How many pairs…
…of gloves can Obama take off and still have more to go? I am so, so tired of reading that Obama is finally taking the gloves off. And amazingly enough, Obama seems to be asking people to keep hoping. It’s … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Politics
Does the allegation that Nancy Pelosi…
…lied about and disguised her prior knowledge and approval of waterboarding surprise anyone? The people who care and who disapprove are almost certainly those who washed their hands of the abominable Pelosi long ago. People who think she’s great probably … Continue reading →
Humor and presidents and aging and…
Now that the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has passed, this might be the best time to state that this stuff is undignified and bothers me whoever does it, Democrat or Republican. I’m all for presidential humor, but it used to … Continue reading →
Those conservative candidates who would have won instead
Here’s an interesting comment (the language is not quite what I’d use, but the sentiment is): there is no evidence, in the modern era, that a person more conservative than Reagan can win on a national level. the last person … Continue reading →
FDR: fireside demagoguery—“saving the Court from itself”
[NOTE: Last night I wrote a draft of a post on how Barack Obama’s latest remarks on SCOTUS precedent are an attempt to emulate Franklin Roosevelt in the 30s. I was going to polish it up and submit it to … Continue reading →
All the news that’s unfit to print
Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom—who has already stated that in the general election Romney can hit a reset button—announced a few more details of the reset plan today. Fehrnstrom said: They say that Mitt Romney is a man for all seasons. … Continue reading →
The Obamacare case: challenging the Supreme Court’s legitimacy
The latest liberal meme is that if the Court rules against Obamacare it will be such an egregious case of conservative judicial activism that the Court will become illegitimate. My question is: to whom? The 72% of the American public … Continue reading →
The plan: from Obamacare to single payer?
I’ve long thought that Obamacare was just a prelude to what Obama and the left really want, which is single payer health insurance. Obamacare was an unwieldy compromise, complex and cobbled together and passed because it could be done, whereas … Continue reading →
Conservatives for big government
Stop the presses: E.J. Dionne has a good point: This Republican presidential campaign is demonstrating conclusively that there is an unbridgeable divide between the philosophical commitments conservative candidates make before they are elected and what they will have to do … Continue reading →
Attack of the attack ads
The Republican primaries seem to have ground down to a war of the attack ads. Most (if not all?) are the work of PACs, so it’s a bit hard to tell how involved the candidates are. It would be naive … Continue reading →
Turnout and the primaries
I’m one of those people who takes voting very seriously, so much so that I think I’ve voted in every general election and midterm as well. The only ones I’ve ever skipped are the off-years with just the very local … Continue reading →
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos
This comment by “rickl” made me think of the following Simpsons episode. You may especially enjoy it if you’ve got a yen (and really, who doesn’t?) to revisit the 1996 presidential campaign: kang and kodos
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