The Ramble for 8.24.11

Latham, NY– I’m outside Albany, getting a load for Watertown, NY.

This week has been a series of hops that saw me running to within about 10 miles of the DC monument district. A little over an hour after I

In order for Americans to get their jobs back, Barack Obama must lose his, from Shannon Travis:

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) – Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is getting more creative, and apparently more aggressive, in her

Troy, PA— I’m just outside Scranton, PA. As usual getting a load. From the sound of things they’re almost done so this will need to be quick.

• WHITE HOUSE TRAVEL: So, Michelle Obama’s trip to Africa only cost taxpayers

Obama the Sensitive, what a winning combination for a President, a thick skull and thin skin, from Michelle:

And now, the Boston Herald has been spanked by the White House for…running a front-page op-ed by Mitt Romney:

SYRACUSE, NY– As this is written I’m being unloaded in Syracuse.  A grey morning, here with a bit of rain.  I may end up going home after this, but I’m hoping not, since it means a shorter check. It’s Friday

Obama Can’t, Victor Davis Hanson on the problem with the Obami, from RCP:

[A] president who believes that modern cars get eight miles per gallon or need frequent tune-ups, and that proper tire inflation can substitute for drilling

Reich come up short,  from Robert Reich, Puffington Post:

I hope the president decides he has to take a stand, and the sooner the better. Last December he caved in to Republican demands that the Bush tax cut

Micheal Steele right on Afghanistan, from Dan Riehl, Riehl World View:

It seems to me, Steele and his defenders on that issue understood the implications of Obama’s changes in Afghanistan, while many of the self-professed intelligent folks in

Dumbo Whines, Rich Lowery National Review:

Pres. Barack Obama has belatedly joined the ranks of presidential fatalists. The job isn’t too complex necessarily; it’s too damn influential. According to the New York Times, Obama has been telling aides

Scott Walker for President, from George Will, Journal Sentinel:

[Wisconsin Governor Scott] Walker’s calm comportment in this crisis is reminiscent of President Ronald Reagan’s during his 1981 stand against the illegal strike by air traffic controllers, and Margaret

Dumbo’s green economics, from Debra Saunders,RCP:

The problem is that Obama thinks that green jobs are the answer to the anemic economy recovery. And he clings to that belief in the face of contrary evidence.

I would

The coming battle, from Melissa Maynard, Stateline:

Public sector unions have escaped a comparable decline in their ranks, with 36.2 percent of state and local employees still in unions. But an increasingly loud chorus of governors and state

Dumbo Care is pile of poop, from the Cat Food Commission, via John Merline, AOL News:

2) Health reform’s cost savings apparently were bogus. Remember how Democrats boasted that health reform would cut the budget deficit by $170

The the big news story for the last couple of weeks has been the IPO of General Motors .  They managed to raise something on the order of $20 billion last week selling literally millions of shares owned by the

I notice that the most recent gamble of our tax money involves the Chevy Volt…

Keep in mind, this is the president who told us that the GM and Chrysler bailouts were an unvarnished success. What a lot of people