Am I the only one who finds it moderately amusing that the most partisan of Democrat webloggers are claiming a major victory when only half of the President’s tax cut passes the Senate ($350 billion over 10 years). My, how the landscape has changed. Yes guys,- half a tax cut is quite a spanking. A …
Politics
The Grey Lady Loses Her Will
Go read this column by David Warren, which opens with this graf: You wouldn’t know it from reading most of the papers, but the war in Iraq is going fabulously well. After just five days the U.S. Third Infantry Division and supporting units are approaching Baghdad. The immense steel column continues to drive reinforcements across …
Charles Rangel, Jerk (D-NY)
The Obnoxious Left
WHat to do when you are so bitter about being on the wrong side of history, on the wrong side of every issue, and on the wrong side of this war? Obviously, the answer is to vote ‘NO’ or ‘PRESENT’ in a resolution supporting our troops. It’s the usual supects- Conyers, Rangel, McDermott, Stark. Go …
Bad Tactics
The indispensable TalkLeft has several links of note up that should be followed closely. The first involves questionable tactics that the FBI are borrowing from the DEA, the second involves legislation introduced to jail file-sharers.
Welch’s World
In case you missed it, Matt Welch had some interesting points to make about the press corp in general and Helen Thomas in particular in the comments section of this post. Here is a bit of what Matt had to say: I like Helen Thomas. She about near drank me under the table nine years …
Calpundit and Howard Dean
Howard Dean was on Meet the Press yesterday, and I was not particularly impressed (I love the fact that they show it again at night on CNBC so I can watch all the Sunday shows). At any rate, Kevin Drum states what he sees as the problem with Dean’s message: I caught a few minutes …