The Ramble for 9/26/11

Westbury, Long Island, NY– A frequent stop for me… dropping off some drinks to the thirsty club shoppers. Nearly 80 here… you’d not know it was fall. Today, I’m going to do a one subject Ramble.

Some observations on

Dumbo throws ‘rate underneath the bus, Barack Obama and congressional repubolicans agree to extend Bush era tax rates, from Shailagh Murray
Washington Post:

President Obama and congressional Republicans agreed Monday to a tentative deal that would extend for

STFU Arlen,from Andy Barr, Politico:

As voters considered his fate throughout Pennsylvania, Sen. Arlen Specter warned on Tuesday that without him Democrats may not be able to fend off a tea party “takeover.”

We, the American people, can

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• STILL MAKING STUFF UP: Kudos to BitsBlog‘s DavidL for jumping on this one early. That the left is still making

George Will, Washington Post,  October 5:

Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: “honest” Abe Lincoln, “Grover the Good” Cleveland, “energetic” Theodore Roosevelt, “idealistic” Woodrow Wilson, “Silent Cal” Coolidge, “confident” FDR, “likable” Ike Eisenhower. Less happily, there

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• THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE PRESS: Let’s get down to this one, right off. Both David and myself have commented on

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They say you’re supposed to have 5 service of veggies every day. Well, here’s one heapin helpin’, just now;

• CONTAINMENT

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• MORE ANITA DUNN:  Victor Davis Hanson, on Saturday:
  

  I am not a big fan of saying that officials should resign

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• BRUCE JENNER: ... clearly has a grip on reality, and apparently still has the testicular mass to say the truth

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38 degrees here this morning. Dark and dreary.  The only reason it was even that warm is it was raining. There are

The New York Times is reporting:

William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles

An interesting “Mia Culpa” from the New York Times this morning, in the form of an article from Clark Hoyt, The Times “Public Editor”

ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had

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• Children: This observation is so obviously true, that it’s interesting it still has to be made. I guess it’s the same function,

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This is the “Bread, MIlk and a Sixpack Edition”

• Publius/Whalen Redux: By way of James Joyner, I see that the English

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This is the First Dept Edition

• From our Dept of Intemperate Thoughts: So, now that Whalen has (wrongly, I think) apologized for