It looks like all the talk Obama did about AIG yesterday was nothing but a smoke-screen: President Barack Obama said Monday that he would “pursue every single legal avenue to block” $165 million in bonuses to American International Group Inc. employees who were in part responsible for the insurance giant’s near collapse. But hours later, […]
David Frum has a piece in the latest Newsweek eviscerating Limbaugh and his cronies. It wasn’t a fight I went looking for. On March 3, the popular radio host Mark Levin opened his show with an outburst (he always opens his show with an outburst): “There are people who have somehow claimed the conservative mantle […]
Ed Rollins, former political director for Reagan and strategist for Huckabee, cuts through the BS and delivers some strong words for his party: The battle to be the “de facto leader” of this party is akin to the question of who wants to steer the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. Who represents the party […]
If there was ever any doubt that FOX news is the media wing of the GOP, then those doubts can be put to rest thanks to Media Matters: During the February 10 edition of Fox News’ Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott claimed that “the Senate is expected to pass the $838 billion stimulus plan — […]
What a nice piece in the Wall Street Journal. Here is Home Depot cofounder and former CEO, Bernice Marcus has to say: But in the class war, as in the real deal, there are always ways of motivating the yellow. “If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money […]
I love how all these “big stories” on right wing blogs can be traced back to some “emailer” who writes them. The latest case is this one from Glenn Reynolds: A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: “Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We […]
I missed this article by Thomas Frank yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a commission to “find out what went wrong” on Wall Street. It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s. And Mr. McCain has […]
Pretty bad when a Murdoch company is now going after the right’s golden child: An informal adviser who has counseled Gov. Sarah Palin on ethics issues urged her in July to apologize for her handling of the dismissal of the state’s public safety commissioner and warned that the matter could snowball into a bigger scandal. […]
Basically every media outlet has called out the McCain campaign on Palin’s lies about the Bridge to Nowhere, but they still push those lies. John McCain and Sarah Palin must think Americans are some really stupid, uninformed idiots to not realize they are lying. Will America vote for a ticket that insults them so much? […]
The Wall Street Journal published this little gem: The Logan Act makes it a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to three years for any American, “without authority of the United States,” to communicate with a foreign government in an effort to influence that government’s behavior on any “disputes or controversies with […]