Ah, the Good Ole’ Days

Rep. Darrell Issa: Remember When? I’m just going to include this whole thing.  If Congressman Issa’s office has a problem with me taking the entire entry rather than excerpting it, I’ll change things up, but in the meantime I thought this was terribly instructive.  Have a read.  (And thank you ahead of time for understanding, [...]

What the Heck Was the $862 Billion For, Then?

It’s not like they haven’t tried this before. Back when the president and his party was scrambling to pass the failed $862 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, if you asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the so-called “stimulus” bill was about four things: jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs, and without it, 500 million Americans were [...]

Turn the Page. Seriously.

Well, did you watch him?  The Guy from Chicago?  Last night, from the Oval Office, he announced … something. Not sure just what, but it was definitely more than nothing. As presidential speeches from this particular Oval Office tenant go, it was better than most in that it was merely boring and a bit meandering, [...]

On Obama’s Iraq Speech

Well, that was an election year speech if I’ve ever heard one.

On the Economy, the Democra — oh, look, a shiny object!

So, this weekend was the fifth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina.  President Barack Obama and his family left their umpteenth vacation paradise on Martha’s Vineyard to travel to the biggest city still under construction on the Gulf Coast, as they well should have.  Of course, the president refused to pass up on a [...]

Better Late Than Never

Reason.com: Obvious Failure of Stimulus Becomes Obvious Even to Economists At City Journal, Guy Sorman notes how quickly the managed-market winds have shifted. When the credit unwind started, the papers, the TV and the newsweaklies declared capitalism dead in just a little less time than it took for Kent Brockman to declare his loyalty to [...]

Anybody Seen an Aircraft Carrier?

NewsBusters: ‘Recovery Summer’ vs. ‘Mission Accomplished’: Will MSM Immortalize Obama’s Laughable Proclamations? First, it should be noted that the “Mission Accomplished” meme, as trumpeted by the media since May, 2003, is largely a myth. Bush never delivered those words in the context portrayed by many media liberals. The phrase was never actually uttered on the [...]

Paul Ryan vs. Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @ New York Times: The FlimFlam Man So why have so many in Washington, especially in the news media, been taken in by this flimflam? It’s not just inability to do the math, although that’s part of it. There’s also the unwillingness of self-styled centrists to face up to the realities of the [...]

ObamaCare Stifles Small Business

GOP.gov Policy News: ObamaCare and Small Employers Less than three months before the congressional midterm elections in November, House Republicans are still actively trying to remind the American public that the health care reform bill forced through the House and Senate by the Democrats only a few months ago is short on benefits and long [...]

Behold … H.A.R.P.

Reuters Political Blog: An August Surprise from Obama? Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout. Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans [...]

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