Award winning Time columnist Mark Halperin is back in peak condition and cranking out teh stupid: The entire Republican caucus, we now know, balked anyway. Time’s Mark Halperin, naturally, is blaming Obama. From this morning’s appearance on MSNBC: “This is a really bad sign for Barack Obama to try to change Washington…. He needs bipartisan …
Archives for January 2009
Forest, Trees, and All That
I keep seeing stories like this: White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was unable to sway a group of House Republicans to vote for President Obama’s stimulus package despite inviting them to the White House Tuesday night. In fact, no Republicans voted for the $819 billion package, which GOP leaders have described as too …
Puppy Update
The parents took the dogs to the vet yesterday, and they had their final “puppy” shots. They both have apparently doubled their weight since my parents got them, and based on the phone calls I have had with my mother lately, they are firmly into their “barking” phase. I can also report that my mother …
Reeling In The Years
Dave Weigel, in a column examining the Republican playbook and noting the differences between the Clinton 1993 stimulus package and the Obama 2009 package, notes the following: 3. The Clinton budget raised taxes; the Obama stimulus doesn’t. I think this is the most important distinction. The Clinton budget reconciliation increased income taxes, raised the corporate …
The GOP and Limbaugh
Via the County Fair, this: Apparently the GOP (or at least Rush), wants Rush Limbaugh to be the voice of the GOP, as he is proposing “his” stimulus package on the pages of the WSJ: Yes, elections have consequences. But where’s the bipartisanship, Mr. Obama? This does not have to be a divisive issue. My …
Speaking of bending over and grabbing your ankles
From Matt Yglesias, footage of Mike Pence admitting he’s so beholden to Rush Limbaugh that he won’t criticize El Rushbo for saying that “we have to bend over, grab the angles, bend over forward, backward whichever, because his father was black, because he’s the first black president.” The mistake the Republicans are making here is …
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Armey’s Axiom: Don’t Take Me Seriously
Watch Dick Armey on Hardball making some pretty astounding remarks to Joan Walsh: Believe it or not, the most remarkable thing about that segment is not the snotty remarks directed at Walsh at the end, but rather the remarks he made about separating politics from economic policy. A transcript (starting at 52 seconds in): Armey: …