Mark Impomeni: Bring On the Truth Commission
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) held a torturous press conference today to address charges that she raised no objections when informed in 2002 and 2003 about the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorist detainees. Pelosi was out of the country last week, so perhaps she can be forgiven for not realizing that the narrative on this story had been set in her absence. It has been pretty conclusively established by records of the briefings she received that Pelosi has been fibbing since the first day she claimed not to have known about the interrogations more……
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Jim Geraghty: The Alinsky Administration
In a letter to the Boston Globe, Alinsky’s son wrote that “the Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style. . . . Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness. It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.” more……
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Michelle Oddis: No One Knows What You’re Talking About
Cap and Trade: An environmental policy that puts a mandatory cap or limit on the amount of pollutants that can be emitted by a company or group through a credit allowance system. That company or group can later sell/trade those credits if they emit less of their allotted amount of pollutants to companies who pollute more.
How can Republicans convince voters that cap and trade drives up energy bills when according to Rasmussen about 29% believe that cap and trade has something to do with regulating Wall Street, 17% think the term applies to health care reform, and 30% have no idea? more……
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Bruce Walker: Still the biggest missing story in politics
In August of last year I wrote an article, “The Biggest Missing Story in Politics,” which reviewed the single most important datum in the last thirteen Battleground Polls over a period stretching from early 2002 to late 2008. The critical fact, completely ignored by almost everyone, was that in answering Question D3, which asked the respondent what he considered his ideology to be, sixty percent of the American people described themselves as “conservative” or “very conservative.” more……
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Ronald Brownstein: His Crowd
All the controversy about President Obama’s upcoming appearance at Notre Dame is overshadowing a larger point about the university commencement tour he began Wednesday night in Arizona: Obama is presenting Democrats an opportunity to establish a lasting and potentially crushing advantage with the Millennial Generation, the largest in American history.
Young voters are not as reflexively Democratic or liberal as many people might think. Since 18-year-olds were granted the vote in 1972, younger voters have often tracked fairly close to the national trend in presidential elections: Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush carried them in 1984 and 1988, and they split almost evenly between Al Gore and George W. Bush in 2000.
But over the past three elections, voters under 30 have moved steadily toward the Democrats. In the 2004 presidential race more……
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Michelle Malkin: Washington Can’t Meet the Cheerios Standard
I think it’s time we applied the same advertising standards to Washington’s legislative products that the feds apply to breakfast foods. The Food and Drug Administration rapped General Mills this week for making misleading claims about the benefits of Cheerios. The food manufacturer says the whole-grain O’s are “clinically proven to lower cholesterol.” The FDA demanded packaging changes to ensure truth in labeling.
Well, how about the bogus marketing of the fiscal “stimulus”? President Obama and the Democrats promoted the trillion-dollar package as job creation salvation. The White House claims more……
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-Cnation