Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’s a done deal, awaiting Obama’s signature. I am truly too disheartened to write anything tonight. Please use this open thread to share your thoughts, provide insight and inspiration, give practical advice, etc. I’ve already received several emails from conservative groups (the GOP, Republican politicians, etc.) urging fund raising. (Just
Continue readingI indulged myself today by staying assiduously away from the computer. If there was going to be a train crash, I didn’t want to see it happen. What’s really irksome isn’t that Stupak is the usual Demo ho (pardon my language), but that he was willing to sell his soul
Continue readingStupak’s going to make his much awaited statement while I’m off working out. So far, he’s had a spine and has distinguished himself from other Democrats by actually letting a principle guide him. I suspect, though, that his 11:00 press conference will be a weasely explanation of why he’s caved
Continue readingVictor Davis Hanson sums everything up in one paragraph: The president is pushing legislation that a clear majority of the people dislike, and whose details neither he nor his supporters can explain in simple language. Its ends-justify-the-means passage will require legislative gymnastics that border on the unconstitutional, and in Orwellian
Continue readingYou’ve all heard by now about the 2300 “reconciliation” bill that the House won’t vote on but will simply deem passed, thereby, in a completely unconstitutional way, making the bill a law. (Ahem.) But did you know that Pelosi has been busy sticking in more than just student loan relief
Continue readingFamily commitments meant that I spent, perhaps, 5 minutes at my computer this weekend. That wasn’t what I’d planned, but that was what I ended up with. In today’s news cycle, of course, two days can be the equivalent of two decades. Certainly, when I turned the computer on this
Continue readingPride can make us do very stupid things. Once we’ve committed to something (a job, a marriage, a principle, whatever), and once we’ve touted that commitment to the world as the most wonderful thing evah, it is extremely difficult to stand up to that same world and admit “I made
Continue readingPerhaps it really is true that Pelosi doesn’t have the votes for Obama Care. After all, if she did, why would the Democrats be considering the “Slaughter Option” something that involves bypassing votes altogether: The Slaughter Solution is a plan by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Democratic chair of the
Continue readingThe American Thinker spells it out: Richard Baehr, ace political watcher, thinks the odds are that Nancy Pelosi, through brute force, will get Obama Care through. Once that happens, of course, it’s the law, and “reconciliation,” which is ostensibly meant to smooth away any lingering roughness, will die a’bornin’ Christopher
Continue readingI believe more and more strongly that reconciliation is a red herring, meant to induce the House to pass the Senate bill. Once that’s done, this so called “reconciliation,” an alleged second bill that will smooth away the differences between the two chambers (especially the House’s demand that abortion, which
Continue readingSeveral years ago, when Bush Derangement Syndrome was at its peak, I tackled the “he’s got his finger on the button and he’s going to blow up the world” meme that anti-war activists were so shrilly screaming. I pointed out that there was no evidence whatsoever to indicate that George
Continue readingObama is so insulated behind his compliant media and his worshipful staff, I wonder if he’s ever heard before the facts Ryan spells out so clearly here: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxMZ1WdINs[/youtube] My favorite line: “Hiding spending does not reduce spending.” Brilliant core statement about the myriad flaws in the bill. Also, he drills
Continue readingMany pundits opined that Obama, being a bright guy, would learn from his myriad failures in 2009. Over here at Bookworm Room, however, I repeatedly said that Obama is the type of malignant narcissist who will never learn from experience. Unlike a social narcissist — that would be Clinton —
Continue readingOne of the bludgeons used to beat opponents of socialized medicine is the claim that everybody in Canada/England/Northern Europe/Etc., is soooo much happier with health care than we are. A doctor friend of mine has been scouring the literature, and she’s discovered that this isn’t true. Polls show that people
Continue readingRep. Lynn Woolsey is a liberal among liberals, a Leftist who calls affluent Marin County her home (and Marin voters have sent her back to D.C. over and over again, with about 70% of the vote). She’s not a very bright woman, but I give her credit for focusing unerringly
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