The Wall Street Journal has a fantastic editorial about just how awful the NRA’s carveout deal with the Democrats is. The NRA may swing a big lobbying stick by virtue of the breadth and voting power of its members, but it draws its legitimacy from the Constitution and it has drawn support on gun rights from those who care about the entire Bill of Rights. | Read More »
Apparently Elena Kagan is a softball player, or something like that. It is not a subject I care to write about, want to write about, or think is relevant to much of anything considering the woman’s only definitive answer on any matter of jurisprudence is that she believes there is no federal constitutional right to gay marriage. So that’s that. Except it isn’t. And it | Read More »
Here is the Washington Post story on the detention of Faisal Shahzad, the suspected bomber in New York — or at least a person of interest. Here is the Wall Street Journal story on the same. The man is a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan and was detained as he was trying to fly to Dubai. Guess what words are not mentioned in either story? | Read More »
Dede Scozzafava is the woman some Republicans call a “new style of Republican” who is going to help usher in a new Republican revolution. Not likely. Even the Wall Street Journal has caught on. Republicans are telling themselves that a political wave is building that could carry them to big election gains next year. Judging by their performance so far in a special election in | Read More »
Republicans have been living by the Congressional Budget Office’s numbers and some say the GOP now must die by those numbers. Not so fast. Above the fold on page one of the Wall Street Journal today is this article that “New Math Boosts Health Plan.” What new math? The CBO has released numbers on the Senate’s health care plan — never mind that the legislation | Read More »
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