Mar 23 2010

Don’t leave it to Cleaver

Democratic partisans and their mainstream media adjunct have sought to brand the Tea Party resistance to the Obama administration as racist and bigoted. Democratic Congressmen alleged over the weekend that they were subjected to racist and bigoted epithets at the rally protesting Obamacare at the Capital over the weekend.
Fox News reported the [...]

Mar 10 2010

Grip Gripe

Politico reports that Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 100%) is losing her grip.
Not her grip on reality (not to mention sanity), however tenuous that may appear; she knows what she’s doing. What lefty Independent Jonathan Allen meant is that the Speaker is losing her iron grip on the Democratic caucus in the [...]

Dec 8 2009

Re: Obama Administration’s Seizing of the Economy

Hugh Hewitt on “the EPA’s “Congress-and-people-be-damned” declaration on the regulation of greenhouse gases” and with it, “the arrival of another power grab by the president’s appointees and the agencies they control” (emphasis mine):
The only solution to this and all the other power grabs –GM, the banks, Obamacare– will be a wholesale forced retirement of Democrats [...]

Nov 8 2009

Republican Pride

The basic asymmetry of American politics is that there are more conservatives than there are Republicans, while there are more Democrats than there are liberals. This is why Nancy Pelosi wasn’t able to persuade anything like a unified caucus to vote for her government takeover of health care, and why Democratic Congressmen were competing [...]

Nov 2 2009

Kristol: Why Pelosi May Fail

Answer: the people.
First of all, the new Rasmussen survey finds 42 percent favoring the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats — down a bit from a week ago. 54 percent of the public is opposed. 23 percent of all voters strongly support the plan, with 44 percent strongly opposed.
Second, there are [...]