Defense Contractors Go All-In For Incumbents
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 28th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Defense Contractors Go All-In For Incumbents
Obama’s Wars: Revolt of the Generals
Jed Babbin, The American Spectator
How has President Obama mismanaged the Afghanistan war? Bob Woodward's new book counts the ways. There's a president retreating after a “generals' revolt,” domestic politics overriding any concern with the war's outcome and — according to the leaked portions of the book due out today — much more. But the White House is praising Obama's Wars, not condemning it.If you are confused, dear reader, take comfort in the fact that you are no more so than our president.
What’s Eating David Axelrod?
Noam Scheiber, The New Republic
Among the many distinctions David Axelrod has achieved in his career, there is one that requires special elaboration: He is, it turns out, one of the few customers to have ever run a tab at Manny’s, the Chicago cafeteria and deli. This is not because the odd knish ($4.25) or side of potato chips ($0.75) threatened to leave him cash-poor. It is, rather, because Axelrod has long styled himself someone who accumulates wisdom at places regular people frequent, not the lacquered haunts of downtown Washington. What the Oval Room is to Beltway consultant-dom, Manny’s is to…
Weariness With Obama Spreads Far & Wide
Hugh Hewitt, DC Examiner
President Obama has spent most of his professional life delivering speeches to crowds who were willing to accept without question the premises from which his rhetoric proceeded.Whether he believed this left-wing foolishness we cannot know, but the base that propelled his career forward certainly did.When, as he detailed in the description of his time as a community organizer in “Dreams From My Father,” he spoke to gatherings of urban poor in Chicago, he could tell them that if only the power elite cared, their lives would get better.
Tax Cuts Aren’t Key to Creating Jobs
Donna Brazile, CNN
Washington (CNN) — Neil, one of my neighbors on Capitol Hill, recalled this story to me the other day after watching President Obama's town hall meeting: "She was recently widowed, about 93, having lost her husband of over 60 years. When I came upon her in a darkened church hallway, standing alone, staring at the floor, I wanted to know what was wrong.