…for the nuclear option. Do they have the votes? Who knows: …[E]ven if Reid doesn’t have the votes. He can’t keep threatening the GOP with the move and not pull the trigger at some point. For Senate Republicans, the threat … Continue reading →
Douglas E. Schoen makes a keen observation: “I personally believe, even if it takes a change in the law, that the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they’ve got,” … Continue reading →
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Congress finally passed a bipartisan bill about Obamacare and Obama himself vetoed it? If you don’t believe that about the veto—after all, Obama himself said the cancelled plans should be reinstated, and that’s what both … Continue reading →
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
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