Personally, I don’t have a problem with Sam Alito mouthing “not true” when Obama said the SCOTUS ruling could open the door to an influx of campaign money from foreign donors. If the president bitch-slapped me on national tv, I might mouth something too. I do have a problem with the disingenuous right-wing push-back on …
Archives for January 2010
Open Thread
You all fill them so fast, I thought I would put another one up before the night shift checks in. I see helicopter Ben got another term. Thoughts?
An Odd Calm
Granted, I am all hopped up on pain meds and I am ignoring the news and just icing my shoulder while watching Chuck S2 and Mad Men S1, so maybe I am just imagining this, but left blogistan seems to be a little bit less angry at Obama than the past few weeks, and some …
The liberal New York Times
Here’s the Times panel on Obama’s SOTU (via TBogg): * Jeff Shesol, a speechwriter to President Bill Clinton * Lisa Schiffren, a speechwriter to Vice President Dan Quayle * Alan Schroeder, journalism professor * William F. Gavin, a speechwriter to President Richard Nixon * Jonah Goldberg, National Review
“Clintonian”
This is just sad, from the Dickwhisperer: Rochester, NY: Listless is right! Where is the fire that we so often heard from the previous president? Where are the memorable lines “axis of evil”, “Mission Accomplished”, “git r done”? Can we attribute the lack of powerful rhetoric here to the fact that your brilliant colleague Michael …
Another Open Thread
Apparently Apple released a product yesterday.
Mass Effect 2
So how is it? For obvious reasons, Im unable to enjoy it atm.