Ahhnold. A prediction: even though he is unpopular now, he’ll be remembered kindly…because the policies he has pursued are, for the most part, the right ones.
Washington is expressing collective shock – shock, I tell you – this morning over Sarah Palin’s second quarter 2010 FEC report. Might she be running for president in 2012?? I’ve always through Palin would run – though it flies in the face of the MSM group think inside the Beltway. How could she run without [...]
The New York Times has two annoying stories on its front page today. Annoying story number one is about how TARP, the successful bank bailout plan, has been seized upon by populist fools–mostly of the right, but some on the left as well–as the prime irritant in their anti-big (government and business) frenzy. The trouble [...]
Jay and Alex join me for this week’s podcast. Listen in:
I don’t understand this newfangled technology that allows someone to post on YouTube the orientation that Ana Marie Cox gave me nearly three years ago when I joined Swampland. But here it is. . . In other news, Vice President Joe Biden let slip on Leno last night the real mechanics behind the spy swap. [...]
Well, that didn’t take long. General David Petraeus has run up against the same resistance that everyone, excluding, perhaps, Stanley McChrystal, has faced in dealing with Hamid Karzai–and over the same issue: local militias. Karzai doesn’t like them, for good reason: Funding “local militias” is a nice way of saying “funding local tribal leaders” which [...]
Many people, myself included, have written about why 2010 isn’t exactly like 1994. Here is another reason: people actually know who Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are, and not in a good way. Back in 1994, who knew anything about House Speaker Tom Foley or Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell? Voters certainly didn’t. But in [...]
The survey the Department of Defense is giving to 400,000 service members about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is now online. Read it here. The questions in the survey ask respondents to answer 32 pages of questions that include whether they know of gays serving in the military with them, how they feel repealing DADT would [...]
I believe Alex will have more to say about this later but here’s Sarah Palin’s newest web video. Her words are mostly excerpted from a speech she gave to the pro-life group, the Susan B. Anthony List. She talks about her “Mama Grizzlies” and “Pink Elephants” stampeding into Washington November 2. But, as Marc Ambinder [...]
