Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I like how clearly Karl Rove sums up the economic pain the Democrats’ proposed health care plan will impose on the economy as a whole and on individual Americans: For starters, the bill is a lot more expensive than advertised. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pegs its cost at $1.055
Continue readingIn 1993, Clinton tried to raise taxes. Bad idea. In 1995, Gingrich tried to cut Medicare. Bad idea. Both of those moves set up a resounding rebuff from voters. As Kristol explains, Pelosi is setting herself up as a classic overachiever and trying to do both, plus a little bit
Continue readingJack, the ExPreacherman, emailed me a great joke: During a visit to the mental asylum, I asked the Director “How do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized?” “Well,” said the Director, “we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket
Continue readingI believe the 1,990 page health care bill might be longer than all the works of Proust put together, so here is a little video tribute to the bill’s length — and to the manifest impossibility of any representative’s mastering its contents before November 11, Pelosi’s proposed vote date: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAOc4g3K-g[/youtube]
Continue readingThe way this attack ad against rising star Doug Hoffman (in NY’s 23rd district) is framed, it’s clear that Hoffman’s sin is being wealthy: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15L_TaolOqg[/youtube] I think that’s a marvelous standard by which to disqualify people from political office, at least this year. (And we know from what happens in
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Continue readingGot the following email from a friend, which is an appropriate follow-up to the post I did about Michele Bachmann’s recommendation that you call your Congress person daily to protest Obama Care: Hey, all! When you make those phone calls to senators and congresspeople in response to Michelle Bachman’s call
Continue readingMichele Bachmann was on KSFO, the local conservative talk radio station. Someone who was listening to the show then sent around this email summing up her advice: “Some of you have probably listened this morning to Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on KSFO. For those who did not, she suggested that
Continue readingIBD has about as good a summary as any I’ve seen of the nuclear option the Congressional Democrats are planning. So good, in fact, that I’m reprinting it here, because I want to make sure everyone who visits my blog reads it. Please click on the IBD link, however, ’cause
Continue readingJust got the following message: Citizens in Action is providing Americans who are opposed to the proposed health care legislation with an easy and effective way to fax the 31 Senators who could vote one way or the other on health care reform. Because the first important Senate vote is
Continue readingAfter House Vote, Rangel Still Ways and Means Chairman The 6 Republicans who voted in favor of keeping the tax cheat I bet are not running for office any time soon. The two Dems should be rewarded with a medal. The 246 who thought that keeping him was a good
Continue readingMy mind is full of Fleet Week events. As in the past two years, it promises to be a very exciting week for me and my family. I know I’m going to be on a Coast Guard boat on the Bay when the Blue Angels fly, I know I’m going
Continue readingI’ve always been fascinated by the way in which language can degrade, especially when the object of a given word or phrase is not held in high esteem. For example, the word spinster simply used to mean a woman who spun thread. Over the years, the word came to mean
Continue readingBarbara Boxer was in Marin County, her home base, to shill her book. Because the woman, although gifted with a strong feral intelligence that has enabled her to become very powerful, is not very bright, she probably missed how funny (as in foolish) her self-aggrandizing remarks were (emphasis mine): For
Continue readingIn one of his usual delightful articles, Jonah Goldberg exposes the logical fallicies in the mean-spirited attacks our elected representatives (and their minions) are making against the American people: Nancy Pelosi, who will get her own bound volume in the annals of asininity, has outdone herself. When asked by a
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