William Black | Holder & Obama’s Propaganda is “Belied by a Troublesome Little Thing Called Facts”
Romney: Oh, you’d better believe I support automatic increases to the minimum wage
Terrific.
Alternate headline: “Mitt Romney is concerned about the very poor.” You make the call. Is this (a) a pander aimed at doing damage control for this morning’s gaffe heard ’round the political world, (b) an early sign of Romney’s inevitable shift towards the center in the general election, or (c) a way to inoculate himself [...]
Jim Moran: Allen West isn’t representative of African-Americans
"Mr. West is ... not representative of the African-American community or of the Republican Party."
Via Mediaite, does Moran mean West isn’t representative of blacks generally or that he wasn’t representative of them specifically when he said Obama, Pelosi, and Reid should “get the hell out of the United States of America”? He’s on the right network and the right show for cheap racial demagoguery aimed at a minority conservative, [...]
FACT SHEET: President Obama’s Plan to Help Responsible Homeowners and Heal the Housing Market
Who’s to “blame” for polarization?
Plus, the myth of Internet echo chambers.
Earlier this week, the Washington Post ran an article with the curious headline, “Obama: The most polarizing President. Ever.” While there is no doubt that Obama has been a polarizing figure, the certainty of that statement caught my eye. As it turns out, the article itself doesn’t make that claim — it only says that [...]
Obama money advantage disappearing
So are his state approval ratings.
For a year, Republicans have worried about having to face a billion-dollar Re-Elect Obama machine in the fall. Most have just assumed that whoever wins the GOP nomination will have to contend with being outfunded and outgunned, even apart from the usual Democratic advantages of the news media and entertainment industry. National Journal punctures this [...]
Video: Romney rips Obama in Florida victory speech
Nominee?
Full transcript here. Some positive buzz for this on Twitter tonight, probably inevitably given that he’s in “nominee” mode and attacking Obama instead of Gingrich. But watch to the end and you’ll find the standard “believe in America” boilerplate, which I find impossible to listen to ever since Mark Steyn’s pitch-perfect parody. How did it [...]
Video: “Game Change,” the full-length trailer
Uh oh.
Everything I said when I posted the teaser last month still holds. I’m not seeing Woody Harrelson as slick Beltway insider Steve Schmidt and I’m not seeing The One at all — literally. Wasn’t this book mainly about his big victory? Evidently there’s more drama in Sarah Palin complaining about her wardrobe than in the [...]
Axelrod: All loving pet owners use taxpayer-provided limos, or something
Caption contest!
If this is any indication of the skill level David Axelrod will bring to the fall campaign …. Republicans have less to worry about than they think. Barack Obama’s campaign mastermind tweeted out this photo of the President and his dog Bo as a thinly-veiled attack on Mitt Romney and a very old story about [...]
Bishops pledge to defy Obama administration on contraception mandate
A good start on a larger problem.
Earlier this month, HHS issued a finding that reaffirmed its position that all employers had to comply with a new mandate to provide contraception support in health-care plans — even religious organizations whose doctrines oppose pre- and post-conception intervention. Needless to say, the decision — which gives churches and other explicitly religious organizations only a [...]
Gingrich: I won’t debate Obama if the moderators are reporters
"We don’t need to have a second Obama person at the debate."
Yeah, he will, but he’s obliged to say stuff like this on the trail now. Media-bashing has become his calling card. A Newt rally without it would be like a Stones concert without “Satisfaction.” Do the lunar base/flat tax medley if you want, but at some point you’ve got to make the people happy and [...]
George Soros: There’s not much difference between Obama and Romney
Testimonials.
Via RCP. Alternate headline: “George Soros cuts the greatest Gingrich attack ad of all time.” Newt, in fact, mentioned Soros’s comments here three times in his interview with ABC this morning; no doubt the footage below is coming soon to a Winning Our Future spot near you. Is Soros on the level, though, or is [...]
MF Global money “vaporized”?
What's $1.2 billion between friends?
It sounds as if investigators looking for over a billion dollars in customer money in the wake of the collapse of MF Global have begun to despair of finding any. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that the probe thus far strongly suggests that the money got “vaporized” in a labyrinth of shady trading and [...]
Abigail Field | What a Strong Servicer Settlement Looks Like
Gallup: Romney edges Obama in swing states
Re-elect red flag?
Mitt Romney edges Barack Obama among registered voters in swing states, according to a new Gallup/USA Today poll. By “edge,” I mean barely edges — by a single point. Even with that, though, Romney fares far better than his competitors in the same polling: Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney essentially ties Barack Obama in the nation’s key battlegrounds, a [...]
