Tag: "Corruption"
Keep the Focus: Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious are Not the Same Thing.
There’s an old saying that says, roughly, “It’s not the crime that kills you; it’s the cover-up”. Right now the Obama administration is on the verge of being killed by the almost daily revelations of how it came to be that over 2,000 guns passed from the United States, under the watchful eyes of the [...]
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Doesn’t Own This Economy, and We Shouldn’t Let Her Claim It.
Conservatives have made a lot of hay this past week over DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s contention that Democrats now “own the economy” and for good reason. Democrats have owned the economy for quite a few years as its been Democrats whose Brobdingnagian budgets have acted as a fairly steady brake on the economy. It was [...]
I Don’t Even Think The President Looked Up the Word “Fight” in a Dictionary
We have a law called the War Powers Act. It says, essentially, that the President can hop in that boss muscle car we call the United States Military and take it for a spin pretty much any time he wants, but if he’s going to take it on a long trip, he has to come [...]
Harry Reid: Champion of the Common Man, Assuming the Common Man’s a Lobbyist with Bags of Cash
It is an article of faith that the Republicans are the Party of the Rich Lobbyist, but that turns out not to be so much the truth. Open Secrets took a look at who got the most lobbyist cash over the two-year period of 2009-2010 and, let’s just the if Michael Buffer has announced the [...]
Tar and Feathers Alert: It’s Good to Have A Friend Named Pelosi
When I chose the latest massive Obamacare wavier dump as the main topic of today’s Clearing the Browser Tabs post, I didn’t take a close look at the list of companies and groups that got a Get Out of Stifling Bureaucracy Free card. Matthew Boyle at The Daily Caller, however, did and he found something [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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