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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2010 5 Comments
Today is the day to print Sitemeter histories, apparently. So here is mine, with a month of January likely never to be repeated. Unless Scott Brown runs for President, or something. I wish I were a better person, and could blog forward even if no...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2010 7 Comments
Did you hear, Scott (we now all know who he is, no need for last names anymore) “refuses to rule out” running for President in 2012? And he’s just been elected to the Senate, OMG, get headline ready: Brown: ‘Humbled’ by White House Talk, But...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2010 8 Comments
Paul Krugman is completely clueless. I’m watching him now on Sunday Morning with Barbara Walters. Krugman bemoans the fact that in our democracy, unlike in western Europe, the House cap-and-trade and health care bills already would be law. Krugman blames it all on that messy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2010 9 Comments
Why the sudden slew of attacks on the Supreme Court, specifically Justices Alito and Roberts, by leading Democrats? The decision in the Citizens United case, which struck down on First Amendment grounds some legislative restrictions on campaign speech by corporations, is the excuse but not...

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’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 9 Comments
From Hotline On-Call (h/t): Aides to Sens. Paul Kirk (D-MA) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) tell Hotline OnCall they will vote for Bernanke’s confirmation. There is an elected and qualified successor to Paul Kirk. His name is Scott Brown. Martha Coakley has conceded the race, and...

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 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 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 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...

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2010 12 Comments
Hot off the presses: After Scott Brown’s victory, the only thing that could top this would be for Nancy Pelosi to announce that she doesn’t have the votes in the House to pass Harrycare. Hey, you can’t take away my dreams. Update: OMG, dreams really...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2010 8 Comments
… that we no longer will be all Scott Brown all the time. Mission has been accomplished. We will resume our regularly scheduled almost all Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi almost all the time coverage, already in progress. ——————————————–Follow me on Twitter and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2010 7 Comments
If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, what to do when two political enemies go at each other. This would make them both my friends, which screws up the equation. That’s the way I feel watching Lanny Davis and “The Left” go at...
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