Archive for 2010
January 6, 2010
VIDEO: WHEN BREITBART ATTACKS.
SCOTT BROWN UPDATE: Jules Crittenden: Martha Coakley faces friendly fire. “So while the National GOP has apparently failed to notice that GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown has the potential not only to kick off the 2010 midterms with a banner win or at least a national headline-grabbing strong showing in bluest Massachusetts, but could even turn this health-care thing around … the Boston Globe of all lefty lickspittle venues apparently has it in for Martha Coakley bad enough that it’s doing everything it can to undermine her.”
It seems to me that the NRA should be going all-out for Brown, and they actually have some clout in Western Massachusetts.
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: The Campaign Against Larry Summers. Apparently some Democrats think he’s too resistant to deficit spending. God help us if we get someone who thinks the deficits we’re running now are too small . . . .
POLITICO: Top Democrats Head For The Exits.
LAW, SCIENCE, AND BLACK HOLES.
RESOLUTIONEERS: More fitness advice from J.D. Johannes, whose new book, Fit For Combat, is reportedly doing very well.
THE SYSTEM IS WORKING: Underwear Bomber’s Visa Now Revoked. So take that, Mr. Jihadi!
CHRIS DODD UPDATE: Dodd to Step Aside. “Embattled Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd (D) has scheduled a press conference at his home in Connecticut Wednesday at which he is expected to announce he will not seek re-election, according to sources familiar with his plans.” Angelo Mozilo was not available for comment.
UPDATE: Roger Kimball: “Well, 30 years with his lips sewn to the public teat was probably enough.” Ouch.
ANOTHER UPDATE: “Maybe Harold Ford Jr. can run in Connecticut, too. Will the last person at the DNC please turn on the lights.”
STATE FINANCES UPDATE: The Cato Institute has released a paper on government employee compensation, which accounts for half of all state and local government spending. (PDF).
UBS WHISTLEBLOWER files complaint against DOJ lawyers.
VOTERS TO CALIFORNIA: Drop Dead.
RICHARD EPSTEIN: Deregulation Now.
TIME: Obama’s Foreign Policy is Looking An Awful Lot Like Bush’s. Well, kinda-sorta.
UPDATE: Reader David Henry writes: “Except it’s not as effective.” Well, people were afraid of Bush. Obama, not so much. I guess they don’t have to worry about tax audits.
January 5, 2010
HAPPY SIXTH BLOGGIVERSARY to The American Thinker.
How worried are Democrats about the mid-term voting only 10 months away? “If the election were held today, we’d lose the House,” Democratic campaign consultant Tom King told the Huffington Post this week, expressing a view that HuffPo says is echoed by a number of Democratic strategists in off-the-record conversations.
Democrats are reportedly busy devising a strategy as a firewall against a citizen revolt at the polls. Rather than emphasize their party’s accomplishments, they will attack Republicans for wanting to restore the discredited Bush era. “The Republican party in Washington today is no different than the Republican party that ran the Congress before,” Rep. Chris Van Hollen, head of the Democratic House campaign committee, told the liberal Talking Points Memo.
Without delay, campaign strategists are advising Democratic clients to use bloggers, phone banks, direct mail and canvassers to try to create a negative impression of their GOP opponents. Labeling their GOP candidates as being part of the Sarah Palin or Tea Party wing of the GOP will be the key element.
Given that the Tea Party is currently outpolling both Democrats and Republicans, this seems ill-advised. . . .
NEW RELEASES ON BLU-RAY.
DAVE FOSTER ON protocols and wealth creation.
OBAMA: CHRISTMAS BOMBING INCIDENT “A SCREWUP:” “President Barack Obama told his security chiefs on Tuesday that the botched Christmas Day plane bombing was the result of a screw up by U.S. intelligence and that the country had barely dodged disaster, according to a quotation released by the White House.”
Aww, and the lunatic fringe bloggers were just getting a good conspiracy theory going.
WHY NOT? Harold Ford, Jr. may run for Senate — in New York. They could do worse, and probably will!
SILICON GRAFFITI: Sex, Lies, and Golf Magazines.
POPULAR MECHANICS: Lenovo Ideapad U1 Hybrid is one Crazy Laptop. “One moment, it’s an ultraportable 11.6-inch Windows 7-running, Intel Core 2 Duo-powered laptop. The next: Its screen pops out into a tablet that runs on Qualcomm’s new low-power Snapdragon processor. As contributing online editor Sarah Kramer said upon seeing it, ‘That’s very Avatar.'”
REALLY, THESE PEOPLE ARE PATHETIC: Chris Matthews: Every single “teabagger” in America is white. From the comments: “Every single MSNBC host in America is white.” Heh.
We’ve been over this bogus Tea Party critique before, with photos: “That’s not the moral high ground you’re standing on . . . it’s a big ol’ pile of crap.”