Feb 23 2010

Eric Cantor on Video: Obama’s Health Care Proposal Meets Definition of Insanity

Cantor’s right on target, and calls for a common-sense approach to reforming health care rather than transforming the entire existing system and push it into a status in which government has replaced the system that we know:

And while we’re on the topic of health care, let’s be clear about one thing for sure. It’s a [...]

Feb 2 2010

Yale Professor Jeffrey Garten: ‘ Obama’s economic blueprint is based on rosy assumptions and political impossibilities’

Yale Professor Jeffrey Garten cuts right to the quick, and not only calls Obama’s budget a sham, but also says it may take China and others to force us into doing what we cannot do ourselves:
[...] Set aside the fact that it is based on overly optimistic growth assumptions and policy decisions that are [...]

Dec 19 2009

Ben Nelson, Cheap Date

As noted this morning, Ben Nelson apparently sold out in exchange for the federal government’s picking up the tab of new Medicaid patients in Nebraska added through Obamacare. For a piddling “$45 million over the first decade,” Ben Nelson really is–as he proudly said Thursday–a “cheap date.”
If he had stood his ground, wouldn’t he have [...]

Nov 18 2009

Trying KSM: why? It might make a good movie

Some of us went to law school hoping we might one day participate in the “trial of the century.” That trial would command universal attention, involve the central issue of the epoch, and result not only in a just verdict but also a vindication of our way of life.
There may be an element of [...]

Nov 9 2009

House Democrat: House Dem: Conference committee will strip out anti-abortion amendment

As though we needed more evidence that the Stupak amendment was a sham, and was allowed by Pelosi in order to provide just enough cover for Blue Dogs to jump on the bandwagon at the last minute, there’s this.
Via the Hill:
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the Democrats’ chief deputy whip in the House, said that [...]

Sep 11 2009

ACORN "Busted" Again: Second Video Released Of Office Willing To Give Tax Advice To Child-Sex-Slavers

ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson’s claim that the initial videos filmed in Baltimore and presented by O’Keefe and his partner-in-sting Hannah Giles were a “smear” and “defamatory,” and that they’d tried the same trick at other offices and came away with no shock video at all, turns out to be only partially true. As it turns [...]

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