After a while, all presidents get boring. It’s the nature of the job. You go out there once, twice or three times a day to deliver a message that rarely changes, in a language that is so massaged by focus groups and polling that it inspires about as much as an algebraic equation. There are [...]
I don’t care. This isn’t Bush going off to his ranch for a month–and I didn’t even care about that. Bush worked from his ranch. Presidents deserve a break. If they want to play golf (Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Bush Elder and Younger, Obama) or softball (Carter) or touch football (Kennedy) or racing a cigarette boat [...]
Politico has an interesting story about about Tea Party efforts in several states to recall politicians — when, you know, the electoral thing just isn’t working for you. Bob Menendez in New Jersey, Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu and Kent Conrad of North Dakota have all been targeted. Yes, because the $66 million recall of California Governor [...]
Via NASA, as of Saturday, June 19:
A new poll conducted by the Denver Post and Denver’s 9News offered further evidence that Tea Power has reached Colorado. In that state’s Senate GOP primary race (to fill the seat left by Ken Salazar’s appointment as Interior Secretary), Weld County prosecutor Ken Buck is thumping the state’s former lieutenant governor, Jane Norton, by 53 [...]
The only thing less valuable than a statewide poll more than two years before an election–which is itself worth about as much as a keg cup two days before a party–is an online betting line for a Senate election two years out. (Remember, just a couple weeks ago, France, which cannot even agree on a [...]
Okay. So the Tennessee Democrat from Memphis, Rep. Steve Cohen, doesn’t have all that much rhythm, as these videos from a recent campaign event show. But that doesn’t matter. Cohen is a great lover of music. Let us all take a moment to remember Cohen’s heartfelt remembrance of Alex Chilton on the House floor in [...]
The always hilarious Pete Wehner picks up on a recent Republican meme…that Representative Joe Barton has a point. He sees a violation of the rule of law in the President’s successful efforts to get BP to establish a $20 billion escrow fund, in which courts should decide BP’s financial punishment: During this crisis, BP has [...]
