JMart on the two speeches yesterday: In the span of a single news cycle, Republicans got a jarring reminder of two forces that could prevent them from retaking the presidency next year. At sunrise in the east on Wednesday, Sarah Palin demonstrated that she has little interest—or capacity—in moving beyond her brand of grievance-based politics. …
Black Jimmy Carter
What will he say this year…
Just in time for this year’s State of the Union Address a gun and accessories manufacturer in South Carolina is celebrating their well known neo-Confederate asshole of a Congressman, Joe Wilson, with a special edition of a lower receiver for the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. It is a limited edition of a part that can be …
Daley as Chief of Staff
I see that we somehow forgot to discuss this today, so here’s the NY Times spinning this as a handjob for our Galtian overlords: And now William M. Daley, the son and brother of Chicago mayors and a behind-the-scenes political player himself, will hold one of the most powerful jobs in Washington: chief of staff …
Pharaoh’s Younger Son
If Obama really does appoint Bill Daley as his next Chief of Staff, some blogs are going to explode: “They miscalculated on health care,” Mr. Daley said in an interview last year with The New York Times. “The election of ’08 sent a message that after 30 years of center-right governing, we had moved to …
Another Year-End list published too early…
On Christmas Eve Salon published a list of Wingnutopia’s most crazy made-up Obama scandals for 2010. It was a pretty comprehensive list although some big wingnut freakouts like the so-called ‘Climate-Gate’ didn’t make the list–I guess because it didn’t have an “Obama-did-it” angle to sell. Still, it looks like the list was published a week …
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Turned Up to 11
I thought Dennis G’s post on the disconnect between Obama’s accomplishments and pundit rhetoric was spot-on. But even if you disagree with Dennis and think that Obama’s overall performance deserves to be criticized, perhaps you can allow that recent criticism of Obama from the netroots has been far more harsh and shrill than necessary. Here …
Going Electric…
By any fair measurement the 111th Congress and the first two years of the Obama Administration have been an incredibly productive time. The list of real legislative accomplishments is long and so is the list of new Executive orders, Presidential Memorandas, rule making and changes to the way the Federal Government is run. But of …