The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

I Was Just Wondering On Twitter. . .

by Smitty Given all the flood damage from Hurricane Irene, what’s the over-under on the amount of stimulus for the Northeast that the good President will call for in his Great Big Cure-What-Ails-You Speech in September? I’m saying $350 billion. Is that a sufficiently big number? We’re all surfers of economic fantasy now, For The […]

Storm Center Commander-in-Chief?

So I saw this headline at Memeorandum: Obama takes charge at hurricane command center And my natural reaction is, “Ri-iiiight.” Like he’s being the anti-Bush, scoring some image points by playing against the perception of his predecessor as having bungled Katrina. But what happened in New Orleans in 2005 — a Category 4 storm slamming […]

A: He Couldn’t Lead Two Nuns In One Minute Of Silent Prayer?

by Smitty Da Tech Guy poses the question: So how can we account for the president[‘s] poor polling within the military when the single most loyal group of supporters (Black Americans) are over-represented by almost 60% vs the general population?

Obama’s Erstwhile Allies: Left-Wingers Attack Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller

In February 2007, Iowa’s longtime Democratic attorney general Tom Miller endorsed Barack Obama, giving him an early boost in that key caucus state. Fast-forward to October 2010. The “robo-signer” scandal had brought into question the legal validity of tens of thousands mortgages involved in foreclosure proceedings. Miller was announced to head up the Mortgage Foreclosure […]

That Lefty Cartoon World

by Smitty Rasmussen hovers around 1 in 5 Americans strongly approving of BHO’s performance. Apropos nothing, I was on Wikipedia, looking up Hong Kong Phooey, and discovered this bit of insight: A running gag is that Hong Kong Phooey is such a respected hero that when his incompetence causes him to crash into, harm, or […]

‘Fight’ Whom, Congressman?

Excuse my visceral reaction to this story: Cummings: Black community wants Obama to ‘fight harder’ Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said Sunday that African-Americans want President Obama to “fight harder” to create jobs in the struggling U.S. economy. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Cummings said the black community is very protective of Obama and […]

Krauthammer On The Vineyard

by Smitty Charles is his usual insightful self on BHO’s vacation spot, concluding: You know, the Vineyard doesn’t have any bridges to it. You either get there on a ferry in your Maserati, or on a jet or a helicopter. It’s not exactly where ordinary folks will take a vacation. If I was going to […]

Chris Matthews: Exceptionally Idiotic

I’ve been sitting here with MSNBC on my office TV and have twice today seen a particular “Lean Forward” promotional spot in which Chris Matthews uses the phrase “American exceptionalsm” in a way that is both wrong and tendentious. Strangely, this MSNBC spot isn’t available on YouTube, and some Birthers have claimed it was taken offline […]

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