Palin covered her inadequacies with folksy charm and by drumming up a class war, turning her audiences not just against elites but against the party’s own educated members. The movement created by that superelite, but never elitist, William F. Buckley Jr. was handed over to Joe Six-Pack. Know-nothingness was no longer a stigma, but a […]
On Morning Joe, Scarborough lets the old F-Bomb slip out. What’s funny is how Mika tries to say that he didn’t actually say it. Later on she changed her story after the emails started rolling in.
And to think that everyone was bitching about the $700 billion bailout: The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September […]
Now that the Democrats control more seats they also get to reshape things in the Senate (via AmericaBLOG): Senate Democratic leaders plan to cut Republican committee seats to reflect the new balance of power in the upper chamber, according to Democratic aides. Republicans will lose at least one seat on most committees and may lose […]
This is what we have been warning about on the left; that Sarah Palin’s increasingly dangerous rhetoric was putting Obama at danger. Well it looks like the Secret Service also agrees with us: The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of “palling around with terrorists”, citing his association with the sixties […]
This is what happens when you have a President coming into office that understands the Constitution and doesn’t treat it like a piece of toilet paper: Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies […]
A great report this morning on MSNBC talking about a world wide euphoria about our new President. America has become a punchline under George Bush, it’s great to see our image being restored.
What does it say for the minority party when they are part of the Congress with the lowest approval rating in history and end up losing more seats to the controlling party?
The Obama campaign has released images of their election night before and after the decision. It’s great seeing them all together and how they reacted.
The Real Sarkozy, as opposed to some Canadian DJs (wink wink Sarah Palin). Of course Sarkozy was only one of eight world leaders Obama talked to: Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said the president-elect spoke to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime […]