The Republican presidential race appears to have shifted from debating the economy to discussing social issues - same-sex marriage, abortion and, amazingly enough, birth control. The year is 2012 and ...
Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...
Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
“I think [Obama's] biggest mistake that he has made in his first year was to put bipartisanship ahead of fixing the country. He spent all his political capital on getting three damned votes for that stimulus bill, instead of coming in with all the energy from the election and saying, you know what, we‘re in a crisis mode; I won this election by a sizable mandate; here‘s what we‘re going to do; if you don‘t like it, Republicans, you can suck on it.”
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That seems to align with the sentiment of many who have wished, for all of his talents, that the President had “a little Bush in him”. I have held that same feeling for parts of the last two years now, but I always come back to his basic maturity; he has a vision for how he wants to govern, and he is sticking to it. He doesn’t pull the hair trigger and fire people in the tradition of Washington scapegoating, and he isn’t interested in being pulled into the behavior of his opposition.
Mr. Obama made tactical errors in the stimulus bill (giving tax cuts before they were demanded), he made a strategic mistake in not pushing for financial reform last year (when he could have harnessed the populist anger to his cause), and he made an error (I believe) in not challenging the GOP leadership to write their own version of HC reform last May.
Despite these dings, he remains on his path; he will get reform that has some teeth (it isn’t 180 degrees kids, but it is at least 90, and that is something); he will repeal don’t ask don’t tell (its in the JCS and deep in Pentagon review); he has a timetable for withdraw from both Afghanistan and Iraq; he pushed a plan that Moody’s and CBO both estimate kept unemployment from hitting 13% (stimulus); he has restored the EPA; he has signed an order that will (over the next three years as appointments expire) rid us of 15,000 or more lobbyists currently sitting on federal advisory panels.
All of these have been accomplished despite the most organized, belligerent, and mean-spirited opposition in the history of U.S. politics. This notion of failure and underperformance coming from the left (of all places) is precisely what GOP organizers want; Progressives/Liberals are typically asking “how high” when Conservatives yell “jump!”
If there has been failure, it has been a typical (sadly) failure of courage among Democrats in Congress. This lack of courage, followed immediately by blame-assignment on the White House staff, is both sad and ridiculous. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter remain popular among Liberals, and their greatest political achievments were articles that were largely conservative; they passed most of the transportation deregulation bills, and Clinton pushed through NAFTA.
Despite his name and skin color being turned into political liabilities, President Obama is going to sign relevant legislation that has been Liberal’s highest priority for decades. After the mid-terms (where Dems will do better than current projections, but worse than they want), he will find compromise on environmental, energy, and transportation bills that at least change our direction for the better.
I agree with Maher
That seems to align with the sentiment of many who have wished, for all of his talents, that the President had “a little Bush in him”. I have held that same feeling for parts of the last two years now, but I always come back to his basic maturity; he has a vision for how he wants to govern, and he is sticking to it. He doesn’t pull the hair trigger and fire people in the tradition of Washington scapegoating, and he isn’t interested in being pulled into the behavior of his opposition.
Mr. Obama made tactical errors in the stimulus bill (giving tax cuts before they were demanded), he made a strategic mistake in not pushing for financial reform last year (when he could have harnessed the populist anger to his cause), and he made an error (I believe) in not challenging the GOP leadership to write their own version of HC reform last May.
Despite these dings, he remains on his path; he will get reform that has some teeth (it isn’t 180 degrees kids, but it is at least 90, and that is something); he will repeal don’t ask don’t tell (its in the JCS and deep in Pentagon review); he has a timetable for withdraw from both Afghanistan and Iraq; he pushed a plan that Moody’s and CBO both estimate kept unemployment from hitting 13% (stimulus); he has restored the EPA; he has signed an order that will (over the next three years as appointments expire) rid us of 15,000 or more lobbyists currently sitting on federal advisory panels.
All of these have been accomplished despite the most organized, belligerent, and mean-spirited opposition in the history of U.S. politics. This notion of failure and underperformance coming from the left (of all places) is precisely what GOP organizers want; Progressives/Liberals are typically asking “how high” when Conservatives yell “jump!”
If there has been failure, it has been a typical (sadly) failure of courage among Democrats in Congress. This lack of courage, followed immediately by blame-assignment on the White House staff, is both sad and ridiculous. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter remain popular among Liberals, and their greatest political achievments were articles that were largely conservative; they passed most of the transportation deregulation bills, and Clinton pushed through NAFTA.
Despite his name and skin color being turned into political liabilities, President Obama is going to sign relevant legislation that has been Liberal’s highest priority for decades. After the mid-terms (where Dems will do better than current projections, but worse than they want), he will find compromise on environmental, energy, and transportation bills that at least change our direction for the better.
Isn’t that what we wanted when we voted for him?