According to my twitter feed, Obama’s deal in Copenhagen is a sham and a failure. Can we just impeach him and install Hillary already?
Black Jimmy Carter
Home Free
And while we were all arguing about the Lieberman/Nelson Hippie Retribution and Anti-Abortion Act of 2009, look what happened: A Congressional tax standoff has opened a window of opportunity for wealthy Americans determined to avoid paying up post-mortem. With lawmakers unable to agree on a year-end fix for a quirk in the Bush-era tax cuts, …
Welfare Queens
It’s not about a salary it’s all about reality: The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part of the deal announced this week to wean the company from the massive taxpayer bailout that helped it survive the financial crisis. The Internal Revenue Service on Friday …
The Last Eight Years Never Happened
Fred Barnes: You can’t fight a successful war unless the commander-in-chief is fully committed to it. So President Obama’s chief task in his speech Tuesday night on Afghanistan is to make it absolutely clear that he is. *** It’s true that Obama championed Afghanistan as the “good war” in his presidential campaign last year. And …
We are all Vulcans now
John Harris, in a list of ways to attack Obama that Republicans may find helpful: Too much Leonard Nimoy […..] But his intellectuality has contributed to a growing critique that decisions are detached from rock-bottom principles. Both Maureen Dowd in The New York Times and Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post have likened him to …
Where did the dithering start?
I did some searchers on “dithering” in the New York Times and Washington Post archives. In the Times, there were eleven uses of the word post-Cheney out of a total of 47 in the past year. In the Post, there were 36 post-Cheney out of a total of 46 in the past 12 months. Michael …
What He Said
I was going to write something about this syrupy ode to George Bush by Caroline Glick and this PUMA nonsense from the Hillbuzz, but Daniel Larison handles it so much better: Yes, this is what you would expect from Glick (or from anyone, for that matter, who thinks that the last two years of Bush’s …