Rendell: Chris Christie ‘not a Factor’ in 2016 Presidential Race… But… What If…

From NJ.COM:

TRENTON — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is dismissing Gov. Chris Christie as a non-factor in the presidential race because of the controversial closing of lanes to the George Washington Bridge. He named Jeb Bush as his favorite

MOre on the Obama Campaign Funding Scandal

The New York Post s saying something we told you about here over a week ago.

The Obama re-election campaign has accepted at least one foreign donation in violation of the

How to know when your campaign has picked the wrong spokes person and is in trouble:

Sandra Fluke, the woman at the center of a media firestorm earlier this year after Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut,” spoke Saturday in

Why did Benghazi happen?

It’s a question the news media and the left keeps asking,  along with a number of Americans who decided back in ’08, along with that magnificent mental midget John McCain, that we had nothing to fear

Obama’s been in the Bubble for too long. Far be it from me to agree with the mega-moron, Dana Milbank, on much of anything. But so he indicates in today’s column, and he appears to nail it fairly well here

The White House this morning, is serving up fake jobs numbers… again.  And they read like a fairy tale.

7.8% unemployment.

But notice… the U6.. the real unemployment number…  isn’t listed in the reports we all see…  It stood at

Watching the Denver Demolition last night, the thought struck me that the attempts by the Obama people to lower the expectations going into this thing, didn’t do the job nearly as well as they needed to. This is clearly a

Quickly,  read Dick Morris on the subject. His comments are spot on, here.

I will quote the whole of the article, here because it doesn’t break out easily.

Republicans are getting depressed under an avalanche of polling suggesting that an

At some point during this next week, you’re going to hear one of the Democrats, either Obama or Biden mouth the words “Two wars we didn’t pay for”. Likely at the debates scheduled for this week, but outside those venues

Throwing Granny under the bus, from James Taranto, Wall Street Jourmal:

President Obama is pulling out the big guns and pointing them straight at your grandmother. “Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their

Middle Village, NYC– I’m here dropping off yet another load. I’ll be headed for Bethlehem PA, shortly. Middle 80’s outside. Looks like we’re building for that storm I spoke of yesterday.

• John Huntsman in: He tried invoking Reagan. And

Some interesting thoughts on Sarah Palin’s new book…. which I happen to have started reading myself just the other day. I’ll leave Melissa’s thoughts on the book itself to her article. But she, in the process of laying the groundwork

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

• FIRST, THIS SNARK:  From Reynolds:
  

  POLL: Tea Party 48, Obama 44.

  Best headline: Tea Party More Popular Than Obama, Frank Rich

Says Ben Smith:

One of the enduring mysteries of the 2008 campaign was what got Ted Kennedy so mad at Bill Clinton. The former president’s entreaties, at some point, backfired, and the explanation has never quite emerged.

I’ve finally gotten

One of the chief reasons that Obama has sought Biden’s advice on a range of pressing foreign-policy questions — most notably, in recent months, on policy in Afghanistan — is that Biden has a deep knowledge of, and an intuitive