In Praise of the ‘Small Bill’
Ross Douthat has a great suggestion for the GOP in his latest column:
Writing in The Weekly Standard, for instance, Jeffrey H. Anderson has proposed covering an extra 10 million Americans with a mixture of tax credits for the uninsured and better-funded risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions. One could imagine Republicans taking Anderson’s “small [...]
Victory, and a Puzzle
Good news: we have captured the Taliban’s top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Pakistan, and he is now being interrogated. The Obama administration is appropriately proud of this victory:
The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is an Afghan described by American officials as the most significant Taliban figure to be detained since [...]
So what is a ‘Scott Brown Republican’?
Scott Brown describes himself as a different kind of Republican - a “Scott Brown Republican. So what does that mean?
Well, in his appearance on the “Today Show” this morning, where an obviously unhappy and testy Meredith Vieira asked him about how he was able to pull off such an historic win and how he [...]
Thinking about the unthinkable, Part Two
As I mentioned on Friday, a very recent poll conducted by Suffolk University shows that 51 percent of likely voters in Massachusetts oppose Obamacare while only 36 percent favor of it. This breakdown, even if accurate, isn’t going to sweep Scott Brown to victory by itself. After all, half of Massachusetts’ [...]
Thinking about the unthinkable
One crude way to think about the Massachusetts Senate race is to suppose that the swing from Democrat to Republican in this race is as great as the remarkable swing from 2008 to 2009 that just occurred in the Virginia governor’s race. Would this produce a victory for Republican Scott Brown?
The answer is: not [...]
Support Scott Brown
Scott Brown is the GOP candidate for the open Senate seat in Massachusetts. Today comes word that he is within shouting distance of Democrat Martha Coakley.
Coakley is a liberal Democrat of the cookie cutter variety. Even in the friendly environs of Massachusetts she can do no better on the subject of [...]
