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” [...]

Bumper sticker.

The following is part of a longer piece published by Doug O’Brien over  at biggovernment.com (the site on which all those delicious ACORN videos originated) that unfortunately is too long for a bumper sticker, but which nonetheless captures the spirit driving a majority of Americans in opposition to Obamacare these days: Every day, the administration’s [...]

Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Someone named Noam N. Levey penned this wonderful little bit of misinformation in today’s LA Times: Imagine the debate over healthcare legislation on Capitol Hill as a tussle among three friends out for dinner. All three have been struggling to pay their bills lately. When the check arrives, they try to figure out how to [...]

In which Thomas Friedman gets it exactly wrong.

Here’s Thomas Friedman in yesterday’s NY Times: One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in [...]

Is there anything that the Federal Government is good at?

The title of this post is almost as long as the post itself. Consider that the Washington DC Public schools are the only public schools in the country that are completely administered by the Federal Government. Want to take a guess at what they spend per student? You got it. $16,540. Bear in mind that [...]

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 [...]

Keep your eye on the ball.

Ever get the feeling that Democrats can’t possibly be this stupid? To increase deficits to unmanageable levels on purpose under the guise of ‘fixing’ the economy? To cram health care ‘reform’ legislation through congress without even bothering to understand what it means let alone whether it will actually reform anything or make things infinitely worse? [...]

UPDATE

I called it a “misdirection” in my earlier post. Thomas Sowell calls it a “bait and switch”: It’s called “bait and switch” when an unscrupulous business advertises one thing and tries to sell you something else. When politicians do it, it is far more dangerous to far more people. Deception is not an incidental aspect [...]

Death panels? What death panels?

Here’s Obama in April in an interview with David Leonhardt of the New York Times: [W]hen Peter Orszag and I talk about the importance of using comparative-effectiveness studies as a way of reining in costs, that’s not an attempt to micromanage the doctor-patient relationship. It is an attempt to say to patients, you know what, [...]

Life expectancy.

Ask any liberal why we should embark on a UK/Canada style of nationalized health care (go ahead, I’ll wait, I’m sure you won’t have to look too long), and I’ll bet you a thousand dollars they’ll shoot back that the life expectancy in those 2 countries is greater than ours. They probably won’t say anything [...]

Air dancers.

Remember the anti-war movement? Not too long ago, the Democratic party’s most loyal voters passionately opposed the war in Iraq. Democratic presidential candidates argued over who would withdraw American troops the quickest. Netroots activists regularly denounced President George W. Bush, and sometimes the U.S. military (“General Betray Us”). Cindy Sheehan, the woman whose soldier son [...]

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 [...]

We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

Imagine you’re on a boat, ankle-deep in water. In the center of the boat is a large hole. Someone tells you to fix the boat. What’s the problem? The hole is permitting water to get into the boat. Unless that hole is plugged, the boat will continue to take on water. Fix the hole and [...]

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 [...]

Life.

Here’s what you should be most afraid of if the radical left currently in control of Washington get their way on destroying adequate health care in America: The Congressional majority wants to pay for its $1 trillion to $1.6 trillion health bills with new taxes and a $500 billion cut to Medicare. This cut will [...]

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 [...]

Fallout boy.

With the economy still faltering and jobs still being lost, Mr. Obama’s credibility is sinking and his job approval rating is declining along with the popularity of his initiatives. Republicans, who had insisted the stimulus was wasteful and wouldn’t work, are being vindicated. The political fallout that mattered most, however, has been among Democrats in [...]

The dumb one.

Turns out Obama was the dumb one after all. Victor Davis Hanson wraps it neatly for us in a pretty pink bow: In the recent Cairo speech, Obama’s historical allusions were . . . suspect. Almost every one of his references was either misleading or incomplete. He suggested that today’s Middle East tension was fed [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

Unintended consequences, Exhibit one million and one.

One of Maryland’s budget-balancing tactics – asking millionaires to pay more money to the state – appears to be backfiring as the number of the highest-earning taxpayers dwindles with the flagging economy. A year ago, Maryland became one of the first states in the nation to create a higher tax bracket for millionaires as part [...]

Bleeding a stone.

Megan McCardle from The Atlantic, on why Obama’s unprecedented spending plans will simply run out of gas. So far, Obama’s only proposal for dealing with the funding shortage is a tax increase on high earners, leaving “95% of working families” untouched. But the math doesn’t work. In 2006, the latest year for which data are [...]

Our fragile Left.

Enough with the breast beating and gnashing of teeth, already. The left is not opposed to waterboarding. They’re opposed to Bush, who was pro-waterboarding (thank God). They’re anti-waterboarding now so that the possibility of his being denigrated for it may linger. Hell, they’d be anti-toothpaste, anti-meatloaf and anti-Levi’s now if the Left thought they could [...]