Obama: I Don’t Want Tired Old (Republican) Ideas

    Now we know why Barack Obama apparently expected a big bipartisan vote for the c___ sandwich. He figured that once he rode a 53% tidal wave to the White House, on a platform specifically calling for: Hope; and, Change, that there was no way Republicans would actually vote against a trillion dollar payoff to liberal constituencies. He apparently didn’t believe all that Democratic rhetoric about | Read More »

    More On “I Won”

    Obama’s “I Won” seems likely to be a defining moment — at least in the early part of his presidency. Elected as a bipartisan — or post-partisan, or whatever — he and his supporters seem to think Republicans should be happy that they even pretended to care what we think. Now that they made a show of listening to us, we should dutifully back their | Read More »