Obama’s scandal atmosphere and 2014 Democratic recruitment efforts.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 19th at 10:15 AM |
I’m not sure that Stu Rothenberg is correct, here: …it isn’t clear how much of an impact, if any, the controversies will have on the 2014 midterms. Even if (when) those controversies fade, however, there could be short-term consequences for both the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the area of recruitment. Largely because it doesn’t look like either organization | Read More »
Darrell Issa, John Boehner not “taking the bait” with current White House scandals.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 18th at 11:00 AM |
(H/T: Hot Air Headlines) This is not going to end up being a windmill joust against Barack Obama. Much to the Democrats’ secret displeasure. GOP leaders will help coordinate various House investigations into controversies involving the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the State Department. But the key Republican lawmaker with jurisdiction on all these matters said that a rerun of | Read More »
Meet New Mexico’s liberal Tim Keller, before he becomes fake-moderate Tim Keller.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 17th at 01:30 PM |
Well, let us not ignore the upcoming election cycle simply because the Obama administration has decided to go utterly mad this week*. Below for your dubious delectation is a video from the New Mexico Republican party on one Tim Keller, who is being pushed out as a stealth liberal challenger to Governor Susana Martinez next year. I say “stealth” because – well, watch: Short version | Read More »
Obama administration going with the idiot narrative on #Benghazi.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 17th at 12:30 PM |
No, seriously, this is the angle that they’re going to run with: “We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots,” said one Obama administration official who was part of the Benghazi response. “It’s actually closer to us being idiots.” Personally, I take the position that the administration needs to embrace the healing power of ‘and,’ here. But as the philosopher once put it: | Read More »
“Business As Usual, During Alterations.”
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 16th at 08:00 PM |
If you are interested in figuring out how to handle digital rights management and just recompense for work that is easily replicable by electronic methods, then you absolutely need to read a science fiction story from 1958 called “Business As Usual, During Alterations,” and written by Ralph Williams*. I will give you the short version: Earth society is given a matter duplicator by Alien Space | Read More »
Eric Holder may have an *exquisitely* painful day today over at House Judiciary.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 15th at 09:45 AM |
I know, I know: you are wounded unto death about such a thing occurring. Wounded unto death. Attorney General Eric Holder will testify before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, where Republicans say they’ll grill him about the Justice Department’s secret review of Associated Press phone records and the IRS targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny, among other issues. The oversight hearing had already | Read More »
McClatchy circles back to #benghazi, and the lies about the video.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 14th at 10:30 AM |
McClatchy (!) has decided to get in on the Benghazi dogpile, probably because, hey, no line for this one*! Lost in the controversy over who requested revisions of CIA-written talking points on September’s attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans is one key fact: In every iteration of the document, the CIA asserted that a video protest preceded the assaults, and no official reviewing | Read More »
Jim Geraghty makes a VERY good point on #benghazi.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 13th at 10:30 AM |
Which is to say: he said pretty much what I would have, assuming of course that anybody was ever insane enough to put me on CNN. The short version: Jim did some vigorous pushback on the excuse of Oh, well, we’d cover this story except that there’s some random person on the Right pounding the table so we can’t look like loons that far too | Read More »
Even the Left is admitting that Barack Obama has fatally hurt future bipartisanship efforts.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 12th at 11:30 AM |
John Dickerson took perhaps too long to get to this paragraph, and he wrote it through gritted teeth, but he does put a finger on the central problem for the Obama administration right now: The substantive differences between the president and Republicans on the budget may be insurmountable, but now it seems like even if the pipe dream of a substantive budget agreement could be | Read More »
“Student loans are like herpes with compound interest.”
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 11th at 06:30 PM |
Glenn Reynolds thinks that this Daily Show skit on our current student loan crisis will help collapse the (related) current educational bubble: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook I agree, but I want to address another point.
MSNBC (!): Democratic operatives trying to undermine #benghazi whistle-blowers.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 10th at 12:30 PM |
Apparently nobody told the n-dimensional geniuses over at the White House that it’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up. Transcript of remarks, courtesy of the Weekly Standard: “There is something called Benghazi going on,” said [NBC's Lisa] Myers. “And I think the Democrats now are starting to worry about it. I started–I got calls from a number of Democrats yesterday trying to undermine Greg Hicks’s | Read More »
This is probably the point where the Hillary 2016 effort…
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 9th at 01:00 PM |
…will be judged by future researchers to have started to slide off of the beam: [Hillary] Clinton — how much she knew, when she knew it, and whether she willingly participated in a cover up — was a central theme of the [Benghazi] hearing. And Wednesday, the story did move a large step closer to Clinton. Star witness Gregory Hicks, who was the Deputy Chief | Read More »
(Now-Republican) Alabaman[***] legislature strikes blow for individual liberty.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 8th at 02:00 PM |
Legalizing homebrewing, of course. The Alabama Senate tonight gave final passage to the homebrewing bill, possibly ending Alabama’s status as the only state in which homebrewing is still illegal. “Alabama is literally the last state that makes homebrew legal, assuming the governor signs it,”said Sen. Bill Holtzclaw,R-Madison. The Alabama legislature was, of course, controlled by the Democratic party until the historic elections of 2010; homebrewing | Read More »
Jim Geraghty to House Oversight Committee: be the icemen.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 7th at 09:45 AM |
Jim Geraghty of NRO’s Campaign Spot has some very good advice. Dear Republicans on the House Oversight Committee: Please do not grandstand. Please do not take the time before the television cameras to tell us how outraged you are, even though what you are investigating is, indeed, outrageous. There will be plenty of time for that after the hearing. All day Wednesday, give us the | Read More »
Ed Markey: foolish on Benghazi. Foolish on the Boston Marathon bombing, too?
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | May 6th at 12:00 PM |
I’d like everybody to pay close attention to this Tweet: .@mittromney more interested in bogus #Benghazi theory than battling auto bankruptcy. #battleship #p2 — Ed Markey (@MarkeyMemo) October 23, 2012 It’s from back in October of 2012, when – as Legal Insurrection very helpfully notes – Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts (D) (now running against Gabriel Gomez in a special election for MA-SEN) was doing | Read More »
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