Okay, that was Richard Nixon’s line, but if the modern-day right isn’t there yet, they’re on the way. How lucky can Obama get? His C-, do I really have to be here performance at the debate looked lame enough in comparison to Romney’s scintillating A, but in the week-long rehash, stand-ups and cable news hacks…
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An Embarrassment of Democrats
Up until Wednesday night, just about everything went right for President Obama’s re-election campaign. Yet in just one night, the President managed to push the reset button, and he did it all on his own. The President must have believed that all he had to do was show up for the debate and it would…
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Mike Allen, Jonathan Martin, and Jim Vandehei explain why Mitt is such a fuck-up. The piece is an extended sop to Republicans, quoting a near-endless series of Romney pals, advisors, and staffers on how Mitt is this fantastic, fantastic guy who would make a fantastic, fantastic president, if only he would stop stepping on his…
James Asher, not knowing nuance though it gnaw him on the ass
“jimomensko.com” points us to a memo issued by James Asher, Washington bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, which included the following warning his staff: Part of our job is to capture what people really mean, not catch them in a gotcha misstatement or an inelegant remark. Nuance matters. To ensure that we don’t leave truth on…
Whither Republicans?
Is it too soon to wonder about what’s going to happen to the Republican Party after the defeat of Mitt Romney? Well, yes, it is, but what the fuck, it’s fun, so let’s do it. Mitt really put his foot in it, or on it, with his now famous though beginning to recede a bit…
Tim Pawlenty, laboring under the misapprehension that the average home in the Washington, DC area costs $10 million
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty is leaving his job as co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign to take a new one, CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable, which is, guess what, a major lobbying outfit in DC. Salary for the new gig is going to be around $1.8 million. In an article in “THE HILL,”…
Barack Obama, luckie duckie
Imagine if Muslim demonstrators in Egypt hadn’t gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo on September 11 to denounce a bizarre and obscure video speaking ill of Mohammed. Then the murderous attack on the American consulate in Benghazi would have been seen as a pre-meditated terrorist attack from the beginning, and the entire focus of…
Republicans piss on Republicans, make an old man smile (briefly)
Hysterical Muslim protests of a stupid video threaten to girdle the globe, while the Obama Administration repeats how much it hates, hates, hates people who say mean things about Mohammed, while never mentioning that 1) it is not illegal, or even necessarily wrong, or even inaccurate, to say things about Mohammed that some people might…
The Washington Post really really surprises me! A lot!
I’ve bitched so often about the way Fred Hiatt has turned the Washington Post’s editorial machine into a neo-con slum that I can only pronounce myself totally gobsmacked by this editorial, headlined “Mr. Romney’s rhetoric on embassy attacks is a discredit to his campaign.” Yes, the Mittman’s insistence on his right to lie about President…
George Will, tying himself in knots, yet failing to score a touchdown
I find myself agreeing with George Will more often than I like. We are a one on free trade, for example, as well as campaign “reform” (aka incumbent protection and First Amendment reduction). I also admire his early criticism of President Obama’s decision to expand the war in Afghanistan, although his massive silence on civil…