Obama admits to what most of us already knew
Great headline from the AP: Obama says he has no Illinois records. Reminds me of the Denver Post’s cartoonist Mike Keefe’s cartoon about Obama back on October 26, 2006.
Bush vetoing pork bills like he should have been vetoing all along
His vetoing of the health and education bill Democrats sent to him, which supposedly had “strong bipartisan support,” is obviously welcome from conservatives, considering the significant amount of pork ($10 bil) attached to it. Sure would have been nice to see him rein in spending from the Republican Congresses he had just as much as he has the Dem Congress, tho.
The 0 for 40 Congressional Democrats
Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris at The Politico write this morning about the Democratic Congress’ track record on legislation they’ve attempted to pass which would limit the president’s ability to command the war in Iraq:
Joe Lieberman’s John Hopkins University speech
Earlier today in an update to a post about Karl Rove’s reflections on the Democratic Congress and how it’s been a miserable failure, I mentioned that Senator Joe Lieberman, too, has been doing some reflecting about the Democratic party as of late, and linked up to a Powerline post which referenced a NY Sun article containing snippets of a speech he made at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.
Miserable failures: The Democratic Congress (MORE: LIEBERMAN SLAMS DEMOCRATS)
Karl Rove, as sharp as ever, reflects back on the last year of failures from the Democratic Congress, proving that even though he’s no longer a part of the administration, he’s not going to leave the Democats alone:
Defense appropriations bill’s earmarks
Here’s a fun way to find out how much pork Congressional reps are trying to bring to their districts: Check out this super-cool tool created by the Sunlight Foundation which allows you to view earmarks which are buried within the House’s defense appropriations bill using Google Earth (h/t: Robert Bluey).