davidl on January 26th, 2009

PopcornPass the popcorn. The all ‘rate cage fight is on. Say what you will about Barack Obama, but nobody ever called him the sharpest knife in the drawer.   Yet as dull as BO may be, even BO can figure out

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davidl on January 25th, 2009

As I am given  to understand it, when one declares that he has fixed a horse race, it’s taken for granted that the jockey has been paid-off.

Did Barack Obama garner the Kennedy family endorsement by making an illegal promise

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davidl on January 25th, 2009

Barack Obama(BO) picks a fight he can not win, Byron York, National Review, quotes Rush Limbaugh:

Obama was angry that Merrill Lynch used $1.2 million of TARP money to remodel an executive suite. Excuse me, but didn’t Merrill have

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davidl on January 24th, 2009

It has been said that great minds think alike. Well do great bloggers blog alike?

On November 5 last, I posted “Jimmy Carter Wins Re-election

Yesterday, Anchoress wrote:

While out and about, driving and listening to the news,

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2009

ramble-truckingWelcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere..Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

No matter what, we keep on truckin’.

Gonna get cold up where again this weekend, though it’s nearly 40 at the moment, ,

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Caroline Kennedy speaks at the Barack Obama rally at UCLAFred Dicker at :The New York Post:

Caroline Kennedy last night withdrew from consideration to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton – just two months after she rocked the New York political landscape by throwing her hat in the

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Nancy PelosiFrom Brian Faler, Bloomberg

A Congressional Budget Office analysis of President Barack Obama’s plan found that most of the approximately $355 billion in proposed discretionary spending on highways, renewable energy and other initiatives wouldn’t be spent before 2011. The

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davidl on January 21st, 2009

Barack Obama (rapper)Barack Obama had over two months to plan and then execute his inauguration.  BO’s team utterly failed. Peter Scoblic, Plank:.

I cannot even imagine the logistical skill and dedication required to pull off an event of today’s magnitude. And,

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davidl on January 21st, 2009

Barack Obama may or may not be a pragmatist.   If BO is pragmatic it is only in the political sense, how to keep his seat of power.   Dubya liked to bill himself as “The Decider.”   BO is more like the

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Eric Florack on January 19th, 2009

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Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

Lots going on, today, despite it being a holiday. Let’s get to it.

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davidl on January 18th, 2009

CorruptBarack Obama has an approval rating of eighty-three percent, and the undisputed media darling.   Mrs. Pelosi has an approval rating of twenty percent.   That will not stop Mrs. Pelosi from enacting her agenda, not BO’s, Arthur Bruzzone, San Francisco Examiner

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Eric Florack on January 13th, 2009

WASHINGTON -(AP)- (Timothy Geithner)… President-elect Barack Obama‘s choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the nation’s economic rescue disclosed publicly Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication that

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davidl on January 12th, 2009

Jim GeraghtyCNN discovers Geraghty’s Law, National Review, 4 August last:

All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.

Jim Acosta et al, CNN:

During the campaign, Obama also told voters, “I don’t believe in running

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Eric Florack on January 12th, 2009

I’ve been telling you all along that Obama will govern from the extreme left. Another example comes from the Washington Post, this morning:

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed

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Eric Florack on January 9th, 2009

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Disgusted, would be the word of the day. Grab your ankles, America, here it comes.

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