Michael Scherer is at it again: Team Obama’s Petty Limbaugh Strategy President Obama won the presidency by promising to be a different, more substantive, less gimmicky leader. He said he would not waste our time on “phony outrage,” like fulminations on the meaning of “lipstick on a pig,” or silly characters like “Joe The Plumber,” …
The Obama recession deepens
From Bloomberg: Companies cut 697,000 jobs in the U.S. in February as the recession’s grip tightened, offering no sign the pace of the decline in payrolls is easing. The drop in the ADP Employer Services gauge, a survey based on payroll data, was larger than economists forecast and followed a revised cut of 614,000 for …
He’ll Steele away
Oh, how all events do conspire against him: A month after Michael Steele became the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee, key party leaders are worried that the GOP has made a costly mistake — one that will make it even harder for them to take back power from the dominant Democratic Party. …
Perpetual bitch-slap machine
Last week, while I was driving to work, I had a premonition that someone would make a weird comment about Bobby Jindal’s Indian heritage. I wasn’t quite sure what it would be — my first thought was that it would be a Politico piece comparing him to Sanjay Gupta — but I knew it was …
Deep thought
Democrats need to find their own Rush Limbaugh if they’re ever going to win any elections. I’m not in the habit of linking to committee websites, but this is genuinely funny.
The many manifestos of David Brooks
Reading David Brooks’ “A Moderate Manifesto”, I remembered another manifesto he wrote a few years ago, “Karl’s New Manifesto”, wherein he imagines being visited by the spirit of Karl Marx. He wrote: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Freeman and slave, lord and serf, capitalist and proletariat, in …
Postmodern, post-Clinton liberalism
Froomkin quotes Obama and nails what’s really gone on the last thirty years: “A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future. Regulations… were gutted for the sake of a quick profit at the expense of a healthy market. People bought homes they knew …