–Second quarter growth is revised down to a crawling 1.6% annual rate. –Fed Chair Bernanke is set to speak at 10 am ET in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. –Krugman: “This isn’t a recovery, in any sense that matters.” He writes Team Obama is “sugar-coating economic reality” and “evading responsibility.” –Doomsayer Nouriel Roubini does just that. –ProPublica and Planet [...]
From TIME’s White House Photo blog.
The buzz this week is about a 43-year-old Fairbanks lawyer who seems to have knocked Senator Lisa Murkowski out of the Alaskan Republican primary for U.S. Senate. So, who is Joe Miller? Right now, he’s not talking to journalists, so it’s hard to tell but here’s what I’ve managed to gather about him: The bearded [...]
You know they’re really in trouble when John Boehner starts cribbing from their notes on how to call out the Obama administration.
The Congressional Budget Office said in a recent letter that repealing the parts of the Affordable Care Act, including changes to Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, would increase the deficit by $455 billion. The CBO released the figure this week in a letter responding to a request from Republican Sen. Mike Crapo. [...]
Over at the National Review, Clifford D. May takes the mainstream media, including Time, to task for rolling over for the “terrorists” on the Cordoba Center mosque in downtown Manhattan. He does cite our poll which had 46% of Americans thinking that Muslims were more likely than others religionists to act violently: Goodness, why would [...]
Speaking of Bobby Bright, he’s taken the same tack as Sandlin in his latest campaign ad. Researching a piece I’m doing on Bright’s race, I came across this quote, from Bright’s Republican opponent, Martha Roby: “Our congressman voted for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. How he voted any other time is irrelevant.” That [...]
I mention that Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is a Democrat only because she doesn’t in this, her latest ad. Meanwhile, Rep. Bobby Bright, the endangered Alabama Democrat, has been trying to broadcast the same message by joking that Nancy Pelosi might die. Which is another way of doing it.
David Broder dedicates his column today to John McCain, whom he urges to restore “adult leadership” to a fracturing Republican party. Broder would like to see McCain resurrect the “reputation he established for independence — for being his own man, no matter what the pressures” and find key points of bipartisan compromise with Barack Obama. [...]
Glenn Beck’s 8/28 Restoring Honor Rally has already drawn all sorts of criticism. It’s scheduled to take place on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech – which he delivered on the steps of the memorial in 1963. Given that Beck has said [...]
