Category: Political Pontifications
Watch the MSM Build Their Election Narrative in Real Time
I endorse every word of Moe Lane’s blog post to ABC News. It is April of 2011. We do not actually need to have everybody and his/her brother/sister declaring for the freaking Republican nomination, simply because Barack Obama needed to declare as early as possible that he was running so that he can get a head [...]
Think Progress Wants to Point Out the Rand in Ryan’s Eye While Ignoring the Sanger in Their Own
One of the most effective political attacks one can make is to chain an opponent to someone the general public doesn’t like, or wouldn’t like when they found out more about that person. Progressives cry to high heaven when conservatives note the mutual admiration society that existed between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Benito Mussolini or [...]
The Problem With the Left Is Not that They’re Lemmings but that They’re Hijackers
I used to think the progressive left was little more than a bunch of lemmings, determines to leap en masse off the cliffs of fiscal insanity. The more I think about it, though, the more I realize that comparison just doesn’t work. Here is a recent example (via memeorandum) If President Obama’s deficit-reduction speech today [...]
My Partial Mea Culpa on the Budget Deal
Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that I’ve defended John Boehner’s budget deal. It looks, today, like Boehner played a lot of silly games to get cuts that, while still cuts, won’t perform as advertised. As such, I’m going to have to eat a little bit of crow. I’m not the only [...]
Ezra Klein’s “Let It Ride” Plan is A Quick Trip to Cloud Cuckoo Land
I can not imagine a blogger that does less with more than the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein. All he has to do is occasionally put up a random chart with nice pretty lines that end right about where he wants them to end and write a few paragraphs that sound like serious policy proposals and, [...]
The President’s Budget: A Metaphor, Not A Scary Serial Killer Weapon.
Here come the President’s budget plan and — surprise! — its chief weapon will be an overused scary metaphor. President Obama this week will lay out a new approach to reducing the nation’s soaring debt, proposing reductions in spending on entitlements such as Medicare and Medicaid and renewing his call for tax increases on the [...]
Tax the Rich? Well, Okay. Let’s Start with Peter Orszag and His Revolving Door Friends
I’m not fan of tax increases, but I think I can get behind Glenn Reynolds’ plan. A 50% surtax on anything earned within five years after leaving the federal government, above whatever the federal salary was. Leave a $150K job at the White House, take a $1M job with Goldman, Sachs, pay a $425K surtax. [...]
Another Reason to Like the Boehner Budget Deal: DC Kids Win
My what a wonderful little surprise I found this morning! On Friday night, before the details of the final deal became clear, [D.C. Representative Eleanor Holmes] Norton said, “We are in great danger of becoming bargained as we feared, despite my conversation with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a few days ago, and the many [...]
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