Obamanation
Mark makes an interesting point in the weekend Steyn: The real bubble is a consequence of big government. The more the citizenry expect from the state, the more our political class will depend on ever more swollen Gulf Emir–sized retinues of staffers hovering at the elbow to steer you from one corner of the fishbowl…
Just wanted to share this fantastic line from Jonah Goldberg that readers might not have caught because it was in an extended entry: So, if Obama deserves “credit” for what’s happened in Iran, there are several possibilities. The first is that he intended for something like this to happen. He gave his speech in the…
Michael Barone offers his “Three Rules of Obama: First, Obama likes to execute long-range strategies but suffers from cognitive dissonance when new facts render them inappropriate. … On domestic policy, he has been executing his long-range strategy of vastly expanding government, but may be encountering problems as voters show unease at huge increases on spending.…
James Poulus observes: I’ve said elsewhere that our vision of politics is being corrupted by a well-meaning but misguided epistemology of compassion: increasingly, we consider the person or group demanding a right to be the most trustworthy source of information about whether they deserve it. Anyone aggrieved, we think, must really be suffering grief, and…
Wow: EVAN THOMAS [editor of Newsweek]: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he, he has a very different job from … Reagan was all about…
This story confounds categorization: Eastern District of Michigan judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff handed down the decision, in a case involving an alleged violation of the constitutional separation of church and state. The issue is whether a government-owned company, AIG, can market sharia-compliant insurance products. (To be sharia-compliant, an investment vehicle must be created and structured…
“From the beginning, I made it clear that I would not put any more tax dollars on the line if it meant perpetuating the bad business decisions that had led these companies to seek help in the first place,” he said. “I refused to let these companies become permanent wards of the state, kept afloat…
Byron York wonders whether the GM bailout will finally tie the popular President Obama to the sinking weight of his policies. Personally, I wouldn’t presume to predict. I will say this, though: I expect it registers with more voters than one might think that a president who issued a statement about the murder of an…
Via the College Republicans at Roger Williams, “Obama-man can ’cause he mixes it with hope and makes the world feel good.”
Well isn’t this just dandy (emphasis added): Some soccer moms will have to give up hulking SUVs. Carpenters will still haul materials around in pickup trucks, but they will cost more. Nearly everybody else will drive smaller cars, and more of them will run on electricity. The higher mileage and emissions standards set by the…