Okay, only by a generous stretch of the imagination (mine) is the Washington Post “on the right”, but in fact the Post’s editorial page has been aggressively “neocon”, bordering on Likudist at times, what with George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Cohen, Jennifer Rubin, Anne Applebaum and Fred Hiatt ramping up the room in favor of…
Tag: hillary clinton
FBI Director James Comey, making Hillary look classy
Yes, Washington can get even uglier than it already is, thanks to FBI Director James Comey, determined to try Hillary Clinton in the court of public opinion based on evidence that, well, it might not actually be evidence. Of anything! But it might be! And if it is evidence, it might relate to something that…
Dying Elephant, Struggling Donkey: Politics for the 21st Century
As of this writing, the odds favoring Hillary Clinton’s election stand at 92%, almost enough to allow me to breathe easily. I wish it were higher, but just think how I’d feel if it were only, say, 75%! Yes, Donald Trump’s big mouth, and his tiny, groping hands, have made life much easier for Nervous…
I spent $800 billion in Afghanistan and all they gave me was this lousy tee-shirt
As R. Jeffrey Smith, who hangs his hat at the Center for Public Integrity, so admirably demonstrates, every word of that headline is true, except the part about the tee-shirt. Jeff puts the blame on Hillary, but I’d give the lion’s share to President Obama, who rather gratuitously decided that Afghanistan was the “good war,”…
More Kudos for the K-Man
What is the deal with Charles Krauthammer? Yeah, sometimes I hate him, and sometimes I love him. Well, today I’m feeling all lovey-dovey, thanks to a column by Charles pointing out that Donald Trump’s recent threat to jail Hillary Clinton once he’s president is perhaps the worst thing he’s ever said, which, of course, is…
Republicans say “Hurray for Hillary!” Democrats say “Hurrah for Trump!”
Yes, Republicans do. Suppose the Democrats had nominated a competent candidate—not necessarily a “dream” candidate à la Barack Obama—but one who, you know, hadn’t lied her 69-year-old ass off about pretty much everything under the sun while operating a multi-million-dollar shakedown racket cum non-profit cum political machine. Just suppose. Then the Democrats wouldn’t be beating…
Eli Lake, from 20/80 to 80/20, pretty much
Back in the day—July 10, 2014, to be precise—I whaled on Bloomberg’s Eli Lake for pulling together a lot of ass-covering/blame-shifting “if only the president had listened to me” quotes from former members of the Obama Administration to explain why the government of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki failed to prevent the rise of…
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Hillary Clinton getting creative with the truth. Okay, maybe it isn’t news, but still, the New York Times might have reported on Hillary’s latest foray into creative nonfiction, when she told Fox News that FBI Director James Comey said she had been like totally truthful about her emails. But they didn’t. And when NYT public…
Maureen Dowd, making Hillary look not entirely awful
Famed NYT hitchick Maureen Dowd ever so accurately pegs Bill and Hillary Clinton as America’s modern-day Tom and Daisy Buchanan (read the whole hit here), but then piles on FBI Director James Comey’s pile-on, to wit: “Instead of Clinton’s assurances that the server in the basement in Chappaqua had never been breached, Comey said it…
Bernie Sanders, the White Man’s Candidate*
*Yes, I’m being unfair, but look at the results