Obama’s Attempt to Ignore the Last 4 Years Includes Recycling 2008 Words, Phrases, and Promises

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  September 3rd at 03:10 PM  | 

The lengths to which the Obama campaign is going to pretend that the last four years simply didn’t happen (or, in the words of Ezra Klein’s headline writer, to act as though Mitt “Romney’s policies are the incumbent,” rather than the sitting President of the United States) have been laughable in their extremity.

Part of the effort to recreate 2008 in the current election cycle, as a new ad from the RNC shows, is to simply recycle the same words, phrases, and promises then-candidate Obama made four years ago – before his Carteresque term as President.

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Hope and Change Revisited

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  April 26th at 07:00 AM  | 

Cross-posted: TobyToons.com (Conservative Editorial Cartoons)

I Blame Us All. Don’t Worry: You Will Too.

By: Thomas Crown (Diary)  |  March 1st at 11:55 PM  | 

From the diaries . . . So, as we begin our gallant charge into electoral defeat in November in earnest, I think it’s time to lay the blame for this primary season where it belongs: The voters. We’ve all spent a good bit of time deriding and decrying the Establishment for our current straits, and I truly believe they deserve some criticism. National Review backhanded | Read More »

New Wikileaks cable?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 10th at 10:00 AM  | 

I’ll be honest: I hesitated to put up this link to what claims to be a Wikileaked cable regarding issues with the US/UK special relationship during the previous administration.  I truly did.  I have long made it clear that I take our security classification system likely, and I subscribe wholeheartedly to the notion that some things are and should be on a need-to-know basis.  In | Read More »

CT GOV: Bag of Uncounted Ballots “Found”

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  November 5th at 11:30 AM  | 

UPDATE [H/T: Ace]: CT voter fraud caught on video … … Mayor Jason McCoy has obtained a video that was taken inside a polling place in Bridgeport and shows a poll watcher warning a poll worker not to mix unofficial ballots with official ballots. She ignores him and he is escorted away. There are additional charges: Some voters were given more than one ballot Other | Read More »

TARP, Roy, Robin and the Republicans

By: Bill S (Diary)  |  July 18th at 08:00 PM  | 

Things looked very grim for the financial markets in 2008.  Things were occurring very rapidly and few really understood what was going on during those weeks (here is a reminder of the turmoil that went on during that period)  I saw a number of articles and emails that indicated that there could be a massive collapse of financial institutions that made the 1929 Black Tuesday, | Read More »

Incumbency Matters: The Joseph Cao story

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  July 14th at 11:30 AM  | 

Plug -2.8 into the Swingometer and you’ll see 5 districts swing. Louisiana’s second district was the fifth closest seat won by a Republican in 2008, and that Republican was Joseph Cao. He beat William Jefferson, the now-convicted felon who received bribes and kept the cash hidden in his freezer. By election day Jefferson had already been caught, and the money had already been found. Why | Read More »

Gallup generic ballot suggests 45 seat Republican gain

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  June 1st at 06:37 PM  | 

The new Gallup generic ballot is out. Republicans have jumped to a 49-43 advantage, which National Review Online says is the largest Republican lead in 60 years. Given the historical accuracy of the Gallup generic ballot in midterm elections, let’s plug this result in to the Swingometer.