Pete Spiliakos

I agree with about eighty percent of this Liz Mair post. Some of it is similar to the stuff I wrote yesterday, but better written and more detailed. One area where I slightly diverge (not really disagree) is in her description of the Republican disadvantage in technology. Mair writes that many tech . . . . Continue Reading »

Karl Rove has a new scam plan to vaccum money from gullible donors who don’t know that he is out of touch save the Republican party. Rove’s super-PAC is supposedly going to help “electable” Republicans against unelectable Tea Party insurgents. Who knew that the problem was . . . . Continue Reading »

Matt Lewis writes over at the Daily Caller:  Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and conservative new media outlets are powerful, to be sure — but can they compete with the evening news, the New York Times, and Hollywood, etc.? I don’t think that is quite the right way to think of it. Fox . . . . Continue Reading »

See if you can find a clip of Senator Ted Cruz taking apart Chuck Hagel today.  Hagel  came off incredibly shifty and dishonest, while Cruz showed that being rhetorically tough doesn’t mean being bombastic or rude.  Something about Cruz’s calm, unforced courtesy made the . . . . Continue Reading »

Consider yourself warned, 1. It turns out we had slow economic growth last quarter. Actually worse than that. It appears that the economy actually shrank a bit - though the GDP estimates are approximations so we might actually have merely had very slow growth. I’ve read somewhere that a sharp . . . . Continue Reading »

My daughter has pneumonia so blogging is going to be light for a little while, but I have a little time now . . . David Weigel is a little too snarky (though I should talk) in this post, but he does include a revealing comment from Senator Ted Cruz.  Cruz is an exceedingly articulate and . . . . Continue Reading »

If we were having a surge rather than a drawdown in Afghanistan, would we still have gotten last week’s announcement opening the ground combat arms to women? . . . . Continue Reading »

I’m not even thinking about the next presidential race, but, if I had to make a choice right now for Republican nominee, it would be Bobby Jindal (since Mitch Daniels seems out of the running.)  I got around reading his big speech yesterday (h/t to Julie Ponzi) and here are a few hasty . . . . Continue Reading »

A federal appeals court has struck down several of President Obama’s recess appointments that the president made while the Senate was having “pro forma” sessions.  It looks bad for Obama.  Well, I have an idea to help out his appeal before the Supreme Court.  . . . . Continue Reading »

So why are Republicans having trouble winning over the median voter? There are probably lots of interrelated reasons but here is former George W. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer giving his ideas: Republicans talk policy and Democrats talk people. Republicans can learn a little bit from Democrats on . . . . Continue Reading »