Nightly Ramble: The “Because I Can” Edition

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 This is the ‘Because I can’ edition.  Well, mostly, because, well, you know.  And also, because that seems Obama’s attitude about spending our

James Joyner points to an article at Next Right I noticed last night.

Patrick Ruffini decries the “Joe-the-Plumberization of the GOP.”

If you want to get a sense of how unserious and ungrounded most Americans think the Republican Party is,

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with

On the morning of February 17th,I was standing in line getting coffee at the little cafeteria at  my day gig. Behind me were two guys that had obviously been in heated discussion for some time. I don’t know either of

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This is the “Like a freight train” edition. Always wanted to do a train, just never got around to it. The 3/4 shots,

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This is the Towtruck edition. Seems to be the Naional car has quit, and is sitting at the sid eof the road.

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Obama’s press conference. What can be said? Nothing, and yet everything. It’s a target rich environment, as I said this monring, and

First off, you’ll pardon me if I don’t shed any tears over Tom Daschle. Hopefully, he’ll be staying gone for good this time, though I doubt that’ll happen.  He’s too deep in the councils of the Democrats to stay gone

Welcome, one and all to the very Snowbound edition of the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere: Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

Yeah, the usual Nightly Ramble sign is under all that snow, somewhere.  We got at least most of

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We’re expecting a real whizbang of a blizzard around here.. they figure a foot before we’re done. Parts of our area is already at

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

Another cold week in front of us, (The plains states are below Zero as of this morning’s check) but thing are already heating

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

Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post asks:

Does a Glass Ceiling Persist in Politics?
Kennedy’s Withdrawal Illustrates a Double Standard, Some Say

With her abrupt exit this week from consideration for the Senate, Caroline Kennedy added her name to a growing

Fox News, this monring:

New York Gov. David Paterson will name Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, an upstate Democrat, to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate, a Democratic official with knowledge of the governor’s decision told FOX News on Thursday night.

James at OTB:

Having initially been highly skeptical of Hillary Clinton’s appointment as Secretary of State, partly on the basis that she had neither diplomatic experience nor a diplomatic temperament, I feel obliged to pass on this observation from