Archives for Category: Politics

Best Two-Tweet Tandem of the Year

October 12, 2011

Ezra Klein, the Washington Post wonderkid who thinks the Constitution is hard to read and stuff had this snarky, gotcha question for the Republican debate tonight on twitter: Question for #Econdebate: “If we had the prime minister of Slovakia on the phone right now, what would you tell him? You

Oops

November 5, 2010

Harvard Law professor Larry Tribe writes a letter to President Obama advising him to not select Judge Sotomayor (“not as smart as she seems to think she is”) to fill Justice Breyer’s vacancy on the Supreme Court, as well as dissing some other Justices. Tribe then responds to the New

October Surprise?

October 26, 2010

These are probably not what the Democrats were looking for a week prior to an election: Aid to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lied to the feds about false marriage to a terror suspect. A request for an ethics investigation for “Please call me Senator” Barbara Boxer. One week to

A Picture's Still Worth...

October 5, 2009

And the word for September is 9.8%. Isn’t Biden in charge of this? Thanks to Don Surber

A Picture's Worth...

August 19, 2009

...A thousand words. Or a few trillion dollars. (Courtesy of gunzip, via Instapundit)

Hey...move that deck chair a little to the right, the line for the lifeboats is blocking the good light

June 1, 2008

Clinton Advisor Mandy Grunwald: “If a female candidate, the first successful one in history, goes into the convention leading in the popular vote and it’s taken away from her, how do you think women are going to feel, heading into the November election?” A few thoughts: Ummm, not half as

Count Every Other Vote

May 30, 2008

Rich Lowry’s article in National Review nails it: The change from 2000 to 2008 is simple to explain. Back then, the liberal establishment wanted Gore to beat Bush. Now, most of it wants Obama to finish off Hillary. The standards have changed accordingly. Under no circumstances are Democrats, specifically Obama

Had Enough Racism? Here Come the Feminists.

April 14, 2008

As I tried mightily to slog through this diatribe about how wickedly misogynistic Hillary is being treated, I stopped immediately upon reading this: “I pinpoint sexism for a living. You’d think I’d be able to find an example. And I hate to rely on this hokey notion that there’s some

Who Said Elections are Boring?

April 5, 2008

Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up: Clinton chief strategist tries to play both sides: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, apologized Friday for “an error in judgment” after meeting with Colombia’s ambassador to the United States on Monday, when he reportedly discussed how to push for passage of