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Snooki Was Just a Joke to Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook July 30, 2010 Comment (6)Yesterday on The View the hosts gave President Obama a pop-culture quiz. Joy Behar asked the president, “Should Snooki run as mayor of Wasilla?”
"I've got to admit, I don't know who Snooki is," Obama said. (Speaking of Wasilla, you could say he repudiated Snooki with that answer.)
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California’s Fiscal Emergency a Microcosm of Americans’ Debt Concerns
Tweet Share on Facebook July 29, 2010 Comment (15)“It used to be that people had vague concerns about the deficit. They knew there was one, but it didn’t seem to really matter,” Republican Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty told the Hill. “Now average people outside of politics are zoomed in on it. You go to the grocery store or the dry cleaners or some place and average people, they make comments about the debt, the deficit, and spending.”
Maybe they’re reacting to stories like this one, out this morning on the Reuters wire: “Schwarzenegger Declares California Fiscal Emergency.” Here’s why the governor had to declare an emergency:
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The View Isn't Obama's Worst TV Appearance
Tweet Share on Facebook July 28, 2010 Comment (6)Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell went on MSNBC yesterday and talked about the president’s upcoming appearance on the daytime talk show, The View. According to Politico, here’s what he said:
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Could Bush’s Americans with Disabilities Act Pass Today?
Tweet Share on Facebook July 26, 2010 Comment (14)Today is a beautiful summer day in Washington, and it was a similarly sunny day on the South Lawn of the White House 20 years ago today, July 26, 1990. That day, hundreds of Americans came pouring through the gates to celebrate--some in wheelchairs, some blind, some deaf, you name it. They were there to witness President George H.W. Bush’s signing of the sweeping Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which ended discrimination against 43 million Americans and changed their lives forever.
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What Shirley Sherrod Was Really Saying
Tweet Share on Facebook July 22, 2010 Comment (22)I’ve been watching the Shirley Sherrod controversy unfold this week--she’s the former USDA official who was fired and then was offered her job back because of remarks she made at an NCAACP convention that were taken out of context, first on a blog and then on television. So I went online and got the transcript of her entire speech. Here’s a fascinating excerpt, a part that we did not hear about this week, about the death of her father at the hands of the KKK in South Georgia in 1965:
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5 Things Republicans Can Learn From the Unemployment Benefits Bill
Tweet Share on Facebook July 22, 2010 Comment (25)With the GOP filibuster broken in the Senate, the legislation authorizing $33 billion in unpaid-for unemployment benefits heads to a final vote in the House, according to the Washington Post. Over the course of three different votes in the Senate, it has been an ugly fight all around.
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The Irresistible Old Spice Guy Commercials
Tweet Share on Facebook July 20, 2010 Comment (4)Forget about Secretary Clinton’s participation in the Afghan conference, or British Prime Minister David Cameron’s meeting with the president today. Ladies, it’s time for some very important Internet research. Click to watch the #1 most-viewed videos on YouTube this week, which are the Old Spice ads which feature former football player and current hottie Isaiah Mustafa. I was out with some women last night and it’s all they could talk about. One told me that even her teenage daughter had starting wearing Old Spice.
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Why Obama Is Failing
Tweet Share on Facebook July 15, 2010 Comment (69)Conservative writers have been calling the Obama presidency a failed presidency and have been comparing him to Jimmy Carter for a while now--for example, George Will writes in this week's Newsweek that "Obama's apogee is in his rearview mirror" and that his best days are behind him. But as widely distributed as George Will's columns are nationally, the "inside crowd" in Washington is probably reading today's top story in Politico. It's a long opinion/analysis piece by the two top editors there, Jim Vandehei and John Harris. Neither one of them is known as a conservative.
The gist of the piece, entitled “Obama Loses By Winning,” is that despite the passage of healthcare reform and the likely vote on financial reform this week, Obama is seen to be a failing president. And while he's accomplished some legislative achievements, he's widely viewed in Washington as an ineffective communicator and inept politically. They go on to list myriad reasons for why Obama is increasingly viewed as a flop:
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Even the Communist Chinese Worry About Obama's Spending
Tweet Share on Facebook July 14, 2010 Comment (11)The federal budget deficit has already hit a trillion dollars just in the first nine months of this fiscal year, and is on pace to break the $1.3 trillion mark set in all of the last fiscal year. Observers predict that by the end of this fiscal year, we'll hit $1.5 trillion in debt. Here's something scary: When I went to double-check those numbers with a few news sources on Google, among the top publications listed that had written about it were not the Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg, but the People's Daily in China.
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How Republicans Should Handle Immigration Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook July 14, 2010 Comment (22)SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, MEXICO--I'm in Mexico this week, not far from the huge statue of Christ high atop a mountain that marks the geographic center of the country. We're nowhere near all the drug-related border violence, in the high central desert, as my kids take immersion Spanish classes. There's a bus depot here that will make runs to towns as far away as Louisville, Kentucky, and seeing it reminded me of the divisive immigration issue back home.
