Pete Spiliakos

I’m late getting to it, but the Wall Street Journal /John McCain comparison of the most strident Tea Party affiliated politicians to hobbits just doesn’t work.  The worst that can reasonably be said about the most recalcitrant of the Tea Party-affiliated congressmen, is that they . . . . Continue Reading »

1.  I agree with Dr. Ceaser that Obama’s speech last night did not enlarge the man in any way.  He seemed very much a party leader and not much more.  Several good things came from the speech.  The first is that now we’ve heard a whole bunch of the lines of bs . . . . Continue Reading »

Pawlenty has been going after Bachmann pretty hard and Bachmann hit back today.  She even compared him to Obama.  Bachmann’s attack is pretty clever in the way it manages to paint any rhetoric or politics of effective governance as Obama/socialist/Big Government.  Pawlenty . . . . Continue Reading »

such things in our public discourse as Sheila Jackson Lee’s outburst accusing opponents of a debt ceiling increase on our current President’s terms as motivated by racism.  I guess we have to address them, even though time, energy, and attention would be more enjoyably spent . . . . Continue Reading »

Reihan Salam notes Tim Pawlenty’s miserable results in a recent national poll.  Pawlenty is losing to Gingrich, Cain, Santorum, and Ron Paul.  Salam finds it interesting that this collection of . . . idiosyncratic people are all beating the guy running as a . . . . Continue Reading »

Everybody needs to read William Voegeli’s awesome post  on how Obama is running circles around the congressional Republicans in the public argument over the debt ceiling increase and cutting the deficit.  Somehow Obama is now the one who is serious about controlling the . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve been away, 1.  How come this hasn’t gotten more play?  In an interview where Palin was asked who she would support for President she said: You know, if there are those who are out there willing to serve, with good executive experience, who have that servant’s heart . . . . Continue Reading »

So I caught some of Pawlenty’s line of criticism against Bacmann.  He is saying that Bachmann has no accomplishments to speak of.  That is fair enough, but it won’t help Pawlenty as much as he thinks.  People still know (or think they know) that Bachmann is principled and . . . . Continue Reading »

This was quite beautiful. . . . . Continue Reading »

John writes (quoting Kevin Williamson’s fine profile of Perry), “’If Jeb Bush’s name were Jeb Smith, he’d be the next president of the United States,’ says Texas governor Rick Perry, and then there’s a long pause in the conversation to let pass the unspoken . . . . Continue Reading »