National Politics

Iraq: Taking Stock

By Marc Comtois | July 11, 2007 |

I’m not a dead-ender on Iraq, but I do think we’ve got to give the new–albeit too-long in coming–strategy time to work. I suspect readers will just breeze on past this post as many, probably most, already have their minds made up. To them, we are frozen in time: the situation in Iraq will always…

Popular Vote and the World Series

By Marc Comtois | July 9, 2007 |

Ian Donnis over at N4N invokes the Supreme Court “giving” the election to George W. Bush in 2000 as a lead-in to the National Popular Vote movement. Both Andrew and I have posted about this before. Here’s a baseball analogy just for Ian, via a Bruce Bartlett piece from 2000: It will be as if…

Ben Stein on the Libby Pardon

By Marc Comtois | July 6, 2007 |

Of all the ink spilled (or pixels populated) over the Libby pardon, perhaps Ben Stein’s take sums it up best (h/t). Nuff said.

That’s All I Gots to Say ‘Bout That

By Justin Katz | June 27, 2007 |

Oddly, regarding the President’s visit to Newport tomorrow, I find myself scowling not unlike a Democrat (Bushitler-types excluded). I’m relieved that I’ll likely be working on the other side of town, but except for that consideration, I’ll be just as happy to have him come and go, and I find that I mean from the…

Rudy Almighty

By Justin Katz | June 13, 2007 |

Is it me, or is there something similar in the eyes of the following two pictures (both from the ad-cycling page to which Marc links)? The picture at right is, of course, from the new neo-Noah film Evan Almighty, and given Rudy’s famous social liberalism (as well as my selective cropping), I can’t help but…

And Never the Two Shall Meet

By Justin Katz | May 29, 2007 |

If you missed it last week, Daniel Henninger’s Thursday column makes some interesting points: It has been argued in this column before that the origins of our European-like polarization can be found in the Florida legal contest at the end of the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential campaign. That was a mini civil war. With the popular…

Hide Your Wallets, D.C. Dems are Coming….

By Marc Comtois | May 18, 2007 |

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell writes: While most of the media were busy covering the latest developments on the Iraq funding bill or the bipartisan immigration proposal, congressional Democrats on Thursday quietly passed a budget creating the framework for the largest tax increases in American history… Everyone takes a hit. Forty-five million working families with two…

Pelosi Bucks 185 Year Old House Rule, Stifles Debate

By Marc Comtois | May 16, 2007 |

Yup, they sure are changing things down there in D.C. Drudge reports: After losing a string of embarrassing votes on the House floor because of procedural maneuvering, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to change the current House Rules to completely shut down the floor to the minority. The Democratic Leadership is threatening…

New House Budget Means Higher Taxes

By Marc Comtois | May 15, 2007 |

The Heritage Foundation has done an analysis of the new House Budget crafted by the Democratic majority in Washington and concluded that it means higher taxes across the board. Their reasoning: The House leadership has proposed to increase spending over the next five years. Given the leader­ship’s avowed commitment to paying for spending increases, tax…

Is the Interstate Voting Compact Unconstitutional?

By Carroll Andrew Morse | May 11, 2007 |

Not exactly. There are, however, potential Electoral College ramifications for states that choose to participate. The Interstate Voting Compact is an attempt to bypass the Electoral College and elect the President of the United States through a direct popular vote. A state legislature signing on to the compact agrees to disregard the choice made by…