation Neptune Spear?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  September 10th at 07:15 PM  | 

The most-discussed “revelation” in No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden, by former Navy SEAL “Mark Owen,” is certainly Osama bin Laden’s status as unarmed when he was shot twice in the head by an American operator in his Abbottabad house. Not only was the al Qaeda leader and terror mastermind not holding a weapon when he was | Read More »

Chicago Teachers Union Uses Kids As Pawns: Karen Lewis’ Train Wreck That Could’ve Been Avoided

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 10th at 02:30 PM  | 

Early this morning, 26,000 Chicago teachers walked out on 400,000 Chicago kids, abandoning the classroom for the picket lines. Anytime, teachers abandon school kids, it is the children and their parents who suffer the greatest–and Chicago Teachers Union knows this. As the union had been negotiating for months with the offcials in Chicago Public School system, the union could have struck anytime during the summer. | Read More »

Newspapers Enable PolitiFact Ohio’s Liberal Bias

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  September 10th at 01:01 PM  | 

PolitiFact Ohio – the “fact checking” wing of the Cleveland Plain Dealer – faces proof of staffers’ liberal bias after two years of being cited as an authority by all six of Ohio’s major newspapers. Although a recent Media Trackers report debunked the outlet’s claim to objectivity, most of the state’s biggest dailies continue to treat PolitiFact Ohio as an objective source. On August 16, | Read More »

Sometimes a Cake Really Is A Cake. Sometimes a Polling Trend Really is Accurate.

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 10th at 10:37 AM  | 

The Romney campaign this morning put out a memo telling everyone to calm down, don’t worry, things are fine. Superficially, I agree. Bill Clinton helped Barack Obama more than Mitt Romney helped himself in the past few weeks. But the economic numbers are really not good and things on the horizon appear to be getting worse. Voters will start factoring in those variables in the | Read More »

Obama’s Worship Leader #VetObama

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 10th at 03:30 AM  | 

Consider this — Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker wrote a lengthy profile of Michele Bachmann’s religious views and, in the process, got major portions of Bachmann’s theology flat out wrong. She’s Lutheran. He painted her to be part of a fringe cult, in the process misdefining basic theological terms. Then there was Bill Keller of the New York Times. He thinks candidates for President | Read More »

Who needs a muted, irrelevant President?

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  September 9th at 09:49 AM  | 

As conservatives, we know why we don’t want President Barack Obama in the White House. He is leading this country in the wrong direction. But his completely empty convention speech, when combined two moments described in Bob Woodward’s new book, gave us another prong of attack that is potentially much more devastating. He simply is irrelevant now. Nancy Pelosi put him on mute and Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid kicked Obama out of a meeting he called in the White House.

So here’s the argument. President Obama may be bad. But he’s worse than bad. He’s irrelevant. It is time to elect someone with a vision and a capacity to actually solve — or at least contribute to solutions — to today’s problems. Obama’s convention speech, allergic to any specifics, and nothing more than a recitation of progressive goals and values rather than specific policies to get people there, shows that he will continue to be the irrelevant man in the room if re-elected. Who needs a man who brings nothing to the table other than speechifying, no matter how inspiring it may be to some?

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Calling The Election Today

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 9th at 07:41 AM  | 

Is it just me or does there seem to be some organized spin out over the weekend to call the election for President Obama now? Check out the Politico for the best of these, but everyone is out doing it. Here’s the thing — I have a theory that polling is taking longer to respond to events because of the overwhelming flow of information these | Read More »

The Recession May Have Been Worse Than He Knew, But The Obama Administration Declared It Over by August 2009

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 7th at 03:10 PM  | 

The National Bureau of Economic Research declared the recession over in June of 2009. By September of 2009, Ben Bernanke was telling folks that based on the numbers the recession “is very likely over.” On June 17, 2010, the White House declared a summer of recovery. Today, there are fewer people in the jobs market than any time since September of 1981. Jobs numbers in | Read More »

Book: Mafia Hit-Man & Teamster Boss Helped Joe Biden Become U.S. Senator

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 7th at 12:30 PM  | 

The book I Heard You Paint Houses came out in 2003, so it’s been gathering some dust on a number of bookshelves around the country for quite some time. The book’s title, according to Amazon, comes from the first words infamous Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the | Read More »

A Recycled Speech of Failed Ideas and Many Straw Men

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 6th at 10:19 PM  | 

When you are in a tight race with your political opponent, you should not recycle a Jobs Act speech that failed to even persuade Democrats in Congress to pass your signature re-election initiative. But that’s what Barack Obama did. A day after Bill Clinton brought the house down, Barack Obama took to the stage and reduced, reused, and recycled old states of the union speeches | Read More »

Barack Obama and the Rise of Ineptocracy

By: streiff (Diary)  |  September 6th at 07:39 PM  | 

The new Bob Woodward book is a damning profile of a Barack Obama out of his depth and with only a tenuous grip on reality. He is silly, arrogant, vain, incompetent and irrelevant. He is truly our first ineptocrat and one hopes his style of governance vanishes with him.

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NLRB To Union-Busting Teamsters: Stop Harassing Organizers For Wanting Their Own Union

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 6th at 08:45 AM  | 

Union bosses who pretend they’re fighters for the working class often are accused by their own employees of committing the same sins that they accuse employers of doing. Very often, when push comes to shove, union bosses become the worst kind of union busters there are–because they should know better. Take, for example, the Teamsters who, back in 2009, threatened to operate their union business | Read More »