Opposition to Obamacare Holding Steady
To the extent voters are following the Democrats’ frantic efforts to bribe or threaten the last three or four Congressmen into voting for government medicine, they remain unimpressed. Rasmussen finds that likely voters oppose the plan by 53-43 percent. These numbers have held remarkably steady since around Thanksgiving.
The Democrats seem to [...]
Obsession
Matt Drudge is trumpeting the fact that Senate staffers have been warned to stay away from the Drudge Report on the theory that it may be spreading computer viruses. (If the old rules apply, that is libel per se, isn’t it?) What I thought was even more entertaining was the Drudge Report’s traffic [...]
Amending the Spending
This week, a trio of fiscally conservative House Republicans
released a document painting a dire picture of the country’s
finances. “Over the last five years,” they write, “federal
spending has increased from nearly 20 percent as a share of the
economy to 24.7 percent as the government’s expenditures
[...]
Down With Small Business!
We noted here that the “Miss me yet?” billboard of President Bush that garnered national publicity was paid for by a group of small business owners who consider the Obama administration’s policies to be hostile to them. No surprise there–pretty much every small business owner I know feels that way. Still, it was [...]
From Graham Road Elementary School to a less mature place
I suppose it’s still possible for a president to give a boffo State of the Union address and thereby boost his popularity, but much conspires against experiencing such success. The biggest headwind is the fact that, these days, Congress isn’t just the audience, it is an active participant.
The problem begins before the [...]
Government Medicine: Poison at the Polls
No wonder the Democrats have to bribe their own Senators and Congressmen to vote for Obamacare: all poll data indicate that the measure (whatever it is at the moment) is deeply unpopular, and the latest numbers from Nebraska suggest that anyone who votes for government medicine, representing other than a deep-blue state, is in [...]
