Allies.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday denounced as “unjust and unwarranted” the treatment of a Pakistani doctor who was jailed for 33 years for helping in the hunt for Osama bin Laden… The chief US diplomat said Afridi’s role “was instrumental in taking down one of the world’s most wanted murderers. That was [...]

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"I have answered these questions!"

Via Breitbart, the key line: “I have made the facts clear.” But … she hasn’t. She hasn’t said anything to make the facts clear since the supposed genealogical evidence was debunked and the mystery of the duplicate recipes came to light. At last check she was sticking with the “high cheekbones” theory of racial authenticity, [...]

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Just kidding.

No no no, it’s not Batman. C’mon. It doesn’t mean a man is gay just because he feels alienated from society and spends lots of time with a male companion and, er, dresses flamboyantly in a way that shows off his buff physique. Wait — are we sure it’s not Batman? No, it’s not. Allegedly: [...]

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"Horse's ass right-wingers."

Via the Examiner, what’s the best part? The palpable bitterness in his tone or the fact that he’s taking his frustration out on the most mild-mannered creature in the media universe, a C-SPAN anchor? As you watch him solemnly lament the fact that a man might be mocked for Loving America Too Much, remember that [...]

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Worry.

It’s amazing what a few competitive polls can do to concentrate the mind. Democrats had taken comfort for months in the Republican Party’s seeming inability to get behind Mitt Romney, Obama’s healthy lead in the polls, and equally healthy job growth. And for a few, fleeting, moments, Democrats thought the election might just be easy. [...]

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AKA, Republicans are winning the tax debate

In a letter to House Speaker Boehner sent yesterday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called for the following: Without further delay, the Majority Leadership should schedule a vote on extension of the middle-income tax cuts, as early as next week, to increase certainty for millions of American taxpayers and for the economy.  We should [...]

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Small wonder.

In 2008, Barack Obama drew huge crowds everywhere he went, whether for rallies or for fundraisers.  In 2012 … not so much.  The Weekly Standard and the New York Times report that a Denver fundraiser yesterday afternoon ended up less than 80% of capacity: According to today’s White House pooler, the New York Times‘s Peter Baker, [...]

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Confirmed.

Gotta blog it. We were there when he rose to stardom at the 2008 convention by putting on a tie and looking uncomfortable. We were with him through the glory years, when he conquered Hollywood by appearing in a random music video and being shunned at parties. We stuck with him through the tough times, [...]

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Fact check.

It’s been going around Facebook and the Twitters. It’s been rated “mostly true” by Politifact. It is the MarketWatch piece on how Obama hasn’t really increased spending all that much. And I’m damn tired of picking it apart 140 characters at a time, so I put together this sarcastic infographic showing exactly how sloppy this [...]

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Endgame?

This is from We Ask America, the same pollster that recently had Walker by nine, which was already the biggest margin of any recent recall poll. Now they’re topped it. The little Eeyore on my shoulder is whispering “outlier” — and yet, they’re using likely voters and an enormous sample, which means their margin of [...]

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"By the end of the day, I felt ashamed."

Via Greg Hengler, a cleansing bit of feelgood bipartisan solidarity after yesterday’s sleaze. Has anyone on the left actually defended the “Hustler” stunt, incidentally? Hasselbeck says here that she can’t get NOW to pick up the phone (yet), but the only liberal willing to go to bat for Flynt that I’ve seen is this miserable [...]

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“Every indication now is that he’s going to win big.”

In an earlier post, I discussed how Democrats’ attacks on Mitt Romney have backfired on Barack Obama.  Politico reports that the same thing is happening in Wisconsin, where Big Labor tried flexing its muscle by pushing Governor Scott Walker into a recall for his reforms of public-employee union collective bargaining.  Unfortunately, their effort looks like [...]

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Lies.

Remember, the fine print in his big “evolution” announcement a few weeks ago was that he was merely stating his personal opinion on SSM, not ushering in a new federal policy. Leave it to the states, he said, to handle this issue. But that too was a charade and I noted it at the time. [...]

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Expediency.

Marco Rubio picks up the issue of immigration reform today on CNN, as a few media analysts note that Mitt Romney has remained rather quiet on the topic.  Rather than focus on Romney, though, Rubio argues that Democrats proved conclusively in 2009-10 that they don’t take the issue seriously at all.  During that period, Democrats [...]

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3 pm ET!

Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we have a pretty crowded house. Kerry Picket brings us up to date on the goings-on inside the nation’s capital, and Steven Crowder returns to discuss his latest video efforts. The Ed Morrissey Show and its dynamic chatroom can be seen on the permanent TEMS page [...]

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Terrific.

Maybe they bought the spin that she’s a “mythical Indian”? Nah, just kidding. There’s no mystery about these results. As noted last week, if they can forgive Teddy for leaving a woman to drown, they can forgive Spouting Bull anything. “In both the February and May polls, Brown has fallen short of the coveted 50 [...]

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Using the rules Congress sets for everyone else.

What would happen if Congress had to apply the regulations in Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, and other corporate accounting law to its own balance sheets?  Instead of talking about trillion-dollar deficits, USA Today reports from its analysis, we’d be talking about five times that amount: The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income [...]

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Incompetence.

In other words, “Hey, let’s keep talking about Bain Capital!”  Mitt Romney proudly rolled out Bain’s investment history, in which their businesses succeeded in boosting profit and viability in 80% of the cases — keeping in mind that private-equity firms and especially Bain tend to focus on already-troubled firms.  Only 5% of their bets resulted [...]

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A tale of two tales.

One presidential campaign uses the slogan “Forward.” It’s even in their campaign ads, which is a good thing, because otherwise one might be confused about which campaign looks forward at all.  Via Guy Benson, the Obama “Forward” campaign’s new ad continues the ball-spiking over last year’s Osama bin Laden raid: Like Guy, I have no [...]

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"A little bit less intriguing..."

No one really thought Barack Obama had a chance in Arizona, did they?  Not only does the state have a distinctly conservative electorate, it also has a rather strong Mormon presence on which Mitt Romney will draw for support.  Democratic pollster PPP throws a large dash of cold water on Democrat dreams of a surprise [...]

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Instead ...

Barack Obama’s campaign had planned all the way back to September to attack Mitt Romney for his wealth.  The “Buffett Rule” and constant references to income inequality were more than just a dogwhistle for Occupiers to launch their protests last fall.  It was a strategy to shape the battlefield for a political attack that Team [...]

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Revisions.

Consistency, thy name is … the weekly initial jobless claims from the Department of Labor.  Once again, the report shows a slight decline from last week’s figures.  Once again, that slight decline comes courtesy of an upward revision in last week’s numbers, the 62nd time in 63 weeks that the revisions have gone in the [...]

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Incumbent below 50% in Florida, Virginia, and Ohio.

NBC and Marist polls in three key states won by Barack Obama in 2008 show that the incumbent is far from making the sale in 2012.  Mitt Romney has gained significant ground in all three states, seen as must-wins by both campaigns, but still trails for the moment in Florida, Virginia, and Ohio: President Barack [...]

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Money matters from Mr. Responsible.

Allahpundit already started off the fun with Barack Obama’s newest White House website, Money As You Grow, which dispenses sage advice … most of which Obama himself ignores when handling our money.  AP took two of the better entries in the series in his post last night, but there are plenty more to ridicule within [...]

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Demons.

Are “job destroyers” sitting on President Obama’s jobs council? There could be, if you believe the argument from Democrats and the Obama campaign that private equity executives are profit seekers who often run roughshod over workers, companies and communities. Two Obama-appointed members of the White House Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, an advisory committee, are [...]

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