Newt boots it, or why Newt Gingrich should never again run for public office. Gingrich is the political version of Glenn Beck, a better than average mind sabotaged by the chronic problem talking before thinking. Gingrich’s latest Beck moment,
Dumbo’s delusions, Barack Obama is, at best, a very ordinary man, with a very extraordinary ego, from Ralph R. Reiland, Pittsburgh Tribune:
That might be the problem at the White House.
U.S. Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ark., made public
Newsweak ponders if the presidency has grown too big for one mere mortal:
Can any single person fully meet the demands of the 21st-century presidency? Obama has looked to many models of leadership, including FDR and Abraham Lincoln, two transformative
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Dumbo miffed, by Carol E. Lee, Politico:
Asked by CBS’s Chip Reid about complaints heard from other leaders during the summit, Obama shot back: “What about compliments?”
He appeared thin-skinned about the characterizations of his time at the
John Boehner republican leader:
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), the presumptive Speaker-elect of the House, will not use a private jet as Speaker for trips back and forth to his home district, he said Wednesday.
“Over the last 20 years,
Dumbo underestimated political cost of Obama Care, from Daily Mail(UK):
Barack Obama today admitted his controversial plans to overhaul the healthcare system have proved more costlier in political terms than he anticipated.
In a TV interview, the President also
Keith Olbermann, Eric opined:
David has been rightly chiming in on the Keith Olbermann business. It’s kinda like observing a train wreck.
But I have to tell you that I look at this situation and have to wonder if
Et tu Keith, William Kristol, comes to laud the suspended Keith Olbermann, from Weekly Standard:
Perhaps Olbermann violated NBC News “policy and standards.” But NBC doesn’t have real news standards for MSNBC—otherwise the channel wouldn’t exist. It’s a
Thought for the Day I, from Michelle:
Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Democrats
I don’t necessarily agree with Michelle, but I understand her frustration Mrs. Pelosi locked the republicans out of the process and Obama demonized them.
It is the incompetence stupid , Eugene Robinson, Washington Post plays the race card and tries to argue that the Teat Party movement is somehow racists:
I have to wonder what it is about Obama that provokes and sustains all
A requiem for a bitch *, the demise of Mrs. Pelosi’s career in national politics, by Hugh Hewitt, Washington Examiner:
The epic loss on Tuesday will launch a thousand op-eds and who knows how many dissertations. But the explanation
Just how dumb is Dumbo? MoDo sours on Dumbo b/ka/a Barack Obama, Maureen Dowd, New York Times:
Barack Obama became president by brilliantly telling his own story. To stay president, he will need to show he can understand our
Candidate assaulted in Rochester NY, Rochester media stone cold silent, from Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:
Rochester, NY – Wednesday evening, Jill Rowland, the 28th congressional district candidate, was attending a question and answer round table discussion at the Radisson
Paving with elephant dung, Shelby Steele, Wall Street Journal:
How is it that Barack Obama could step into the presidency with an air of inevitability and then, in less than two years, find himself unwelcome at the campaign
