To paraphrase so many people, when you say you’re not comparing President Obama to Hilter, that’s probably because you just compared President Obama to Hitler.
Republicans concede that Obama’s right and they’re wrong and things will be different this term.
Between the inauguration and the holiday, you may have missed what went down in the Virginia statehouse yesterday.
Obama shocks DC mandarins by announcing he’ll caucus as a Democrat.
I’ve seen a number of mentions that Mitt Romney is the first losing presidential nominee not to attend the inauguration in 24 years. But that’s not really fair. By my count, he’s the first losing nominee since Michael Dukakis (24 years ago) who didn’t have a current elected position in DC when he was running. Bush (92), Dole (96), Gore (00), Kerry (04), McCain (08). In other words, the other guys basically had to be there, as presidents, vice presidents or senior members of the Senate.
Late Update: Charlie Savage notes that Dole had actually resigned from the Senate in the middle of the 96 campaign. So that slightly breaks the model. But it’s Dole who’d been there forever and lived at the Watergate. And constitution may actually say he’s still in the Senate despite resigning. In any case, same basic logic applies I think.
A fun, little vignette about the photo shoot for Obama’s first official portrait.
After the White House’s Death Star smackdown, I thought Michelle Obama’s smackdown to Romulan dress uniform was positively inspired. Read More
As mentioned earlier, seizing on the absence of a Democratic senator who happens to be a veteran of the civil rights movement and was in Washington, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, for the second inauguration of the country’s first black president, Republicans in the evenly split Virginia state Senate pushed through a surprise mid-decade redistricting plan to try to gain decisive control of the body in the next election.
We’re not done yet.
At the end of this wild day, the “Senate adjourned in memory or (sic) General Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson,” according to the minutes of the session. Jan. 21 is the Confederate general’s birthday.