Where’s the talkey-hand thing, Barry? These are our citizens, doofus! >> The mother of one of three Americans jailed in Iran for six months says even hiring an attorney in Iran has brought no new information about the welfare of her son or his friends. Cindy Hickey of Pine City, Minn., is the mother of [...]
This guy is several cards short of a full deck: “The White House has been so accepting of the Republicans, for so long, and the fact that they just won’t vote for anything, that I was beginning to think the White House was suffering from the Stockholm syndrome. Their agenda’s been held hostage for a [...]
This contract was canceled only because they got called out on it. >> The cancellation comes after Fox News first reported on the details of the contract last week, prompting lawmakers to make inquiries into the deal. State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley told Fox News that USAID terminated the award and is now working on [...]
When someone thinks you are stupid, they talk to you like that. >> A Smart Politics analysis of nearly 70 oral State of the Union Addresses since the mid-1930s finds the text of Obama’s speech on Wednesday evening to have one of the lowest scores on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test ever recorded by a U.S. [...]
Pretty words (and the right skin color) got their votes in 2008. Now they want to know, “where’s the Change?” With its chess set, slot machine, gobstopper dispenser and constant banter, Gordy’s is the gathering place in this rundown, mainly black district. The chief topic of conversation is President Barack Obama, who started his political [...]
Scott Brown literally saved us all from disaster. Pat yourselves on the back if you blogged for him or sent him money. Well done. This is how close we were to the “precipice” the president once spoke about: Labor leaders had announced an agreement with White House and congressional representatives over an excise tax on [...]
Sounds like a stall to me. Pacify the base and kick it down the road. The Defense Department starts the clock next week on what is expected to be a several-year process in lifting its ban on gays from serving openly in the military. . . . While the review is likely to take the [...]
All these people do is talk. Absolutely no action from them in any direction on any issue. They are like single-use clothing: Looks good when you first put it on, but wear it for a while and it’s tatters. >> While the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify waterboarding and [...]
Think Barry has it in him to stand strong? Me neither. >> China suspended military exchanges with the United States, threatened unprecedented sanctions against American defense companies and warned Saturday that cooperation would suffer after Washington announced $6.4 billion in planned arms sales to Taiwan. The response to Friday’s U.S. announcement, while not entirely unexpected, [...]
Barry just won’t give up. If NYC doesn’t want a tour date, well, there’s lots of venues out there! Why is he doing this? Perhaps because if the trials were on closed military bases, the press coverage would be sparse. Think? >> The Obama administration is proposing a $200 million fund to help pay for [...]
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