Astroturfing on the public teat

From Hot Air: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, will release a report today that claims that the Obama administration has created propaganda using federal funds to promote the agenda of Barack Obama and the Democrats. The charges would violate laws intended to separate politics from governance, which if [...]

Private Party

We keep getting Obama apologists here who insist that we “get over it”.  They are referring to the primaries of 2008.  We’re not going to get over it but in spite of all of our efforts, the Obama whiners and the DNC still do not seem to understand why the primaries of 2008 were the [...]

Sunday News – Shadow War Edition

I was planning on a regular Sunday news round up, but I’m running late and some juicy stories have already been covered today. So I thought I’d go after the front page story in today’s NYTimes. As with some presidents in the past, LBJ and Nixon come to mind, Obama has been pursuing a secret [...]

I’m not ready to make nice

Back in 2003, during a London concert ten days before the invasion of Iraq, Dixie Chicks’ lead vocalist Natalie Maines said, “We don’t want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.” The group caught holy hell for what Maines said. Their concert ticket sales dropped [...]

Obama Goes Swimming in Florida, but not in Gulf of Mexico

This weekend President Obama visited Florida for a whirlwind 27-hour “vacation” in Florida before he takes his family for a much more lengthy 10-day stay on Martha’s Vineyard at the end of August. The big news from the Florida trip? The President and his daughter Sasha went swimming at Alligator Point in St. Andrews Bay, [...]

The Oprecious Fairytale

In September 2008, I wrote a piece called “Of Bullies and Beggars,” where I concluded the following: That is the new kind of politics that the Democrats are asking you to believe in this year: one that tries to bully its own rank-and-file into submission while begging the other side for approval. That is change [...]

Lying liars, and the idiots who listen to them

From the wingnut blog Daily Caller: Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias likes to call his political opponents “dishonest,” but in a revealing exchange on the website Twitter Friday he advocated lying for political purposes. “Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do, yes,” said Yglesias. The exchange, with Washington Examiner writer [...]

Primary Responsibility

I just realized the other day that Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias are still in their twenties.  When I was their age, I was working full time and caring for a kindergartner.  My life was full of routine and responsibility, paying my bills and making sure the kid was well fed, dressed and safe.  I [...]

The Third Party Paradox

I almost ran for office once. It wasn’t a big thing, since I had not a chance in hell of winning, and I ended up having to move before I could run. But I wanted to support the Green Party, and they wanted to run a candidate. To this day I have a fondness for [...]

Gimme that old time religion open thread

Riverdaughter informs me that I’m up for my annual review and that based on my performance I’m looking at a big pay cut. She says my job is to “offend and irritate” and based on the lack of complaints she is receiving I’m really slacking. “I used to get calls about you in the middle [...]