National Politics
As Rich Lowry explains in his latest column, we Americans are perpetually paranoid about our government, whether it’s the liberal paranoia throughout the Bush years (Patriot Act, world hegemony) or the right wing paranoia amongst conservatives in the Clinton years (Waco, domestic anti-terrorist laws post-Oklahoma City). Lowry explains that our paranoid view of government has…
On Wednesday’s Matt Allen Show, Andrew brought up the interesting juxtaposition that, while some states’ attorney generals are suing the federal government over healthcare with reference to the 10th Amendment, Massachusetts’s Martha Coakley is making a 10th Amendment argument against national marriage law. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
RNC Chief of Staff and former staffer for Governor Carcieri, Ken McKay has resigned over controversy: Republican National Committee chief of staff Ken McKay has resigned in the wake of a controversy over an expenditure at a risque California nightclub, RNC communications director Doug Heye said Monday. McKay’s resignation comes one week after the Daily…
Andrew Breitbart pulls together some of the threads related to the post-healthcare-vote anti-Tea Party redirection, concluding: Who is calling the shots here? Is it the White House, by way of Chicago? Or is it Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid? The press refused to tell you the truth about this president. It refused to tell you…
One gets the sense, watching state and national politicians in action, that paying for things is by far a secondary or tertiary consideration. As Ed Achorn puts it: The government will borrow 40 cents of every dollar it spends this year. Under the most optimistic scenarios, borrowing will continue at historically high levels, putting a…
Big Business learns that Big Government giveth and taketh away: On Capitol Hill and in the White House on Monday, Democrats were fuming over a series of announcements that started Friday from Fortune 500 firms saying their bottom lines will take huge negative hits because of changes in tax law mandated by Obamacare. That hit…
Poor Jim Spencer and Curtis Ellis: they’ve been waiting for a poll to confirm their preconceived notions and CNN provided it, so now they can write the column they’ve been yearning to write: Now (finally!), a poll conducted by CNN gives us some hard data on the Tea Party Nation. Neither “average Americans,” as they…
The bond market continues to struggle as it tries to deal with the new health care paradigm: Interest rates climbed in the bond market Thursday after a government debt auction drew tepid demand. Auctions Tuesday and Wednesday also saw lower demand….The auction of $32 billion in seven-year notes saw demand fall from the past two…
By accident of commercial breaks, I caught a few moments of the Rachel Maddow show, last night, and that’s all that was necessary to observe that left-wingers very much wish to convince themselves that the Republican Party is locked in an extremist echo chamber, with its far-right base requiring uniformity of opinion out of step…
One of the selling points of healthcare reform, repeated yesterday by President Obama when he signed the bill into law, is that it will reduce the federal deficit. To bolster this statement, which is absurd on its face, they point to the conclusion of a CBO report promulgated at the request of and with the,…