The official announcement will come tomorrow. Alas. (Below: the “ticket to ride.”) Huntsman was the best potential president in the GOP field, but his incompetent campaign and personal douchiness (to use the technical political-science term) eliminated any chance he had of overcoming the RINO-ish parts of his biography and platform to seriously challenge for the nomination. My lyrical Twitter farewell:… Read more »
Well, yesterday was certainly a dramatic night in New Hampshire, but with 294 of 301 precincts reporting, it appears we finally have a result. Drumroll please: Ed Cowan 934 (1.59%) Vermin Supreme 823 (1.40%) Ed Cowan of Waterbury, Vermont gets his ticket to ride! On to South Carolina! Meanwhile, the all-important battle for third place remains too close to call:… Read more »
Can you feel the #HUNTSMENTUM tonight? They’re feeling it in Dixville Notch! Republican voters in the “First in the Nation” hamlet, which quadrennially opens its polls at midnight and closes them at ~12:01 AM after everyone in town has voted, gave two votes each to Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, for the first tie since 1980, when Ronald Reagan and… Read more »
Yesterday, I, a generally pro-Obama left-centrist, called Obama’s “non-recess recess” appointment of Richard Cordray an unjustifiable abuse of power. Now, here comes conservative/libertarian blogger Dale Franks, defending President Obama on the issue — “as distateful as it is to me.” Here’s the blog post. It’s well worth a read if you care about this issue. Money quote: At the very… Read more »
President Obama yesterday exercised his “recess appointment” powers to appoint Richard Cordray, whose nomination had previously been blocked by the Senate GOP, as the head of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. There’s only one problem with this: Congress isn’t in recess. Congressional Republicans have ensured that Congress technically remains “in session” throughout the winter break by holding brief… Read more »
Mitt Romney “won” the Iowa caucuses tonight by 8 votes out of 122,255 cast, “beating” Rick Santorum 30,015 to 30,007. That’s a margin of 0.0065%, which is even narrower than Florida’s unbelievably close 2000 election (0.0090%), and essentially meaningless in the absence of a recount. The caucuses ended in a tie, plain and simple. As dramatic as that was, CNN’s… Read more »
If anyone else in Denver feels a disturbance in the Force this evening, it’s probably caused by the arrival of a bunch of conservative bloggers and tweeters from around the nation, descending on our fair city for BlogCon 2011, a two-day conference sponsored by the Tea Party-supporting political group FreedomWorks. A bunch of long-time online friends and acquaintances who I’ve… Read more »
Last night, inspired by the generally unsatisfying, incomplete, and often vacuous nature of the tweets I keep seeing from both Left and Right about the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and the ongoing economic calamity — and also by this National Review article, among other big-picture economic pieces I’ve read recently — I went on another one of my extended Twitter… Read more »
President Obama is in Denver today to give a speech about his jobs plan, but apparently he — or at least his press office — are slightly confused about which rectangular-shaped state Denver is located in: AAAH-HAHAHAHA. Hey, cut the man a break. It’s hard to keep all 57 states straight!
…I’ve just had no time to blog for the last week-and-a-half. My evening free time is largely taken up holding a baby, and, well, it’s hard to type while you’re doing that. But hey, at least nothing newsworthy/blogworthy has happened during that time, like, oh I don’t know: • Michelle Bachmann wins the Iowa Straw Poll; • Generic Republican drops… Read more »
