This woman was paid real U.S. currency to write these words: By staying in Hawaii, the president has sent the message that the situation really isn’t all that serious, that things can proceed just fine until he’s back. And isn’t it that kind of reasoning that emboldens our never-vacationing enemies into thinking Christmas Day is [...]

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Let us play the world’s smallest violin for Lou Dobbs. Then cut the instrument in half and rub it on rat genitals for Sarah Palin. Dobbs went on O’Reilly to imply with the subtlety of a railroad spike through the head that CNN is in the tank for Obama and could not countenance his “rigorous, [...]

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A new cartoon has appeared on In Contempt. How it got there, I don’t know. But it’s kinda cute. I think I’ll keep it around. At least until it bores me, then I’ll trade it in for an upgrade. Speaking of which, I put a hundred smackers down on a guitar on Monday; after two [...]

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Paul Krugman explains why the Obama-Geithner bank plan leaked to the NY Times this morning is a waste of tax-payer money: Bank runs can be contagious; partly that’s for psychological reasons, partly because banks tend to invest in similar assets, so one bank’s fire sale depresses another bank’s net worth. So now we have a [...]

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Judd Gregg just withdrew from nomination for President Obama’s commerce secretary. For all of his “my bad” posturing, I tend to agree with Doug J at Balloon Juice that Gregg’s move is well-timed to inflict political damage on the ObamAdmin. Following two weeks of conservative whinging and compromises that have weakened the effectiveness of the [...]

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