The networks Monday night skipped lightly over the late Senator Robert Byrd’s segregationist and racist record, devoting as much time to the Democrat’s fiddle-playing prowess as his years in the Ku Klux Klan, which CBS’s Chip Reid excused as “an effort to help his political career.” (more…)
Archive for June, 2010
As Much on Byrd’s Fiddle Playing as Klan Days; ‘Like Constitution and Bible, Permanent Fixture of the Senate’
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Obama Owes Bush an Apology : The “Come Home America” president is in full nation-building mode now
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Had it not been for opposing war, President Obama might never have been catapulted to the White House. (more…)
The Unengaged President : Obama’s lack of interest in the world is evident in his handling of the oil spill and the Afghan War
Saturday, June 26th, 2010What do General McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic-party supporters. (more…)
Beyond the McChrystal Flap : He’s gone. But the administration’s policy is still a mess
Thursday, June 24th, 2010The flap about Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s “resignation” was nobody’s finest hour. But there are some painful lessons in all this that go beyond any of the individuals involved — the general, the president, or any of the officials at the Pentagon or the State Department. (more…)
Cynthia Tucker: Americans Are The Enemy Due To Oil ‘Addiction’
Monday, June 21st, 2010Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Cynthia Tucker believes Americans are the enemy of the nation moving in a new energy direction because of what she called our addiction to oil. (more…)
Gulf War Three
Monday, June 21st, 2010Thank goodness, the president has directed BP to order up some new tackle and connect it to the thingummy next to the whachamacallit. I believe it was Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.” (more…)
The Times Admires Obama’s War Footing Against the Oil Spill
Friday, June 18th, 2010The Times led Wednesday with a story on Obama’s 18-minute oil spill speech from the Oval Office, accompanied by Peter Baker’s more admiring “news analysis,” “On 56th Day, Call to Arms.” Baker admired the president’s military spirit: (more…)
Dems Shy From Town Hall Anger
Friday, June 18th, 2010If you were hoping for a repeat of those town hall meetings last summer where Democrats were confronted by angry voters who opposed President Obama’s health care bill, well, forget it. They’re cancelled. (more…)
Stephanopoulos Enchanted By Obama’s ‘Martial Language’ and ‘Feel of FDR’
Thursday, June 17th, 2010President Barack Obama’s Oval Office address about the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico certainly impressed George Stephanopoulos, though that’s not a difficult achievement for the favorably pre-disposed Democratic operative turned network political expert. (more…)
A Bad Deal Gets Worse : Obamacare is already damaging the individual insurance market
Thursday, June 17th, 2010Hostility to the individual health insurance market and its less pleasant features, including medical underwriting, permeated President Obama’s crusade for health care reform. Although Obama-care ultimately will outlaw underwriting based on health history, it will increase the number of people responsible for obtaining their own coverage. As costs continue to rise and new taxes go into effect leading up to 2014, the year the individual mandate kicks in, many individual health insurance consumers who previously were winners in the health care marketplace will find themselves on the losing side. (more…)
