Let’s rev up the Wayback Machine: 2008 During a campaign ad: “When I go to the White House, I’m gonna be answerable to you, I’m not gonna be answerable to a bunch of fat cat donors.” http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/08/obama_no_fat_ca.html 2009 Obama lashed out at Wall Street, calling bankers “fat cats” who don’t get it, in an escalation [...]
Archive for August, 2011
26 Aug
Quote of the Day
For weeks, these calumnies have been Obama staples. Calumnies, because they give not an iota of credit to the opposition for trying to promote the public good, as presumably Obama does, but from different premises and principles. Calumnies, because they deny legitimacy to those on the other side of the great national debate about the [...]
25 Aug
Pat Summitt Diagnosed With Alzheimers
Oh dear god. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Pat Summitt’s doctors are lucky they are still standing. When the first neurologist told her she had symptoms of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, she almost dropped him with one punch. When a second one advised her to retire immediately, she said, “Do you have any idea who you’re dealing with?” [...]
25 Aug
Tea Party Patriots Will Hold Conference at Harvard
Wow. They’ll be going right into the bowels of an effete liberal bastion. You probably don’t see many tea partiers in the hallways at Harvard Law. But that will change next month when Tea Party Patriots, an umbrella organization of local tea party groups, holds a conference there with legal experts to talk about different [...]
