Chas' Compilation (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here is a link to a really neat inter-active graph that let's you compare approval ratings for various presidents since the 1940s: Presidential approval tracker The Gallup organization first started asking Americans how they approved of the job the president was doing in the 1940s. See how each president since then has fared in the approval poll, look at some news events that influenced public opinion...
Shiloh Musings (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The American media is lurching Left in response to Sarah Palin's statements about Israel in her Barabara Walters interview . Notice their matching blue outfits. Wouldn't they look perfect next to an Israeli flag? Palin said: “I disagree with the Obama administration on that,” Palin said. “I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer was as the Fox News Special Report Host Bret Baier noted "fired up." The Fox analyst tore into the President not so much for bowing to the Japanese Emperor but more rather for having declared himself America's "first Pacific President" by virtue of having been "presumedly" born in Hawaii and having grown up for a time in Indonesia....
Althouse (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Jokes Instapundit , linking to this : The bow is at 1:24. And at 1:32, you'll see that I need to create a Nixon is like George H.W. Bush tag.
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
For several years now, liberals as well as some would-be reformers on the right, have made a huge deal about the fact that a candidate holding Reagan's views today would be on the outs with many GOP voters. It seems it's all new the folks at First Read : *** Would Reagan Have Passed Today’s Conservative Litmus Test? Evan Thomas’ piece on Palin in the latest issue of Newsweek raises this...
ConWebBlog: The Weblog of ConWebWat (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Ellis Washington writes in his Nov. 14 WorldNetDaily column : The second policy America has launched against itself is the infamous "Gorelick Wall." What is the Gorelick Wall? It is a policy developed by Clinton appointee and former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, who after the first terrorist bombings of the World Trade Center of Feb. 26, 1993, was placed as the head of a blue-ribbon...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
On Friday, this NewsBuster noted how Pres. Obama, questioned at a news conference in Japan, twice refused to say whether he thought the United States' dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was "the right decision." Yesterday on Fox News Watch, Jim Pinkerton noted the NewsBusters nugget. The Fox News contributor and New America Foundation fellow observed that PBO's failure had...
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Newsweek's Jon Meecham freely admits that we've seen the Hoffman Effect before , 45 years ago when Barry Goldwater's reactionary conservatism broke the country in two. As Evan Thomas argues in this week's cover, the Reagan style was one that might not have passed muster with Palin's adoring fans. Reagan realized that movement conservatives like him needed moderate conservatives to win and ultimately...
Just Politics (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Please visit a friend of Just Politics..? over at The Patriot Room. A very interesting story about how U.S. representative at the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall “forgot” to mention Ronald Reagan. An excerpt: “It’s bad enough that President Obama could not be bothered to attend the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the [...] Related posts: Hillary Clinton...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
It's Friday the 13th, so, while everyone else is avoiding black cats, ladders, and the swine flu... President Obama, fresh off his long flight to Tokyo, will meet with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama today. The two will then hold a press conference and attend a closed dinner...here's to hoping there's no George H.W. Bush type incident . Tim Pawlenty will be in the marginally less exotic location of Naples,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will record an oral history of President George W. Bush's presidency. The center and the George W. Bush Foundation announced the project Thursday. About 100 interviews are planned, including key figures of the Bush White House and Cabinet, members of Congress, foreign leaders and outside political advisers. Bush says...
A Plain Blog About Politics (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
More on the deficit. You know, the theory that Congress is unable to tackle budget deficits makes some sense. But the reality is that deficits have basically been under control over the last, oh, half century or more with two exceptions: the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, in which the president strongly supported slashing tax revenues while dramatically increasing spending. So when...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
CBS News reports President Obama's trip to Asia will bring his total to 8 foreign trips and 20 countries since becoming president. "The only other president to come close to Mr. Obama's first-year-in-office globe-trotting numbers is President George H. W. Bush, who took 7 foreign trips to 14 countries." In addition, as Politico notes, Obama is stopping in Alaska on his way to Asia. It's...
Big Lizards (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
I generally take holy days -- sorry, holidays -- as an opportunity for posts of a more philosophical nature, and today is no exception. Walter Williams, one of my favorite authors (though I haven't read his recent books), has a column in which he notes the contempt that Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 100%) holds for the United States Constitution, insofar as it might limit her...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
BIG NEWS: The President Barack Obama was so bored yesterday that he just cold started nominatin’ folks. If you look somewhat far down the Official White House List of Nominations here, you will see the greatest news in history: Peggy Noonan, a columnist famous to children, is now President of Ronald Reagan. This is True. [...] Ronald Reagan - Barack Obama - Washington Post - George HW Bush -...
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