As Perry solidified his lead for the GOP nomination, the opposite has happened to “the One,” who, in short, has become obviously and glaringly undone — in a way that has been so dramatic that even the main stream media cannot ignore it, downplay it or talk around it. Basically, if there is a credible pollster, Obama has hit that pollster’s all time low, including | Read More »
This just in, Estonia — the former Soviet communist captive state — has a better financial rating than the United States. Here is the U.S. strategic financial situation — a complete joke. While the public tries to sort out if CBO was right, and the great budget deal only cut $350 million, or the $38 billion widely reported by the mainstream media, Rome is burning. | Read More »
To date, The One has not stopped the U.S. economic decline. By all recent measures, none of The One’s policies to-borrow-and-print-money-and tax-and-spend-it-on-the-government has worked. While Japan is experiencing a slow march towards an uncertain fallout outcome, and it begins to call its debts due from the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve announced the very corrosive policy decision to print $600 billion, presumably — in part | Read More »
In the midst of a global economic meltdown, Obama decides to push for the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” to allow gays to openly be gay and serve in the military. This policy change was one of Obama’s top priorities — the other being the passage of the START treaty. Don’t ask don’t tell went down in flames yesterday in the U.S. Senate. And | Read More »
What is the difference between no investor or country will buy U.S. Treasury bonds, and the following sentence from the Wall Street Journal: “In essence, the Fed now will print money to buy as much as $900 billion in U.S. government bonds through June—an amount roughly equal to the government’s total projected borrowing needs over that period.” I do understand the difference, but I want | Read More »
About two hours ago I read E.J. Dionne’s email, about his post, which he wrote to RS in response to my post. Dionne’s email says: Greetings. You recently posted a critique of a column I wrote this week and I chose to reply to it on the Post’s blog because I thought your writer misconstrued what I had written and also because I disagreed with | Read More »
Among other very high prices to be paid for the Dems health reform jihad, it will cost them control of the U.S. House. Here is the Generic Ballot from Gallup from 1994, the year the Republicans took 50+ seats and control of the House, right after the failure of HillaryCare. (H/T the Marston Chronicles) But it is worse now, than it was then (see 2010 | Read More »
Word is rampant among the Senate leadership, as well as is being reported by the Wall Street Journal, that Senator Reid has got to 60 votes on cloture on the Senate ObamaCare bill. The question of whether we live in a country ruled by leaders who refuse to listen, but do what they believe is in their own interest, has been answered. Conservatives hate this | Read More »
It does not feel like it, but we are winning the war against ObamaCare. You may feel like the political system is broken and the Democrats are not listening to the voters. You feel that way because it is true, the Democrats are not listening. But that does not mean the bill will not die — because it turns out that the two Independent Senators | Read More »
Dem Senators are peeling off of President Obama’s government takeover of health care and its liberal fantasy land that spends more than a trillion and contains hundreds of billions in new taxes. As James Carville told CNN, President Obama only has 57 votes. Reuters James Pethokoukis is reporting that Senators Liberman, Landrieu and Nelson are at NO, and Bayh maybe too. Pethokoukis is reporting the | Read More »
While Senator Snowe’s yes vote in the Senate Finance Committee was a shock to liberals and conservatives, it is neither a defeat for conservatives nor a victory for liberals. The bill would have passed Committee regardless of how Sen. Snowe voted. Senator Snowe, in her own words, said her vote was a maybe on the Senate floor. Smart political observers like Carrie Budoff Brown at | 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 »
Simple, clear, plain english is good when it comes to health care. It is hard to do unless you are really good. It is even more difficult to make talking about health care interesting and witty. The winner is George Newman writing in the Wall Street Journal in an article titled: “Parsing the Health Reform Arguments.” If you are going to read any one thing | Read More »
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