They’re Experimenting….On Us
The two highest universal human needs are food first, then shelter. From our position on the front lines of the Fraudclosure war, I see first hand how our government, at every level has been totally...
View ArticleVideo: Speaking of vacations, don’t forget that Palin quit her job
Oh, no he didn’t … There is a lot of criticism raining down on Barack Obama’s head for taking a 10-day working vacation at Martha’s Vineyard this month while the American economy slides further...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
The jet set. I’m not a critic of presidential vacations. Modern Presidents are always on duty, and when Congress is not in Washington DC, there isn’t any reason for a President not to get away and...
View ArticleGreat news: Obama hit the golfing trifecta on vacation
While former White House aide attacks John Boehner for … fundraising? Like I said earlier this morning, I don’t begrudge Presidents their opportunities to get out of Washington for a little down time....
View ArticleOf presidents and kings
Respect their authoritah! Dr. James Joyner has a thoughtful essay this week on the proper role and treatment of presidents and other governmental figures. Titled “We Have a President, Not a King” he...
View ArticleBoehner: We’ll waive the Republican response to Obama’s jobs speech
Res ipsa loquitur. At one time, opposition parties had to demand air time for responses to presidential speeches given to joint sessions of Congress. Those mainly consisted of State of the Union...
View ArticleMilbank: Yeah, this president’s irrelevant
Shrinking before our eyes? Were you impressed by the pageantry and pomp of the joint-session setting for what turned out to be a mundane and insubstantial campaign speech? Neither were the...
View ArticleVideos: Two Presidents speak at Ground Zero ceremony
Solemn pride. In today’s observance of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at Ground Zero in Manhattan, current President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush spoke briefly to the...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
Optics. When it comes to making an argument on policy, Presidents like to choose settings that exemplify the results of their efforts. Barack Obama wants to make an argument for his new jobs plan,...
View ArticleGreat news: Obama tax hike plan derailing supercommittee talks
Hope and change. Presidents are never irrelevant, unless they choose to make themselves so. And even when a President starts spouting tax policy that the opposition party in the House absolutely...
View ArticlePolitifact, WaPo: No, Obama is the “undisputed debt king”
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Earlier this week I got a couple of e-mails about a chart du jour attempting to argue that Barack Obama increased the debt the least among the last five Presidents,...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
The new tradition. The American Presidency has many small traditions attached to the office, some of which add to the pomp of the title, and others that allow Presidents to demonstrate the common...
View ArticleConfirmed: President Obama campaigns on the taxpayers’ dime more than...
Shocker. The White House dismisses the data, but, according to a study by Brendan Doherty, a U.S. naval academy assistant professor and expert on presidential travel, President Barack Obama has...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
Good ol’ what’s-her-name. We’re in the last week for OOTDs this year, since we’ll start working our way through the year-end polls next Monday to determine the Obamateurism of the Year. Today, we...
View ArticleWill Obama squeeze in a few recess appointments?
Definitions. With the Senate mostly gone from Washington, this would usually be the season for Presidents to start making a few end runs around Congress with targeted recess appointments. Whether or...
View ArticleJon Huntsman: They pick corn in Iowa; they pick presidents in New Hampshire
Ouch. Here’s a recipe for success in any realm: Work hard and stay humble. If that little dictum describes any of the GOP candidates’ approach to the campaign, it’s not Jon Huntsman’s. Not only did he...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
Grip and grim. For most Presidents, photo ops with the troops offer a great showcase for a Commander in Chief. Soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen are unfailingly polite and usually thrilled to...
View ArticleMartin Bashir on Romney: Presidents who don’t drink haven’t done very well in...
Wink. Via the Washington Free Beacon, what’s unusual about this isn’t Bashir looking for excuses to inject Mormonism into his coverage of Romney. That’s par for the course; he was much more...
View ArticleObama has hosted more fundraisers than the last 5 presidents…combined
Change. It’s been clear since not long after the 2010 election that President Obama’s top priority for the remainder of his first term would be ensuring his own re-election. From backing away from a...
View ArticleRepublicans, Democrats agree: No one cares about Obama’s to-do list
Irrelevant. Chief executives are never entirely irrelevant, whether they are governors or Presidents. They have too much significance and can cause too many problems to be altogether meaningless in...
View ArticleRomney on Obama’s new DREAM rule: “I’d like to see legislation that deals...
“If I’m president, we’ll do our very best to have that kind of long-term solution.” BuzzFeed notes, correctly, that the most important part here is what he didn’t say. He continued: “I think the...
View ArticleThe Banker Most Responsible for Allowing the Too Big to Fail Banks Says We...
Even Sandy Weill Says We’ve Got to Restore Separation Between Banking and Financial Gambling Every independent economist and financial expert says that failing to break up the giant banks is ruining...
View ArticleVideo: Jay Carney won’t name the capital of Israel
Painful. The White House press secretary got his shoelaces pretty well tangled when asked to name the capital of Israel yesterday: It’s a fine diplomatic line for the U.S. government, which has long...
View ArticleReport: GOP investigation finds five top ATF officials responsible for Fast &...
Terrific. Fearless prediction: Whatever happens on election day, we’re going to have ourselves a new Attorney General next year. Obama wouldn’t dump him before for fear of looking weak by caving to...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
I missed this last week, but it’s just as good a week later. Nine days ago, Barack Obama asserted that under his leadership, the world had “a new attitude … confidence” in America, and you could see...
View ArticleObama lies for Biden: Oh, hey, he didn’t mean anything by that really obvious...
Lies. Consider this progress. Four years ago, it was The One himself smearing McCain from the stump by warning that his opponents would try to make an issue out of the fact that he doesn’t look like...
View ArticleBiden reveals secret of his success: He’s known three presidents intimately
Experience. To cleanse the palate, via BuzzFeed. He doesn’t name the three, but let’s face it: Bill Clinton’s not known for being discriminating. The bit about knowing presidents intimately is silly...
View ArticleVideo: A tribute to presidents past
Nostalgia. But really. It was only a brief aside from the RNC’s evening proceedings, but I thought it merited a mention: As I’ve argued before, I maintain that history is going to be kind to President...
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