August 4, 2009
August Homework
Republicans are feeling pretty good about where they are politically, especially compared with where they were at the beginning of the year. And things are starting to look up for the Grand Old Party, given the fumbles of the Obama...
August 3, 2009
Frustration with the Obama Administration
Frustration With the Obama Administration A friend of mind dropped me a line, expressing his frustration with the double-talk from the Obama Administration. This friend works in the business in town, and he asked me not to use his name...
August 3, 2009
Be Careful What You Wish For
In the department of “be careful what you wish for”, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz has an interesting column about the efforts of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to get the major networks to cover...
July 31, 2009
On Race and Beer
It makes a man want to have a drink. The President’s beer summit worked very well to distract the White House from the hard work of legislating, gave cable television a chance to cover something...
July 30, 2009
The Beer Summit
The Beer Summit It’s an Irish thing to work out differences over a beer. When Officer Crowley told the President, “Let’s talk about it over a beer,” he was inviting Mr. Obama and Mr. Gates into...
July 29, 2009
Ray’s Hell Burger
Ray’s Hell Burger and the President’s Agenda Earlier this year, President Obama traveled to a burger joint out in Northern Virginia, a place called Ray’s Hell Burger, to show that he was a man of the people who can eat...