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MSNBC Chief Should Suspend Self, Not Scarborough, Olbermann
Tweet Share on Facebook November 23, 2010 Comment (11)Keith, I know you can’t do this so let me do it for you: Your award for “Worst Person in the World” should go to your boss, MSNBC President Phil Griffin. He has now suspended you and your colleague Joe Scarborough--both of you well-known for your biased opinions from the left and the right. Er, well known to everybody but Griffin evidently. What Rockefeller Center closet has this guy been living in?
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The Return of Death Panels
Tweet Share on Facebook November 17, 2010 Comment (15)Now that healthcare will likely be back on the table, I thought it might be good sport to revive the debate over "death panels." It's a term that upsets some folks, so maybe a different one is in order. How about God Panels? And a question: Will they be comprised primarily of government bureaucrats and journalists?
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Pelosi's Democrats Will Miss Rahm Emanuel
Tweet Share on Facebook November 9, 2010 Comment (3)The most important seat the Democrats lost this year wasn’t monitored during last week’s election. In fact, it was on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue. When Rahm Emanuel decided to leave Washington for Chicago, the Democratic Party lost one of its most effective voices of sanity and strategic pragmatism. I was reminded of this when Nancy Pelosi announced her “Cult of Me” campaign to serve as leader of the hapless House Democratic caucus--days after she led her party into the worst scene of carnage visited upon either party since the Great Depression.
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2010 Elections Show Partisanship Works
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2010 Comment (3)There’s a weird vibe in this East Coast town as a political hurricane approaches today. Nervous Democrats are boarding up storefronts and duct-taping windows. Drunken Republicans are hosting stormwatch parties and running with surfboards headlong into the wind. Everybody is predicting massive structural damage and foundational shifts. In one respect, though, nothing will change after the final votes come in, regardless of whatever surprises are in store. Partisanship will still reign supreme in this town. And I, for one, am glad of it.
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The Liberals' Spending Delusions and the 2010 Elections
Tweet Share on Facebook October 26, 2010 Comment (5)The churn building toward Election Day is achieving a kind of cannibalistic feeding frenzy as liberal pundits, Democratic strategists, and MoveOn activists try to spin the public’s coming rejection of the Obama agenda. It’s not that the White House and Democratic Congress tried to cram left-wing policies down the esophagus of a center-right nation; it’s that they didn’t cram hard enough.
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NPR Shouldn't Have Fired Juan Williams, But Its CEO Instead
Tweet Share on Facebook October 22, 2010 Comment (40)I’m going to go out on a limb here, and I hope U.S. News will not give me the boot for expressing a clear opinion, but I think Vivian Schiller should be fired. You remember her. She’s the CEO of NPR, the one who suggested very publicly--to a room full of journalists and television cameras--that Juan Williams, the Fox News and (now former) NPR commentator might be, at worst, a little mentally unstable and, at best, lacking journalistic ethics. (With particularly NPR-ish irony, Schiller says she fired Williams for saying offensive things, by the way.)
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Healthcare Arrogance Killing Democrats in 2010 Elections
Tweet Share on Facebook October 19, 2010 Comment (7)It is rare that you can pinpoint an exact date as to when a politician threw her career away, but Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a Democratic incumbent from Arkansas, did just that with an op-ed in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on July 8, 2009. In it, she endorsed the so-called “public option,” a gateway to government-run healthcare. Indeed, the Democratic Party’s near universal grip on federal seats in Arkansas will be wiped out in November due to the support of Arkansas congressional Democrats for Obamacare. In a sense, Arkansas stands as a perfect microcosm of the looming disaster awaiting Democrats at the polls.
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Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, 'Whore,' and NOW's Hypocrisy
Tweet Share on Facebook October 12, 2010 Comment (10)Evidently, all it takes to get the endorsement of the National Organization for Women (NOW) is to call women whores. Used to be that you’d at least have to sexually harass them. If only Stanley Kowalski had run for governor in Louisiana--how Terry O’Neill would have swooned.
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Christine O'Donnell's 'Witch' Ad Shows She's Not Like Us
Tweet Share on Facebook October 6, 2010 Comment (19)To be or not to be. A witch. That is the question. Evidently. For Christine O’Donnell.
Huh. An interesting choice.
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Obama's Healthcare Reform Is Actually Worse Than We Feared
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2010 Comment (15)Remember Nancy Pelosi’s Let Them Eat Cake moment on healthcare reform? The one where she dismissed as ridiculous the idea that the public should know what was in the bill before it was passed into law?
