The Exquisite Contrarian

First Ladies are allowed to disagree with their husbands, you know.  Though the timing of the statement sure helps sell more books.

First Ladies are allowed to disagree with their husbands, you know.  Though the timing of the statement sure helps sell more books.

The Telegraph reports Sarah Palin’s political bandwagon is wobbling under the weight of contradictions, basing this assessment on polls showing Tea Partiers and Alaskans both dramatically decreasing their support for the serial opportunist. Though the article covers by noting Palin’s next book will most certainly top the charts, it also notes Palin’s decisions to endorse the [...]

The Telegraph reports on the meeting of both country’s foreign secretaries.  Could our two countries sound any more in love?

It’s becoming increasingly hard for Republicans to claim the Obama administration isn’t “tough on terrorists”.  Heck, they’re even taking away conventional constitutional rights. Attorney General Backs Miranda Limit for Terror Suspects – NYTimes.com.

The GOP meme: if you say it’s not luck enough times, it’s not luck. Using words like ‘socialist’ of course have the same impact.  Just remember, kids, all you need to do is say something enough times and it becomes reality.  If you have any questions regarding how this works, in Dick Cheney’s absence Sarah [...]

Slate writer Jacob Weisberg points out the continual drubbing of Clinton administration Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin during the current post-crisis evaluation.  Granted Weisberg assisted Rubin in writing his memoirs, so he got to know the man on a personal level – sometimes this colors one’s vision.  Yet, some good points are made here.

Gordon Brown quite possibly cost himself a competitive election and his party’s victory with this ill advised comment after he jumped in the car.  Sky News appears to have left the microphone they placed on him running, and after hearing this decided perhaps their audience would find it interesting. Hey, at least he didn’t pull [...]

Eleanor Clift can’t be mistaken for anything less than a vocal, far left journalist that most often lets her leanings guide her pen, but the article she posted this week in Newsweek is no less interesting and valuable portrayal of Sarah Palin the politician than most, and it benefits from McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt’s [...]

Is there any argument to be made civility really exists in the current American political dialogue?  Dick Cheney says he’s proud of telling off Patrick Leahy to f*** himself.  By our count, there’s really no civility in empty, crass confrontations like these – and please, spare us the self-righteous “mission of truth” stuff.