President Obama may not understand what’s been happening to him lately, as his disapproval ratings climb and his approval ratings sink. After all, Obama made and broke promises during the campaign, and he learned that it didn’t seem to matter. … Continue reading →
Okay, maybe it’s not a new low for Pelosi; there’ve been so many. But this is pretty far down on the list [emphasis mine]: Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at … Continue reading →
There’s a growing strain of op-ed pieces that involve giving helpful advice to Obama on how to rescue his administration by tacking back towards the center. Yesterday I mentioned Peggy Noonan’s, which contained the following apologia and guidance for the … Continue reading →
I’ve got a piece up at Pajamas Media today on the Democrat demonizing of the health care reform opponents at the town hall meetings. Please take a look and have a read. [ADDENDUM: I moved this to keep it at … Continue reading →
More has surfaced since I wrote my piece for Pajamas on the Democrats’ “astroturfer” accusations. Here, for example, is a description of the crowds at one of those town meetings. Sound like astroturfers to you? And let’s not forget this … Continue reading →
…bad faith, distortions, and lies on the part of the bill’s proponents—plus their counter-accusations that it’s actually only the opponents of the bill who are guilty of bad faith, distortions, and lies. Many of you have probably already seen the … Continue reading →
Commenter Wolla Dalbo wrote of the situation we find ourselves in lately: I have been arguing here that most of us in the U.S. are applying the old, traditional, and fatally wrong template, the calculus of the usual and the … Continue reading →
A WSJ poll finds that more Americans are against Obamacare than are for it: In mid-June, respondents were evenly divided when asked whether they thought Mr. Obama’s health plan was a good or bad idea. In the new poll, conducted … Continue reading →
As you probably know, the Democrat majority in Congress contains quite a few so-called “Blue Dog Democrats,” representatives of the party elected in districts that are relatively conservative. To a certain extent they are the mirror image of RINOs in … Continue reading →
President Obama is not a leader. By that I don’t just mean that I disagree with his agenda, or that I think he often lies to the American people, or that he’s not inspirational (although all of those statements do … Continue reading →
Obama finally has achieved a certain measure of bipartisanship. The only thing is—it’s in opposition to his health care reform bill. If a party with the huge majorities the Democrats enjoy right now in Congress is having trouble passing a … Continue reading →
Anyone who really believed Obama’s campaign rhetoric that he would govern in a bipartisan manner wasn’t paying attention to anything but his lofty words. Unfortunately, far too many of the voters fit that description. I didn’t believe Obama, but I … Continue reading →