Talk about a case of bad timing. The economic outlook is anything but certain and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s term was just about to expire. A growing number of senators were less than thrilled with Bernanke’s handling of the economy over the last two years and threatened to deny him confirmation for another term. [...]
Archive for January, 2010
30 Jan
Republicans
The political landscape indeed favors Republicans, which also means tight races at the primary level. The contest for Florida’s Senate seat has turned into a statistical dead heat between Gov. Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio. The moderate Crist’s comfortable lead has faded away in recent weeks, as he continues to take [...]
30 Jan
Democrats
Democrats have experienced a nearly unprecedented reversal of fortune lately, and the bad news just keeps on coming. Arkansas Representative Marion Berry became the sixth Democrat to announce his retirement, and his district is expected to go Republican in November. He told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that he urged the White House not to repeat the [...]
30 Jan
From the ‘Non Compos Mentis’ File (mentally incapable of managing one’s own affairs; of unsound mind)
“You know, I was trying to think about who [Barack Obama] was tonight, and it’s interesting: He is post-racial by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.” –MSNBC host Chris “thrill up my leg” Matthews, with a slobbering sycophantic (and genuinely racist) analysis of the SOTU
30 Jan
This Week’s ‘Braying Jenny’ Award
“In [the president's] budget, which we passed 100 days after his swearing-in, he had a blueprint for how we go into the future, create jobs, stabilize the economy [and] do so as we reduce the deficit — [it's] very central to everything we do — reduce the deficit.” –House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who contributed to [...]
30 Jan
It’s the Deficit, Stupid
“Look how much spending I froze!” Barack Obama apparently suffers from his own brand of ADD — Addiction-to-Deficit Disorder — as demonstrated by his recently unveiled proposal to freeze one tiny portion of government spending at current levels for three years, which by the way wouldn’t begin until 2011. He highlighted the proposal again Wednesday [...]
30 Jan
Village Idiots
Sometimes Hollywood gets it right: “This isn’t the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock — I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same [...]
30 Jan
Dezinformatsia
Black Tuesday? “If you are looking for an analogy for a Republican victory in Massachusetts, the best one for Democrats may well be the stock market crash of 1929. … [Y]ou could have Democrats jumping out windows and off roofs.” –Roll Call’s Stu Rothenberg Unhinged: “It’s that rare election where voters know exactly what they’re [...]
30 Jan
The Demo-gogues
The Wise Sayings of Master Barack: “We can’t win them all.” –Barack Obama (Memo to Obama: Please keep campaigning for other Democrats.) No change here: “Regardless of the size of their minority caucus, Senate Republicans have always had an obligation to join us in governing our nation through these difficult times. [Tuesday's] election doesn’t change [...]
