Asking the Tough Questions

So along comes Jake Tapper, speaking to Bobby “the mouthpiece” Gibbs at a White House Gaggle:

Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our

Is Bobby Gibbs the worst White House press secretary ever, or has Gibby been given some rather lame talking points?   Gibbhs does not appear to know the difference between a news show and an opinion show.  Well neither does Keith

When you’ve got the Helen Thomas, the NYT, and The Nation lining up against you, it’s time to admit defeat, boys. But alas, Axelrod and Emanuel can’t help themselves.

Mary Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard.

The thing I like about

The Obama administration has an OODA loop somwwhat larger than Lake Michiagan.   Wenn the Obama adminstration smear Rush Limbagh, did Limbaugh bet mad?   No,  Limbaugh got even.   Limbaugh has Al Sharpton theatening to sue for libel.

In contrast, the Obama

Hey Martin:

…and says to you, “One of my favorite political philosophers is Adolph Hitler.”

You gag back your outrage or you say “are you insane?” Or you just excuse yourself and keep moving.

O.K., suppose someone from the White

Some twit named Erika Bolstad, McClatchy Newspapers, wrote:

WASHINGTON — When Amanda Buchanan and her schoolteacher husband talked about having a second baby, it felt as though there were three people at the table, she told a Senate committee

From the Palm Treo, on the road:

Rep Rbt Wexler, (Florida’s answer to Cynthia McKinney) whose district includes Broward and Palm Beach Counties, will reportedly be resigning today. There’s a presser to happen at Boca later this morning, I’m unsure

Elizabeth L. Cheney, Debra Burlingame and William Kristol have launched a blog, Keep America Safe, here is their debut video:

Something tells me that Anita Dunn won’t like it.

Over in the UK, The Spectator notes;

Here is a little quiz. The Guardian has posted up a list here of everyone who has won the Nobel Peace Prize since its inception.

Q: Which three names are omitted from

I’m afraid I have to take a chunk out of the backside of Rick Moran:

The Baucus bill hasn’t a chance of surviving a conference committee between the House and Senate. But it might have if the GOP worked to

The Nobel committee has a least done one think,  John Bolton, from  Robert Costa, National Review:

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton tells NRO that President Obama should decline the Nobel Peace Prize. “The Nobel committee

Note the first two, Yassar Arafat and Jimmie Carter, won a Nobel Peace Prize for supposedly bringing peace to the Middle East.  Now Barack Obama, with the same intent, Middle East peace, has won the same prize,  from the Associated

It all well and good to use fancy words and soaring rhetoric.   It even better if you actually know what the words mean, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post:

“It was easy to say, ‘Hey, I support COIN,’ because nobody had

Most people will remember, I think… at least those not ‘educated’ at government schools… that Hiroshima was hit by a bomb at the end of world war two… and we’ve all seen some of the destruction wrought by that attack.

AFT, the cows,  to wit NOW, finally grow a pair:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The National Organization for Women has sharply criticized comedian David Letterman, accusing him of promoting a hostile, uncomfortable work environment.

“The latest Letterman controversy sheds