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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2011 27 Comments

Via The NY Times: Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota,  told supporters on a conference call Sunday morning that he is ending his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination after a disappointing third-place finish at the Iowa straw poll. Mr. Pawlenty thanked his supporters in an...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2011 87 Comments

As you know, I have zero tolerance for Republicans who trash talk Sarah Palin.  Three years of Palin Derangement Syndrome have made me allergic; Palin stands apart from other Republican candidates in that regard. There is only one candidate in the Republican field whose campaign staff has used trash...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2011 9 Comments

But today is not a work day, so we should be okay.  And it's a good thing the driver is from Maine and not Tennessee. Personally, I'm against profanity on bumper stickers.  Children could be watching. So I would have used the following wording instead:  "Obama:  The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2011 14 Comments

It's hard to believe the media narrative about Palin ever could change. But it could change among the less crazed. MSNBC always will be foaming at the mouth, but others would have a hard time keeping up the hate. Update:  To readers complaining about how Bachmann was...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2011 17 Comments

One of the usual anti-Scott Walker suspects hanging outside the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison didn't like the fact that Ann Althouse was filming the moonbats tooting their horns, so he decided to try to grab the camera from her, grabbed her as well, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2011 12 Comments

No surprise here.  Jewish students at the University of California, Berkeley, have filed a lawsuit (h/t) claiming that university officials have failed to protect Jewish students from harassment and intimidation by anti-Israeli groups: A pattern of harassment and physical assaults by members of two Muslim student groups...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2011 31 Comments

James Taranto has a post The Great Deflation (via Instapundit) in which he writes that: Like a leaky balloon, Barack Obama keeps getting smaller. Taranto compares Obama's lofty rhetoric during the 2008 campaign, when he grandly proclaimed that "this was the moment when the rise of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2011 2 Comments

... BROKE. Thanks to reader and photographer William who took this photo in Austin, TX, and writes: I ran into another rare bumper sticker here in the great liberal city of Austin, Texas. It appears the liberals are starting to run scared, and the conservatives are bravely stepping...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2011 2 Comments

or pretty close to the beginning of the blogosphere, there was Instapundit, which just celebrated its 10th birthday. Here's the story: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2011 11 Comments

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker appeared on the Morning Joe show this morning, and was fabulous.  He completely disarmed Mika Brezinski and Joe Scarborough. Walker made the case for the success of what Republicans have done so far, and Wisconsin's improving economic fortunes. Walker also hit on a topic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2011 46 Comments

This is the big case involving 26 states.  In January, Judge Roger Vinson struck the entire law finding that the mandate could not be severed from the rest of the law. The 11th Circuit ruled that the mandate was unconstitutional, but unlike Judge Vinson, did not throw...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2011 11 Comments

Yes, the economy is the dominant political issue right now, particularly the unemployment and real unemployment numbers. Naturally, the economy has been the focus of various Republican primary campaigns, while issues like Obamacare and the direction of the country have become secondary. It may now be the economy, but it...

Posted by Matthew Knee on August 12, 2011 11 Comments

While Obama has announced his opposition to a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, the administration's efforts to convince other countries to follow suit have been underwhelming at best. Lost in the chaos of budget negotiations, downgrades, war tragedies and stock market crashlets was the news...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2011 16 Comments

Obama once again is moving hard on the class warfare, and there is every signal that setting up a fight between the "rich" and "not rich" is the Democratic campaign theme for 2012. Obama keeps claiming the "rich" do not pay their fair share, but the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2011 34 Comments

I only watched bits and pieces of last night's debate, and I've seen some replays. I know I should have watched more of it, so I could give you my always insightful, prescient and probing analysis.  But when I tuned in, I tuned out. My sense from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2011 11 Comments

I've discussed several times  Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm which heavily spins poll results. PPP has a split personality; some of its polls are straight up and in actual elections it seems to do as well as many other polling organizations.   But PPP also engages in messaging...

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