Barack Obama’s speech on health care tonight was a good effort to re-frame the debate and the issues, but ultimately was a non-starter because it relied on governmental powers of coercion, a public option as to which Obama will not back down, the illusion of no increased deficits but expanded benefits,...

that would make a difference?

Tweak the public option, call it “competition” and expect everyone to follow?

Tweak mandates, call them “choice” and expect everyone to follow?

Tweak the dozens of new bureaucracies created, call them “helpers” and expect everyone to follow?

Tweak the taxes and penalties, call them “shared responsibility payments” and expect everyone...

Camille Paglia nails it again:

By foolishly trying to reduce all objections to healthcare reform to the malevolence of obstructionist Republicans, Democrats have managed to destroy the national coalition that elected Obama and that is unlikely to be repaired. If Obama fails to win reelection, let...

To read the left-wing blogosphere and mainstream media, one would think that the American people were victims of a vast right-wing conspiracy. As if the critics of creeping government control of the health care and economic systems somehow were misleading an otherwise liberal population into opposing Democratic liberal plans.

To the contrary,...

Andrew Sullivan, writing at TimesOnline (London) notes the circus of conspiracy theories sweeping the land. He ought to know.

Sullivan goes on to argue that Obama will end up with a victory on health care restructuring, although many of the controversial aspects will be dropped:

Nonetheless, I remain convinced Obama will win this...

If Hillary Clinton were President, things would be quite different. For one, Hillary would have a mandate for health care mandates, which are the key to Democratic health care restructuring.

Everyone focuses on the public option, but the public option is a mere necessary component of a system in which everyone is...

E-mails which start out “you are a ….,” or which accuse me of wasting my education, are fairly routine, and to date, exclusively from the Left.

So imagine my surprise at receiving this e-mail from the Right (obligatory capital letters in the original):

AFTER ALL YOUR EDUCATION, YOU STILL HAVE NO RESPECT FOR...

This is the seventh* and last of a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in HR3200, the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. The hope is that through random selection of pages from the House Bill, using the dartboard method, some light will be shed on the otherwise dense...

The lesson being learned by the left-wing blogosphere from the sputtering Glenn Beck boycott and the Van Jones Affair is not that political arguments should be won on the merits, and in the hearts and minds of the public.

No, the lesson being learned is that Democrats and the nutroots do not...

At his Liberaland blog, Alan Colmes of the hated Fox Network asks:

Van Jones Resigns; Who Will They Go After Next?

Good question, but it depends on what the meaning of “they” is. According to Keith Olbermann...

I made the classic blogger’s mistake of getting a full night’s sleep last night, rather than checking the internet every hour.

When I awoke, every single blog I know had a post about how Van Jones had resigned sometime just before or after the stroke of midnight. Cl...

A lot of people are asking “who vetted Van Jones?” or wondering how the Obama administration could have missed the problems. These are valid questions, but they miss the point.

Van Jones is a mainstream member of the left-wing of the Democratic Party. Like over half of all Democrats (as of ...

MSNBC just cannot stop covering and cheering for the Obama administration. Either they don’t understand their own news biases, or they don’t care, or both. This blog post by several of MSNBC’s news staff, including reporter Chuck Todd, says it all:

*** Remind us again how the media is biased…: Finally, here’s...

The “I’m not a doctor, I just play one on TV” analogy moved into the political sphere long ago, most recently when a faux doctor appeared at a town hall run by Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.

Now we have something of a reverse analogy, someone who actually was a 9/11 Truther...

This is the sixth in a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in HR3200, the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. The hope is that through random selection of pages from the House Bill, using the dartboard method, some light will be shed on the otherwise dense House Bill.

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