Tweet And he has a point. It seems our girl, so fresh from tarnishing her own fine record on the Confederate flag, has stepped in it again. Not sure why she keeps doing this. Does she feel she’s not in the limelight enough these days? Anyway, Bruni said this in his latest email newsletter, under […]
Tweet Having been out of town travelling, the first thing I read about Nikki Haley’s most-newsworthy revelation in her book took a sort of second-day, second-guessing approach. Aaron Blake wrote that yes, the assertion that Rex Tillerson and John Kelly asked her to help them save the country from Trump and she refused was important, but “The […]
TweetI got a call this morning from E.J. Dionne in Washington, wanting to talk about Nikki Haley. I don’t know whether I said anything intelligible or not. I remember rambling about how she has held a series of jobs (including the current one) for which she was woefully unqualified, but has grown in office. Which […]
Tweet This is just classic. From The Washington Post: Nikki Haley finds herself under the bus as Trump shifts course on Russia The Washington Post reported late Sunday that President Trump “has battled his top aides on Russia and lost.” Less than 20 hours later, Trump has now reversed U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s announcement that the […]
Tweet Aaarrrggghhh! I’m reacting to this: Not everyone was a fan of the Grammy Awards segment where celebrities read passages of the controversial best seller “Fire and Fury.” One person especially critical on Sunday night was a member of the Trump Administration and took to Twitter to voice their displeasure. No, it wasn’t President Donald […]
Tweet Are you ready for this, folks? This morning, Phillip said: evidently there are rumors that we may be getting a Madam (Haley) Secretary soon… To which I could only react by saying, it’s astounding how far a person can get just with poise and social graces. But let’s give Nikki some credit for having […]
Tweet My wife was watching her Reuters TV app yesterday, and at one point she said, “Why does it say ‘president’ under Nikki Haley’s name?” I thought at first that she meant Reuters had made a mistake in the chyron under the video, and thinking there might be a light blog post in it, I […]
Tweet This was in The Washington Post over the weekend: After President Trump said that deporting undocumented immigrants was “a military operation,” Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, speaking in Mexico, clarified that there would be “no use of military force in immigration operations.” After Trump, standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, upended […]
Tweet I’ve been too busy to watch Nikki Haley’s confirmation hearing for the U.N. job today. But maybe some of y’all have had time to pay attention. If so, please share your thoughts and I’ll try to catch up later via comments…
Tweet Late on election night, the folks on PBS (Judy Woodruff, David Brooks, Mark Shields, and others), utterly flabbergasted and in desperate search for something to say, somehow got on the subject of “Whither the Republican Party?” Or something like that. I forget exactly how they got on the topic, but they got to talking […]
TweetToday at our annual luncheon at the convention center, the Greater Columbia Community Relations Council (of which I am a board member) honored my good friend Jack Van Loan and our governor, Nikki Haley. Jack received the Milton Kimpson Award for a lifetime of service to his country and to this community. As you’ll recall, […]
TweetYou don’t find a more dutiful soldier in the South Carolina Republican Party than Henry McMaster. Even when he went suddenly from being the most logical GOP choice for governor to losing to Tea Party upstart Nikki Haley in 2010 (basically, he was Jeb Bush to her Trump), he didn’t brood — he became her […]
TweetIt’s being reported that Time magazine has named Nikki Haley as one of the 100 most influential people — in the world, apparently. And you know, if you think of the Nikki Haley who led us through taking down the flag last year, that’s not a shock. Good people such as Mari and Emile and […]
TweetThe SC Democrats put out this release today: SCDP Chair Statement on Nikki Haley Delivering GOP SOTU Response Columbia, SC – South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Jaime Harrison issued the following statement on the announcement of Governor Nikki Haley delivering the GOP response to the President’s State of the Union. “Next Tuesday, America will see a poised […]
TweetIt’s now being reported, without attribution so far, that at a 4 p.m. press conference today, Nikki Haley will reveal that she is working on a plan to bring down the Confederate flag that flies on the State House grounds. Her office, which announced the presser, is not confirming what it’s about. If she does this, […]
TweetI don’t suppose we should be surprised that Nikki Haley treats “lawyer” as some sort of cussword, because she’s shown time and again that she has little regard for the law itself. Cindi Scoppe detailed, in her column yesterday, the known instances in which our governor has acted as a law unto herself since taking […]
Tweet I wrote about this and posted it four years ago, and referred back to it yesterday. But today, when the Sheheen campaign sent it out for the benefit of those who previously missed it or have forgotten, it occurred to me that they have a point: For the sake of clear comparison to Sheheen’s […]
Tweet That’s not my opinion; it’s just fact. And it’s in a good cause, as she has taken the Ice Bucket Challenge to fight ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. I have a nagging worry every time I see one of these: What if the dousee suffers a heart attack? I guess that occurs […]
TweetKristin Sosanie over at the state Democratic Party resurrects this from the archives today: Well, this could be awkward. Today Nikki Haley is holding campaign events with the SC Chamber of Commerce, but take a look at how she slammed them less than four years ago: “‘The state Chamber is a big fan of bailouts […]
TweetI refer, of course, to this quote regarding the unaccompanied Central American children, part of the flood that has precipitated a crisis on our southern border, who have been placed with relatives in South Carolina: “You want me to educate them, right? And you want me to pay their health care, right? It does cost […]