davidl on July 1st, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

Two takes on Dumbo’s presser, first the literate, from Yuval Levin, National Review:

It all had the feel of a childish tantrum by a person who desperately wishes he were living in a different reality — one in

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Eric Florack on October 22nd, 2009

Ya know, this is getting just a wee bit annoying.

I said this yesterday morning:

So, tell us, oh, vaunted master of the news cycle, what the bleep Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman were doing in the room? And tell

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Eric Florack on June 24th, 2009

Welcome to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere…The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

fronthumpThis is the “Happy Hump Day” Edition” The picture to your right is a railroad hump. It’s how cars are sorted in many rail yards

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davidl on June 24th, 2009

A common description of the one’s presser was “testy”.    Here a flavor from, Michael Scherer, Time:

Jackson was not the only reporter the President cut off. When NBC’s Chuck Todd asked for the second and third time what consequences

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Eric Florack on June 23rd, 2009

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

This is the Campground Edition
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  • The signs: The surest sign that Obama and his people know Obamacare is in serious risk of being

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davidl on May 15th, 2009

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Speaker Tablecloth, a/k/a Nancy Pelosi, has done something that President Barack Obama has promised to but on which he failed to deliver, to with Speaker Tablecloth has united the left and the right. First Speaker

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