Certainly, most Presidents have been tempted to do what ever it is they want, and most do not, because they listen to those around them and find out they do not know as much as they thought they knew. This problem has zero impact on our current President — as Peretz writes in the New Republic — “the arrogance that is so characteristic of his | Read More »
The Dems don´t get it. The public understands this, which is why the GOP has a hard 41 votes to sustain a filibuster (assuming the Dem plan to gut the filibuster fails) and the GOP controls the U.S. House. The extent to which the Dems don´t get it on health care borders on pathological denial. There is one exception, of course. Senator Schumer of NY | Read More »
The Jonestown Kool-Aid brigade, known for forcing their followers to drink cyanide laced Kool-Aid, found new leaders in The One, David Axelrod and Nancy Pelosi. With all their followers about to be forced into the Dem Death Panels by voters, TIME magazine is now reporting that the delusional Speaker will retire if the Dems lose the House, along with others who force fed their death-by-drinking-the-Kool-Aid | Read More »
Silver in the NYT: “…there is considerable disagreement among pollsters on the magnitude of the enthusiasm gap. If Gallup’s likely voter model, which implies extremely lopsided turnout in favor Republicans, were to be correct, G.O.P. gains would be well in excess of 50 seats. “ Just to be clear, Silver says the consensus among prognosticators is that the Dems lose 50 seats, plus or minus | Read More »
Liberals and their enablers who are feeling the political pain of passing laws like ObamaCare that the public opposes, console themselves with platitudes about the morality of their cause and the laws they passed: “I feel satisfied because the Democrats have overseen a bunch of programs that, while unappreciated now, are probably going to do a lot of good in the long run.” Once the | Read More »
They announced they are planning to have a vote next week, but the Speaker is still looking for “certain assurances” from the U.S. Senate. They do not have the votes to pass it. Here is the latest from The Hill newspaper’s Whip Count: Thirty-four House Democrats are either firm no votes or leaning no, according to The Hill’s whip list. Dozens more are undecided. The | Read More »
The Speaker’s flip-flops are catching up with her. And the strangeness is starting to show (see the video): we have to pass the Senate bill so the public can see what is in it. Her famed control over house members minds is fading: She supported Chairman Rangel right up until she dumped him. She did not have the muscle to impose upon the Ways and | Read More »
This a classic case of attempted big-man-chest-beating, that comes off as kinda-whine-y — as in, do you want some cheese with that whine? — when Shrum attempts to rally defeated, wounded and shell-shocked troops. And this is now what passes as the top Dem political advice on why Congress should pass health care: “A PPP poll shows that by itself the act of passing the | Read More »
When the lead paragraph in a story in the Boston Globe — owned by the New York Times — from a story titled “Obama here for Coakley, trailing a diminished aura,” reads: “The feverish excitement that propelled Barack Obama and scores of other Democrats to victory in 2008 has all but evaporated, worrying party leaders who are struggling to invigorate the base before Tuesday’s Massachusetts | Read More »
Connecting the dots between Maureen Dowd of the NYT, and Emmett Tyrrell of the American Spectator: Dowd: “If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, | Read More »
For those attempting to figure out what is in the Senate ObamaCare bill, you are in the company of 99 U.S. Senators who have not seen the bill. At least that is what today’s New York Times is reporting: “frustration has been growing among some lawmakers over the delay, especially as they are asked repeated questions about a bill they have not yet seen. “I | Read More »
When are the Democrats going to start cracking some heads over those who have been egging them off the cliff called health care reform? Answer: when they lose some elections. Oh, they did lose elections in VA and NJ — only twice in the history of Virgina has the GOP taken all three top state positions, and this is one of those two times. And | Read More »
While the dollar hits a 15 month low, and gold hits an all time high, and the editorial page editor of the Washington Post (no less) is warning: “The bill also could take America a step closer to bankruptcy. And for progressives in particular — for those who believe that government has a mission to help the poor and protect the vulnerable — that prospect | Read More »
The abortion issue, you may recall, was described by George Stephanopoulos as “the gravest threat” to the health reform bill. The largest concentration of Democratic NO votes on health care reform are because of the abortion issue. So, naturally, in an article about Speak Pelosi’s efforts to rally votes for ObamaCare, the New York Times actually talked about other issues besides the public option as | Read More »
The MSM would like the American public to believe that the Senate Finance Committee bill was scored by the Congressional Budget Office. After all, WaPo, the NYT and the WSJ reported: WaPo: “The bill would cost $829 billion over the next decade.” NYT: “The budget office analyzed the bill … its newly projected cost — $829 billion over 10 years.” WSJ: “The latest Senate health | Read More »
The Associated Press has sided with the rest of the health care and budget world to inform Obama that his Senate health care bill has a tax increase on the middle class. Obama denied that the bill had any tax increase, on all the Sunday shows (Obama did five) and once again told a Whopper that no one believed. So, the Associated Press wrote an | Read More »
The number of likely voters who approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President is at 45 percent. (Note: other pollsters poll “Adults” instead of likely voters. Polling adults inflates President Obama’s approval rating.) The President’s continued pushing of a politically lethal health care plan is to blame. But the three horsemen of the Democratic Party’s Apocalypse: Speaker Pelosi, Chairman | Read More »
It is difficult to understand the degree of the lack of understanding of health care reform politics that could produce the “go it alone” editorial by the New York Times today. Essentially, the New York Times is advising the Democratic Congress to expose itself to enormous political risk for the sake of health care reform, and gives no recognition that the fundamental political baseline of | Read More »
With the massive union and Phrma spending in support of President Obama’s health reform bill, supporters have outspent opponents five to one, according to the New York Times: Supporters of Mr. Obama’s plan to overhaul the system have outspent opponents, with $24 million worth of advertising, compared with $9 million from opponents. An additional $24 million has been broadly spent in support of overhauling the | Read More »
The first thing to read today, is historically significant. It is the first time a lioness of the left has called for Speaker Pelosi to step down, in print, in the MSM, citing the Congressional health care reform train wreck. Published today in Salon, it is titled Obama’s healthcare horror. The second development is a far more serious, structural political problem for the Democrats — | Read More »
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