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Wall Street: “Too Big to Jail.” »

Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show at 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor station WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]

None of the Christie »

The spectacle of the governor of New Jersey traveling to the Reagan Library to repeat the same obvious detail — that is, that he is not a candidate for the presidency — underlines the sluggishness of the Republican process. Romney churns along, unloved and dutifully-financed and well-organized. Perry struggles with self-inflicted wounds and possibly a [...]

Wasserman-Schulz Hearts Trump (+ Open Thread) »

The puzzle as to why the DNC wasted video time on the Mitt Romney meets DonaldTrump PR stunt (like a Japanese monster movie, Aged Godzilla meets Aged Sea Monster) can only be answered by: 1. Trump fogs minds, creates sloppy decision making. 2. Debbie Wasserman-Schulz reviles/admires/obsesses Trump. 3. Mitt Romney is the luckiest non-partisan whoever [...]

Herman Willkie 2011 (& Open Thread) »

The Herman Cain campaign gathers attention with the musical chairs game of the contest sending Pawlenty, McCotter from the field and leaving Bachmann, Huntsman, Santorum, Gingrich, Johnson, as unready. Herman Cain is ready. Cain boasts he is not a politician; Cain promotes Cain with genius; Cain entertains and motivates and inspires. For all this, Cain [...]

Lady Swells POTUS Template »

  POTUS Obama goes confrontational at the same time he chooses to demonstrate that he is golfing with POTUS Clinton. Connection? Obama is quoted purposefully from the CBC dinner to the closed fundraisers in California in speaking of “push back” against FNC and the Wall Street Journal. Why does a president become a predictable media [...]

Darkness Syria Visible »

Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]

Texas Jerusalem »

Rick Perry shrewdly lands in New York City for two fundraisers in the midst of the entanglement over the PA demand for statehood without negotiation from the UN Security Council. POTUS Obama is stuck somewhere in his nuanced incoherence re the Middle East. The 2009 embassies to Istanbul and Cairo shadow the Obama administration, since [...]

Join Attack »

The Obama campaign looks to recreate the winning impertinence of the 2008 crusade of the pesky Blue kids who overwhelmed imperious Mrs. Clinton and stormed past the grouchy John McCain. Early buzz suggest that the remake, Yes We Can Part II, is a flop in rehearsals. A sitting presidency is not an office that gets [...]

Lost Titanium * Larry On Radio »

Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]

Jobs Strike »

POTUS electioneering of his American Jobs Act is a slow-motion fail, and we can see in POTUS’s strident repetition that he does not have an audience in Washington or in the critical Electoral College states of his tardy palaver. Spoke to Larry Kudlow, Joseph Brusuelas, Jon Hilsenrath, Michael Boskin, Steve Moore re the slowdown in [...]

Obama’s to lose »

Rick Perry’s “Social Security is a Ponzi scheme” gambit is paying off for the early campaign in that it gets the governor attention and publicity. The remark is wrong on the face of it, because Ponzi is a crime. Mitt Romney was shrewd to attack, during the so-called CNN/Tea Party debate in Florida, on the [...]

Bad News Cairo »

News of marauders breaking into the Israeli consulate office in Cairo marks a sharp break with the gloomy status quo ante in Egypt and starts the new narrative toward escalation and confrontation. Blame-shifting will dominate the next days, but the fact is that Israel has hastily withdrawn its ambassador, Yitzhak Levanon, and almost all the [...]

Obama 1948 »

In the summer of 1948, President Harry Truman faced a deep recession and the dropping of the Iron Curtain across Germany and Europe. The polls showed Republican Governor Tom Dewey leading by double digits. What did Truman do? Just what President Obama is starting with his “jobs speech.” He attacked the “do-nothing Republican Congress.” President [...]

Tea Party Eclipse (+ Larry On Radio) »

Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]

Perry Spring Narrative »

I have spoken to the Texas Tribune routinely since the origins of Rick Perry’s presidential campaign, and the facts support the Perry narrative that in his ten years as governor, inheriting the role from GW Bush in 01, Perry has supported a “business climate” that creates private sector jobs while limiting and reducing public sector [...]