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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2011 5 Comments

From Ezra Klein, a catalogue of Obama-things Bill Daley, the new Chief of Staff, opposed:Imagine I told you that one of the candidates President Obama is considering for chief of staff opposed the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, opposed doing health-care reform and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2011 14 Comments

The mainstream media will undertake, and already has undertaken, a concerted effort to blame the Republican House for everything that goes wrong, for not living up to promises, for living up to promises, for failing to compromise, for selling out, etc.Do not fall for it.  Holding the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2011 26 Comments

I previously asked you to tell me about Tim Pawlenty, and I learned a lot.Mitch Daniels also is presented as a conservative with the credentials to unite the base with the establishment without a lot of negatives (other than being conservative, of course).So tell me...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2010 5 Comments

Okay, the last two plus years, in which we have been called every name in the book by Obama, his administration, the Democrats in Congress, and the Democratic base, are forgiven and forgotten.Let's just make pretend it never happened:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2010 11 Comments

Thanks to a reader for this photo taken in St. Petersburg, FL, earlier this week:I almost missed the most important part of the photo, which would cause heads to explode:It would be worth it, just to see the reaction.  And if they won ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2010 11 Comments

This is not the post you probably were expecting from me given my harsh -- and as always prescient -- criticism of Republicans in the lame duck session.  I was screaming "capitulation!" before screaming "capitulation!" was fashionable.Notwithstanding the lame duck session, give Mitch McConnell some credit...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2010 17 Comments

The headline at The Washington Post, quite predictably, is that Sarah Palin's poll numbers are terrible.But the more important story for 2012 is that Barack Obama has lost 44% of the voters, and has weak core support (emphasis mine):Still, the survey shows limits to Obama's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2010 0 Comments

The Omnibus bill was pulled last night by Harry Reid after several Republicans who were considering voting for it reversed course.The Omnibus bill was defeated because of you and millions of others like you who let their voices be heard on the internet, radio airwaves, through...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2010 8 Comments

I have some labels for them:Loser RINOs: Mike Castle, Charlie Christ, Bob InglisEgomaniacs: Michael BloombergAstroturfers:  Nancy Jacobson, Mark McKinnonTalking heads: David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, Mika BrzezinskiDemocrats: Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN)Coffee Party The Group Which Cannot Be Mentioned By...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2010 11 Comments

If Barack Obama had his way, taxes would be up across the board.  Most obviously for the job creators in the form of higher marginal income tax rates, but also for everyone in the form of a health care mandate, energy taxes, increases in capital gains...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2010 1 Comment

Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic Senator from my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is up for re-election in 2012.Whitehouse snuck into office in 2006 after a bitter Republican primary between incumbent Lincoln Chaffee and conservative challenger Steve Laffey.  Chaffee won the primary, but the damage was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2010 42 Comments

I posted yesterday about Ed Rollins being the latest of the "I knew Reagan" types to use a variation on Lloyd Bentsen's "You're no Jack Kennedy" line against Sarah Palin.Rollins was Mike Huckabee's campaign manager in the 2008 cycle, and guess who Rollins thought was the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2010 22 Comments

The attack dogs are out, and they're not Democratic.They are Republicans who "knew Reagan" and play the phony "you're no Reagan" or "how dare you compare yourself to Reagan" or "how dare you put down Reagan," or some variation on that theme, against Sarah Palin.The latest...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2010 15 Comments

..."To err is human.  I had what at the time seemed like a good idea as to how to expand health care coverage, but it turned out wrong.  I'll take part of the blame, but others who acted beyond my control also share in the blame. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2010 16 Comments

There is a lot which could be said about Joe Scarborough's very personal and demeaning screed against Sarah Palin, but I'll rest on this response:"You are the Alan Colmes of MSNBC, and I mean no offense to Alan Colmes."On second thought, maybe I just insulted...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2010 6 Comments

Taken by reader Ben earlier this month in a Schnucks' parking lot in south St. Louis.I like Bobby Jindal, and a couple of years ago I thought this bumper sticker made sense.  Jindal has increased his national profile, but I'm not seeing a run for President in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2010 76 Comments

Charles Krauthammer has lambasted the mainstream (i.e. liberal) media for its obsession with Sarah Palin.That goes double for liberal entertainers and academics, and triple for the left-blogosphere, which is nuts-in-the-head (that's a precise medical term in Austrian) when it comes to Palin.But this obsession is not a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2010 23 Comments

I alluded earlier today, in passing, to the idiocy of the left-wing blogs and some mainstream media outlets in making a big deal out of Sarah Palin's obvious slip of the tongue -- corrected seconds later -- in referring to North Korea instead of South Korea. ...

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