Obamanation
Noting a New York Post article on Washington’s spending bonanza, Glenn Reynolds writes: And yet members of Congress would be hard-pressed to tell you where the money’s going. This isn’t just undisciplined spending. It’s looting. I’d like to know whether the culprits will face a consequence for the travesty beyond their names’ being footnotes in…
Stated in passing — as an inarguable truism — is the most eerie part of President Obama’s recent healthcare remarks (video, at about minute two): We’re now at a point where most everyone agrees that we need to invest in preventive and wellness programs that can save us money and help lead healthier lives. Put…
File this under “confessions,” but I’ve started putting politically tinged songs on my MP3 player so that, every now and then, amidst the thousands of songs and compositions being shuffled throughout the day, I’ll have reason to pause and smirk, laugh, or shake my head. The first such song was the creepy Obama children’s choir…
This bit of cynicism should be beneath the cool-headed genius whom we elected president: Obama countered yesterday that “if we step back from this challenge at this moment, we are consigning our children to a future of skyrocketing premiums and crushing deficits. If we don’t achieve health-care reform, we cannot control the costs of Medicare…
It really is astonishing. With the economy flailing and the trends in job losses disappointing even the whiz kids of the Obama administration, despite its having whipped out the “stimulus” credit card, with “cap and trade” energy policy seeking to raise the cost of doing business (and of simply living), the Democrats are hitting the…
Ben Stein presents an excellent image: True, by many metrics, the economy has stopped falling drastically, but we are still in a painful recession, large by postwar standards. The bank crises seem to have abated for now and Wall Street is paying itself fantastically well again, thank heavens, after being rescued with taxpayer money. But…
Sometimes, it’s almost like one of those scenes in old movies with the spinning newspapers tracing a character’s meteoric rise in headlines: He’s more powerful; she’s more popular. He sells millions of books he’s written; she sells millions of magazines she’s posed for. He gets more Internet clicks — except when she does. There are…
It’s encouraging to see that figures most often noted for their irascibility against right-leaning politicians can find fault with the other side: Following a testy exchange during today’s briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the…
I mean, come on: He even topped that by making sure to carve out time for a lovely date night in Paris. PARIS! Dining on foie gras and pheasant de truffled snootypants beneath the Eiffel Tower? Now that’s a European adventure and makes me a little pouty when I consider that, like most American women,…
Glenn Reynolds points to a Wall Street Journal editorial that is well worth a few moments of your time. (Those in Rep. Ray Sullivan’s Coventry may be relieved to learn that it’s available online.) President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax…