Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker details how voting for Obama’s agenda did in the House Democrats this election cycle. And then he concludes they should have done more of the same. Yes, they should have pressed ahead and passed … Continue reading →
Fiscal austerity was promised. Fiscal austerity is needed. But fiscal austerity is hard, or it would have been done earlier. Problem is, it may be good on the macro level, but it’s seen as bad on the micro level, because … Continue reading →
President Obama may have wanted the Republicans to sit in the back of the car, but the voters have now plunked the Republicans right next to Obama, up in the front seat. And the car they are driving is like … Continue reading →
Stephen F. Hayes calls Marco Rubio “the most important freshman senator” in this Weekly Standard article. Rubio not only won handily in Florida, he also gave a great and widely-admired acceptance speech. He’s one of the rising stars of the … Continue reading →
Since last week’s election, we’ve been reading the good news that a great many state legislatures flipped to the Republican side. I even wrote a post about it last Saturday. But still, I had no idea how dramatic the changes … Continue reading →
This is very impressive: Republicans took control of at least 19 additional state legislative bodies Tuesday for a total of 26 in which the party controls both chambers, compared with 21 for Democrats and with three still up for grabs. … Continue reading →
Even the left appears to have fallen out of love with Obama, and wonders how and why it all went wrong. Read as Tom Junod tries to puzzle it out in Esquire: Though many Americans didn’t know very much about … Continue reading →
This is why. Obama is still president, and can veto anything they try to pass. Despite the huge scope of their House victory, the Democrats still control the Senate, albeit by a small margin. And Republicans are not popular with … Continue reading →
Here’s a funny comment at Althouse’s from “bagho20:” Out here in California, we have chosen to sacrifice ourselves. To continue with the experimental treatment even after it has made us seriously ill. We need to establish if the treatment is … Continue reading →
More random reflections on looking at this map of House results: Quite a few states are either all red or all blue. But among those that are mixed, not too many are spotted. In other words, the red-blue divide within … Continue reading →
The results of this election represent a backlash against the machinations of President Obama and Congress. But it isn’t just backlash; it’s whiplash. Whiplash in the medical sense is caused not just by a sudden wrenching movement, but by a … Continue reading →
(1) It’s not enough for candidates to be conservative. They need to be good, as well. Surely such candidates can be found, but many of the Republican candidates who lost last night (especially in the senatorial races) were not among … Continue reading →