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Miscellany
What Would Anthony Weiner Tweet About This Worthy Effort to Reduce Waste?
It’s a trivial matter, with no connection whatsoever to the obscene congressional tweets that demand our attention in these troubled times, but President Obama’s widely ridiculed stimulus bill has brought unprecedented transparency and accountability to federal spending, which is why it’s been virtually fraud-free. So now the …
Morning Must Reads: Consensus
- The consensus on last night’s GOP presidential primary debate —Bachmann emerged, Romney skated to victory — is so ubiquitous it’s almost unsettling.
- It largely reflects public polling, but the scant sections of the debate on foreign policy were the least hawkish of any GOP forum in recent memory.
- The debate may have widened the
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A Feast for Fat Cats, A Project for Liberals
These are depressing times for liberals. The President is groveling in the White House, trying hard to please the Wall Street financiers who bankrolled him in the past, but are angry now because he called them “fat cats” and …
Morning Must Reads: Debate
- Bachmann, Cain, Paul, Gingrich, Pawlenty, Romney and Santorum will attend the first Republican presidential primary debate tonight in New Hampshire.
- Romney goes into the debate in strong shape nationally.
- He’s jumped on Obama for calling dismal job numbers in May “a bump in the road to …
1,000 Words
Enter your caption in the comments below. Last week’s: “Oh deer.”
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Morning Must Reads: Skip
- Mitt Romney will skip Iowa’s vaunted Ames straw poll. (Nevermind the chicken suit from ’07.)
- The New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC will crowdsource the Palin e-mails Alaska is releasing today.
- The Biden debt ceiling talks pick up speed.
The Wages of Weinermania
OK. Enough. I must admit I’ve enjoyed the furious Weinerian punning. It’s been a magical summer story for the New York tabloids, and victimless as well, unless you count the shmuck at the center of it, who is yet another male …
Romney for President: “He’s Not Going to Change His Mind” (At Least This One Time)
I hate to keep picking on Mitt Romney, but…oh, who am I kidding. I love to pick on Mitt Romney! He’s an Onion headline in a suit! He’s John Kerry with an R after his name! Today’s new hilarity comes from an unnamed adviser in …
Morning Must Reads: Trial Balloon
- From the magazine: This recession is different. Don’t expect Washington to help.
- Minor stimulus a la December 2010’s tax cut deal may be on the table in debt ceiling talks.
- It goes without saying, but more polls find widespread economic pessimism means problems for Obama.
- The White House floats Warren deputy and former banker
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