After steering the economy away from another Great Depression, Mr. Bernanke confronts a painfully slow rebound. Unemployment is still high and inflation is uncomfortably low. Fed officials, who spent much of the early part of this year planning for an exit from easy-money policies, have been forced to think about doing more to jolt the [...]
Archive | August, 2010
Ron Paul Humiliates Democrats
I’m sure Sen. Chuck Schumer will chime right in after this, as will other “leading” Democrats. Can’t wait to hear Rand Paul’s response to his dad’s unequivocal statement. If Mitt Romney had any courage at all he would have spoken up, too. He’s certainly been on the receiving end of a lot of Mormon bigotry. [...]
Anti Obamaism Seen through the Prism of the Mosque
“We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized antisemitism,” said Daisy Khan, who is spearheading the project with her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. “It’s beyond Islamophobia. It’s hate of Muslims.” – Mosque Planner Says Opposition Goes ‘Beyond Islamophobia’ Even if Pres. Obama publicly takes a stand, speaking out for the people who [...]
2012: Room Growing for An Independent
Dan Balz has a column up about Obama advisers holding on to hope for 2012, grabbing the Gipper’s political story as a lifeline. I hope it gives them comfort, but it misses the picture by a mile. First, the economy today is much worse than what the U.S. was suffering under Reagan, plus the politics [...]
Sect. Clinton Announces Middle East Talks
UPDATE via AP: Iranian and Russian engineers began loading nuclear fuel into Iran’s first atomic power plant Saturday amid international concern that the Islamic Republic is seeking a nuclear weapon. State television showed what appeared to be fuel rods being loaded into the core of the reactor, which is on the shores of the Persian [...]
Suffocating Toxicity
AP has now released guidelines for all reporters to avoid using the term “ground zero mosque.” It’s officially the equivalent of political napalm: 1. We should continue to avoid the phrase “ground zero mosque” or “mosque at ground zero” on all platforms. (We’ve very rarely used this wording, except in slugs, though we sometimes see [...]
The Ides of August: Pamela Geller’s Gang is Winning
The rise in the belief that Pres. Obama is a Muslim is due to a concerted effort from the right. Barack Obama and his team should have learned this lesson from the ’90s, but instead they were too busy running from that reality. It’s why conservatives have jumped on the Corboda House issue, and why [...]
Sarah to Dr. Laura: ‘Don’t Retreat, Reload’
Dr. Laura has a new friend and not surprisingly, she’s as confused about the Constitution as Dr. Laura. Sarah Palin opines on Twitter that Schlessinger “Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence ‘isn’t American,not fair.’” These two anti-feminist whiners don’t get tough when things get rough, they simply wilt and [...]
If There’s A Democrat Around with A Set Please Speak Up
via Glenn Greenwald Sweet Jesus. We’ve now got people begging George W. Bush to save Pres. Obama on the Cordoba House issue, which is turning into a slow moving catastrophe. What the hell is it about August and Democrats imploding? Even Eugene Robinson, Obama fluffer in chief, invoked Bush, saying he “would love to hear [...]
Dr. Laura Follows Sarah Palin, Offers Dumbest Quitter Excuse Ever
“I want to regain my First Amendment rights,” she said. “I want to be able to say what’s on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, [...]
Sestak and Bloomberg Show How It’s Done
…As its defenders point out, the Community Center at Park51 will occupy not a solitary inch of the 16-block site on which the Twin Towers stood. Once built, the center will indeed house a mosque, “open and accessible to all” — but also a swimming pool, basketball court, auditorium, library, day-care facility, restaurant and cooking [...]
2012: Of Newt, Nazis, Flame Throwing, Failed Husband and Speaker
Newt Gingrich’s remarks invoking Nazis to reference the Cordoba House have not only been incendiary, but anti-American given our Constitution. Invoking Nazis always a sign that you’ve run out of intellectual energy and have decided to take the gas hose and have a big suck, which no doubt thrilled Bill Kristol, who hasn’t stopped beating [...]
Roger Simon’s Source Isn’t the ‘Professional Left’
Well, unless you’re living with your head in the clouds this one should make it clear that Pres. Obama’s troubles aren’t with the “professional left,” but instead with those he chose to align himself in the first place. Men who never take their eyes off their own political exit strategy, while marginalizing others. The boys [...]
Mike Barnicle, ‘Political Pyromaniac’
A suicide bomber struck early on Tuesday at an army recruiting office here, killing dozens in the first major bombing of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan — a period made more fraught than in previous years by the looming deadline for American forces to replace their combat mission here with a training role. – [...]
Mosque Politics
What Barack Obama and his White House political team haven’t learned could fill a large notebook at this point. But you’d think they would have at least learned from George W. Bush’s two-term presidency. The American electorate care less if a president is right than if he stands up strongly even when wrong. This last [...]
TM Must Reads
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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