Tim who? “Do you love your freedom?” Sarah Palin began. “You who love your good hunting and fishing and… some of you proudly clinging to your guns and religion, like the rest of us.” Call it the glamorization of the Republican femmes. What a makeover by Michele Bachman, who actually made Sarah Palin look like [...]
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Quote of the Millenium (already)
“I never considered myself a maverick.” – Sen. John McCain Oh, the ignominy. The Tea Party is coming for John McCain and it’s causing him to crack. We’ve watched Sen. John McCain be embraced by the traditional media for the very characteristic he is now saying was never part of his political persona. It defies [...]
Serious Sarah on Iran Versus Puff Palin on Personalities
Sarah Palin’s latest Facebook entry on Iran is simply not up to her standards. That people are not reviewing it as such reveals a double standard no woman should welcome. Having taken the national stage by storm, recovering from a near career-ending 2008 vice presidential candidacy, fleeing the governor’s office to take advantage of the [...]
Health Care, Earmarks, Kids, and Pre-existing Price Hikes
“Any objective observer looking at this bill would say this is a middle-of-the-road, centrist approach to providing coverage to people and also to reducing cost,” Mr. Obama said. “I am frustrated that Republicans who had an opportunity to help shape this bill declined that opportunity.” – President Obama, on the “Today” show Important to note [...]
Obama in Afghanistan, Sarah in Searchlight, and Passover Realities
Pres. Obama meets with Pres. Karzai. Via CNN: President Obama made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Sunday. The president left his Camp David, Maryland, retreat for the trip and flew to Afghanistan on Air Force One, landing at Bagram Air Base at 7:24 p.m. (around 11 a.m. ET). Obama then flew on a helicopter [...]
David Frum, Sarah Palin, and Right-Wing Reach
The era of William F. Buckley long ago vanished from the conservative landscape. Republicans no longer welcoming deep thinkers who can strut their intellectual stuff by challenging the status quo. Go along, or move along little doggies. So, so long David Frum. The only thing left from the intellectual high bar of Buckley’s musings is [...]
Republican Right-Wing is the Tea Party
–updated below– Just when you think the Republican brand couldn’t get any worse. Enter the Tea Party to help, with new accusations and evidence that the rhetoric is turning into something far more serious than political activism, which goes well beyond a “personal touch.” Even though there is no evidence whatsoever that Sarah Palin is [...]
Mitt’s Obviously Confused
…we do know that the gap between this plan and traditional Republican ideas is not very big. The Obama plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts plan. It builds on ideas developed at the Heritage Foundation in the early 1990s that formed the basis for Republican counter-proposals to Clintoncare in 1993-1994. – [...]
Sarah Palin Beats Robert Kagan to the Talking Point
Robert Kagan writes today: This administration pays lip-service to “multilateralism,” but it is a multilateralism of accommodating autocratic rivals, not of solidifying relations with longtime democratic allies. Sarah Palin said it first, though it took her fewer words to do it, while primarily stressing the “reset button on our relations with Israel,” using “world’s worst [...]
Tough Gal, Kathryn Bigelow, Makes History
“Now we need to elect a wom(a)n to the US presidency!” – Margot Grimmer (via Facebook) Well, it’s not the presidency, but it’s history none the less. The Academy tired of giving it to the guy with all the muscle, choosing a female who built her machine one brick at a time against all odds [...]
Cheeerleading
Poor Frank Rich. After all this time he still doesn’t get it. WEDNESDAY’S health care rally was one of President Obama’s finest hours. It was so fine it couldn’t be blighted even by his preposterous backdrop, a cohort of white-jacketed medical workers large enough to staff a hospital in one of the daytime soaps that [...]
‘Mad as Hell’ Oscar Weekend
It’s Oscar weekend and everyone could use some relaxation. TCM has been doing great programming as this weekend approaches, with Robert Osborne doing a spectacular interview with Lauren Bacall last night. Seriously, what would we do without the movies? …especially with Obama and the Democrats flailing around like they lost the 2008 election and are [...]
Sarah and Mitt Late Night
Watch CBS News Videos Online Sarah Palin was on Jay Leno tonight, taking a turn doing a comedy political monologue. The jokes weren’t great, but Palin kept the audience, because she was a good sport about it and seemed to be having fun. Casually dressed in jeans, black pumps and a fitted black jacket with [...]
Mitt Romney Takes on Tea Party ‘Populism’
Well, well, well, Mitt Romney’s book release begins with not only a book tour that takes him across the country, including Iowa and Florida, with his first two stops in the Sunshine State in West Palm Beach, then Naples, totaling six trips, according to his itinerary. But Mr. Romney drives straight into the grass root [...]
Reviews on the HCR Summit are In
A lot of responses to the simple question I posed in my newsletter on Thursday: What do you think about Obama’s health care summit? There were way too many to post, but below is a representative smattering of the wide opinions I received. Thanks to everyone for chiming in, which I ask every month to [...]
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