All Worked Up

Nice Try
For Obama, then, the crisis created by McChrystal's baffling -- at best -- comments in a Rolling Stone profile actually affords something of an opportunity to bend public perception back in his favor. (Chris Cillizza, Washington Post, 6/24/10)

Obama fires an insubordinate general who he hand-picked and who voted for him and this is going to make us forget the backroom health care deals, high unemployment, appeasement of the country’s enemies, the oil spill, etc. What do you think?

Maybe now we can stop talking about Joe Barton!
A Democratic congressman has found himself the target of conservative criticism after an inartful description of who will be helped by the financial reform bill currently working its way through Congress. The conservative website Human Events reported that Rep. Paul Kanjorski's (D-Pa.) appeared to say during Wednesday's financial reform conference committee meeting that the financial overhaul will help "average, good American people" -- but not minorities or "the defective." (Washington Post, 6/24/10)

Isn’t it amazing how the Washington Post’s description of the Barton and Kanjorski blunders are eerily similar?

“A Republican congressman found himself the target of liberal criticism after inartfully apologizing to the chairman of BP. The liberal Washington Post reported.....”

Just kidding! The Washington Post would never use the term “liberal criticism” as all criticism of Republicans is mainstream and unbiased.

Whatever
Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said legislators were still uncertain how the bill will work until it is in place. “But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time,” he said. (NYT, 6/25/10)

Kind of reminds RedStateVT of Nancy Pelosi’s comment that the health care bill has to be passed in order to find out what is in it. Here we have Christopher Dodd saying of the financial reform bill that he doesn’t know what the impact of the bill will be. What is it with these Democrats?