Budget Update: White House STILL thinking ‘I won.’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 15th at 11:00 AM  | 

I think that this quote by Dave Camp, House Ways and Means Chair, helps illustrate the exact nature of Obama’s fairly disastrous gaffe Wednesday: “But then I thought, maybe if I can’t figure out who to call, they need to call me,” he said. “It’s their agenda they need to get through the House.” Background: as my readers probably remember, Camp, House Budget Chair Paul | Read More »

Obama retreats on tax hike.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 6th at 04:15 PM  | 

It looked that way earlier in the day, and it’s now confirmed.  The ‘deal’ will be that the White House ‘delays’ raising taxes for two more years in ‘exchange’ for getting a thirteen-month extension on unemployment benefits*.  That last is problematical, but given the Democrats’ moral weakness thus far the GOP might still be able to keep pushing a little and get offsets in federal | Read More »