Pre-Exisiting Condition Insurance Plan Is Going Broke

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 3rd at 12:56 PM  | 

Well, half the country saw this coming. A cornerstone initiative within our new trillion dollar new health care entitlement program, which doesn’t address rising costs, is going broke.  Yet, another example of Obama’s failed domestic agenda.  We have another example of how liberalism fails – and another example why government should do things piecemeal.  According to the Associated Press today: State officials say thousands of people with medical | Read More »

The Successful Failure That Is OPEC

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 1st at 05:49 PM  | 

OPEC and the dynamics of cartel economics were discussed last Thursday at the Cato Institute.  A new study releasedby Andrew P. Morriss & Roger E. Meiners of Securing America’s Future Energy shows that OPEC is sloppy, unstable, but – at times – successful in raising oil prices much to the chagrin of the rest of the world.  At the same time, OPEC been known to crash the market, | Read More »

The Sordid History of Ed Markey

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 1st at 10:52 AM  | 

Democratic Congressman Ed Markey won his party’s primary to fill John Kerry’s vacant seat, but there’s a few things you should know about him.  First, he ran for congress in 1976 on a platform against the court-ordered busing of Boston’s schools.  At the time, the public schools in Boston were ordered to desegregate, and white and black students were forcibly bused to each others districts – which | Read More »

So, When Will The ABC, NBC, and CBS Report on Obamacare?

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  April 22nd at 06:22 PM  | 

As the Big Three –NBC, ABC, and CBS – continue to engage in, to borrow a George Will term, journalistic malpractice over Obamacare’s adverse effects on the economy, they probably missed the development concerning some Democrats, who’ve started to chip away at portions of the bill. Some labor unions are calling for full repeal, and Democratic senators are trying to excise the medical devices tax | Read More »

Do Democrats Think They’re Immune for Obamacare’s Fallout in 2014?

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  April 5th at 02:03 PM  | 

Matt Canter, the Deputy Executive Director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is fired up about Obamacare, and how it might be innocuous to Senate Democrats in 2014.  Yet, could this be a sign of the hubris that sunk Republicans in 2006, 2008, 2012? After all, prior to the 2006 slaughter, the GOP was ahead of Democrats concerning targeting voters and digital strategy.  Remember Voter | Read More »

Democrats Want To Go Off The Fiscal Cliff

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  November 15th at 05:43 PM  | 

During the president’s Nov. 14 news conference, he channeled the Sandy response as a “metaphor” for how the federal government should operate. ”It’s been aggressive and strong and fast and robust and a lot of people have been helped because of it…that’s a pretty good metaphor for how I want federal government to operate generally, and I’m going to do everything I can to make sure | Read More »

The Day After…

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  November 8th at 02:31 AM  | 

Well, we lost.  Mitt Romney didn’t win comfortably.  BUT, Republicans maintained control of the House of Representatives.  In one of the most ignominious highlights of the night, the GOP lost two senate seats – increasing the Democratic majority by two.  The current makeup is 55 Democrats to 45 Republicans.  In a milestone for the ladies, 20% of the U.S. Senate will be represented by women. | Read More »

Slate Writer: White Guys Voting for Romney ‘In Defiance of Normal Americans’

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  November 5th at 05:01 AM  | 

  Remember when liberals scoffed at the fact that Romney could win more than 60% of the white vote? Not only has Romney successfully tackled that hurdle, and liberals are apparently mad about it. Tom Scocca of Slate Magazine wrote on November 2 about the “tribal appeal” that Mitt Romney has with whites and why “white people think” he’ll be a better president. I’ll give | Read More »

Obama’s War on Energy is about Control

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  November 1st at 04:56 PM  | 

When one thinks of energy, the thoughts about economic growth rarely come into play.  In fact, most take it for granted.  It charges our iPhones, laptops, and Kindles, but it also is the lifeblood that keeps our economy growing.  It’s also the critical element that keeps our health services running.  It allows us to channel our resources elsewhere – to be more productive during the | Read More »

Sen. McCaskill Testy Over Question about her Husband’s ‘Dining Room’ Deals

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  October 19th at 08:06 AM  | 

Incumbent Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill got a little testy with Dana Loesch, editor of Breitbart’s Big Journalism, during a press conference after Thursday night’s senate debate where Loesch asked the senator about her husband’s business deals, which involved selling tax credits tied to stimulus money.  McCaskill’s husband, Joseph Shepard, allegedly conducted these deals in the U.S. Senate Dining Room. The Gateway Pundit posted video of | Read More »