To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Observercast

The Worst Week

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH “Worst Week” screams the headline on the Drudge Report, right above President Obama’s picture. Not so fast. It is certainly true that Rasmussen Reports is showing the president’s approval rating hitting a new low of 40%. It is certainly true that incumbent presidents hoping to be re-elected need approval ratings closer to […]

The Party Of No Ideas

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BY JOE CONASON Would it be rude to ask whether the Republicans have any new proposals to save the country from this worsening recession? The question arises not because anyone expects the minority party to burst forth with creative ideas, but because conservatives in Congress and the media seem so determined to thwart or stall […]

Obama’s Raw Deal?

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BY JOE CONASON Suddenly Republican leaders in Congress, after months of staring down the Democrats over a potentially disastrous debt default, began blinking so fast that they might be signaling in Morse code. Although their message is muddled and illogical – with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-VA, saying he can accept closing tax loopholes […]

Hounded And Stressed

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BY FROMA HARROP Consider Cary Grant in “North by Northwest.” Sinister forces may be chasing him for reasons he can’t comprehend, but this is 1959, and neither the BlackBerry nor the Global Positioning System chip that goes inside it has been invented. And so the mysterious crop-duster has no way to pinpoint which cornstalks he’s […]

Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

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BY JOE CONASON “Fiscal conservative” is one of those terms used by politicians of all sorts to describe themselves, without any real justification. Parroted mindlessly from one news cycle to the next by major media outlets, that phrase is often used to mislead the public about the priorities and policies favored by those who claim […]