Say it ain’t Snowe.

If one lone Republican supporting your socialist bill indicates “bipartisan” support, then Max Baucus and the Democrats got that yesterday as the first hurdle to a government takeover of our insurance industry was cleared. Here’s Liberal in Republican clothing Olympia Snowe ruminating on whether a “public option” might be the thing to fix “what’s wrong” [...]

Insurance.

Sometimes, when you’re arguing back and forth on a topic for too long, it’s easy to sort of lose focus on what all the hub bub is about and it’s worth taking just a few moments to step back and put your hands on the arguments once again. Health Care reform. Or is it Health [...]

Because they’ve been so trustworthy before.

The socialists are promising that THIS time it will be different. Forget about that whole Medicare thing where we promised to take care of a small SLIVER of our population (the elderly). Forget that we utterly failed. Focus instead how THIS TIME it will be different and that we’re more effectively manage the health of [...]

First, cause no harm.

The Obama administration and the liberal controlled Congress are obstinately trying to impose their demonstrably inept socialist ideology on America. We’re resisting. This is good. If we hold out until November, we can sweep out the rats and permit US citizens to once again achieve a foothold in their own government. It won’t solve the [...]

Snapshot.

Has Obama rescued the economy? You very well may think that if you get your news from the NY Times or MSNBC or any one of a trillion other mouthpieces for the Democrat party, but reality (as it often does) has intervened to spoil the party. Cast thine eyes on this from the indispensible Innocent [...]

Represent.

From the “if we don’t want it, what are our elected officials doing pushing for it” file, comes this latest Rasmussen report: The health care reform legislation working its way through Congress has lost support over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% of U.S. voters are at least [...]

Wonderful.

Sometimes an apt analogy is the perfect medicine for thick-headedness. Check this out:

Hide the ball.

There’s a trick play in baseball where the first baseman pretends to throw the ball back to the pitcher after a pickoff attempt, but instead, he actually holds on to it. He hides it in his glove. The idea is to get the runner on first to bite on the ruse and wander off the [...]

“Hurray! I’m for the other team!”

The NY Times doing its’ usual cheerleading: WASHINGTON — Badly outnumbered and months behind in the debate on energy and climate change, House Republicans plan to introduce an energy bill on Wednesday as an alternative to the Democratic plan barreling toward a House vote this month. How’s that for a lede? The Republicans have a [...]

Gobbledegook.

Had to read this headline twice. Obama seeks fiscal responsibility mantle He’s seeking it now? I mean, it’s nice, if it’s true, but I can’ t believe that this is about anything except Obama trying to cover his ass after his MASSIVE outlay of irresponsible spending contained in the “stimulus” package. Let’s see what you [...]

You don’t say.

NEW YORK Reuters – Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged on Tuesday that some waste is inevitable in the spending of a $787 billion economic stimulus package, in a characteristically blunt assessment. “We know some of this money is going to be wasted,” Biden said during a roundtable discussion in New York with business leaders aimed [...]

Act now!

We’ve all seen the infomercials. The hucksters claiming that their extra special product “won’t last” or that their “supplies are limited” They tell us that their offer is only available “for a limited time” and as an extra incentive to get us to open our wallets, tell us that the “first 100 callers” get a [...]

What is a Republican?

Does Specter matter? Whether he calls himself a Democrat or a Republican won’t change how he votes. If you’ve forgotten, he voted FOR the stimulus package, so what kind of Republican is he? The answer, unfortunately is that he’s the type of Republican that’s really not much different than a Democrat anyway, so what’s the [...]

Denial.

Matt Kibbe, in yesterday’s reasononline, on how the Left is trying to  make sense of the Tea Party Movement: Some tried to diminish the tea parties as misguided tax protests. In reality, the protestors demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of economics that went well beyond objections to higher tax rates. You can’t spend money you don’t [...]

Why is this so hard?

OK. Imagine you own a business. Your object of course is to produce lots of quality stuff that people want to buy at prices that will permit you to make a profit. This profit will permit you to keep making these things, and keep selling them to people who want to buy them. If you [...]

Spot on.

Via Professor Bainbridge, an extremely relevant political cartoon from 1934: Sound familiar?

The indispensible Jonah Goldberg.

Are we Republicans a bunch of hypocrites for suddenly caring about deficits? Well, maybe. But then so are liberals for suddenly not caring about deficits. (That part always gets left out.) Moreover, I don’t get it. Republicans didn’t care enough about the deficit when it went up a “little” under Bush (to pay for a [...]

Susan Roesgen.

In case you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look now because my blood is boiling and I can’t hold it in anymore: Lots going on here so let’s take them one by one. First, isn’t she supposed to be a reporter? For any of you holding out hope that CNN (substitute MSNBC, NBC, [...]

Don’t get distracted.

Keep your eyes on the prize, everyone. For President Obama, autos and banks are sideshows. Enormous sideshows, to be sure, but had the financial meltdown and the looming auto bankruptcies not been handed to him, he would hardly have gone seeking to be the nation’s credit and car czar. Obama has far different ambitions. His [...]

Did you know your taxes are helping Harry Reid get re-elected?

In Burton Folsom’s book, New Deal or Raw Deal?, he describes in great detail how during the Depression, FDR increased government “relief” spending in election years, especially in so-called “swing states” which offered him the greatest return on his “investment”. Left to suffer were heavily Democratic states which were always assured in November, but which [...]

I question the timing.

Ever wonder why the Obama Administration, the Pelosi House and the Reid Senate don’t just step out of the way and let Citi, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc. all just file for Chapter 11 reorganization like any other company would have had to do? I’ve wondered the same thing.

“The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”

Here’s Ronald Reagan speaking at the RNC in 1964. The target of his wrath at the time was LBJ’s “Great Society”, but it’s essentially the same enemy we’re battling today. Vast, sprawling, government. His comments on Social Security, welfare, freedom and individualism are timeless and so crucially relevant today. “The trouble with our Liberal friends [...]

Dry run.

Put in charge of making sure that taxpayer money didn’t get wasted, the vaulted Obama administration has brought the current AIG debacle to our doorsteps. What does this portend for the rest of the Obamagenda? Jennifer Rubin at Commentary absolutely nails it: The president’s New Deal II agenda depends on two premises — the sky is [...]

More AIG.

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) wants to pass a law that permits the federal government to recoup the recent AIG bonuses through a confiscatory tax. There are several problems with this, but this one seems an especially vexing one for Mr. Dodd (at least as far as his credibility is concerned): While the Senate was constructing [...]

Brave new world.

Of course we all realize by now that it’s in Obama’s best interests to have the economy sink as low as possible because it will permit him to unleash even more of his radical ideas under cover of “EMERGENCY ACTION!”…and we all know that the government must ACT and act BOLDLY in an emergency, right? [...]