Comments on: Honeymoon-Over Watch: Obama Treasury Secretary Draws Scrutiny on Taxes

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Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:23:40 +0000

[...] January 15, 2009, I wrote the following: There’s already plenty of opposition to Obama in the right-wing fever swamps of the Internets, [...]

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How Much Trouble are the Democrats In? :All That Is Necessary… — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:43:20 +0000

[...] A.T.I.N. readers (hi Sweetie!) will flash back to my Instalanche post the week before the Inauguration, when I started a “Honeymoon-Over Watch”: [...]

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R.I.P., President Obama’s Honeymoon :All That Is Necessary… — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:52:10 +0000

[...] nor do I want him to “fail,” but I’ve been rooting for the end of the honeymoon since before the inauguration. The media’s near-deification of “The One” has been, at its worst, nothing less [...]

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Thu, 21 May 2009 05:59:26 +0000

[...] other conservative bloggers, Taranto has repeatedly commented about the sharp contrast between the news media’s treatment [...]

By: Kirk Petersen

Kirk Petersen — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:47:00 +0000

The system took its best shot at Clinton in 1998-99 – after impeachment, the Senate voted 50-50 on one of the charges, 17 votes short of the two-thirds needed to remove him from office. What’s the benefit of continuing to hound him a decade later?

By: sfcmac

sfcmac — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:45:00 +0000

Kirk,

Thanks for the compliment. Just one point of contention: With Clinton and Gore it's not a matter of 'disagreement' but felonies commited through abuse of the office. I'm inclined to believe those are prosecutable offenses.

SFC McElroy (RET)

By: Kirk Petersen

Kirk Petersen — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Sergeant First Class McElroy, thank you for your service to our country, but we don’t beat trolls with clue-bats here, and we don’t bury politicians we disagree with under prisons. I’ll confess, however, that I did smile at the phone sex jibe. Hooah!

By: Kirk Petersen

Kirk Petersen — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:15:00 +0000

TigerHawk linked to my post, and argued that conservatives should not hope for the honeymoon to end, because we need an effective President. My reply below is cross-posted from his comments:

If the honeymoon ends, it doesn't mean that the marriage is over. Certainly the press is unlikely to ever become as hostile to Obama as it has been to Bush, and I would not want that. All I'm saying is that we will fairly quickly get to the point where the MSM will feel free to criticize The One.

In my post, my main quarrel was with the press, not with Obama. I voted for McCain, but I generally like Obama and certainly feel better about him now than I did on election day. I hope and pray that he will be an effective President [read: Commander in Chief].

By: Dessert Survivor

Dessert Survivor — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:07:00 +0000

From one of the many Anonymous comments:
“From the time of the Fed’s creation during the FDR regime, the NY Fed has always had the lead role in overall policy decisions.”

The bill establishing of the Fed was signed by Wilson in 1913. The only thing that I remember when I visited his birthplace many years ago was a picture of him signing the bill. It may not be there now. See http://www.bos.frb.org/about/pubs/begin.pdf

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:26:00 +0000

Hmm...I hear many people saying that the news media will eventually turn up the heat on Obama. KP says they will because of "natural competitiveness."

Maybe. And maybe I'm still feeling bludgeoned by the naked partisan bias for Obama the media displayed before the election.

However, I say that the media's loyalty to Obama and his various narratives (currently FDR) they participated in, will triumph over all. Plus to start criticizing him now will highlight their previous in-the-tankedness.

But I'd love to be wrong about this.