Two can play the deficit card
HT: Red State
When President Barack Obama wants to prove he is a centrist, and not afraid to tell his own supporters they are wrong, the one thin reed he has is some nice words on education policy. True, he doesn’t have much of an actual record of bucking the education lobby on policy (see Freddoso for example) [...]
As voters get to see President Obama and Ohio Governor Strickland respond to the economic tough times their impressions of the two leaders change. Both are seeing their poll numbers drop. The Dayton Daily News had the Strickland story yesterday. And the truth of the matter is that Strickland’s handling of the economy was never [...]
So President Barack Obama was in my fair city today. No, I didn’t go hear him speak. I have a cold that causes me to cough like I smoke 10 packs of unfiltered menthol cigarettes a day. So instead, I figured I would do what all good bloggers do: criticize his remarks from the comfort [...]
Michael Franc, in reviewing the president’s non-SOTU speech last night, captures the frustration I have with Barack Obama: We heard from a president with a moral compass every bit as sophisticated and powerful as Bill Bennett’s, and who possesses a remarkably subtle understanding of the American psyche, but who knows only one way to fit all [...]
Mark Steyn had me laughing out loud with this comment: Tom Jones only lets fans hurl their panties during up-tempo numbers, not serious ballads. Maybe it’s time for the White House to give the press corps similar guidelines. It’s funny because it’s true . . .
Michael Ledeen ponders Obama’s promises: So President Obama promised virtue and transparency, and declared war on lobbyists. Thus far, we’ve got a tax cheat headed for Treasury, a man who lied under oath headed for Justice, and two celebrated lobbyists headed for the #2 slots at Defense and HHS. I do not understand why the [...]
Michael Graham echoes my sentiments exactly: America, meet the new boss. Just five weeks ago, in a fit of anti-Bush anger and liberal self-flagellation, 53 percent of the electorate voted to send an unknown, untested and inexperienced Chicago pol to the White House. Who was Barack Obama? What sort of pol? Nobody knew or, apparently, [...]
Mark Kirkorian nails this one: Here’s the WaPo subhead for a story on Bobby Jindal’s presidential prospects: Jindal May Prove To be Republicans’ Version of Obama What? You mean Jindal’s a post-American political radical who’s never held a real job and was catapulted to political success because of his race? Because I thought he was a sober [...]