Bill Whittle has some recent experience with it, and resulting thoughts.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Anything Is Possible, I Guess
Is Bill Clinton actually concerned about the country?
…we must remember that Clinton is a centrist (like Bush and, even more, McCain). No one knows, perhaps even Obama himself, what Obama is. Maybe, like many of us, Bill Clinton is genuinely worried. He would know, wouldn’t he?
People will look back on this year as they did 1972, and wonder how Obama got the nomination, and why the superdelegates didn’t do their jobs.
So What’s Stopping Her?
Nancy Pelosi says that the bailout bill has to pass.
OK, Madame Speaker, if you believe that, if it’s such a great idea, then why not pass it? Your party controls the House. There is no filibuster as there is in the Senate. There’s nothing the House Republicans can do to stop you. So where is the bill?
Obviously, she just wants keister upholstery in case it doesn’t work. She wants to get buy-in from the Republicans so that they can share the blame for the taxpayer ripoff. I don’t see why they should give it to her. And I also don’t see why this isn’t pointed out in news stories like this.
Oh, right.
Voter Fraud?
In Ohio.
You’ll be as shocked as I was to learn that ACORN is involved.
Barack, Constitution Defender
Not.
Glenn Reynolds has a link roundup.
Suing A Scumbag
Jack Murtha is going to be sued for slander. Here’s hoping that he loses big. It would be great if he’d actually lose his seat in a few weeks, but that’s probably too much to hope for.
And I guess my title libels actual bags of scum. Hope they don’t sue.
Assault On Entrepreneurs
Obama’s plans would be pretty hard on us.
It’s not surprising. He’s never displayed any knowledge of, or interest in business. If anything, his attitude (and unfortunately, John McCain’s as well) is that there is something ignoble about profits (hence his self-righteous preening about his choice of becoming a community organizer instead of “going to Wall Street”).
Defining Rape Down
Jeeeeez. Hint, ladies. Persuasion is not force.
Say It Ain’t So, “O”
Corruption in Chicago? Who could imagine such a thing?
Madigan’s office has notified Obama’s presidential campaign of the probe, which was launched this week. But Obama’s actions in awarding the money are not a focus of the investigation, Smith said.
Questions about the grant, though, come as spending on local pet projects has become an issue in Obama’s campaign against John McCain.
Obama and Kenny Smith announced the “Englewood Botanic Garden Project” at a January 2000 news conference at Englewood High School. Obama was in the midst of a failed bid to oust South Side Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush for a seat in Congress. The garden — planned near and under L tracks between 59th Place and 62nd Place — fell outside of Obama’s Illinois Senate district but within the congressional district’s borders.
Obama vowed to “work tirelessly” to raise $1.1 million to help Smith’s organization turn the City of Chicago-owned lot into an oasis of trees and paths. But Obama lost the congressional race, no more money was raised, and today the garden site is a mess of weeds, chunks of concrete and garbage. The only noticeable improvement is a gazebo.
Guess he got too busy running for the next office.
Make Mine Chartreuse
Judging by the comments here, the natives are growing ever more restless at NASA, over the sham PDR they just held:
Is NASA trying to put lipstick on a pig? This one, highly-visible decision on how to report status says more than enough. It is a political gimmick if ever we have seen one. And being an election year, I guess it is de rigeur. How terribly sad…
…I think NASA should get rid of the red category all together, because if anything gets put in that category, it doesn’t look good. They might want to get rid of orange also, because that’s too close to red. Here is how I think the categories should be arranged.
GREEN
GREEN/GREEN
GREEN/LIGHT GREEN
GREEN/TEAL
GREEN/EMERALDNow, don’t these colors make you feel good?
It kind of reminds me of Tom Ridge’s terror alerts.