Chris Hayes | NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on President Obama’s Mortgage Crisis Unit (VIDEO)
No, taxes shouldn’t be a “fairness” issue
Grown-up tax ideas.
What are we, six years old? Taxes should pay for the costs of government. That’s what we have taxes for. The proper purpose of taxes is not to establish a condition of “fairness.” It’s to pay for government: a legislature, executive, military, police, firefighting, courts, schools. But for 100 years now, the percentage-based income tax [...]
Holder informed of Fast & Furious five months before testimony?
Friday night document dump strikes again.
When Eric Holder testified about his knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious on May 3, 2011, he told the House Judiciary Committee that he had only been informed of the operation “a few weeks ago.” Later, Holder amended that to say that it would have been more accurate to call the time period “a couple [...]
Quotes of the day
Hardball.
“In a call last Sunday morning, just hours after Mr. Romney’s double-digit loss to Mr. Gingrich in the South Carolina primary, the Romney team outlined the new approach to the candidate. Put aside the more acute focus on President Obama and narrow in on Mr. Gingrich. “Find lines of attack that could goad Mr. Gingrich [...]
Video: Guy who’s been campaigning for president since 2004 suddenly against “perpetual political campaigns”
"This isn’t about me."
In which The One displays his enormous balls by daring to criticize anyone else for perpetual campaigning. (And yes, I realize that he’s used this line before, which only makes it funnier.) This is a guy who, immediately after he was elected to the Senate in November 2004, gave this answer when asked whether he [...]
Norquist: Impeach Obama over taxes?
Shortening a second term?
Grover Norquist is a busy guy, what with heading up Americans for Tax Reform and making regular media appearances around the country in support of tax sanity. He normally remains focused on that one key (and admittedly important) issue, but on occasion he can wander off into brief bouts of hyperbole. That may be what [...]
Quotes of the day
Martial.
“The president began with a moving tribute to the armed forces and their accomplishments. But as he has done many times now, he celebrated martial virtues not to rally support for the military, but to cover himself in glory — he killed Osama bin Laden! — and to convince the American people that they should [...]
Good news: Obama’s dumb “Buffett Rule” budget gimmick would reduce the deficit by around … four percent
Give or take.
What’s the saddest part of this? That The One is so desperate to demagogue Romney and the GOP as the party of the rich that he’d make a chump-change gambit like this the centerpiece of his budget agenda? Or that liberals are pretending to be impressed? Good lord, I hope they’re pretending. The liberal outfit [...]
Compare and contrast: Obama and Romney on health care
Obamney.
Via the lefties at Think Progress, a video salute to Mitt’s cavalier assurance at last night’s debate that there’s nothing to get angry about when it comes to health-care mandates. Get ready for a long, long line of liberal attack ads in this vein once it’s clear that he’s the nominee: Even if they end [...]
Obama’s $2 billion to Brazil ends up helping send oil to China
Investor-in-chief strikes again.
Remember this? The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian [...]
Ramirez, Beeler on Obama’s class warfare
Plus, a caption contest!
Sometimes, it doesn’t even really take a breaking-news hook to appreciate Michael Ramirez. The two-time Pultizer Prize winning editorial cartoonist sums up Barack Obama’s class warfare strategy perfectly in one image from the day before Obama’s State of the Union speech (via Power Line): Nate Beeler followed up yesterday on the hypocrisy of Obama’s message [...]
Matt Taibbi | Is Obama’s ‘Economic Populism’ for Real?
NC governor won’t run for second term
Lame duck host for Democratic convention.
Democrats chose North Carolina as their host state for the 2012 election after delivering a surprisingly strong showing in 2008. Barack Obama became the first Democrats to win the state since Jimmy Carter, and Bev Purdue won the gubernatorial election in a narrow but significant 3-point victory. Democrats hoped that by staging their convention in [...]
Great news: The “fair share” administration owes over $800,000 in back taxes
Motes, beams, etc.
We heard a lot on Tuesday night from President Obama about the wealthy paying their “fair share” in his State of the Union speech. (Well, you heard it a lot; I read the speech and then commenced to have a life on Tuesday night.) Obama made half a dozen references to fairness in relation to [...]
Suffolk poll: Romney stronger in FL than Gingrich against Obama by 14 points
Also, the surprising impact of Rubio on a Romney ticket.
Yesterday evening, Suffolk University released a poll of likely voters in Florida — but not for the Republican primary. Instead, they surveyed 600 likely Florida voters in the general election, and found some interesting dynamics in a state that will be crucial to the strategies of both parties in the Electoral College fight: Despite Newt [...]
