The Daily Gouge

It’s Tuesday, November 1st, 2011….and here’s The Gouge! First up, in the “It’s Not The Crime; It’s The Cover-up” segment, Herman Cain finally gets a taste of what running for President as a Republican really means: Cain: “I Have Never Sexually Harassed Anyone”   http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/10/31/cain_i_have_never_sexually_harassed_anyone A couple observations on the initial stages of Hermangate; first, […]

It’s Monday, October 31st, 2011….and here’s the Gouge! First up on the last Gouge of October, it’s the “Coming Soon To A City, State And/Or Country Near You” segment, and an object lesson for the rest of us, courtesy of Steve Malanga, the WSJ and the irresponsible idiots….yes, idiots….running the city of Harrisburg, PA: How […]

It’s Friday, October 28th, 2011….but before we begin, here’s a bit of political satire that definitively delineates Mitt Romney’s only real doctrinal dilemma: Now, here’s The Gouge! First up, Gregg Easterbrook refuses to let feelings trump facts, as he sagely suggests…. Politicians should stop crying “fire!”   The Senate just rejected President Barack Obama’s proposal […]

It’s Thursday, October 27th, 2011….and here’s The Gouge! First up, a question for the Left side of the aisle: howz that “hopey-changey-transparency” thing workin’ out for ya? Justice Department Proposes Letting Government Deny Existence of Sensitive Documents   A longtime internal policy that allowed Justice Department officials to deny the existence of sensitive information could […]

It’s Wednesday, October 26th, 2011….and here’s The Gouge! We lead off the midweek edition with the Led Zeppelin Memorial “The Song Remains the Same” segment, courtesy of the greatest appeaser since…. Boehner: Russia Gone Soviet Again House Speaker Boehner says Russia is playing ball with ‘unstable and dangerous regimes’ in move to restore Soviet-like power, […]

It’s Tuesday, October 25th, 2011….and now that we’re back from a brief sabbatical, here’s The Gouge! First up, for anyone requiring further proof of Team Tick-Tock’s undeniably indecipherable foreign policy, the following three headlines should serve to provide it: Karzai would side with Pakistan in a war against America   Obama to Remove All U.S. […]

It’s Tuesday, October 18th, 2011….and here’s the Gouge! First up, it’s the “That’s ‘Liberal’….spelled H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E” segment, courtesy of the WSJ‘s William McGurn and…. The Contradictions of Harold Koh The former Yale Law dean who hounded the Bush administration over its interrogation policies is now justifying drone strikes.   We forget it now, but there was […]

It’s Monday, October 17th, 2011….and here’s the Gouge! First up, the WSJ details a ray of sunshine in a heretofore darkening sky: ObamaCare Starts to Unravel The real story behind the Class program failure, and what to do now.   Now that one of ObamaCare’s major new benefit programs has been scrapped, liberals are trying […]

It’s Friday, October 14th, 2011….and here’s the Gouge! First up, picking up where she left off, the sorely-missed wisdom and insight of the WSJ‘s Kimberly Strassel, back from maternity leave: The GOP’s Solyndra Problem Republicans have their own green baggage.   On Friday Rick Perry delivers his first major policy address, unveiling an aggressive energy […]

It’s Thursday, October 13th, 2011….but before we begin, we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for a crass commercial announcement.  Though we truly appreciate the support you’ve given us to date with our revised format, we would like to remind those of you who’ve opted to receive The Gouge in the standard email format the website […]