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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 7 Comments
Why is Obama calling the 2-3 foot snowfall in Washington, D.C. “Snowmaggeden“? In keeping with one of Obama’s favorite lines repeated in his speeches, Obama should be saying: “This is the worst snowfall since the Great Depression.” ——————————————–Follow me on Twitter and Facebook

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2010 3 Comments
This is the latest in the Saturday Night Card Game series on the use of the race card for political gain: Max Blumenthal at Salon.com declared James O’Keefe to have a “race problem,” which are just code words for being a racist. Blumenthal’s story was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2010 9 Comments
Almost as if on cue, DailyKos, Steve Benen, Andrew Sullivan, Sam Stein and others are pushing hard on the meme that Republicans are “crazy” and Taliban-like in their ways. The “crazy” findings are based on a poll commissioned by DailyKos using the same pollster which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2010 7 Comments
Mission almost accomplished. Fail to the Chief: Even with tax hikes and spending cuts, Mr. Obama’s budget foresees a record budget deficit of $1.6 trillion this fiscal year, sliding down to $706 billion in red ink by 2014, only to begin rising again as the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2010 5 Comments
In early November 2008, when gay activists were mounting a fundraising boycott of the Democratic National Committee, Barney Frank announced that a provision repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy would be attached to the defense appropriations bill to be voted on in the spring...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 1 Comment
This is the latest in the Saturday Night Card Game series on the use of the race card for political gain: Tonight’s post proves that the use of the race card does not stop at our shores, and does not depend upon the race of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 5 Comments
Please, Mr. Krugman, stop all the name calling directed at our President and those who work for him, Cossack Rahm Works For The Czar: But don’t blame Rahm Emanuel; this is about the president. After Massachusetts, Democrats were looking for leadership; they didn’t get it....

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 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 3 Comments
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! (h/t daily timewaster via Daily Telepgraph): Rescued eight years ago during a police drugs raid in Atlanta, Georgia, the three friends were only cubs at the time and barely two months old. They had been kept as status...

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 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 5 Comments
Talk about dominance of the Internet. Patrick Ruffini has an article in The Washington Post, which relates how Republicans won the internet in the Scott Brown election. I’m shocked. Putting my shock aside, for the moment, there is something else worth noting. As of noon...

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 0 Comments
Nothing to worry about in Yemen: Because al-Qaeda is just a joke: Apparently, al-Qaeda doesn’t have a Twitter account, so it never got the message. ——————————————–Related Posts:About That “Firecracker”Not So Scary Terror?Terrorist Attacks Plane, Think Progress Attacks Pete Hoekstra Follow me on Twitter and Facebook

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2010 8 Comments
Sometimes a Memeorandum thread almost speaks for itself. In this case, the push launched by Balloon-Juice, Sadly No, Daily Kos and others to demand that the House pass the lousy and unpopular Senate bill as is. With backers like these, Democrats have nothing to worry...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2010 4 Comments
The mainstream media finally is waking up to the under-the-radar social media revolution which hid in plain sight in the Massachusetts Senate special election. As reported by the Wall Street Journal: A study [embedded below] conducted by the Emerging Media Research Council out today found...
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