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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2010 16 Comments
During the State of the Union address, Barack Obama singled out the Supreme Court for ridicule on its recent campaign finance ruling, which Obama asserted could open the door for foreign campaign contributions: With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2010 23 Comments
The stupid meme of the day is that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was “rude” to Obama during the State of the Union address because Alito grimaced and mouthed the words “not true” when Obama stoked the crowd with a lie about a recent Supreme...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2010 13 Comments
State of the Union speeches regularly infuriate the opposing party, and to that extent Barack Obama met and exceeded expectations last night. One aspect of the speech deservedly is receiving most attention: The crude attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court in front of the Congress...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2010 7 Comments
I’ll leave it to others to do the fact check. Here’s my first impression of the State of the Union speech tonight: This was a small speech. A lot of petty pot shots, including at the Supreme Court. Very Nixonian, in that regard. The verbiage...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2010 3 Comments
There still is time to input new text into the teleprompter for tonight’s State of the Union address. After throwing the Venezuelan people under the bus at the Summit of the Americas last April, now would be a good time for Barack Obama to give...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2010 7 Comments
I’m actually enjoying reading NY Times columnists these days. The wonders never cease, this time from MoDo: The New One is the shimmering vessel that we are pouring all our hopes and dreams into after the grave disappointment of the Last One, Barack Obama. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2010 13 Comments
We had Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts. They now have the doofus triplets committing the sin of felony all over Mary Landrieu’s phone. Thanks for giving comfort to the enemies of my enemies who therefore are my friends, just when they had nothing to look...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2010 1 Comment
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), commonly called the Stimulus Plan, is widely discredited as having done little to stimulate private sector job growth. But one thing the Stimulus Plan has created is long-term deficits. The Congressional Budget Office just released a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2010 4 Comments
I’ve been preoccupied the past few weeks, so I have not followed closely enough the end of the saga in Honduras. Manuel Zelaya, the one-term President of Honduras who wanted to be the forever-term President, will be leaving the country very soon: Ousted Honduran President...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2010 16 Comments
What would one call a political strategy which depended upon portraying the majority of Americans as crazy extremists? The answer is: The current Democratic Party strategy which ignores the meaning of the Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts races, and focuses on smearing opponents as extremists...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 16 Comments
Via Jammie Wearing Fool, Obama Needs TelePrompter to Talk to Schoolkids: No matter what I have said in the past, I want this to be a bad PhotoShop. Honestly. Update 1-26-1020: It’s kinda so, but not completely. Read the comments. ——————————————–Related Posts:Please Tell Me This...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 11 Comments
I really have very little patience for the “oh, I didn’t realize what I was getting with Obama, he seemed so cool, and I was caught up in the hype, and now I realize that he talked a good game but doesn’t know what he’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 7 Comments
My new favorite source of screen shots has outdone itself, with this post and headline The first senator of the reality show era: The text of the Politico post has nothing to do with reality: Brown’s arrival reflects a fundamental change in American politics, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 6 Comments
A lot of people have been playing Waterloo in the wake of the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts. That’s history. Here’s the future. An exclusive preview of Obama’s upcoming State of the Union address this Wednesday (btw, we’ll be “live” again): Where are those happy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2010 2 Comments
This is the latest in the Saturday Night Card Game series on the use of the race card for political gain: A follow up to the “technology is racist” twist explored in the last of the series, HP Face Tracking Software Racist? Now, it’s Nikon’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2010 9 Comments
From Charles Blow [sic] in the NY Times: Welcome to the mob: an angry, wounded electorate, riled by recession, careening across the political spectrum, still craving change, nursing a bloodlust…. The most recent manifestation of the shifting landscape is the election of Scott Brown, a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2010 5 Comments
The election of Scott Brown to the Senate left for dead the abomination known as the Senate health care bill. But it may not have been enough to get the message through to the Democrats who just seem to be begging to be thrown out...
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