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The Case for Wills and Kate Royal Wedding Mania
Tweet Share on Facebook April 29, 2011 Comment (6)My post flaming the media’s wall-to-wall coverage of the royal wedding in Great Britain today has earned me the sobriquet “Mr. Grouchypants,” in some quarters, not to mention a rebuke from bloleague Mary Kate Cary for being “a little Bah Humbug-y.” Indeed, a startling number of my friends posted on Facebook this morning about being up at 6am to take in the entirety of the festivities.
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Paul Hits Donald Trump's 2012 Republican Credentials
Tweet Share on Facebook April 29, 2011 Comment (18)That actual Republicans are starting to flame Donald Trump is probably a pretty good indication that he is making the transition from being viewed as a farcical 2012 candidate to be pointed and laughed at to a semi-serious candidate to be pointed at and targeted. The latest example came Thursday morning when Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul took aim at Trump during a breakfast speech to the Merrimack County Republican Committee in New Hampshire.
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End the Kate Middleton-Prince William Royal Wedding Insanity
Tweet Share on Facebook April 29, 2011 Comment (7)The big day is finally upon us. If you’re like me, you probably thought it would never come, that as a global society we would never actually reach this point. But after days--nay weeks--of torturous build-up, that golden moment is finally upon us: We can finally see an end to the absurd coverage of the royal wedding of “Wills and Kate.”
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Obama Birth Certificate Release a Win for Trump and for Obama 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook April 27, 2011 Comment (29)Turning to the pure politics of President Obama's releasing his birth certificate, two winners emerge: Obama and the unendingly ludicrous Donald Trump.
Politico’s Ben Smith gets it exactly right: Both men used the release of the birth certificate to make crucial pivots. Obama used the issue to reinforce his message that he is the adult in a city full of adolescents, children, and wack-jobs, or as the president called them this morning, “sideshows and carnival barkers.” He added: “We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We’ve got better stuff to do.”
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Obama's Birth Certificate Release Won't End Conspiracy Theories
Tweet Share on Facebook April 27, 2011 Comment (27)President Obama released his long-form birth certificate—excuse me, his long-form Certificate of Live Birth—today (scroll down to see it at bottom) and took the surreal step of standing at the White House podium to chastise the media over the whole non-issue. So does this mean that the nutty Obama conspiracy theories that have dogged Obama for more than two years are finally done and over? As the late, great, fictitious Sen. John Blutarsky once said, “What? Over? Did you say ‘over?’ Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!”
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The Inventor of the TelePrompTer Dies
Tweet Share on Facebook April 27, 2011 Comment (4)Political history lost one of its minor but critical role players last week. Hubert “Hub” Schlafly died on April 20 of undisclosed causes. Few will recognize the name, but his contribution to political communications is enduring. Schlafly, you see, invented the TelePrompTer.
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As Trump Hits New Hampshire, Poll Shows Overwhelming Opposition
Tweet Share on Facebook April 27, 2011 Comment (12)Donald Trump makes his maiden (if stealthy) voyage to New Hampshire today but he arrives amid yet more evidence suggesting that he’s the Democrats’ dream candidate for GOP nominee.
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Donald Trump's Stealth New Hampshire Visit
Tweet Share on Facebook April 26, 2011 Comment (12)Donald Trump is not someone who one ordinarily associates with the concept of keeping a low profile. There is very little about the maybe GOP presidential contender that says “understated.” After all he once sued an author for libel when the writer characterized The Donald as merely being a millionaire rather than a billionaire. And yet as his 2012 quasi-campaign enters its second phase with a trip to New Hampshire on Wednesday, The Donald is in stealth mode: He’s not actually announcing where he’ll be going in the Granite State.
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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour Skips 2012 GOP Presidential Race
Tweet Share on Facebook April 25, 2011 Comment (9)Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour announced today that he will not be running for president next year, citing insufficient “fire in the belly” for a run.
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On Debt Ceiling, GOP Causing Economic Uncertainty It Once Decried
Tweet Share on Facebook April 21, 2011 Comment (19)Do you remember economic uncertainty? The GOP spent most of the 2010 campaign season issuing dark warnings about the terrible consequences of economic uncertainty. Uncertainty was the great peril stalking the U.S. economy, and the Republicans would not stand for it.
That was then. Or more specifically, that was a talking point in service of making permanent the (deficit-exploding) Bush tax cuts. Months later, with the topic du jour being raising the national debt ceiling, GOP lawmakers seem not only comfortable with economic uncertainty generally, but are actually actively trying to foment the dread condition. And what do you know? Big business isn’t especially wild about it.
