Snark of the Day: Noemie Emery

In short, the idea of Obama, the eloquent, elegant, trans-racial hero, able to inspire his way around anything, ran into reality and was dissolved by it, revealing a not-well-prepared neophyte politician with an embarrassing penchant for gaffes

Noemie Emery, DC

In endorsing Obama last year, the Washington Post described the next president as “a man of supple intelligence, with a nuanced grasp of complex issues and evident skill at conciliation and consensus-building.” This would be a good time to employ

Heh: Obama’s Bracket Goes Bust

Coach K was right. He should stick to his day job. Then again, he’s screwing that up as well.

Jammie Wearing Fool.

What’s more retarded? Making a Special Olympics crack or saying Geithner is doing a heck of a job?

Drew M. Ace of Spades

Barack Obama even needs a teleprompter to get mad.

Maureen Dowd, New York Times.   Tis a shame, I could not have snarked this all Irish squabble on Saint Patty’s Day.  Alas the luck of the Irish wasn’t with me.

Two weeks ago, the President’s spokesman said that they were confident that they knew how every dime was being spent at AIG. Well clearly, they didn’t know what they were talking about. I think this is outrageous and I think

Whatever one thinks of Limbaugh, he’s not the one trying to use rising unemployment, a plummeting stock market, the alleged impending collapse of the financial system and a host of other fears about the future to advance his policy agenda

And most polls show the president’s approval rating at about 60 percent, which is similar to other modern presidents’ ratings at this point in their presidencies. But now that Obama has used his political capital to further ideology rather than

Obama is not trying to solve the economic crisis. He is using the crisis to socialize America

John Ray, Stop the ACLU..

Ha ha. Yes, I have this picture of President Obama sitting in the White House, thinking I hate my job. He was all about running for President. What did he really know about being President?

Ann Althouse.

If you want to be in the business of economic recovery you need to do things to encourage that. If you want to be in the business of conducting a grand social experiment, you ignore the advice and pleas of

T’d rather be right than “nice” and “polite” — and so would any intelligent adult who values the truth.

Kathy Shaidle, Five Feet of Fury.

Yes my favorite north of the border, female blogger who is under five feet.

“We have real problems in this country right now and the American people are looking to us for answers, not distractions, not diversions, not manipulations.”

Barack Obama, via: James Taranto. Best of the Web.

But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor

This is not a fight between Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele. This is a fight between Michael Steele’s mouth and his foot. Matt Lewis has some more thoughts.

Erick Erickson, Red State.