Reax to Rush’s Fox News Interview

The Fox News Sunday interview with Rush Limbaugh.

Presidential advisor David Axelrod fires back, Polttico:

“It is a surreal day when you are getting lectures on humility by Rush Limbaugh,” Axelrod said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” “He

The main stream media has not turned on Barack Obama, but at the same time they are starting to put some distance between themselves and the claims of the Obama Whine House.  The Whine House has created a new moan,

Jeff Zeleny in te New York Stimes:

WASHINGTON — As President Obama returned to the White House on Thursday, after a visit to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to honor 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan, he said the

George Will, Washington Post,  October 5:

Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: “honest” Abe Lincoln, “Grover the Good” Cleveland, “energetic” Theodore Roosevelt, “idealistic” Woodrow Wilson, “Silent Cal” Coolidge, “confident” FDR, “likable” Ike Eisenhower. Less happily, there

When it comes to dealing with Wall Street, President Obama seems to have traded in his position as our economy’s commander-in-chief for a different role: pundit-in-chief. He and his top advisors are suddenly very big on urging, advocating, recommending, strongly

Barack Obama may believe that his incessant whining about all the challenges his predecessor left him lets America know how tough he has it. The danger to his presidency is that it can sound awfully like “I’m not up to

Even the late great William F. Buckley  on rare occasion resorted to profanity, and as for myself, my speaking skills fall short of those of Buckley.   However Alan Greyson seems utterly incapable of expressing disapproval without having to resort to

Over at Reason this morning,  Peter Suderman suggests something …(Link repaired….Editor) … that I”ve been slowly coming around to, myself. He looks at the on again / off again agreement between the White House and the Democrats in Congress,

Much like the proverbial dog chasing the car, now that Obama has caught the throne, he doesn’t know what to do with it.

William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection.

A little addendum to my comments about the “State of Emergency” declared by the President yesterday. Note, please the passage here,l in yet another AP story:

Administration officials said the declaration was a pre-emptive move designed to make decisions easier

Obama’s enemies are all Americans and he’s more willing to love-up to brutal dictators than he is to sit down with Republicans to discuss health care

Gerald Warner, via Gateway Pundit.

Our British cousins from across the pond are

From the AP:

WASHINGTON -AP–  President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.

The declaration, signed

Well, yeah, that’s what it looks like. Fox News  Senior White House reporter Major Garrett is reporting this monring in part:

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s husband is emerging as the top candidate to replace Greg Craig as White

The New York Stimes has confirmed that the White House held an off the record press gaggle for selected media lap dogs:

Speaking privately at the White House on Monday with a group of mostly liberal columnists and commentators, including

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, this morning:

Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed.

Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily.

The White House