Dont’ hold your breath… ========== By PETER NICHOLAS President Barack Obama’s most recent nominations and appointments show that he is assembling a muscular senior team of trusted allies to carry out his second-term plans, without concern for Republican sensitivities, some GOP officials say. Republicans Bristle at Obama’s New Roster – Full article….
Now we are not even leading from behind. ======== “…France is increasingly upset by what it sees as limited Obama administration support for the war it is waging in Mali against al Qaeda militants, including an initial U.S. demand, since dropped, that Paris foot the bill for any Air Force transport flights, French officials said. After the French went public with their complaints... Read more
Peggy is right on the money again… no pun intended. “Congress pay its bills? Who ‘had’ to have all this spending in the first place?” Why doesn’t the objective press ask the question? ======== Presidential inaugurations are rare and notable events, coming only once every four years since April 30, 1789, when George Washington raised his right hand and took the oath on... Read more
Please, someone explain to me why President Obama is not a very negative person? =========== President Obama likes to talk about civility in politics, but then he has a particular personal talent for attributing to his political opponents only base motives and beliefs they don’t come close to holding. Consult his Monday press conference for a classic of the genre. Mr. Obama was... Read more
Don’t hold your breath… ============== By JAMES TARANTO President Obama’s faux-chivalrous defense of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice got some backup Friday, when “a dozen female members of the House,” all Democrats and “the majority of them African American like Rice,” held a Capitol Hill press conference. They asserted, in the words of an Associated Press report, that “Republican senators’ angry criticism . .... Read more
I’m disappointed, be sure. Thank God for the WSJ’s optimism. (last paragraph). ========== President Obama won one of the narrower re-elections in modern times Tuesday, eking out a second term with a fraction of his 7.3% margin of 2008, in a polarized country with the opposition GOP retaining and still dominating the House. Given that second Presidential terms are rarely better than... Read more
