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Dawg Pound
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Obama threw a bone to the friendly crowd at the Milwaukee Laborfest on Monday. He yelped that his critics talk about him like a dog. Is he the Big Dog or Big Labor’s lap dog? Speaking of man’s best friend, Tony Blair, in his new book, says Bush has more integrity than nearly every other leader he has met.
The Big Dawg visits Cleveland today. Should be a howl.
Nobody Happy
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Page Turner
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In his Iraq speech, the president blamed the war for our bad economy.
Shelter Skelter
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Barney Frank, once said he wanted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to roll the dice for affordable housing. Now, after dusting off billions of dollars of rubble from the collapsed housing market, he wants Fannie and Freddie abolished.
Clunkers
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There’s not much question who was in the driver’s seat when the economy first went off-road. Bush careered between the Bear Sterns bail-out, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac takeover, loans to AIG and GM, and the 700 billion dollar TARP. (Go here for an excellent bail-out timeline by ProPublica.) (And here’s the story in a Nov. 2008 cartoon). Obama then grabbed the wheel and put the pedal to the metal with the 800 billion dollar stimulus. At that point Krauthammer says, “Obama bought the economy”.
Crapped Out
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The guy can’t get a break. The Boston Herald reports that water at some Martha’s Vineyard beaches has fecal contamination.
The Blagoshpere
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Here’s all the inside Blago baseball you need to know in a lengthy Chicago News Cooperative piece by James Warren
Wise Guy
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The man who once said people cling to their guns and religion gave a rousing call to religious freedom last Friday night only to walk it back Saturday morning. Here’s the speech. Here’s Victor David Hanson on what it means. And here’s Jon Stewart on what it really means.
One Word Government
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Here’s the scene from The Graduate in 1967.
Anchors Away
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I’ve heard that when your opponent is self-destructing, the best thing to do is get out of the way. Unless you’re a Republican, in which case, you’ll probably want to begin a movement to repeal the 14th amendment. The most likely outcome of that effort according to Linda Chavez is no Hispanic Republicans. She makes her case in a WSJ column. You may need a subscription, but I was able to access the whole thing here. Atlantic Wire has a brief summary here. And Chavez explains in this JWR column.