Year: 2008

Gail Collins tries to out-mo Mo Dowd: Time For Him To Go Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. I could probably stop there and let the Derangement wash over us. Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently […]

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it highly amusing that in order for Hillary Clinton, a sitting US Senator, who came close to being the Democrat nominee, to be nominated for Secretary of State, her husband, a recently former United States President, has to be vetted? Kinda says something about the kind […]

Ah, yes. Sarah Palin’s latest “misstep.” The media are on her like poultry farmers on a hapless little chickie: “If this had been Biden . . .” I heard about it first; when I saw it, it seemed pretty mild. I’m of the mind that anyone who isn’t a vegetarian shouldn’t be complaining. Where do […]

Obama finally came out from hiding to talk a bit about the economy. One of my liberal friends found this the most exciting aspect of his speech: “We’ll be working out the details in the weeks ahead, but it will be a two-year, nationwide effort to jumpstart job creation in America and lay the foundation […]

Commenter Rob has nominated us for our very own Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) award, or at least suggested we should be so nominated, which highlights the disadvantages involved when accolades have been systematically handed out without rules attached. Can you give yourself a BSIHORL award? The dilemma has, we confess, taken […]

There has been tee-heeing about “gun nuts” stocking up on guns and ammunition as though it was absurd to believe that Barack Obama, who voted for anti-gun legislation as a state senator would never try to get the same sort of legislation passed as President. Little things like this heighten people’s anxiety: Do You Now […]

On the (anti-) free speech front this week… The Weekly Standard features an excellent piece on “interfaith dialogue” — which is a euphemism for “Muslims talk and we listen, and obey.” Writer Nina Shea reveals how the Saudi-based Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is pushing to criminalize criticism of Islam. I just finished reading […]

Here’s the Right Wing News guest blogger line-up this week-end. Saturday ——– Ali Akbar Bookworm from Bookworm Room Cassy Fiano Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Morgan from House of Eratosthenes Gina Cobb John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU Little Miss Attila Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood of Success Sister Toldjah William Teach from […]

In this week’s US News and World Report, Grover Norquist babbles on under the title “Conservatives Will Rise Again” about how this has all been seen before (after Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush). After each defeat, conservatism was declared dead. Norquist believes it is only a matter of time before Americans again […]

Question: “Do you see anything positive that can be accomplished in the next four years legislatively (as opposed to, say, Republican re-branding, etc.)? If so, what?” — jleit83 Answer: Because so many politicians in D.C. love triangulation, some of the biggest accomplishments of the last two Presidents have been in areas most desired by the […]

The nuanced liberal mind grasps that everything depends on context. Even smoking, which libs have been self-righteously railing against for decades, can be cool under certain circumstances — for example, if the Moonbat Messiah does it. From a WaPo ode to The One entitled “Let the Guy Smoke“: As for being a role model for […]

In case you were hoping that Congress would exert some sort of moderating influence on the adolescent Marxist who will soon be president: President-elect Barack Obama’s call for urgent action on climate change received a double-barreled boost Thursday on Capitol Hill, as Democrats dethroned a leader who had been an obstacle and pledged to move […]

Question: “I seem to remember you buying into the notion that Obama’s election would dampen the flames of racial victimhood, rather than fan them. Now we find that school officials are being investigated and labeled racist by the NAACP for failing to celebrate Obama’s “historic election” Care to comment?” — RWNReader2 Answer: Ehr…that’s not exactly […]

“Republicans are counting on the natural tides of politics to lift their numbers in Congress in 2010. The Democrats may overreach, or their supporters may get complacent. But to get back in the driver’s seat, to become relevant again, Republicans will have to devise an agenda that speaks to a country where more people feel […]

Question: “What’s your guess for where the bottom is for the DJIA and S&P500? How long will this Obama recession last?” — RWNReader2 Answer: I don’t know the answer to that for sure, but I will tell you this: it could get “Jimmy Carter years” ugly out there. That’s particularly spooky to me since I […]

I can’t help but thinking that if Barack Obama specified what “change”, specifically, he believed in, the markets would calm down.

Question: “John, I can’t leave comments at your site because the registration system seems to be messed up, but when you accuse Bush of “Horrifically screwing up the war in Iraq,” I want to ask you if your split personality is channeling Kos. Your description is complete and utter B.S. When did you start swallow […]

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Every time the GOP takes a beating at the ballot box there are calls to get rid of those doggone social conservatives — or as Kathleen Parker refers to them, the “oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP.” This is a fascinating argument — well, fascinating if you like watching people who don’t even realize that they’re […]

No pun intended. Over at the American Prospect, Adam Serwer tugs at Osama’s beard: Al Qaeda plays a little identity politics: In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect, along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, “house negroes.” Of course, in the typically irony impaired way the left […]

I promise this will be the last time I write about the 2008 election; I just thought I’d point out the obvious once more. In case there was ever any question about the blind sheep mentality of the politically ignorant masses – also known, in this case, as Obama supporters – the latest Zogby poll […]

Gay marriage as original intent: Accept civil equality not as a defeat but as an opportunity: to persuade and evangelize for something beyond the civil that still respects the integrity of the civil. That’s what America’s founders intended. It is part of their genius that today’s fundamentalists simply do not understand. Just to make sure, […]

Under Chairman O, get ready for the steady flow of absurd racism claims to become a cataract. It’s already beginning: A lawyer representing a man charged with drunken driving claims Connecticut’s breathalyzers discriminate against blacks. According to the shyster, research shows that the lung capacity of a black man is 3 percent smaller than a […]

The community activist types — like Barack Obama — who helped bring about our financial crisis by using Jimmy Carter’s insane Community Reinvestment Act to terrorize banks into making bad loans based on race are still causing havoc. IBD reports on self-described “bank terrorist” Bruce Marks: Bruce Marks, founder of the leftist Neighborhood Assistance Corp. […]

So the New York Times reports that insurance companies are willing to “deal”: While insurers would be required to sell insurance to any applicant, nothing would guarantee that consumers could afford it. Rate regulation promises to be a highly contentious issue, since it pits the financial interests of insurers against those of consumers. At present, […]

“Congratulations to Hillary (and Bill) Clinton – who seem to have won the presidential election, despite the official results on Nov. 4. That’s certainly a reasonable conclusion, anyway, based on the folks President-elect Obama is eyeing for his administration – folks such as former Clinton officials Eric Holder and Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton herself. […]

…because that’s obviously what they’re shooting for, A plan to give troubled U.S. automakers billions of dollars in government-backed loans is on life support, leaving the fate of hundreds of thousands of workers and Detroit’s once-venerable car companies hanging in the balance. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., canceled plans Wednesday for a vote on […]

Let’s see… * Crippling GOP fundraising by signing campaign finance reform. * Massive deficits * Horrifically screwing up the war in Iraq. * The Bailout. * Partially nationalizing the banking industry. * Decimating the Republican Party. & now… * Iran with enough fuel for a nuclear weapon. Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material […]

Michelle Malkin reports: So, this is “progress?” eHarmony, a Christian-targeted dating website, gets sued by a gay man demanding that the business match him up with a same-sex partner. The New Jersey Attorney General intervenes on behalf of the gay plaintiff and forces eHarmony to change its entire business model. To be clear: The company […]

Theoretically, it’s a good idea for Republicans to embrace the idea of a color blind political pitch. It’s what we believe in, it fits with the vision of the Founding Fathers, and it would be better for the country if people cared nothing about race. However, the reality is that philosophy has proven to be […]