The candidate was outraged – just outraged – at the country’s sorry fiscal state.

“We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet,” he fumed to a roomful of voters. “In my view, we have nothing

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Eric Florack on September 1st, 2010

Billy Beck as usual nails it:

“It is time to pop the tea baggers’ favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the

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Eric Florack on August 31st, 2010

Michelle Malkin, in reax to “The Speech”

Barack Obama, 2002:

What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard

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Eric Florack on August 29th, 2010

Something on the order of a million people show up to a rally on the national mall , a large number of which are the minorities which the Democrats try so desperately, and so falsely to claim they represent.

As

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Eric Florack on July 3rd, 2010

I’ve been watching the nonsense over GOP Chair Steele’s comments on Afghanistan, with a somewhat jaundiced eye.

Look, the DNC may like to claim that Steele is “betting against our troops and rooting for failure in Afghanistan”, but  what’s

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Eric Florack on June 29th, 2010

Good evening Mr. And Mrs. America and to all the ships at sea, and welcome to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the web; The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

  • THE ULTIMATE INSULT? Apparently those who don’t like the tea party

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The news events of the last few months have certainly put the Obama Administration in a peculiar position.  The Gulf crisis notwithstanding, most of these events have been created by this president and his staff.

Team Obama went the the

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2010

Yes, I know, it’s been some time since I’ve cracked an editor open on this site.  It’s shameful, but you guys know the situation.  And anyway, and David is been doing a bang up job of keeping this site active

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davidl on June 20th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Obama’s vision problem, Victor Davis Hanson, RCP:

Not being George W. Bush while apologizing for America’s purported sins is not a foreign policy

[…]

But what exactly does Barack Obama wish to accomplish abroad?

In interviews and speeches,

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davidl on June 1st, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
As to that peace flotilla, William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

The left-wing blogosphere is full of useful idiots, who pretend that the flotilla which just was stopped by Israel was a humanitarian mission.

[…]

If getting humanitarian supplies

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davidl on May 21st, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble Sarah’s Clan of the Momma Grizzlies, by  Meghan Daum, Los Angeles Times:

After struggling with its definition and connotations, Sarah Palin has apparently made peace with the “F-word.” She freely used it in a May 14 speech for the

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davidl on May 4th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

Obama dithered while the Gulf burned, a time line from Doug Ross:

Perhaps if the oil breached the Louisiana levees, then caught on fire, and then turned New Orleans into a Dresden-like inferno, the President would stop campaigning

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Eric Florack on May 3rd, 2010

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read on the web…. The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2010

Welcome back my friends, to the show that was on pause too long… the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble


  • YEAH, I KNOW…. I let these Nightly Forays into political  and social commentary slide for a few nights. I’m still getting used to

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2010

Hello and welcome to yet another edition of the most intense nightly read anywhere on the World Wide Web; the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

  • THE CLIMATEGATE WHITEWASH CONTINUES: Myron Ebell explains. Today’s must read.
  • FOX CAVES? It certainly appears so.  Any

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