Is Obama a man of "meaningful action" when it comes to gun control?

Let's go back to December 30, 1999, an article in the Chicago Tribune : In a surreal day of political maneuvering, even for Springfield,...

Why Biden acted the way he did at the VP debate.

Something just came into focus for me this morning. You know that I didn't think Obama was that bad in the first debate and that I watch...

Did the Democrats give up on class warfare?

Jonathan Martin (at Politico) says they did. He notes that Occupy Wall Street has evanesced and that Obama conspicuously avoided participat...

"Obama says he was too busy to campaign in Wisconsin recall election"... or did he?

Headline writers keep paraphrasing him like that , but let's look at the quote: “Well, you know, the truth of the matter is that as Pres...

"What fascinates Althouse about Obama?"

Asks ricpic . And I answer : Wow. How can you ask? Who is more fascinating than Obama... by which I mean the entire story of everyone relati...

Chris Christie asks Obama: "What the hell are we paying you for?"

Calls him a "bystander."

"Obama is searching for a narrative. He had an election narrative but hasn’t found the vocabulary for governing."

Henry Louis Gates Jr. analyzing — in scholarly lingo — why Obama's politics don't seem to work as well as they did back in '08. ...

Obama goes ultra-bland on Occupy Wall Street.

Transcript: I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Dep...

Today's Drudgetapostion: Qaddafi looking up, Obama looking down (and Irene coming up).

I love the kinetic energy here : Qaddafi's unbowed head aims up and to the right, in the position associated with optimism and progress...

What's with Obama saying he's going to speak at 1...

... and 42 minutes later, he's still not speaking? It's really irritating to be put on watch like this. He goes on TV too much to sa...

"Where is the 9,000-foot cow?"/"What do you think about Satan?"/"What did James Madison think about video games?"

Justice Ginsburg lists the strangest questions asked last term at oral argument. "From the foregoing samples, you may better understand...

Paul Krugman denounces "the cult of balance, of centrism."

It's "a true moral failure," he says: We have a crisis in which the right is making insane demands, while the president and De...

Michele Bachmann, challenging Obama in the empathy dimension.

"That Barack Obama is without a clue when it comes to the economy is no revelation, but that he lacks empathy — traditionally a Democra...

Rush Limbaugh thinks Obama is icy cold — like Michael Dukakis... and Buck Turgidson.

Don't let the horrible photo chosen by Media Matters here stop you from listening to the audio. It's an excellent performance by Rus...

Maureen Dowd says Christine O'Donnell, like Barack Obama, is "smart to think of politics in terms of passion and myth."

That is, Barack Obama, the presidential campaigner. As an actual President, the "passion and myth... are sorely missing."  Obama’s...

"Jan Brewer has the cojones that our president does not have."

Said Sarah Palin.

"What explains Mr. Obama’s consistent snubbing of those who made him what he is?"

"Does he fear that his enemies would use any support for progressive people or ideas as an excuse to denounce him as a left-wing extrem...

Obama's "excited about" something "sexy."

"Insulation is sexy stuff... Here's what's sexy about it..." Stuffing things in cracks? "... saving money." Eh. ...

"Like Reagan, Obama is a detached loner with a strong, savvy wife."

"But unlike Reagan, he doesn’t have the acting skills to project concern about what’s happening to people." Wow. That's Mauree...