November 15, 2010 – 5:01 pm
That’s what E.J. Dionne wants to know The lame-duck session of Congress that kicks off this week will test whether Democrats have spines made of Play-Doh and whether President Obama has decided to pretend that capitulation is conciliation. Sorry, wrong premise, E.J. The actual question is: will the Democrats listen to the results of the […]
November 15, 2010 – 8:47 am
Thank you Politico for publishing the funniest story of at least the past month. It’s not quite as delusional as the one about Nancy Pelosi (Pelosi and company being delusional, not the Politico, and, make sure to check out Nancy P’s San Francisco), but, well, you have to see this President Obama offered a lesson […]
November 14, 2010 – 7:32 pm
Hey, they might as well continue traveling the same roads that lost them the House and several Senate seats Almost a year to the day after a unanimous committee vote, a long-stalled bill to promote food safety is poised for Senate passage within a week. The bill by Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) passed the […]
November 14, 2010 – 9:31 am
Liberals have long been having fits on the editorial pages, ranging anywhere from Hissy to Conniption to Unhinged Tools. Saturday’s full feeling of the paper is wacky and unhinged enough to make one go WharrblGarbl! Try Something Hard: Governing Yeah, it can be hard, which is why a man with virtually no real world experience, […]
November 13, 2010 – 6:55 pm
How perfect is this? It wasn’t quite a Kennedy Center Honors Award show, but the entertainment in Yokohama, Japan Saturday evening made President Obama smile as Japanese performers of traditional Kabuki theater put on a show for world leaders in town for the APEC summit. Kabuki is highly stylized Japanese singing and dancing which has […]
November 13, 2010 – 1:55 pm
Looks like Obama and Holder really, really, really want to hold a civilian trial of KSM, but those pesky meany American People keep blocking them WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks probably will remain in military detention without trial for the foreseeable future, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, […]
November 13, 2010 – 7:52 am
Not to be a negative nelly, but, the House Republicans best not be writing checks they can’t afford to pay off Republicans are working to make sure the House of Representatives functions better than ever, the leader of the GOP’s effort to transition into power said Saturday. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), incoming Speaker John Boehner’s […]
November 12, 2010 – 6:07 pm
Good idea? Bad idea? The Obama administration is preparing a stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort, according to people familiar with the situation. The strategy is expected to be unveiled in a report being issued by the U.S. Commerce […]
November 12, 2010 – 2:41 pm
Once again, Obama makes it All About Himself at the G20 meeting President Obama asserted Friday that the punishment his party took in midterm elections has not damaged his ability to advance U.S. interests overseas, saying his Asia trip has shown that many countries still want to work with the United States. Well, yes, they […]
November 11, 2010 – 7:00 pm
You just can’t make this stuff up, folks. Well, really, it can be made up, just not by you, because you are not raving paranoids living in a unicorn infested world of hopey changey unreality, like Ezra Klein does Since the election, there’s been a lot of talk about what President Obama and the Democratic […]
