I still don’t know why anyone on either side would be at all surprised at Obama’s behavior. After all, this is the man who said years ago, despite an extremely thin resume of actual accomplishment other than winning elections: When … Continue reading →
I’m not very familiar with M. Stanton Evans, although he’s an elder statesman of the conservative movement. One of his books, Blacklisted by History, is a revisionist account of Joe McCarthy. It’s on my list of interesting-books-I-hope-to-get-around-to-reading-someday. But looking up … Continue reading →
George Will does. The administration gave the same thoughtful consideration and practical experience to the design of Obamacare.
Continue reading →…is somewhat of a fool’s errand. People will use the results to say they send all sorts of messages. “See, a very conservative Tea Party candidate loses.” Or “See, a more moderate candidate wins.” I don’t think that’s what they … Continue reading →
It’s clear: It’s not easy to get a lie into a presidential speech. Every draft address is circulated to the White House senior staff and key Cabinet officials in something called the “staffing process.” Every line is reviewed by dozens … Continue reading →
…before they were against it: Senate Democrats voted unanimously three years ago to support the Obamacare rule that is largely responsible for some of the health insurance cancellation letters that are going out. In September 2010, Senate Republicans brought a … Continue reading →
I am going to post an excerpt from a post I wrote in March of 2010, two days after the ACA was passed and signed into law. I’m not doing it just to say how prescient I was. And I … Continue reading →
Jonathan Bernstein at Salon is spinning so hard I fear for his health. After some obligatory throat-clearing about how the Obamacare rollout really wasn’t handled all the well, and how it must be fixed, he gets down to the heart … Continue reading →
“Uniting the Republican Party”—has that become an oxymoron? I hope not, because it’s very hard to win elections if the party is having a civil war. Ted Cruz has
Continue reading →…that we wish had happened, because then it would make Republicans look really really bad. And lets only indicate way down towards the end that it almost certainly didn’t happen. Or something like that, if you’re Todd Purdum at Politico. … Continue reading →
…but failure is an orphan. The finger-pointing begins in the Obamacare website disaster (see also this and this). And of course, Stalin hadn’t a clue I imagine that, when the smoke clears, Bush and Cheney will be found to be … Continue reading →
Commenter “Geoffrey Britain” had the following to say: How many more H.W. Bush’s must we support before it is acknowledged that America’s path to the gallows is merely delayed under such men? It is not purity we seek but an … Continue reading →