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Tweet You all remember from the Bush-era how we were told repeatedly that Dick Cheney was George Bush’s brain.  That notion arose when the Left couldn’t square Bush’s effectiveness as an executive (never mind his years of executive experience) with their certainty that he was, in fact, an idiot.  They were so relieved when they [...]

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Tweet I’ve said it before:  Clinton was sleazy, but that was behind closed doors.  When he had his presidential hat on, he acted like a president.  In this way, he was precisely like LBJ, who was famously vulgar when the public wasn’t watching, but who understood the symbolism of his office. The Obama White House, [...]

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Tweet As a native San Franciscan, I’m embarrassed that I didn’t spot the resemblance sooner.  Still, better late than never, and it’s a timely reminder before the upcoming debate. Here’s Joe “the Hyena” Biden, laughing his head off during discussions about nuclear war, crippling national debt, and other light topics: And here’s Laughing Sal, the [...]

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Tweet With the election drawing near, the pace of political posting on Facebook is rapidly picking up.  I found two interest things just the other day. The first thing a friend put up is “The Worst Lies Paul Ryan Told.”  What quickly becomes apparent is that, well, Paul Ryan didn’t really tell lies.  His facts [...]

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Tweet The Vice President’s primary responsibility is to be in place should something happen to the president.  This is not a far-fetched scenario.  Over America’s long presidential history, several Vice Presidents have ascended to the presidency.  Since WWII, we’ve had three presidents come in that way:  Truman, LBJ, and Ford.  The Veep is an understudy [...]

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Tweet Nobody ever accused Joe Biden of being coherent.  Peter Heck, however, realized more quickly than I did that Biden was being exceptionally incoherent — or hypocritical or held tightly in the grip of cognitive dissonance — when he was asked to explain the relationship between his faith and his politics.  I’ll give you Heck’s [...]

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Tweet Having witnessed Joe’s debate performance, do you feel a little more nervous than usual knowing that, until at least January 2013, he’s just a heartbeat away from the presidency?

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Tweet Do you remember Jennifer Granholm at the DNC, when she was yelling and gesticulating wildly?  She was a 33 rpm record playing at 78. Watching the Vice Presidential debate tonight, it was obvious that Joe Biden had broken into her medicine cabinet and taken twice the dosage.  Either that, or he was auditioning for [...]

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Tweet To begin with, DL Sly is right that, if I don’t make each and every one of you aware of Iowahawk’s latest post of genius, I am doing you a profound disservice.  I won’t even make an effort to summarize what Iowahawk has done.  Suffice to say that your life will forever have a [...]

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Tweet Wrapping up a project that’s already taken me too long, so I’ve promised myself no blogging until it’s done.  Meanwhile, here are some quick links: Explaining the Obama fundraising scandal. Cities can’t support themselves?  Never mind.  Force suburban homeowners to pay for them.  It’s all good with the Obama administration. This is funny even [...]

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Tweet …because if Biden was speaking in Biblical terms (a) I’m plugging my ears and singing “la-la-la, too much information!”; and (b) I’m wondering which presidents:

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Tweet There used to be an old joke that the Jewish vote pivoted on each Jew asking himself this question “Is it good for the Jews?”  Not a very nice stereotype, but probably a true one — and true for any group in America, whether white, WASP, Jewish, Catholic, Asian, Baptist, Hindu, etc.  What’s sad, [...]

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Tweet I’m with American Crossroads, which believes that Joe Biden is just what the Democrat ticket needs: Gravitas! (Giggle, giggle.) I’m suspect, though, that the Democrats themselves are becoming disenchanted with Good Old Joe. Apparently they cast around for the Hillary alternative, only to get a resounding “No!” from a woman who neither wanted to [...]

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Tweet Joe Biden sent me an email the other day, one that was remarkable for the complete absence of substance, and the overwhelming presence of 1930s, Daddy Warbuck-ish invective: Starting now, we can expect even more wealthy, right-wing ideologues lining up to support the Romney-Ryan ticket. The people on the other side who are trying [...]

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Tweet My internet has been down for most of the day (defective router), but I’ve been able to check in with the internet often enough to know that there’s a general sense of delight across the conservative blogosphere now that Romney has announced that he’s chosen Paul Ryan as his running mate.  Terresa, at Noisy [...]

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Tweet Yesterday, White House officials were telling Jake Tapper that Obama would support Israel.  Any minute moments of hope I cherished that the administration actually meant what it said were swiftly dashed.  This is Obama’s version of support: The Obama administration considers Israel’s blockade of Gaza to be untenable and plans to press for another [...]

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Tweet I observed to my friend Joseph Libson that I’m of two minds about what appears to be an Obama implosion.  On the one hand, since I think he’s a dangerously bad president, I want him exposed as quickly and fully as possible, so that he is president for as short a time as possible.  [...]

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Tweet I don’t often do this, as you know, but I’m going to quote Jennifer Rubin’s post in its entirety here.  I think it’s important that people understand precisely what is going on in Washington and how it’s affecting men and women in Afghanistan.  Rubin, unsurprisingly, does as good a job as anyone summing up [...]

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Tweet Last week, I recommended that you read Carl Cannon’s Sarah “Barracuda” Palin and the Piranhas of the Press.  Cannon, who holds no brief for Palin, nevertheless thinks that the press’s behavior once she was on the national scene demonstrates that the American media is in freefall. Cannon begins by pointing out that, after offering [...]

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Tweet In medieval times, the king’s fool was often the only one who could speak the truth, but that in the guise of a joke.  Joe Biden is a little bit different.  Obama didn’t mean him to be the truth-speaking fool but, apparently, the guy can’t help himself.  AJ Strata caught him on TV today [...]

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Tweet Argghhh! is running a caption contest for a photo showing Joe Biden speaking to a group enrolled in the Navy SEALS program.  When you see the picture, you’ll understand why so many of the proposed captions involve the size of a gun or some other, more personal weapon.  I’m no good at manufacturing quips, [...]

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Tweet Yesterday, Mr. Bookworm and I found ourselves in a car heading south.  As we passed the Marriott at which Sarah Palin spoke (a speech I got to hear in person), this dialog ensued: Me:  That’s where Sarah Palin spoke. Mr. Bookworm:  Really?  Are you still going to tell me that she wouldn’t have been [...]

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Tweet The MSM has been remarkably cavalier about Joe Biden’s bizarre statement regarding the “fact” that America will be attacked six months into a Barack Obama presidency and that people will be shocked and disappointed by Obama’s response (meaning that he’ll either collapse in a sobbing heap, thereby horrifying most Americans, or launch a nuclear [...]

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Tweet Big Lizard, rather than just looking at the obvious message in Biden’s “faux pas” about Obama’s international crisis chops (or lack thereof), took the time to go into the Way Back machine and find out just which particular crisis Biden meant — and it ain’t good folks.

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Tweet The media is working hard to prevent the American people from hearing what comes from the conservatives, whether by ignoring it altogether, or by using selective cut and paste, or by engaging in intentional humiliation tactics (with their opposite number being saved for Obama).  Sometimes, though, verbal judo works — which is to say, [...]

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