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Lie of the Year: Joe Biden Is "Sharp, Intensely Probing, Detail-Oriented, and Focused"

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) calls for creating Dem "war machine" to stop Republicans

Jimmy Carter's Presidency and Post-Presidency - A Brutal Assessment By National Review

Is it worth $2.5 trillion to defeat Obama?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 23 Comments

Below is the video in which Mitch McConnell sets forth his proposal, and here is the WaPo analysis: McConnell’s proposal would have the effect of forcing Obama and congressional Democrats to take full responsibility for raising the debt limit, and require Democrats to vote on the...

Nice to see

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 1 Comment

Someone who after 9 years is not suffering from Blogger Burnout or any other known blogging disorder. We all should be so lucky. ...

Mitch McConnell Sets The 2012 Narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 28 Comments

I have praised Mitch McConnell before, when he was fighting an almost impossible battle to hold the line in the Senate on a variety of issues when the Democrats had a filibuster-proof or near filibuster-proof majority. Now McConnell may have set the narrative for 2012 on...

Prof. Susan Feinberg: Proud to have confronted Paul Ryan / Update – Audio added

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 60 Comments

Susan Feinberg, the Rutgers Professor who confronted Paul Ryan at a D.C. restaurant over the cost of a bottle of wine ordered by people at Ryan's table, appeared on the Dom Giordano radio show in Philadelphia moments ago (h/t to a commenter). I hope to...

Obama throws Democrats’ Mediscare campaign off a cliff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 8 Comments

Almost the entire Democratic Party theme for the 2012 elections at every level is that evil Republicans want to destroy "Medicare as we know it," whereas Democrats want to save the program by raising taxes on the "rich." As Michael Alan documented here, groups behind the "Mediscare"...

Is TikTok Brainwashing Young People?

UConn Medical School Invites Trans People to Train Students in ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Young Progressives are Embracing Antisemitism Based on Lies

U. Tennessee Students Doing Work on Campus Discover Civil War Trench

‘Climate justice’ Group at Northwestern University Calls for School to Become ‘Fossil Free Campus’

House Republicans Fast-Track Bill to Ban Men From Women's Sports

You must not have received the memo

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 8 Comments

Spotted by reader Will in Denver, Colorado: The car owner obviously is operating under a false impression: That’s what the revenue debate is about. It’s not because I want to raise revenues for the sake of raising revenues, or I’ve got some grand ambition to create a...

How will it end?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 22 Comments

Help me formulate possible answers for a reader poll asking that question. Considering that some people wanted more than two alternative in the Flash Poll today, I'm taking suggestions....

They will fight in the restaurants, they will fight on the front lawns ….

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

The story about a Rutgers professor confronting Rep. Paul Ryan at a Washington, D.C., restaurant over the cost of wine ordered by people at Ryan's table rightly has been criticized, including by me. But most of the criticism deals with the professor being a busy-body and...

He’s the only reasonable person, in his own mind

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 23 Comments

I was right, mostly. The serious, conciliatory Obama showed up at the press conference today. The only reasonable person in the room was the theme. I was wrong to the extent that in his opening statement and throughout Obama framed the issue as the Republicans not...

What are the rules of engagement at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 19 Comments

That's the question I have, because the French obviously have different rules than we do (h/t Israel Matzav): Syrians loyal to President Bashar Assad stormed the US and French embassies in Damascus on Monday. The crowds managed to break into and enter the American compound, but...

Flash Poll – Which Obama will show up at today’s press conference?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 24 Comments

Obama is holding another press conference today, at 11 a.m. , with regard to the debt talks. The last press conference was an unmitigated disaster for him, leading one MSNBC talking head to drop the "D" bomb. My take is that we will see a different...

Mexico, Maryland, literally

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 3 Comments

Sent by reader Ulises, who writes (embedded link added): ...

It’s a Wonderful Democratic Tax Policy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 9 Comments

A deviation on a theme ...

This picture is worth 2 trillion words

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 22 Comments

Democrats have an idea. Let's take an additional $2 trillion from the private sector and give it to the federal government. What possibly could go wrong? ...

Obama’s deficit reduction Charades – “sounds like” more taxes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 26 Comments

Last night John Boehner announced that Republicans were abandoning an attempt to reach a $4 trillion deficit reduction deal with Obama because Obama inisted on $1 trillion in tax increases. Obama always wants new taxes on the "rich." As Michael Alan wrote here, Obama wanted tax...

Warms my heart

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2011 14 Comments

Not the bumper sticker, you know what. Sent by reader Thomas from Austin, TX: ...

Saturday Night Card Game (Stop the poofy hair profiling!)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2011 20 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: A couple of weeks it was saggy-pants bias. Now its poofy hair profiling. A mixed-race woman from Seattle is charging racism because TSA screeners asked to check her poofy hair...