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Schism.
You make the call. Is this Biden signaling a climbdown by the administration (again), or is this Biden trying to force a climbdown by publicly breaking with Obama? Remember, according to ABC, he was one of the most passionate opponents of the new rule inside the White House. He knows he’s handing the GOP a [...]
He can't wait.
Conn Carroll’s already covered the bases on this at the Examiner but let me quote the key bit from an analysis by the lefty think tank Brookings back in August when the waivers were first announced: The White House has announced its plan to grant waivers of the provisions of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) [...]
Obligatory
Remember when the White House was a place of refined manners, professional behavior decorum? Yeah… me neither. I was only born in the fifties. But if we’re going to keep using the highest office in the land as a clown car, why not put on the red rubber nose, big floppy shoes and just go [...]
Change.
How dangerous is this for them? Dangerous enough that even Chris Matthews, who was last seen praising Obama’s beatific smile as worth 10 points in the booth this November, is talking about how “frightening” it is that the state might start dictating to churches in matters of conscience. If they’ve got Tingles saying stuff like [...]
All class.
Normally I’d find some sort of clever way to introduce an OOTD, but on this one … I’ve got nothing: Another illustration of presidential hubris involved the Bush family. The White House put out a picture of a private meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 27 that included former President George H.W. Bush and [...]
Open-mindedness.
White House press secretary Jay Carney made no bones about it in today’s press conference: The administration’s decision to require religiously-affiliated employers to provide their employees with insurance coverage that covers contraception — even if the employers oppose contraceptives on religious grounds — is final. The White House said Thursday it has no plans to [...]
Coordination.
We’re still working off of last week’s SOTU, which unsurprisingly turned into a cornucopia of OOTDs. CNS News catches this moment from the White House’s “enhanced livestream” of Barack Obama’s speech, in which the administration tried to emphasize Obama’s claims by adding charts and data on the screen. That would have been impressive — had [...]
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 [...]
"I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People."
I assumed at first that he was doing this because, in the eternal “Obama: incompetent or evil?” debate, he had come down on the side of the latter. But no. This doesn’t appear to be an anti-Hopenchange thing specifically. Tim Thomas posted the following statement on his Facebook page regarding his decision to not attend [...]
"Let's just be clear, the passenger was not detained."
The worst part of this is Jay Carney’s vaguely creepy insistence on using bureaucracy lingo in referring to Paul throughout as “the passenger.” That’s actually a nifty reflection of TSA’s philosophy of treating fliers equally badly so long as they’re treated equally. We’re all random passengers, none of us any more or less a security [...]
Small, small world.
Time for you to do some hard work and choose the week’s biggest Obamateurism! This may be the Bain, er, bane of the White House, all things being equal, but for the rest of us, an endless source of amusement. What was the Obamateurism of the Week (1/22)? Previous weekly “winners” in 2012: “He didn’t [...]
When is a Bain not a bane, part II.
Earlier today, I noted the hypocrisy and the utter incompetence in the White House of having the President’s campaign team attack Mitt Romney for having a “Bain mentality” while Barack Obama appointed a new OMB director who previously worked as CEO for Bain. However, Obama’s decision doesn’t look that strange once you take into account [...]
Media Rorschach.
Jonah Goldberg asks, “Remember when the Tea Party threw smoke bombs at the White House? Me neither.” Had this happened at a Tea Party event, it would have created a media meltdown unsurpassed since the Tucson shooting that killed six and gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Today? Meh. Most news organizations haven’t even put up [...]
No very great surprise.
With barely a mention of Solyndra or other White House scandals at last night’s debate, it’s easy to see why the president assumed he’d be able to practice crony capitalism unchecked by the media or even his GOP rivals — and practice it he has. The federal government hasn’t been the only governmental entity to [...]
Clarifying.
How exactly has Mitt Romney managed to attract a polling surge in the middle of the attacks from Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry over his Bain Capital days? According to a new Rasmussen poll, it’s because Republicans appear to be ready for a downsizing artist in the White House. And Republicans don’t appear to be [...]
Chips off the old block?
One of Barack Obama’s best qualities is that of family man. I’m sincere about that; the Obamas have done a very good job (with a couple of notable exceptions) of keeping their children out of the limelight and avoiding personal scandal in the White House. However, Obama apparently has more family than we first thought: [...]
Electability.
“If Mitt Romney becomes the Republican presidential nominee, he will begin the general-election campaign with middling favorability ratings as compared with other recent standard-bearers. “The saving graces for Mr. Romney: the incumbent in the White House is not very popular, either. And Mr. Romney’s favorability ratings, while mediocre, are better than those of his Republican [...]
The Strike?
For whatever reason, this excites me. You know the original title for Atlas Shrugged was “The Strike,” right? Just let major Internet websites shut down to prove a point — and surely legislators will rethink the Stop Online Piracy Act. Then again, I’m not sure how I’d get through even one day without Google, one [...]
And who built the venue where Obama will conclude the convention?
Hey, maybe we’ve been too hard on Barack Obama’s revolving door at the White House. It seems to have produced a strain of anti-union sentiment only imagined by paranoid labor organizers during the Bush administration. Can you imagine the outcry that would have been heard from every corner of the nation had George W. Bush [...]
Uh oh.
Does it matter that Romney hasn’t worked for Bain & Company in nearly 20 years or are the optics of this one bad enough to make it newsworthy regardless? The car dealership episode was one of the most controversial of the auto bailout — as many dealers across the country complained they were being put [...]
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