Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I 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 readingHear me out. Sure, the public is indignant about our current state of affairs, especially the mushrooming deficits that have pretty much sealed our national bankruptcy (in my humble opinion). What worries me, though, is what needs to be done to fix the problem. I personally don’t see any solution
Continue readingAs part of a longer post about the Democrats’ anti-democratic tendencies, Peter Wehner has this to say: If you wanted a sound bite that embodied much of what is wrong with contemporary liberalism, you could do worse than listen to the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on health care:
Continue readingCompare and contrast: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8L-ZZSc8JU[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5ggxzA[/youtube] No wonder our government functions like a bad comedy. At least Foster Brooks was talented. Baucus is just a hack — with your life in his hands.
Continue readingIn the wake of the 2008 election, Republicans and conservatives were paralyzed. They’d been trounced, not so much by sweeper percentages (that is, the elections were all just over the slightly 50% mark), but by huge numbers of elections in which Democrats edged out Republicans by those few percentage marks.
Continue readingThat Nancy Pelosi is a pistol. Here she is, a terrible public speaker, but still arguing strongly that it’s absolutely unconscionable for Congress to sneak bills through committee, to vote on things they haven’t read and don’t know, to vote on bills that the American public hasn’t had to read,
Continue readingIt’s Sunday and there’s nothing I can do to change yesterday’s vote at this moment. I need to relax. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc[/youtube] Jennifer Rubin is also sanguine, bless her heart. UPDATE: The Anchoress urges us to be not afraid, even in the shadow of the jackboot.
Continue readingMaybe she got those Dems to vote yes because she assured them that, at the end of the day, the Senate will vote no. Or, maybe, we’re screwed: The US House of Representatives has approved the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century, handing President Barack Obama a major
Continue readingI like how clearly Karl Rove sums up the economic pain the Democrats’ proposed health care plan will impose on the economy as a whole and on individual Americans: For starters, the bill is a lot more expensive than advertised. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pegs its cost at $1.055
Continue readingThe way this attack ad against rising star Doug Hoffman (in NY’s 23rd district) is framed, it’s clear that Hoffman’s sin is being wealthy: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15L_TaolOqg[/youtube] I think that’s a marvelous standard by which to disqualify people from political office, at least this year. (And we know from what happens in
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Continue readingGot the following email from a friend, which is an appropriate follow-up to the post I did about Michele Bachmann’s recommendation that you call your Congress person daily to protest Obama Care: Hey, all! When you make those phone calls to senators and congresspeople in response to Michelle Bachman’s call
Continue readingJust got the following message: Citizens in Action is providing Americans who are opposed to the proposed health care legislation with an easy and effective way to fax the 31 Senators who could vote one way or the other on health care reform. Because the first important Senate vote is
Continue readingMy mind is full of Fleet Week events. As in the past two years, it promises to be a very exciting week for me and my family. I know I’m going to be on a Coast Guard boat on the Bay when the Blue Angels fly, I know I’m going
Continue readingAllahPundit explains what’s really and truly going on in Washington, D.C.: Let me remind you again: They can pass any bill they want any time they want. Conservatives can scream their heads off at these things and there’s not an ounce of good it’ll do if Democrats are united. This
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