It all sounded good when spouted out of the mouths of MSM babes (Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow and the like) and other children of our time (Joe Biden): $787 Billion to “jumpstart” the economy, and create MILLIONS of jobs!
But just like nearly all of Obama’s principles and promises — this one falls flat in a [.
One of these people has the moral authority…. the other is a political hack nominated by the President.
Democrats sure do like to hold big health care votes on Saturdays when most people are paying more attention to their families and devoting more time to recreation and relaxation than to politics.
Perhaps, it was reading stories about Robin Hood as a boy that I first came to admire Richard the Lionheart, King of England from 1189 until his death ten years later.
It seems that many of Sarah Palin’s critics are pushing the narrative that the former Alaska Governor has used her book and is using her book tour to settle old scores.
So writes prominent Palin critic and libertarian blogress Megan McCardle.
McArdle begins her post reminding her readers that she really doesn’t like Sarah Palin, even takes issues with folks (like yours truly) who fault the media for being “just a bunch of elitist hooligans who are out to get” the former Alaska Governor.
H/T – jaxy89 on Twitter
Priceless!
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
With Sarah Palin all over the news this week, we encounter yet again the power of the media, even in the twilight of their influence to shape popular opinion.
Had President Obama not claimed the Democrats’ “stimulus” would keep unemployment at or below 8%, he would not “own” the jobless rate so early in his term.
Sarah Palin may seek out the limelight, as some of her critics contend, but unlike most in this town (Hollywood) who see such attention, this much (and usually falsely) maligned Republican woman gets it.
It’s amusing to watch Democrats and associated leftists get worked up into a lather at there mere mention of Sarah Palin’s name.
I’ve bought the book, it is in the mail, and I watched Sarah on Oprah.
More later… I just figured we could use the bump in traffic with a Palin-related headline.
When accepting her Oscar for Places in the Heart in 1985, Sally Field famously said to her Hollywood audience
I haven’t had an orthodox career.
The biggest lost opportunity of the Obama Administration came in his first hours, nay, its first minutes.
If Matthew Continetti were a liberal journalist writing about a charismatic (or even a colorless) Democratic governor who had suffered the same treatment from the media that Sarah Palin did, his book The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star would make him the toast of [.
With Sarah Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life going gangbusters on amazon, currently their #1 seller (it was released only today, yet has spent 50 days in the online bookseller’s top 100), it’s clear that this accomplished former Governor can both infuriate liberals and sell books.
Last week, our state’s junior Senator, Ma’am Barbara Boxer, traveled with great fanfare to San Diego to boast about how many jobs the “stimulus” created only to have a news organization debunk her claim.
Those who observed me doing cardio at the gym last night must have thought I was watching something on Comedy Central.
And it’s not just that the mere mention of her name can whip liberals into a frenzy.
It’s that she is a natural politician who can, as few leaders have in recent years, command a stage and capture the popular imagination.
Had President Obama not promised the “stimulus” which passed at the start of his term would keep the unemployment rate down below 8%, with multitudinous new jobs created driving that percentage down even further, he–and his party–would not own the increasing unemployment rate as they now do.