Obama: Those Who Say Medicare Cuts Will Reduce Benefits Are Misinformed or Lying
President Obama said at his speech today in Ohio:
"There is no cutting of your guaranteed Medicare benefits, period. No ifs, ands or buts. This proposal makes Medicare stronger, it makes the coverage better, and it makes the finances more secure. And anybody who says otherwise is either misinformed or they're trying to misinform you. Don't [...]
No Bye Week for Bayh
After Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.)
announced he would not run for Senate in 2010, the
conventional wisdom took hold: in a big blow to Republican
recruitment efforts, Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) was now safe. As
Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post put it, “With
Pence out, national [...]
An Obituary Shattered
What a difference a year makes. For American conservatism, it was
a difference between life and death.
With the inauguration of Barack Obama, American politics
were supposed to have changed for at least a generation, perhaps
longer. When Bill Kristol wrote in the New York Times a
year [...]
The race in Massachusetts…
is nominally between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown, but over the past few days it’s turned into a race between Coakley’s Democrats and the bottom of the garbage can. Reaching into the bottom of the garbage can, the Massachusetts Democratic Party has sent out a four-page mailer whose cover alleges that “1,736 [...]
Can’t he just be an ambassador to some place far away?
Rumor has it that Secretary of Defense William Gates will resign by the end of the year and that President Obama will nominate former Senator Chuck Hagel to replace him.
The idea that Gates will resign seems plausible enough, and it may be that Hagel will be tapped to replace him. However, nominating Hagel [...]
Very Bad News For America
Foreign Policy Initiative co-founder Bill Kristol appeared on last night’s Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, where he said that he now believes “for the first time that Obama will not accept General McChrystal’s recommendation in Afghanistan.” As though that’s not bad enough, he floated a very well-sourced rumor that Secretary Gates will be out by the [...]
