Granholm: Criticizing the Chevy Volt is "Un-American"

August 16, 2010

[tweetmeme] In response to a question about the Chevy Volt, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm says criticism of the car is “Un-American.” Oh, this is fun — mostly because the criticism quoted to Granholm wasn’t just advanced by Rush Limbaugh, but within the pages of the New York Times, where reviewer Edward Niedermeyer described the car […]

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Free Marketeers Strike Back

August 16, 2010

“Since the financial crisis began in September 2008, millions of Americans have lost their jobs, had their savings wiped out, or foreclosed on their homes. Any number of suspects have been blamed for the chaos, but according to an influential cadre of liberal economists, the real culprit is the free market.” But that’s a lie.

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Congress Prepares to Completely Ignore Deficit Commission

August 16, 2010

“I just don’t know how we’re going to get to it,” said former Sen. Warren Rudman (R., N.H.), co-chairman of the anti-deficit Concord Coalition. “I have the highest regard for the people on the [deficit] commission, and I know they will come up with a number of solutions. Whether they’ll be politically palatable, I have […]

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The President and the Mosque

August 14, 2010

[tweetmeme] President Obama’s position on the Ground Zero mosque, and how he expressed that opinion, is a sign that Obama still apparently operates (even after so many teachable moments to the contrary) under the impression that his opinion moves mountains. Jonathan Last makes this point better than I could: In any event, no matter what […]

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Obama Chooses Sides In Favor of the Ground Zero Mosque

August 14, 2010

Obama “could not be vaguer or less condemnatory if he was a paid flack for the Cordoba Institute… Indeed, he added this morning that he ‘was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom’ of the mosque. By contrast, Obama pulled out the rhetorical stops in defense of the legal right to unhallow […]

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The Tea Parties and the Professional Left

August 12, 2010

When the grassroots left’s frustration reaches a certain level, the White House and Congressional Democrats will know — not just because they see the protesters they will see in their districts, but because of the voters they won’t see on election day.

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America on Edge

August 12, 2010

Kuhn: “The nation feels ready to snap. Not as a people. But tens of millions are on edge… Long-term joblessness is at the highest level since the Great Depression. Nearly 15 million Americans are unemployed. About 11 million more adults have been relegated to part-time work or given up altogether. Half the nation has no […]

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The Obsolescence of Barack Obama

August 12, 2010

Ajami: “Obama’s fall from political grace has been as swift as his rise a handful of years ago. He had been hot political property in 2006 and, of course, in 2008. But now he will campaign for his party’s 2010 candidates from afar… Those mass rallies of Obama frenzy are surely of the past.”

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The Conspiracy Against Economic Growth

August 11, 2010

“The Republicans running for Congress this year must expose and denounce the conspiracy against economic success. Prosperity is possible, but not if our economy grows at 2.25% per year or less,” writes Louis Woodhill. “America does not need higher taxes, it needs more economic growth.”

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The Ground Zero Mosque and the Obama Administration

August 11, 2010

“The Obama Administration is more involved with the Cordoba Initiative behind the mosque than we had been led to believe, and its proponents are even more selective in their view of tolerance and dialogue,” writes McLaughlin: “This is not a strictly local issue in any sense. It is part of a crucial national debate.”

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