President Obama’s Teleprompter dependence has become so extreme that the little gadget has decided to enter the blogosphere with its own tell-all story. Yes, it’s good for a joke or two. But more serious discussion of the Teleprompter reliance of … Continue reading →
I’d hardly gotten through lamenting the fact that Obama is a champion blamer of others—no “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his desk—when what do you know, right on cue, he comes out with “I’ll take responsibility. I’m the President.” … Continue reading →
Jay Cost is worried about Obama’s lack of bipartisanship: I am worried because I thought partisan reconciliation was an animating force of Obama’s candidacy, a big reason why he thought he—rather than one of the 306 million other Americans—should be … Continue reading →
There’s an awful lot of outrage going around. The American people are outraged that their hard-earned money has been taken from their pockets and doled out by Congress and the administrations (Bush’s first, and now especially Obama’s) with virtually no … Continue reading →
Clive Crook reflects on Obama’s hard tack to the Left [emphasis mine]: Mr Obama came to the presidency uniquely equipped to command and retain the confidence of the country—not just his own party. He was elected because he was a … Continue reading →
Sam Schulman offers an interesting notion of Obama as Hamlet. We differ on certain things; Schulman does not believe Obama to be a radical, whereas I currently strongly favor that interpretation. But the following sounds about right: [Obama] is a … Continue reading →
…the price of criticizing Obama even a little bit (see the comments section at the link for a sample of what I’m talking about). The venom she’s receiving from the Left for having the audacity to mention that things have … Continue reading →
I also can’t imagine why he would be accused of being anti-Jewish or anti-Israel.
Continue reading →Google “did bush ban stem cell research?” and you get this gaggle of articles. Some of the titles announce that Obama has ended Bush’s stem cell research ban, while others refer to Bush’s policy as a funding ban. What a … Continue reading →
Evan Bayh has another ally in opposing the budget bill: Senator Robert Menendez from New Jersey, who is protesting a little item that was slyly slipped into the bill while no one was looking. Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, … Continue reading →
Do I spot a trend? Hope so: One of the more interesting aspects of this graph is that the convergence of the two lines is caused more by steeply growing “strongly disapprove” rates rather than sharply falling “strongly approve” ones. … Continue reading →
Sometimes a seemingly random word or two can be very instructive, if you want to know what a person really thinks. That is the reason I (and so many others) paid quite a bit of attention to a couple of … Continue reading →