Posts Tagged ‘feingold’

Throwing Petraeus under the Moveon bus

June 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is precious. I displayed my prophecy skills adeptly a couple of days ago in predicting General McChrystal’s departure.  OK, the whole country did too.  What I don’t think too many people did was predict the replacement.  Here’s a discussion Obama had with Petraeus in 2007:   He opposed everything Pestraeus was wanting to do.  [...]

Feingold on Sotomayor

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

I just listened to Russ Feingold’s ten mintues of fame during the Sonia Sotomayor hearings.  He’s nuts. “That is why I suggest to everyone watching today that they be a little wary of a phrase they may hear at these hearings – ‘judicial activism.’  That term really has lost all usefulness, particularly since so many [...]

Obama lurches away from his core

July 10th, 2008 | No Comments

Barack Obama’s having a rough week. First, he did the very odd thing of stating very publicly he liked President Bush’s Faith Based Initiative so much he wanted to expand it.  That drew the ire of the Reverend Jesse Jackson: “See, Barack’s been talking down to black people on this faith-based—,” Jackson says during a [...]