August 11, 2011 – 9:07 am
After lots of leftist hand-wringing and excuse making from the liberal U.K. media, The Daily Mail’s Max Hasting decides to provide the real rationale behind the riots Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 […]
August 11, 2011 – 8:39 am
No, really. Now, this is not an excuse that Team Obama is making themselves, but one that Josh Gerstein at The Politico provides, but, surely Team Obama will integrate it into their litany of Blamestorming talking points regarding Why Obama Fails Freed at last from the debt ceiling negotiations, President Barack Obama is vowing an […]
August 7, 2011 – 7:27 am
Of course, amongst the whole range of Democrat voters…liberals/progressives/socialists/anarchists…..refusing to raise taxes on That Guy (not themselves) is a bad thing The Republican Party once had a home for the thinking of Tom Coburn, Mike Crapo and Saxby Chambliss. But that party is long gone. The three U.S. senators banded together a few months ago […]
August 5, 2011 – 8:50 am
It’s an interesting question, in which Roger L. Simon wonders whether Obama should resign, and puts it this way The worldwide market plunge since the signing of the U.S. debt agreement tells us one thing above all: Almost no one on the planet has confidence in the leadership of Barack Obama. A CEO with such […]
August 3, 2011 – 7:47 am
Remember when the liberal scolds were calling for a new era of civility? Politico’s Roger Simon had this to write “Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all […]
August 1, 2011 – 8:47 am
Then things are quite a bit worse then they appear. Douglas A. McIntyre provides 10 signs the double-dip recession has begun Friday’s news on GDP shows the double dip has arrived — an expansion of only 1.3 percent and consumer spending up 0.1 percent in the second quarter. Astonishingly low by any account. The debt […]
August 1, 2011 – 8:21 am
Over at the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza breaks down the winners and losers in the debt deal. Here are a few of his winners Tea party: There were major questions coming into the 112th Congress about who would blink first — the largely establishment-aligned leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman […]
July 31, 2011 – 7:29 pm
Hmm, hasn’t President Snippy Pants been running around, scaring people, telling them the US credit rating will get downgraded if Someone Else doesn’t put a deal together? Not so fast, “according to PIMCO founder and managing director Bill Gross” When asked by CNN host Ali Velshi on Sunday whether the U.S. deserved to maintain its […]
July 31, 2011 – 9:58 am
ABC News is reporting that there is tentative debt deal, per “congressional sources”. Here’s the deal they are reporting, according to both Dem and GOP sources A debt ceiling increase of up to $2.1 to $2.4 trillion (depending on the size of the spending cuts agreed to in the final deal). They have now agreed […]
July 28, 2011 – 8:59 am
President Snippy Pants is doing what he does best: voting present, then giving speeches As House Republicans slog toward a Thursday vote on raising the debt ceiling, President Obama and his staff have hit the airwaves in a massive, all-hands-on-deck public-relations effort to turn the tide of political opinion in their favor. All told, the […]
