Andrew C. McCarthy of nationalreview.com has written an excellent piece, titled “Incompetence Meets Mendacity in Obama\’s Ebola Response”. I assume you don\’t need me to tell you what it is about. Within it, Mr. McCarthy summarizes Mr. Obama\’s performance – particularly as it relates to his promise of “the most transparent administration in...
From Oliver Darcy\’s article at theblaze.com: PresidentBarack Obama held a meeting Friday afternoon with his nationalsecurity and public health teams aimed at coordinating the federalgovernment\’s response to Ebola – and someone was noticeablyabsent. Accordingto the list of participants released by the White House, thepresident\’s new “Ebola Czar”...
Branch Rickey, the great Brooklyn Dodger executive who was instrumental in Jackie Robinson breaking major league baseball\’s color line, had an expression about helping a team by getting rid of bad players (“bad” meaning poor attitude as well as poor play). He called it “addition by subtraction”. Well, here, in a political race with national implications...
Most people, I suspect, are unaware that Darren Wilson, the police officer who, on August 9th, fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has testified several times about the events of that day. For over two months, however, protesters – and looters – have reacted to the shooting in ways I assume you already know. Now, however, Wilson\’s specific testimony...
Can you believe that crazy Supreme Court? This morning, it ruled, 6-3, that Texas is ok with its requirement that voters present a photo ID – which is available, equally, to all Texas citizens who are legally able to vote (but not, of course, to people not legally able to vote). Omigod. Voters will actually have to show something that indicates they are who they say they...
Ken Berwitz (With apologies to the late, great Johnny Carson for stealing his favorite straight line): How bad is the Ron Klain appointment? Answer: So bad that even New York Times readers think it stinks. That may not be a funny punch line. But it is a dead-on true one. Let me show you. Just click here*** and you will link to the Times article about President...
Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) is in a very tough re-election fight against Republican Thom Tillis. The two are in a virtual tie. Do you think that the voters would be interested to learn that: -after Hagan voted for President Obama\’s so-called “stimulus package”, -a business her husband owned, JDC Manufacturing, got a grant of $390,000 in stimulus money to...
President Obama has finally acted on ebola. He has named a new “Ebola Czar” The ebola czar is…..Ron Klain. Here is how he is described by the New York Times: PresidentObama will appoint Ron Klain, a former chief of staff for VicePresidents Al Gore and Joseph R. Biden Jr., to manage thegovernment\’s response to the deadly virus as anxiety grows over...
Yesterday I skewered Florida\’s Republican Governor Rick Scott, for making a big deal out of the fact that his opponent, Republican/then Independent/now Democrat Charlie Crist had a fan at his podium. I suggested that Scott should never have made a big deal out of it, and that his silly, petulant reaction to this next-to-nothing breach of the rules would hurt him among...
Democrats, as a party, are scared excrementless (that\’s the long-form way of saying it) over the ebola crisis. They are scared because it is a deadly virus that might quickly spread in the USA, and they are scared because voters might start blaming someone for it (not necessarily in that order). Obviously, if the blame falls on someone, Democrats would like it to fall on their...
Want a lesson in how to jeopardize an election by being (tehnically) right? Well, Florida\’s Republican Governor, Rick Scott, provided a great one last night, at the start of his debate with Republican-turned Independent-turned Democrat Charlie Crist. One of the ground rules agreed upon by both sides, was that there would be no electronic devices available at each...
Today\’s quote comes from the Pentagon\’s Rear Admiral John Kirby. He said it last week, but it is as true now as it was then: “Wedon\’t have a willing, capable, effective partner on the ground insideSyria right now. It\’s just a fact.” In other words, the Obama “fauxalition”, which is meaningless without ground troops, has no...
The New York Daily News – a newspaper which endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 (not in 2012) has a editorial today – buttressed by a remarkably blunt front page – that should be required reading for anyone who thinks the Obama administration is handling the ebola crisis in any way capably. Here are excerpts from the editorial (which you can read by clicking here – and I hope...
Boy, you can\’t put a thing past the Director of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), thomas freiden. Here is what freiden said, at his news conference yesterday, regarding the now-confirmed fact that Amber Vinson, the registered nurse who administered to ebola fatality Thomas E. Duncan, was given an ok by the CDC to fly from Texas to Ohio last week...
Remember when Democrats were licking their lips over the possibility, even likelihood, that Alison Lundergran Grimes would overhaul Mitch McConnell and chalk up a senate win for them in Kentucky? Unfortunately for them, Ms. Grimes turned out not to be as strong a candidate as they thought she was. But her chances were good enough that the DSCC still continued pumping...
