- The Republican talking points police are going to kick Tom Coburn's (R-OK) ass:
On January 1st, 2009, the national debt was $10.6 trillion. It now stands at $12.1 trillion. That’s not President Obama’s fault, so don’t confuse this with a partisan attack. My attack is on the Senate, and on the Congress. [...]
In January 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.6%, today it’s 10%. That’s not President Obama’s fault either. That’s our fault, it the members’ of Congress fault.
- Don't bring a gun to a snowball fight.
- What a shock:
A self-styled Nevada codebreaker convinced the CIA he could decode secret terrorist targeting information sent through Al Jazeera broadcasts, prompting the Bush White House to raise the terror alert level to Orange (high) in December 2003, with Tom Ridge warning of "near-term attacks that could either rival or exceed what we experience on September 11," according to a new report in Playboy. [...]
The man who prompted the December 2003 Orange alert was Dennis Montgomery, who has since been embroiled in various lawsuits, including one for allegedly bouncing $1 million in checks during a Caesars Palace spree. His former lawyer calls him a "habitual liar engaged in fraud."
- Last week, were those bankers really fogged in, or did they just blow off their meeting with the President?
- Mike Huckabee goes biblical on Ben Nelson:
Huckabee says the vote on health care reform is a pivotal moment in American history, and he took Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson to task for deciding to support the measure.
Huckabee went so far as to compare Nelson to Judas in the biblical story of Jesus' betrayal. He said the last time a deal like the one Nelson negotiated with Democratic leaders was when "30 pieces of silver exchanged hands."
- Mary Matalin is her usual charming self, calling advocates for health care reform, "jihadists."
- How sad is it that the airlines needed to be forced into doing this:
The rule, which will take effect next spring, would force carriers to let passengers off planes in most circumstances after a three-hour ground delay.
Airlines have been fighting congressional efforts to craft similar legislation.
- Scumbags.
- Speaking of scumbags, or in this case, a scumbag singing the praises of a scumbag, Human Events calls Dick Cheney the "conservative of the year" and has John Bolton giving the acceptance speech:
Cheney knows that the personal attacks on him, as offensive as they are, in reality constitute stark evidence that Obama and his supporters are simply unable to match him in the substantive policy debate ... Outside-the-Beltway Americans see him for exactly what he is: a very experienced, very dedicated patriot, giving his fellow citizens his best analysis on how to keep them and their country safe.
- Happy Winter Solstice! - DS
