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 »
The NPR poll early in the political season discovered this jewel of predictive election results: the generic ballot in the more than 60 swing House seats NPR’s pollsters identified. Not surprisingly, the generic ballot in these swing districts, NPR found, indicated a wave that would result in the end of Speaker Pelosi. Now, another extensive poll has found even worse generic ballot numbers inside swing | Read More »
Once again, we see the lesson in politics, cowardice kills. Those Dems — as in all of them — who did not have the courage or the fortitude to really very seriously oppose Pelosi’s Jonestown Kool-Aid drinking party that lasted the entire Congress, and included cap and tax, ObamaCare, teacher’s bailouts, auto bailouts, bank bailouts, tax hikes and Medicare cuts are now paying the price. | Read More »
William Galston writing in The New Republic, is quite clear in his lucid conclusions drawn from recent polling about how the public views of Congress: “they also believe by a 2 to 1 margin that if they leave Congress in Democrats’ hands, Obama’s program is what they’ll get.” ObamaCare burned it into the public’s soul that the White House does not care what the public | Read More »
He does what his ideological desires push him to do, his friends and colleagues and allies be damned. In other words, he gives the public and his colleagues the middle finger, because he is right. This is obviously politically destructive and divisive. It shows The One’s disdain for everyone, except, of course, himself. Third, he yells fire in a crowded theater by siding with the | Read More »
While I was fishing, the White House decided on a new strategy. Admit the truth. This is a reflection of the fact that Obama, the President, has lied so much and so often, that only the truth has a real shot of being given any attention. Recent lies include all of the aforementioned health care whoopers (you can keep your plan and the ObamaCare entitlement | Read More »
For the GOP, ObamaCare is the toxic waste dump that has the curious characteristic of only adversely impacting the political health of Democrats. Many Dems, in fact, have had their political life ended by ObamaCare, and the mortality figures are only expected to get worse. The key part of ObamaCare, the federal mandate that all Americans must buy health insurance, is under attack at the | Read More »
Among the mainstream media, there have been sporadic, hiccup like moments when the Ministry of Propaganda lets something slip about the real truth about ObamaCare. You know the feeling, you think — “they” allowed that to be published? I do not have a list of places this has happened, it is merely my sense that it seems to be happening more. The real question is | Read More »
The Speaker’s assertion that unemployment checks create jobs is so wrong, its hard to even begin to talk to someone who holds such an ignorant view of basic economics. And now jobless claims are up this week, symptomatic of Dem leadership gone really, really wrong. As if the world needed anymore confirmation that the Speaker needs to be removed forthwith, Gallup posted a record low | Read More »
It is unprecedented for the majority party to announce, through its hand-maidens and cut-outs, that it will mount a $125 million defense of the President’s signature domestic policy law, unless that law is so unpopular that it is causing the majority party to have to do something — anything to sweep back the ocean of discontent. The strategic political position the Dems have put themselves | Read More »
Every media organization will report the NPR poll showing the Dems getting their throats cut in the November election, and Nancy Pelosi losing her job as Speaker, by studiously avoiding the one thing that everyone understands caused the Dems to lose so much public support, so quickly: ObamaCare. The Dems pride and arrogance is fed by a boot-licking media, who think it is news when | Read More »
Axelrod, message maven for Obama, says they will have the votes in the House. Really. It says so right here, on ABC NEWS. And Chuck Todd of NBC News tweets: Clyburn on #MTP (Meet the Press) says House Dems do NOT yet have the votes. Matches Pelosi who said “when you have the votes, you call the vote.” AP is now also reporting the U.S. | Read More »
In the latest Mad-Magazine-like-Spy-vs.-Spy move, the House Dems have hatched a plan which reminds me of their ill-fated plan to delay seating Senator-elect Scott Brown until they had another ObamaCare vote on the Senate floor. The Dems backed down. Similarly, they will back down from the Slaughter plan. Former Speaker Gingrich describes the Slaughter plan in a tweet about a Brian Darling blog: “Incredible. We’ve | 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 »
The media is now pulling out all the stops to help Obama win the House vote. They know he is in deep trouble and they need to help. And they will keep helping, reporting as if the vote is in the bag. But do not fear. Jay Cost has the real house vote count. (Rep. Massa’s claims that he is the swing vote, notwithstanding.) If | Read More »
Ending this health care nightmare comes down to one thing, and one thing only: expend all remaining to defeat the Senate bill in the House. The Speaker cannot pass the Senate bill now. She does not have the votes. She has never had the votes — ever, to pass the Senate bill. (The AP list of 9 Dems who voted No who may vote yes | Read More »
Senator Conrad, the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said yesterday that reconciliation can only be used if the House passes the Senate bill first. As Sen. Conrad declared, “I don’t know of any way, I don’t know of any way where you can have a reconciliation bill pass before the bill that it is meant to reconcile passes.” Neither do I. Then, the kicker: | Read More »
Turns out that the interpretation that the Dems are bluffing on reconciliation is a charitable interpretation. It assumes they have a plan. The other alternative view, that the President really is serious about reconciliation, is so unserious that most in D.C. don’t take it seriously. (Read Eric Cantor’s House Whip Count Memo here about why the Dems do not have the votes in the House | Read More »
Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation has moved the entire health care world from refitting weapons and/or R & R to DEFCON Two with these two posts, here and here. Darling is not only one of the few real operational experts on Senate Rules, he is a highly effective operative for the good guys. If Darling says the Dems are going to try it, they | Read More »
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