It’s true: politics is a spectator sport, but a spectator sport with a difference. Even when the home team is screwing up, you can still laugh at the opposition. Never was that old adage, which I just made up, more true than today. I am emphatically not a fan of President Obama, and his second…
Tag: President Obama
Rendering unto Caesar
Reason’s Matt Welch points me to three particularly pertinent paragraphs in a recent Washington Post story by Craig Whitlock bearing the head “Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns,” which perhaps should be headed “Renditions continue under Obama, because due process is not a concern.” The story is largely devoted to the continuing practice of…
The Israeli assault on Gaza: A cry for help?
There were a lot of unhappy people around the globe on Wednesday, Nov. 7, but Benjamin Netanyahu must have been one of the unhappiest. In the three presidential debates, his man Mitt proved to be no George Bush, and then in the election itself he was totally whipped. Not only that, the Democrats picked up…
Memo to Matt: Boehner may be bluffing, but so are the Democrats
Over at Slate, Matt Yglesias insists that President Obama doesn’t have to give an inch to House Speaker John Boehner on taxes in the upcoming fix everything we didn’t fix before lame-duck session. Because Republicans under Bush passed “temporary” tax cuts rather than permanent ones, and because those tax cuts are set to expire, Obama…
Totally not-disingenuous advice to the conservative movement from Ramesh Ponnuru
What he said: President Obama’s interventions in this debate have been gifts to the Republican party–but it may be that what Republicans should do now is take the gift to the bank. In other words, make your point and move back to talking about the economy, the health-care law, and the size of government. A…
O the humanity? No, the stupidity
In yet another event that lessens one’s hope for the future, President Obama has announced the deployment of 1,200 National Guard troops to “guard” the Mexican border in Arizona. According to the New York Times, the president acted in response to demands from both Republicans and Democrats in that state. I’m guessing that this latest…
Freedom’s just another word for not having to take questions from you assholes
Continuing his “Dubya got it right” approach to handling the press, President Obama celebrated the signing of a bill to promote freedom of the press around the world this Monday by refusing to take any questions. Today, the President held a “news conference” (notice he didn’t say “press conference”) with Mexican President Felipe Calderón, deigning…
Comedy is tragedy seen at a distance
The man I helped put in the White House makes a funny regarding predator drones. The gag would be funnier if we weren’t using them to kill, well, hundreds of innocent people. Via Tapped, which has more.
The Obama doctrine: Shoot first and ask questions later. Sir, may I ask a question?
Now that President Obama has won a significant victory for improving the health of millions of Americans, he might feel secure enough politically to stop, you know, murdering innocent people in Afghanistan. So far this year, our current “Slaughter the Innocents” policy in the country we are fighting to prevent from having, someday, a government…
The Sorrows, and Sins, of Obama
Oy, Obama, n’est-ce pas? Yeah, I voted for him, I even gave him money, and I thank God every day that Georgie Boy, and Dickie Boy, are out of the White House, but overall I’m hard pressed to give my man more than a B-. Of course, my low grade is the least of Barack’s…