Obamanation
That’s what the Obama campaign must be quietly saying after reading the column of the not-exactly-right-leaning Maureen Dowd in the not-exactly-Republican-sympathizing New York Times. (“Languid”? “Flailing”? Yikes!) … If the languid Obama had not done his usual irritating fourth-quarter play, if he had presented a jobs plan a year ago and fought for it, he…
It’s too bad nobody was able to see this as a probably consequence of ObamaCare: Nearly one of every 10 midsized or big employers expects to stop offering health coverage to workers after insurance exchanges begin operating in 2014 as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, according to a survey by a major…
This is precisely the thinking that has to end: The two-phase plan will require Obama to argue for spending more money in the short term while reducing the federal deficit over a longer period. Many economists support that combination, saying that cuts in spending should wait until the economy is stronger. But political strategists say…
The Telegraph’s Alex Spillius (H/T Drudge) reports that some Democrats are quietly regretting their support for Barack Obama as President. In that vein, well into an OpEd in Saturday’s New York Times that vilifies all of the usual suspects (Bush, Republicans, Wall Street), Professor Drew Westen admits Those of us who were bewitched by his…
See, I don’t recall this being the sales point with which President Obama and his allies pushed ObamaCare: New projections show that health care spending will grow faster than the nation’s GDP over the next decade. But the increase will be only slightly more than would be the case without the new national health law.…
Michael Walsh characterizes President Obama’s leadership style as “the permanent insurgency”: Do nothing, lie in wait, and then counter-attack. Never present a plan if you can possibly help it, but deal exclusively in bromides and platitudes as you stake out the moral “high ground” and get ready to ambush the other guy. Think of it…
Victor Davis Hanson makes an excellent point: Instead [of descriptions of modern “poverty” and examinations of whether government spending works], we hear the rhetoric of Dickensian poverty, usually in terms of relative rather than absolute want, as in the president’s constant referencing of “corporate jets” for “millionaires and billionaires” rather than any statistics about average…
White House Budget Director Jacob Lew appeared on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley. Kudos to Real Clear Politics for picking up on this part of the interview and transcribing it. Note that the White House no longer contends that there wouldn’t be enough money to issue these checks in the event of…
I’m not a big fan of Karl Rove. But he’s got a point here. Mr. Obama has offered no evidence since becoming president that he wants to restrain the upward trajectory of government spending. He does want higher taxes to pay for significantly higher federal spending. But he wants Republicans to deliver the tax increases,…
Further to Justin’s post, perhaps the most exasperating aspect of the mainstream media’s studious disinterest in Operation Fast and Furious is the patent lack of consistency. If this had been an operation initiated by the ATF under a Republican president, the coverage would have been wall to wall. Assuredly, more than one MSNBC program host…
