LBJ He’s Not
It’s remarkable: Obama’s signature legislative item is at a crucial juncture. It’s not clear that there are 60 votes for Harry Reid’s plan, abortion has become a stumbling block, and the public...
View ArticleCrying Sexism
A duo of female reporters for Politico are convinced that the rest of us are ignoring the real meaning in the Massachusetts race: “a glass ceiling that remains almost impenetrable, even in the blue...
View ArticleGOP Strife? Hardly!
Fred Barnes notes that Scott Brown’s victory exploded “the fable about a death struggle pitting tea party populists and angry conservatives against moderates and the Republican hierarchy.” Brown – like...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Sometimes you get the sense that it won’t be the Democrats’ year: “Broadway Bank, the troubled Chicago lender owned by the family of Illinois Treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias, has...
View ArticleJumping When Unions Holler
Obama’s promise of a better, cleaner, and more transparent brand of politics has not been fulfilled. Not by a long shot. The president appoints the SEIU boss to the deficit commission. Congress behind...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
No (except from the Obami): “Does anyone think that Iran would be shipping arms to terrorists or building nuclear weapons if it was a democracy?” asks Elliott Abrams. Predictable (when you nominate...
View ArticleMagic 50
ObamaCare is, as any massive and hurriedly constructed government power grab is, fraught with the potential for unintended consequences. As this report explains, small businesses may have every...
View ArticleThe Most Transparent Administ . . . Oh, Never Mind
The Hill reports: Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Thursday threatened the Obama administration with subpoenas if it doesn’t release information on the Fort Hood...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
“Recovery” means something other than a steady, predictable improvement in the economy: “The Dow Jones industrial average plunged nearly 1,000 points in afternoon trading before recovering...
View ArticleThe Law of Unintended Consequences
In addition to the insightful comments by John’s friend who works in finances, I wanted to call attention to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal on the Dodd-Frank financial “reform” bill. According...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
The wave is about to hit the Democrats. The latest poll from Reuters-Ipsos: “Only 34 percent approved of Obama’s handling of the economy and jobs compared to 46 percent who deemed it unsatisfactory....
View ArticleThe Democrat’s Health-Care Wounds: Six Months After the Suicide Mission
The discussion over the past week stimulated by Jay Cost’s claim that health-care reform must be accounted a major part of the desperate woes of Obama and the Democrats led me to go back and look at...
View ArticleLots and Lots of People Will Lose Their Current Coverage
Obama promised that if you liked your health-care coverage, you could keep it under ObamaCare. But not really. Not remotely close, actually: McDonald’s Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could...
View ArticleSome Historical Perspective on Negative Campaigning
Every election, it seems, political commentators and reporters suggest that the most recent election we’re in is “the nastiest, most negative election season of all time.” You have to be largely...
View ArticleRE: Senate Shifts
As I noted yesterday, the new Senate will have more Republicans and, just as important, many more nervous Democrats. Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is thinking along the same lines: “I think the...
View ArticleIt’s the Whole Country
David Brooks zeroes in on the Democrats’ meltdown in the Midwest: Over the past two years, these voters have watched government radically increase spending in an attempt to put people back to work....
View ArticleSearching
As I noted on Friday, the GOP could use some unifiers who can fuse the Tea Party’s enthusiasm and small-government devotion with the mature street smarts of conservative stalwarts who possess...
View ArticleEarmark Vote
The Senate defeated the earmark ban. The Dems who scrambled to get on the good side of voters (i.e., voting for the ban): Evan Bayh (retiring but with political ambitions), Michael Benet (just...
View ArticleRE: Why Aren’t There Any Republican Scientists?
Alana’s reference to the Pew Research poll that used the membership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as a proxy for American scientists generally, which it is not, reminds me...
View ArticleToomey Support for DADT Repeal Highlights a Conservative’s Independent Streak
The announcement that Pennsylvania Senator-elect Pat Toomey will support repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy about gays in the military may signal the end of this pointless rule. Those who...
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