The Daily Grind

Real life or The Onion?

I’m sure those who lambasted Palin for mentioning that an unauthorized biographer living next door was creepy will go after McGinnis just as hard for his anti-journalist behavior.

Is Obama more conversant in the NCAA brackets he filled out in March…

Or, the administration staffing decisions made yesterday?

Peggy Noonan says what everyone’s thinking.

Even the tingle is gone.

Um, what? “What many Americans don’t realize, is that census workers — from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee — are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for ‘the collection of statistics.'”

Yesterday was just Part One of Obama’s P.R. offensive on the Gulf Oil spill, which promises to be as effective as his health-care P.R. offensive.

Could the GOP blow it in Nevada? AP’s Michael R. Blood: An also-ran “U.S. Senate candidate in Nevada said Thursday that the party’s chances of ousting Majority Leader Harry Reid are slipping away and his leading GOP rivals would be unlikely to beat him in November. ‘Republicans could very well snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the case of Harry Reid,’ said banker John Chachas, one of 12 candidates seeking the GOP nomination in the June 8 primary. In an interview, Chachas said Reid is being underestimated and leading Republicans Sue Lowden, Sharron Angle and Danny Tarkanian each have ‘impediments’ that give the senator an advantage, including questions about their ability to raise money nationally and ‘intellectual gravitas.’” 

Obama’s Katrina: “That will be unfair, because Obama is no more responsible for the damage caused by this than Bush was for the damage caused by Katrina. But that’s the nature of American politics and its presidential cult of personality: We expect our presidents to play Superman. Helplessness, however undeniable, is no defense.” 

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