One of the saddest losses we have experienced in a long time: Elizabeth Edwards, who as the wife of former Senator John Edwards gave America an intimate look at a candidate’s marriage by sharing his quest for the 2008 presidential nomination as she struggled with incurable cancer and, secretly, with his infidelity, died Tuesday morning […]
If there is any silver lining to the Democrats losing the House last night, it is this: In a fell swoop, the once-powerful Blue Dog caucus of conservative House Democrats was reduced from 54 members to 26 in Tuesday’s midterm election. The caucus lost two members to retirement and two others who ran for higher […]
While going on about Tiger Woods again this morning, Joe Scarborough started defending Woods from the onslaught of media coverage and said it reminded him of balloon boy. What’s interesting is that this is happening on the very morning when Scarborough could only take 10 seconds to talk about the slaying of the Washington police […]
That is the new meme emerging following the two gubernatorial losses last night for Democrats. I seemed to have missed it where Obama was on the ballot, but that’s what all the talking heads want us to think. Let’s take a look at Creigh Deeds and the Virginia race. Actually have a look at Think […]
For years we never had power outages here. Now we average about once a month. The only thing that has changed is that Duke Energy now runs things, and since then service has gone to crap. Last year we had a major windstorm come through. Most of the area was without power for a week. […]
Just not on Morning Joe, Scarborough said that Obama’s approval ratings will continue to go up because the stimulus package passed and that makes Obama a winner, and Americans “love winners”. Really? The past two years George Bush was able to get whatever he wanted out of Congress, yet look at his approval rating. Also […]
I’m not going to dance on the grave of the right wing blogging collaborate. It looks like enough people already are, including right wing blogs, but it does merit mentioning that Pajamas Media is closing up show. I got to say that it isn’t shocking, and it wouldn’t shock me one bit if this is […]
Finally someone on the other side gets it: Thus Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, in Outlook last week: The United States “is indeed, as conservatives have been insisting in recent days, a center-right country.” On election night, former Bush guru Karl Rove opined on Fox News, “Barack Obama understands this is a […]
Jonathan Martin is reporting about a secret session of conservatives planned for after the election: Two days after next week’s election, top conservatives will gather at the Virginia weekend home of one of the movement’s most prominent members to begin a conversation about their role in the GOP and how best to revive a party […]
That’s what Meghan McCain says: So to the tens of thousands of Americans who have lost loved ones in a war – you don’t get it. Only John McCain gets it. So don’t complain about the losses of war.