Bookworm on May 16 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections, Republicans
One of the first things you learn as litigation defense counsel is that you will lose if you let the plaintiff control the case’s message. It’s easy to let this happen, because the plaintiff comes out of the gate like gangbusters, and the defendant finds himself, logically, in a defensive, purely reactive posture. [...]
Bookworm on May 09 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Republicans
My kids used to go to a wonderful little private school. It was a stretch to afford it, but I felt the benefits outweighed the burden. Then the tuition went up, and up, and up. So we left. The wonderful little private school is now precisely like all the other private [...]
Bookworm on May 09 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Jews, Republicans, Uncategorized
When I was growing up, my best friend had the most wonderful grandparents. They were an incredibly flamboyant Polish couple who escaped the Holocaust because the woman was so charming she was able to talk the Nazis into letting them leave (with the help of some diamonds as bribes). He was pretty charming [...]
Bookworm on May 03 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Economics
In keeping with my prior post, about the callous illogical shown in one of the Times’ most recent articles, I’d like to highlight Obama’s insistence on a “windfall profits tax” — another “bright” idea showing a rather typical Democratic refusal to recognize cause and effect, not to mention a willful refusal to acknowledge historic evidence:
You [...]
Bookworm on May 03 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Silly Stuff
DQ sent me this. He laughed, his wife laughed, and I laughed. I’m betting you’ll laugh too:
22 WAYS TO BE A GOOD DEMOCRAT
IT’S NOT SO HARD, EVEN A CAVEMAN CAN DO IT….
1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.
2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and [...]
Bookworm on Apr 30 2008 | Filed under: Communism, Democrats, Leftist morality
My father was a very angry man. At whichever job he had, he was pretty darn certain that management was out to get him. At stores, he knew he was being cheated. My mother always attributed this anger, not to the poverty and dislocation of his youth (placed in an orphanage at [...]
Bookworm on Apr 29 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton
The most un-rev Jeremiah Wright elaborated today on his various statements during an appearance at the National Press Club. What he had to say was most enlightening since, when he wasn’t prevaricating or deflecting a point with self-deprecating humor, he sounded pretty ugly. Here are a few things that caught my attention:
MODERATOR: [...]
Bookworm on Apr 28 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
Marin is about as liberal a community as one can possibly find. That means that the analyst for the local political newspaper is a liberal too. Right now, he’s a very depressed liberal, since he’s absolutely certain that the Democrats are imploding, leading to the inevitability of a McCain victory:
Arizona Sen. McCain will be victorious [...]
Bookworm on Apr 15 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Presidential elections, Republicans
Conservatives believe that it is dangerous to tumble into bed with someone instantly. They’re appalled by the raunchy hook-up culture amongst our young people, one that says it’s okay to have sex on the first date, as long as you try to line up reasonable precautions to limit some of the damaging fall-out (such [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats
Here’s Barack Obama, speaking to the plutocrats
“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them — like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they’ve gone through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and [...]
Bookworm on Apr 11 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Congress, Democrats
Michael Yon, who appropriately boasts that he is probably the most experienced reporter in Iraq, reminds us that Congress must stop obsessing about the past in Iraq and must approach Iraq as a winnable situation. He begins by detailing the enormous strides — both practical and “hearts and mind” stuff — that Americans have [...]
Bookworm on Apr 02 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Identity politics
At American Thinker, James Edmund Pennington definitively explodes the myth that Obama is a “post-racial” candidate. In other words, Geraldine Ferraro had it absolutely right when she said, without any of Pennington’s careful analysis, that Obama ascended as quickly as he did solely because of his race. And as Pennington points out, that [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Leftist morality
Writing at the American Thinker, J.R. Dunn has a scathing indictment of modern liberalism, starting with the 1968 Democratic convention. I think the whole article is worth reading, especially the bit about the Clinton-esque corruption of Governors Spitzer, McCreevy and Paterson, but I was especially taken with this run-down, which describes the liberalism in [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Democrats, Iraq
Here’s the story:
Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While traveling, they called [...]
Bookworm on Mar 19 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Climate change, Democrats, Immigration, Media matters
Today just hasn’t worked as a blogging day, what with one thing and another and another and another, ad infinitum (or do I mean ad nauseum?). I’m therefore going to take a page out Laer’s book, and just compile a whole bunch of posts into one big post. I’ll also keep updating this [...]
Bookworm on Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections
At Slate, John Dickerson has as good an analysis as any I’ve seen about the way in which the Democrats, riven by identity politics and personal animosity, are working hard to throw away their advantage in this election year.
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Bookworm on Mar 17 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Law
When I was a young lawyer and an avid Democrat, I was just thrilled that Bill Clinton and his wife were both lawyers. It seemed to vindicate my career decision. As I’ve become less enthralled with being a lawyer, and as the lawyer politicians have proven adept at parsing the truth (”it depends [...]
Bookworm on Mar 17 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Iraq
To be honest, I made that post title up, but the fact is that Iraqi attitudes are in line with McCain’s (and Republicans’) views about Iraq: They too think the situation in Iraq is improving, they want Americans to stay and see this thing through, and they think it is very important that America [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Democrats
With regard to Eliot Spitzer, a defense is springing up all over the MSM and the liberal blogosphere: it’s stupid to make prostitution criminal; therefore, Spitzer shouldn’t be in trouble for paying for prostitutes. In response to this defense, I would point out that whether it should be criminal is not the issue here. The [...]
Bookworm on Mar 10 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Media matters
I would be remiss if I did not point out to you that Democratic NY Governor Elliott Spitzer has some problems with prostitution — and it’s not that he disapproves of it:
Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according [...]
Don Quixote on Feb 16 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Republicans
DQ here. While Bookworm is on a well-deserved vacation, let’s see if we can get some good discussion going and, maybe, learn a little from each other. Let’s start with a topic I doubt BW would ever blog on — Roger Clemens. Several commentators have pointed out that most (though not all) of Clemens critics [...]
Bookworm on Feb 14 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections
Whether we forget or remember the past, sometimes we seem doomed to repeat it. Certainly with all the candidates, the analogies to historic times flow freely. The two big analogies, of course, are World War II and the Vietnam War, depending on whether voters view Islamists or fellow Americans as the enemy.
There are [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Democrats
Barbara Lee, a Democrat who represents Oakland in the House, gave her State of the District speech. It’s useful because the story that quotes from and summarizes her speech gives as perfect a précis as you’re ever likely to see of about 80% of the Democratic “to do” list, something to keep in mind come [...]
Bookworm on Feb 07 2008 | Filed under: Democrats
I’ve read often, especially from liberals, and especially when they’re in a down cycle in elections, that America ought to have a parliamentary style democracy, where the representatives appear in proportion to their votes, as opposed to the American “winner take all” system. The thing with the winner take all system, though, is that it [...]
Bookworm on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Identity politics, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani
I caught a minute of Mike Gallagher today, and he was talking about the fact that Republicans are more critical of Republican candidates than Democrats are critical of Democratic candidates. It occurred to me that, at least in this election cycle, that may be because there are real, substantive differences between the Republican candidates. [...]
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