Senator Joe Biden is a gaffe machine. He’s the gift that keeps on giving. The man who would be vice president has made some whoppers that make Dan Quayle look like Charlton Heston.
For starters, just last week in the aftermath of the mortgage crisis, Senator Biden tried to score political points by reminding the voters “When [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Biden: the gift that keeps on giving”
September 30, 2008If you want bipartisan support, don’t get partisan
September 30, 2008I’m normally not one to complain about partisanship, as I thrive on it. However, our Congressional leaders seem to be lamenting the lack of bipartisanship in the failure of yesterday’s mortgage bailout legislation. While we, the people, can take credit for putting the brakes on this thing, illustrating that the rank-and-file masses often know better [...]
John Ford gets another 14 years added to his sentence
September 30, 2008I can’t help but remember John Ford as the smug, arrogant state senator who thought he was above the law. How far the mighty has fallen.
Judge sentences John Ford to another 14 years in prison : Local News : Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Obama’s shady friends
September 30, 2008Obama friend and fundraiser Tony Rezko appears to be cooperating with prosecutors in order to avoid jail time.
“Jail is horrible and Tony Rezko has just two options,” says Jay Stewart, executive director of the Better Government Association. “One option is to do nothing and get a full sentence. The other is to cooperate with prosecutors.”
Attorneys [...]
Mainstream press launches one last-ditch effort to rally for a recession
September 30, 2008The Democrats/media never got the recession they so dearly wanted during the Bush administration, but they still aren’t giving up. The AP is predicting today that the failure of the bailout bill is going to lead to a recession. Don’t believe a word of it. The economy will continue to grow as it always does. [...]
Baby steps
September 30, 2008I’m sure it just kills the AP to have to report that “Iraq has bought 12 new U.S.-built reconnaissance planes to monitor militants and the borders, the Defense Ministry said Monday, a small step in the countrys attempt to reassert itself in air space now controlled by U.S.-led forces.”
Progress continues to be made where Democrats [...]
Bailout II
September 30, 2008No sooner did the House of Representatives reject the bailout bill than they are plotting another one. Sheesh. These people just can’t take “no” for an answer.
“What would be wrong, I think, would be to act without some kind of clear indication from the House about how they’re going to proceed,” said Sen. Christopher Dodd, [...]
Mainstream media tries to hang the bailout bill’s failure around John McCain’s neck
September 30, 2008The AP is out with its typical get-Obama-elected tripe today trying to pass off the absurd notion that the failure of yesterday’s bailout hurts John McCain more than it does Barack Obama, even though it was Obama’s party, the Democrats, who could not get the job done. No amount of GOP bashing is going to [...]
Are you a Democrat, a Republican, or a Southerner?
September 30, 2008You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamic terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife, and charges at you.
You are carrying a 40 caliber Glock, and you are an expert shot. You have mere [...]
House vote appears to have failed
September 29, 2008I just called Congressman Cooper’s office to voice my displeasure with the bailout bill. I was told by a kind staffer that the vote was underway, and that the Dow was down 500 points in response. Drudge is now reporting that the House vote on the bailout bill has failed 206-227, plunging the stock market as [...]
I wonder if the mainstream press is trying to get Biden thrown off the ticket
September 29, 2008This is something you don’t see every day. The Associated Press, which is a Democrat organ and firmly in the tank for Obama, ran a piece Friday critical of Joe Biden for mischaracterizing John McCain’s health care plan. You normally don’t see articles critial of liberal Democrats, especially during a campaign season, especially when such [...]
This is why we call it the “American Barack Channel”
September 29, 2008Have you ever seen such a blatant example of media bias in your life? Could you imagine the mainstream press writing this glowingly about a conservative? Well, you’ll have to imagine it, because it will never happen.
ABC’s Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report: The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging [...]
Defiance
September 29, 2008It’s certainly heartwarming to see Christian people stand their ground against the federal government and the anti-evangelical left.
Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, an evangelical Christian minister told his congregation Sunday that voting for Sen. Barack Obama would be evidence of “severe moral schizophrenia.”
The Rev. Ron [...]
The debate is on
September 29, 2008The debate in the U.S. House of Representatives over the behemoth known as the $700 billion bailout bill (or whatever the price tag is now) is underway.
Michelle Malkin » Kill the bailout: The House floor debate is on.
No signs at Obama rally
September 29, 2008Barack Obama was at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia on Saturday, where it was reported that his campaign ordered that no signs be displayed at the event for “safety reasons.” Right. Fortunately, the McCain campaign welcomes signs at its rallies.
Michelle Malkin » More Obama gangland tactics: Signs banned at Virginia rally today.
Hoping there’s hope
September 28, 2008Despite all their caterwauling about budget deficits, the Democrat-led Congress appears prepared to embark upon a trillion dollar bailout of the financial industry. All we can do now is make telephone calls and hope this legislation can be derailed before it makes the President’s desk.
Michelle Malkin » All aboard the bailout bandwagon? Hell, no Link to [...]
Blood is thicker than water
September 28, 2008With the Milwaukee Brewers victory over the Chicago Cubs, the Brewers clinched the National League wild card on the last day of the regular season, owing to the hated New York Mets defeat at the hands of the Florida Marlins. This knocked the Mets completely out of the playoffs, and means my beloved Philadelphia Phillies will [...]
Titans win again
September 28, 2008For the first time in franchise history, the Tennessee Titans have started the season 4-0, with a 30-17 win over the Minnesota Vikings at LP Field earlier today. The Titans therefore remain atop the AFC South.
PLAYOFF BOUND…PHILLIES WIN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST!
September 27, 2008Following a cardiac ninth inning, the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Washington Nationals 4-3 this afternoon at Citizens Bank Park, giving the Phillies back-to-back National League Eastern Division titles for the first time in 30 years, before I was even a Phillies fan. (That didn’t happen until 1980.)
Last year, Phillies’ shortstop Jimmy Rollins proclaimed that the Phillies [...]
It was a great day for Republicans
September 27, 2008Congressional leaders had a meeting with President Bush at the White House Thursday afternoon to hammer out a bailout plan for the financial industry. That meeting more or less blew up, prompting Democrats and the media to blame the Republicans for the failure.
“Now that Sen. McCain is safely in Mississippi we can get back to [...]
