I think this is huge. According to the Huffington Post: The Senate parliamentarian told Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Wednesday afternoon that her proposal to create a National Insurance Rate Authority runs afoul of reconciliation rules, Feinstein told HuffPost after the conversation. “I’m crushed it’s out,” she said. But she added that she would bring it up with him one more time to try to make | Read More »
Timmy Cahill is the treasurer of Massachusetts. He is, scratch that, was a powerful Democrat from the powerful vote-rich city of Quincy. He bailed on his party. Personally, I like Tim, a lot. But he hasn’t earned his bones yet, so I’m on the fence. Tim left the “D” party because it became too liberal and is now running for governor as an independent. His | Read More »
Robert J. Samuelson wrote an excellent op-ed on health care today. As much as we may wish otherwise, the conservative echo chamber only has so much reach. Samuelson is an editor for both Newsweek and the Washington Post, and he is no conservative. So when he eviscerates Obama and the health care bill at this critical juncture, I must reply, well done sir. Beltway insiders | Read More »
Its no coincidence that President Obama chose to stump for his health care legislation in Ohio on Monday. There are at least seven important undecided Democrats from Ohio including Marcia Fudge. According to WKYC, Marcia Fudge, who voted for the health care bill in November, is now undecided. Fellow Ohio Democrats Zach Space, Mary Jo Kilroy, Marcy Kaptur, Tim Ryan, Betty Sutton, John Boccieri and | Read More »
If winning seats in November is the end game, I have an awesome strategy for the GOP. Let the Dems pass cap and tax. After that, let them pass amnesty. If we have time, let them pass card check. By then, the electorate will be really irate. We’ll win lots of seats. Forget any consolation prizes regarding November. The end game isn’t beating Democrats, it | Read More »
John Patrick Bedell, the person responsible for murder spree at the Pentagon, was a 9/11 Truther. This will leak out the mainstream media like molasses in Siberia. This is the second Left Wing nut in a row to go psycho on the American public. Yet, the press is still itching for someone associated with the Tea Party to become unhinged as they dig for evidence | Read More »
The race is on. The Democratic Leadership is eager to get a health care bill passed before the next round of Tea Parties and Town Hall Protests, which are being scheduled for Easter Recess and Tax Day. Congress bolts March 27th and returns April 12th. Traditionally, this is a time for them to do district work and hold town hall meetings. Everyone already knows how | Read More »
Who needs statistics, empirical evidence, actuarial data, logic or reason, when you have anecdotes? I once knew a lady who had to use her dead sister’s dentures. That should never happen in America!!! I watched the whole health care summit and that pretty much sums up the Democratic argument; sentimental anecdote, after sentimental anecdote, after sentimental anecdote and some talk about closing donut holes with | Read More »
While the Democrats in Congress prepare for reconciliation, the GOP is measuring the value of Obama’s health care summit. Let’s not get mixed up here. The health care summit is a public relations stunt, nothing more. It is being used to provide the Democrats in Congress some leverage to pursue reconciliation. That is the real battleground. The GOP has the higher ground on two crucial | Read More »
The Tea Party movement draws its strength and its relevance from its spontaneous, organic and populist nature. That is also the source of its greatest weakness. Because it is a fledgling, leader-less and platform-less movement people are tempted anoint themselves leaders and project their own values upon the rest of the movement. Every faction thinks they own it, but no one really does. The Tea | Read More »
As the world outside of Barack Obama’s self-absorbed bubble turns: Polls show former communist apparatchik Viktor Yanukovych holding a slim lead over Yulia Tymoshenko in the Ukraine presidential election. Yankukovych is a bad guy, like he could be cast as a villain in a James Bond movie type of bad guy. The former convict, thug and accused rapist is the Kremlin’s lapdog and has no | Read More »
According to The Hill: Arguably the nation’s most prominent openly-gay lawmaker this week slammed Defense Secretary Robert Gates for opening a year-long review of the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell policy” against gays in the military, saying it is merely causing delay. “As quickly as we can do this it will be toward the end of the year,” Frank said in a raised voice. “So | Read More »
Before the Tea Parties, before the Town Halls, back when Obamamania was all the rage, when the political pundits declared the GOP irrelevant, and gloomy conservatives were busy playing the blame game and pointing fingers, some kept the course and chose to fight. November 2008: That was fourteen months ago, after the 2008 elections, when an obscure state senator named Scott Brown, went above and | Read More »
Blanche Lincoln? Other outlets have picked up on the testy exchange between Blanche Lincoln and Obama, but this little nugget caught by Glenn Thrush went unnoticed: The seminal moment of this morning’s Q and A between Senate Democrats and President Obama was an extraordinary — and extraordinarily uncomfortable — exchange between Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Obama over the party’s left and right wings… Lincoln, | Read More »
Senator Judd Gregg schooled OMB Director Peter Orszag on the law and managed to put Bernie Sanders in his place during a hearing on TARP. Judd Gregg has been a stalwart on budget manipulation and in this clip he is protesting the manipulation of TARP funds. This encounter is particularly sweet because Obama was in Nashua, New Hampshire today, Judd Gregg’s home town, promoting his | Read More »
Let me preface my comments by stating that Paul Kirk’s decisive vote on the debt ceiling bothers me, and if I had my druthers, he’d be gone. But there is a larger issue here. Although no date has been confirmed, it appears like Scott Brown will be sworn in around February 11th. Brown is trying to assemble his staff, get them housing, get himself situated, | Read More »
Howard Zinn, an immensely influential enemy of our Republic, has passed away. I prefer not speak ill of the recently deceased, but I can’t ignore it either. A prolific writer and a history professor at Boston University, he helped root generations of unwitting Americans in marxist principles. Zinn’s warm demeanor and charisma often disarmed the young and naive, who digested his palatable anti-Americanism. Few radicals | Read More »
I’m not a science guy, but something caught my attention about Obama’s SOTU; the surprise and disappointment by many in the scientific community regarding Obama’s dismissal of the space program. I’ve been absorbing the criticisms and something clicked. The scientific community is often tied to the government spending and sympathetic to government growth. Those who are infatuated by the cosmos tend to be idealistic and | Read More »
Well, not maybe not serious, but I bet you’ve never seen Keynesian economics and Austrian economics debated like this:
Former Massachusetts governor Paul Cellucci walked through Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall one brisk winter’s day, when he saw a familiar face among the crowd. He spotted the man sitting at a table quietly eating a sandwich by himself. Cellucci worked his way over to the table and greeted his old friend. Faneuil Hall bustles with tourists and shoppers and Cellucci couldn’t help notice the striking | Read More »
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