House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday shut the door on expanding oil and gas drilling beyond areas that have already been approved for energy exploration, drawing a clear distinction from her counterparts in charge of the Senate. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama has succeeded in separating the wheat from the chaff in the Democrat party.
We hear about these groups of disaffected Hillary voters who are resolved not to vote for Obama. A full 59% of Hillary voters in the West Virginia primary said that if Obama got the nomination, they would either vote for McCain or not vote at all. Obama and the DNC are desperately trying to unite the party, and though intra-party squabbles are usually ironed out by November, this year is without precedent. One cannot assume, as they say, that past experience is an accurate predictor of future performance.
Many Hillary Democrats seem to be taking a serious, principled stand in opposing Obama. It is not that they like McCain. They just think Obama would be very bad for America. After 8 years of George W. Bush, you would think party loyalty would prevail at all costs. But you would be wrong. Read the rest of this entry »
Barack Obama must be trying to dumb himself down a little so the bitter clingers can better understand his Harvard vocabulary. President Bush has had some good success with this technique and the press has constantly misunderestimated the political benefit of speaking this way to the little people.
Michelle Malkin has a few good examples of Obama’s plan in action.
He has trouble with numbers.
Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.
The McLaughlin Group did a good job of running through Anthony “Tony” Rezko’s shady past. The group doesn’t think it will effect Obama much, but have no doubt, if he is the nominee the Republicans will make sure this story is known far and wide.
One of the charges against Rezko is that he donated kickback money from state contracts to a campaign of a Illinois candidate. Wanna take a guess who that candidate was?
