Posts by matt
This Guy
“If you’re going to be an extremist, you’re not allowed to have exceptions.”
Does This Mean They Are Admitting a Mistake?
Barack Obama Does Not Got 5 On It – 1115.org (5/16/08): But back to Obama and the liberal 527s. Occam’s razor time: what’s the simplest reason that Obama would want to see donors shun these groups? Probably the simplest would be that he wants all the money to himself. But even the wealthiest Democrats can [...]
Didn’t We Just Have an Election?
“CNN Poll: Obama Trails Mitt And Huck, Leads Gingrich And Palin” (TPMDC): A newly-released CNN poll, conducted a few days before this past midterm election, shows President Obama in for a competitive race in 2012, with him trailing two potential Republican candidates and leading two others among registered voters. The numbers: • Mike Huckabee leads [...]
Sarabeth Has Gone Fishing…
…so you all are stuck with me for the next few weeks. Posts will be intermittent as my schedule these days is not especially conducive to blogging. Expect less Republican-bashing and more douchebag-Democrat-bashing. Yesterday the Douchebag-in-Chief hosted some of the more popular bloggers who are critical of him for a discussion on the many ways [...]
Surrender
Me two-and-a-half years ago: But back to Obama and the liberal 527s. Occam’s razor time: what’s the simplest reason that Obama would want to see donors shun these groups? Probably the simplest would be that he wants all the money to himself. But even the wealthiest Democrats can only give Obama $2,300 more, and if [...]
Ya Think?
Craig Crawford on CQ Politics: The President’s supporters don’t automatically vote for someone just because he asks them to. We saw this trend again on Tuesday. Sen. Arlen Specter had counted on White House backing, but lost Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary. Of course, it didn’t help that Obama dodged last minute campaigning for Specter, despite flying [...]
Enthusiasm
Shocking: Turnout among Dem voters dropped precipitously in 3 statewide primaries on Tuesday, giving the party more evidence that their voters lack enthusiasm ahead of midterm elections. In primaries in NC, IN and OH, Dems turned out at far lower rates than they have in previous comparable elections. [...] The latest weekly Gallup tracking survey [...]
If You Were Against It When Bush Did It…
…it’s OK when Obama does it, right? The Obama administration will approve significant oil and gas exploration off America’s coasts, including a possible sale two years from now of leases off Virginia’s coast, administration officials said Wednesday. The move, which President Obama will announce Wednesday morning with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at Andrews Air Force [...]
The Nazi Pope
I’ve been following this story for the last week or so, and was waiting for some kind of mitigating factors to pop up. Doesn’t seem there are any. Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several [...]
A Real Shot
It’s funny to me that people are speaking about the 2010 mid-terms as if the result wasn’t already baked in: “I think that there is a real shot we are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren’t leading the efforts to reform Washington. We campaigned in ’06 and ’08, and if [...]