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August 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 25 Comments

Obama, having bid to disrupt a previously scheduled Republican primary debate at the Reagan Libary on Wednesday, September 7, was rebuffed by John Boehner, who just said No, do it on Thursday. Obama caved, and now has agreed to give the speech on Thursday. Which conflicts with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 4 Comments

My town in Rhode Island still is mostly without power, as is much of the state.  My wife returned there briefly today (we were in Ithaca when Irene hit) and called me to say "I've never seen anything like this."  Even several days later the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 6 Comments

Allahpundit: The worst part is that, with the economy on the brink of a double-dip and consumer confidence falling off a cliff, this guy’s mind is still so preoccupied with the campaign that he can’t muster a moment of presidential leadership without counterprogramming it against a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 19 Comments

As a follow up to my prior post on Obama's calculated request that he give a speech to a Joint Session of Congress the same evening as a Republican primary debate, and the first day Congress is back in session, John Boehner has not said...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 50 Comments

Obama has sent a request for a Joint Session of Congress appearance, this time to deliver his jobs speech.  And guess what, he asked for it the night of a previously scheduled Republican primary debate: President Obama has requested a joint session of Congress next week...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 3 Comments

Via Chicago Tribune: An investigator for Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn’s human rights agency got a slap on the wrist for forwarding an e-mail before last November’s election that contended the Republican Party had been hijacked by “dangerous, radical hate mongers called the ‘Tea Party.'" The e-mail, sent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 24 Comments

Obama plans a fall offensive against Republicans, according to The Hill (via JWF and Instapundit): President Obama is preparing to fight a political war this fall on two fronts -- the first against Republicans who want his job and the second against Republicans who want to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 5 Comments

Rhode Island still is without power in much of the state, including my neighborhood.  National Grid is estimating that power will not be restored to the entire town until September 5. As of yesterday, as reported by The Providence Journal: Electrical power was the biggest casualty of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 11 Comments

Thanks to reader Greg who writes: I’m a young Legal Insurrection reader from North Carolina. I designed this anti-Obama bumper sticker and would really appreciate if you could help me spread the design so people can re-post or print it themselves. The beauty is that at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 9 Comments

I should know never to make a categorical statement about anything, because I have several thousand fact checkers/helpers. This morning I joked that I had not seen any boats involved in the Madison protests. Thanks to reader Patricia for sending me a link to a post about the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 15 Comments

That's a theme in a very worthwhile article about Thomas written by Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker: These tempests obscure a larger truth about Thomas: that this year has also  been, for him, a moment of triumph. In several of the most important areas of ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 11 Comments

The Kennedy administration has been described as having attracted the best and the brightest to government service, sometimes with bad but well-intentioned results. I don't know Alan Krueger, Obama's new head of the Council of Economic Advisers.  But Ezra Klein claims to know a lot about Krueger,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 8 Comments

I never knew they had boats in Wisconsin.  Is it on a lake or something?  I didn't see any boats in the videos of the protests in Madison. But then again, they also didn't seem to have a sense of humor in Madison, unlike the owner...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2011 25 Comments

of stories about Obama's demise about which I am skeptical. Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard argues that the media lovefest for Obama has weakened Obama by making him lazy: As a rule, the press is the scourge of presidents. They’re expected to endure unending scrutiny, mistrust,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2011 40 Comments

a "heavy duty teleprompter." From the DC Examiner, on the occasion of Obama's three-minute announcement of the appointment of a new economic adviser: President Obama required two heavy-duty teleprompters on Monday during a three-minute speech in which he nominated Alan Krueger to serve as chairman of his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2011 22 Comments

The after-Irene hype is that Irene was overhyped. Yes, maybe in the big cities Irene was no biggie.  It's easy for a Philly Inquirer columnist to refer to Irene as a "Category Feh" hurricane. But in those areas of the northeast which city dwellers normally only train or drive...

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