Why is this not a bigger story: Late last night, the Congressional Budget Office released its initial analysis of the health-care reform plan that Republican Minority Leader John Boehner offered as a substitute to the Democratic legislation. CBO begins with the baseline estimate that 17 percent of legal, non-elderly residents won’t have health-care insurance in …
Black Jimmy Carter
Give ’em enough thread
I’ll give you a question to discuss: does Obama’s waffling on the exact nature of the public option (which I agree is puzzling) make him look like Jimmy Carter, Richard, Nixon, Adolf Hitler, or all of the above? Update. Mao, Stalin, Neville Chamberlain, Don Draper, and Felix the Cat are also acceptable choices here.
Who Is the Real Barack Obama?
So far, I can recall Obama being compared to the following figures: Hitler Stalin Pol Pot Mao Carter Bush Nixon David Duke I think now it is time to start the definitive list of people Obama has been compared to, good or bad. Include a link to the comparison.
We are all chunky Reese Witherspoon now
Ross Douthat writes the definitive respectable conservative Obama Nobel piece: But by accepting the prize, he’s made failure, if and when it comes, that much more embarrassing and difficult to bear. What’s more, he’s etched in stone the phrase with which critics will dismiss his presidency. Slick Willie. Tricky Dick. Jimmy “Malaise” Carter. Dubya the …
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The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
So not kidding. Discuss. ***Update*** This seems like a good time to add a new tag but an old phrase for the blog: malkinfreude. Also added to the lexicon. Killed the lexicon; see above.
Bust out the cardigans
This presidency is over. How can Iran and Russia and North Korea and all the Hitlers of the world take us seriously now that the Olympic committee has laughed in the president’s face? The bipartisan thing would be for Obama to resign now.
Obama’s Fault
James Joyner explains how it is Obama’s fault Joe Wilson yelled out during the address: While Wilson’s frustrated cry was inexcusable, however, it’s at least understandable. After all, Obama was indirectly calling him a liar. And being untruthful. From the speech: Some of people’s concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose …