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The Post Partisan Easter Bunny

KROFT: Why you? I mean, why do you think you would be a good president? OBAMA: Well, I was going to get to that. OBAMA: You know, Iâm a, Iâm a practical person. One of the things Iâm good at is getting people in a room with a bunch of different ideas ...

From DEAN BARNETT, The Weekly Standard,  1 Oct 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama

State of Play

So here’s the state of play as the Great Depression redux edges ominously closer. The Paulson Plan failed today, with a solid majority of Republicans voting against it. The opposition Republicans fall into two camps: 1) The Mike Pence doctrinaires who ...

From DEAN BARNETT, The Weekly Standard,  29 Sep 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Mike Pence,  Nancy Pelosi,  White House,  Barack Obama

Defending Biden Being Biden

It's Joe Biden spokesman David Wade's thankless job to defend his garrulous gaffe-master of a boss. Here's Wade in action: "Joe Biden is getting the job done every day, and I guarantee Joe Biden will be Mr. October. He's a closer. He's the vice ...

From DEAN BARNETT, The Weekly Standard,  25 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Joe Biden

Irony Alert

Please don’t construe what follows as an endorsement of the richly flawed Paulson Plan but… Over the years, we’ve all gotten accustomed to Democrats referring to every single spending boondoggle as “an investment.” You know the drill – we need to ...

From DEAN BARNETT, The Weekly Standard,  24 Sep 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  John Kerry

Game On - On Friday

I dunno about a nine-point lead, Kathryn, but clearly the Obama campaign self-destruct effort managed to stall during Bailout Week. As a general rule, when economic matters are in the news, I would recommend Senator McCain go to Bermuda for a few days ...

From DEAN BARNETT, The Weekly Standard,  24 Sep 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama,  Andrew Cuomo,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Sarah Palin

Not a Parody?

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of ...

From DEAN BARNETT, The Weekly Standard,  23 Sep 2008

Best Economic News of the Day

Oil prices soared were up more than $25 and their intraday high and finished with a gain of $16.37, or 16%, at $120.92 a barrel in New York as the likelihood of a bailout prompted bets that the economy would stay on firmer footing, keeping demand for ...

From DEAN BARNETT, The Weekly Standard,  22 Sep 2008

Fannie, Freddie and Barry

When the Fannie/Freddie crisis simmered over a few weeks ago, I dismissed the possibility of it making a significant dent on the public consciousness. I figured Fannie and Freddie were too opaque for the common person to understand. After all, even ...

From DEAN BARNETT, The Weekly Standard,  18 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Enron Corporation,  Barney Frank,  Christopher Dodd

Not Experience But Prudence?

If the Bush administration was anything, it was the anti-establishment attitude put into executive practice. And the problem with this attitude is that, especially in his first term, it made Bush inept at governance. It turns out that governance, the ...

From DEAN BARNETT, The Weekly Standard,  16 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Ronald Reagan,  Abraham Lincoln,  John McCain,  Sarah Palin

Lots of Advice for Obama!

STEP 1: STOP WITH THE ENDLESS PALIN DIARIES I'm talking to you, friend. That's right. You--the diarist who thinks he/she has found the fact or scandal that definitively proves why Sarah Palin will be a bad Vice President, and who thinks he/she has ...

From DEAN BARNETT, The Weekly Standard,  14 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Sarah Palin,  John McCain,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush

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