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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2010 16 Comments
Scott Brown didn’t see the forest for the trees in deciding to support Chris Dodd and Barney Frank’s financial reform legislation. Although Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins went along also, they did so only after Brown made his announcement. If Brown had come out strongly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2010 0 Comments
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is one of the most polarizing Senators. His favorite form of argument is reduced to the following: “You are bad, we are good.” If you were from Rhode Island, as I am, you would understand that this has been Whitehouse’s political character...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2010 1 Comment
Talk about spin, the headlines are screaming 69 law school deans endorse Kagan in letter to Senate: The deans of more than one-third of the nation’s law schools have endorsed Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, issuing a public letter that praises her legal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2009 4 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took to the floor of the Senate earlier this week and delivered a speech which would have made Alan Grayson and Keith Olbermann blush....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2009 20 Comments
Sheldon Whitehouse, my Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, has joined the Alan Grayson wing of the Democratic party with a speech so over the top that it is an infuriating embarrassment. I wasn’t going to post on this. But then I listened to the speech,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2009 8 Comments
Until I started reading stories about Barack Obama’s failure in Copenhagen, I didn’t realize just how pathetic were the arguments used in support of Chicago as the 2016 Summer Olympic venue. In short, Obama and Chicago played the diversity card, but got out-diversified, and in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 10, 2009 6 Comments
There was a shocking lack of respect displayed at Barack Obama’s health care speech last night. President Obama spent most of his speech calling opponents of Democratic health restructuring plans liars. South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson called Obama a liar in response. A shocking lack...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2009 20 Comments
Week-by-week, world event-by-world event, the public humiliation of Hillary Clinton is taking place right before our eyes. Actually, not before our eyes. Hillary has gone missing. There was a time when United States Secretaries of State were front and center in foreign policy making and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2009 0 Comments
In what should go down in internet history as one of the most embarrassingly misleading posts, John Nichols of The Nation authored an article titled “GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness.” The joke was on Nichols, because Nichols and the nutroots bloggers who ran with his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2009 4 Comments
The media is all aflutter today with reports — as headlined in the NY Times — that “all active-duty and reserve forces meeting or exceeding their recruitment goals for the first time since 2004, the year that violence in Iraq intensified drastically….” This is the...
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