Weekly Open Thread – Obama’s Land of Oz Edition; Bumped

Apparently, Pres. Obama’s bus has detoured for a town hall in the Land of Oz:

“I don’t think we’re in danger of another recession, but we are in danger of not having a recovery that’s fast enough to deal with a genuine unemployment crisis for a whole lot of folks out there,” Mr. Obama told CBS News Senior Business Correspondent Anthony Mason. “And that’s why we need to be doing more.”

Weekly Open Thread – Obama: Never a Leader, Always a Candidate Edition

Has Obama ever given a bravura performance at a press conference? No wonder he goes three months or so without doing them.

Today he mentioned a tax break for corporate jets six times. He didn’t mention that he signed legislation preserving the tax code provision into law, or that the grand total of the savings of ending that tax break would be about $3 billion over ten years.

Weekly Open Thread – Ain’t Sarah Dumb Edition (Bumped)

“The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.” –Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010

“It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.” — Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009

Weekly Open Thread – Who Goes First Edition

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is reportedly “dug in,” refusing to resign despite the growing list of Democrats calling for his ouster. Perhaps Democratic leadership (the minority leader included) should have the nerve to kick him off his committees and publicly call for him to scram.

Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich’s senior staff and his Iowa crew have quit. En masse. Whether it was the general flakiness, the attack on Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) or the bizarre decision to go on a cruise just when the campaign was getting underway, his staff simply couldn’t take it.

Weekly Open Thread – Liberal Insanity Edition

Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler magazine who allegedly raped one of his daughters and allegedly asked another one of them to marry him, was recently in the news lashing out at Sarah Palin.

What’s his beef with Palin? He’s uptight over the fact that she didn’t abort baby Trig and even more bothered by the fact that now that she has a son with Down Syndrome, she dares treat him like she would any other child in her family.