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Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Want My Support For The War? You’ll Have To Pay For It

No wonder Democrats who are against the war are so upset with the current Democratic leadership…after repeatedly vowing to end the war, then repeatedly vowing not to fund the war without a date certain for withdrawal, the Democrats in the House and Senate are poised to pass a war funding bill with no timetables for […]

5 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Did The President Cause The Subprime Meltdown?

If you are a person with a lick of economic sense, you realize immediately that the answer is an unequivocal no. Paul Krugman, however, has the least economic sense of any economist I’ve every had the dissatisfaction of reading:
“Americans’ Economic Pessimism Reaches Record High.” That’s the headline on a recent Gallup report, which shows a […]

51 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Is It Too Late For Bush?

That’s the subtext of this Peter Baker article in the Washington Post:
The war in Iraq seems to have taken a turn for the better and the opposition at home has failed in all efforts to impose its own strategy. North Korea is dismantling its nuclear program. The budget deficit is falling. A new attorney general […]

13 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Iraq by Mark

Friday, October 19th, 2007

My Friends On The Left Will Surely Disagree…

…but the last couple of months have been pretty good for George W. Bush: a seeming turnaround both on the ground and in public opinion on Iraq, a line in the sand on expanded entitlements (albeit with some PR scars from ‘not caring about children’ rhetoric), and relative ease in swiping away ill-considered Democratic initiatives […]

21 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Washington Post Editorial Board: Critics of Petraeus Were Wrong

I’ve had an undisguised admiration for the Washington Post editorial board for quite some time now. There is no doubt that the Post leans left, as does the NY Times, but unlike the Times, the Post is not so blinded by partisanship that it cannot see any good news that doesn’t fit its political agenda. […]

2 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The President Makes His Pitch

From tonight’s speech:
Gen. Petraeus believes we have now reached the point where we can maintain our security gains with fewer American forces. He has recommended that we not replace about 2,200 Marines scheduled to leave Anbar province later this month. In addition, he says it will soon be possible to bring home an Army combat […]

26 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

One Mystery Solved, Two More Posed

The ancient mystery revealed:
If a tree falls in the woods, and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Answer: of course, you nitwit. The production of sound waves by a falling object is a physical process independent of the physical process of the receipt of sounds waves by a listening […]

8 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

The Wrong Thing To Say

Time and time again the extremist elements on the left (and occasionally on the right, as well) overestimate their reach among the rank and file and go way, way too far. This time, it was MoveOn.org:
Republicans have seized on a liberal advocacy group’s print ad attacking Gen. David Petraeus and have called on Senate […]

17 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Showdown

The big day is tomorrow, as General Petraeus begins his testimony:
The top American commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, has recommended that decisions on the contentious issue of reducing the main body of the American troops in Iraq be put off for six months, American officials said Sunday.

General Petraeus, whose long-awaited testimony before Congress […]

2 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

“The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum” Department

I have commented before on the absolutely disgustingly large proportion of ‘progressives’ who are infantile enough to believe that 9/11 was an inside job. Being at “Ground Zero”, so to speak, here in Austin, I see it almost daily (I’m quite serious). I think many of my readers who maybe aren’t exposed to […]

7 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Radical Islam / GWOT, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Two Years On…

Well, of course you realize that two years ago today Hurricane Katrina hit. This particular disaster has resonated longer than most: besides the death and destruction, it had two unusual factors, both only evident in retrospect: it nearly destroyed a city and a presidency.
Now, I scoffed at the criticism of Bush in the aftermath of […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS by Mark

Monday, August 27th, 2007

So Gonzales Is Out…

…and good riddance, I might say. A flurry of second-term departures have come too late for my taste: Rumsfeld, Rove, and now Gonzales. In truth, Cheney should have joined them, and it should have been a coordinated changing of the guards prior to the 2006 election when it might have made a difference.
Why? […]

45 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, Donkeys by Mark

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

It Never Ceases To Amaze Me…

…that there are those on the left who think Christopher Hitchens is some sort of Bush Administration apologist simply because he supported the Iraq War (like most of the Democrats in Congress, and not a few Democratic presidential candidates, lest we forget). Let that supposition be forever laid to rest:
How do I dislike President […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, POTUS, Iraq by Mark

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

New Day, Same As The Old Day

It’s Tuesday, but it feels like Monday - it’s still hot, the stock market is still in a tailspin, and the #1 topic is still Karl Rove. You could spend a decade just reading the Rove articles that have appeared over the last 24 hours, but perhaps the one closest to my own thoughts […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS by Mark

Monday, August 13th, 2007

So, Anything Newsworthy Happen Today?

Oh, yeah, that:

Karl Rove, President Bush’s longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, marking a turning point for the Bush presidency.

Mr. Rove’s departure removes one of the White House’s most polarizing figures, and perhaps signals the effective end of the lame duck administration’s […]

31 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, Elephants by Mark

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Diplomacy Or Propaganda Tool?

We’ve debated in the comments section of this very blog the issue: is President Bush’s refusal to embrace the Iraq Study Group’s proposal to allow Iran and Syria a voice in the future of Iraq, for example, stubborn unilateralism, or a canny avoidance of giving the fox a season pass to the hen house?
Now Barack […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, John Edwards, POTUS, Foreign Affairs, 2008 News, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Bush Successful? Believe It…

George W. Bush, a successful president? So says William Kristol, and he’s right, in at least one area:
Let’s step back from the unnecessary mistakes and the self-inflicted wounds that have characterized the Bush administration. Let’s look at the broad forest rather than the often unlovely trees. What do we see? First, no second terrorist attack […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs by Mark

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

The Libby Commutation: The Best Possible Outcome

It’s official: Scooter Libby will not go to prison.
President Bush today commuted the prison sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, sparing him the 30-month term to which he was sentenced last month for lying to federal investigators about his role in the White House leak of a CIA […]

30 Comments » - Posted in PlameGate, POTUS by Mark

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

A Massive Diplomatic Victory - And A Huge Win For All Mankind

North Korea is notorious for reneging on agreements, but if this sticks, it’s one of the biggest triumphs of the Bush Administration:
Pyongyang and Washington have agreed on a three-week timeframe for shutting down the North’s plutonium-producing reactor, a top U.S. nuclear envoy said Saturday after returning from a rare visit to the reclusive state.
Christopher Hill […]

2 Comments » - Posted in North Korea, POTUS by Mark

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

America - The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Discontented

Ever since Katrina, President Bush has been a bottom-dweller, popularity-wise, and a Newsweek poll out today confirms he is outperforming of late:
In the new poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday nights, President Bush’s approval rating has reached a record low. Only 26 percent of Americans, just over one in four, approve of the job the 43rd […]