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WaPo's Dana Milbank: 'The Senate Really Has 100 Blanche DuBoises'

To say that there's good reason not to be impressed with a quite a few U.S. Senators is to state the obvious. But I really hope that Dana Milbank either hasn't read or really doesn't remember A Streetcar Named Desire. Because in his coverage of the ...

From TOM BLUMER, Newsbusters,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Dana Milbank,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bob Ryan,  Boston Globe

Tax Increase Campaign Item 3: Wars Cost Money And Rich Must Pay, MI Senator Levin Tells Bloomberg

At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners. Last weekend (noted at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the New York Times discovered ...

From TOM BLUMER, Newsbusters,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  David R Obey,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party

AFP Writes Up Proposed Tax With 'Next to No Chance' of Passage to Set Stage For the Real Thing

You've got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly "discovered" last weekend, to remind people that wars cost money and ...

From TOM BLUMER, Newsbusters,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  House Financial Services Committee,  U.S. Democratic Party,  New York Times Company,  Dave Obey

Big, Bigger, Biggest: Three Examples of Government-Induced Failure

Recent weeks have not been good to those who bitterly cling to the notion that governments can manage economic initiatives. Three of them — one in real estate, a larger one in manufacturing, and a colossal enterprise supposedly intended to revive a ...

From TOM BLUMER, Pajamas Media,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: General Motors,  Pfizer Inc.,  John Paul Stevens

NYT Discovers That Wars Cost Money

In what appears to be the opening round of a rearguard action against what leftists used to call "the good war" (only because they felt they needed to pretend they had pro-war bona fides to make their anti-Iraq War arguments look stronger to the ...

From TOM BLUMER, Newsbusters,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  New York Times Company,  Christopher Drew,  White House

Oh, So Now U.S. Soldiers Are 'A Pretty Good Photo-op'; Let's See How This Obamism Gets Covered

The Washington Posts's Anne Kornblut (saved here in case her report is modified or disappears) captured a comment Obama made to U.S troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea while heading back to Washington after his Asian trip. I believe that the ...

From TOM BLUMER, Newsbusters,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Taliban,  Al-Qaeda,  Stanley A. McChrystal

Leftist Blood-Curdling Scream Alert: CMPA Reports That Fox IS Fair and Balanced

Leftists including those in the White House who presumptively and obsessively attack Fox News will not be pleased with this. At Forbes (HT Hot Air Headlines), S. Robert Lichter of George Mason University's Center for Media and Public Affairs, asks the ...

From TOM BLUMER, Newsbusters,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  John McCain,  Center for Media and Public Affairs,  George Mason

Health Care Poll-Cooking: AP Headlines 'Tax the Rich' Finding, Ignores Opposition to ObamaCare, Other Key Items

That the Associated Press's basement-level poll-cooking and poll-reporting standards are quite low, and quite agenda-driven, might as well be an article of faith by this time. Warner and AP want the big takeaway to be that taxing "the rich" is the idea ...

From TOM BLUMER, Newsbusters,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress

AP Parrot's GM's Comparative Tease of Not Comparable 'Financials' Coming Monday

In the alternative universe known as Government/General Motors Land, you can: Talk about how your financial results are going to be better than last year's and in the next breath caution that the numbers won't be comparable. Inform the public that the ...

From TOM BLUMER, Newsbusters,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: General Motors

We Wish: AP Report Claims National Debt Is 'Accumulation of Annual Budget Deficits'

In a report that is so riddled with bias and factual errors it's hard to know even where to begin, Associated Press Writers Tom Raum and Andrew Taylor yesterday gave making President Obama look like a born-again deficit hawk their best shot. The ...

From TOM BLUMER, Newsbusters,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Congressional Budget Office,  Pew Research Center,  Ross Perot

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