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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2010 12 Comments
What Obama needs to pass his health care restructuring bill is a good political crisis. One in which he can stand there and proclaim, as he did with the stimulus bill, that we are on the edge of a catastrophe. And since the only way...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2010 8 Comments
The latest in the “how do they think this stuff up” series, Matthew Yglesias on the new definition of immorality, namely, doing something which hurts the Democratic Party (emphasis mine): Obviously, Evan Bayh’s never been my favorite Senator. And the more one learns about both the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2010 18 Comments
Barack Obama was steadfast during the campaign and after his election in his willingness to enter into negotiations with Iran without preconditions. But Obama is not willing to enter into health care negotiations with Republicans without preconditions. In inviting Republicans to the negotiating table for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2009 18 Comments
One idea being floated on the internet is a “National Strike” on January 20, 2010, to protest Obama’s State of the Union address in light of the irresponsible health care legislation and out-of-control spending. I completely sympathize with the emotion behind the idea. But the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2009 2 Comments
John Hawkins has an interesting post regarding a conversation he had with a Senate staffer on the chances of Obama-Pelosi-Reid-care passing this year (not likely) or in January (50/50): John: But still, it’s looking grim right? Senate Aide X: They are in much worse shape...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2009 3 Comments
Senator Orrin Hatch has written a Hanukkah song. The background is here. Thanks, Orrin. There’s a lesson to be learned here, but unfortunately the Jewish community will not learn it because it is so deep in the pocket of the Democratic Party that it cannot...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 05, 2009 11 Comments
After the Bill Sparkman incident, in which the left-wing blogosphere immediately blamed tea party attendees and conservatives for Sparkman’s (as yet unsolved) death, even this shocked me. Digby at Hullabaloo: I have no idea what happened at Ft Hood. They’ve confirmed that the perpetrators were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 26, 2009 3 Comments
It’s slipping away from the protectors of the Obama image. Increasingly, the mainstream media is using the term “Nixonian” in the same sentence as Obama. And all because of an unnecessary fight Obama picked with Fox News. The term Nixonian has taken on a meaning...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2009 2 Comments
I’m starting a new theme, the Saturday Night Card Game, to highlight the use of the race card as a political tool. Those on the left, lacking meritorious arguments, increasingly turn to false accusations of racism as a way of ending an argument they are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2009 2 Comments
First it was the Senate Gang of Six who took it upon themselves to fix Joe Wilson’s imaginary loophole, the one which caused Wilson out of frustration to accuse Barack Obama of lying as to whether Democratic health care proposals included illegal aliens. And caused...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2009 5 Comments
You would be hard-pressed to find a better example of how uncompromising the left-wing of the Democratic Party has become than the attempts to make sure the Obama administration and moderate Democrats do not compromise on the public option. Jane Hamsher, one of the most...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2009 4 Comments
The pressure put on advertisers to pull ads from the Glenn Beck show on Fox News has caused about a dozen major corporations to instruct their ad agencies to make sure their ads did not run on the show. These advertisers never directed their advertising...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2009 15 Comments
Barack Obama has invoked his experience with his grandmother’s death in support of his health care restructuring plans. Does this mean Obama used his grandmother as a “prop,” and that this would justify mocking his grandmother? No. We each have personal experiences with the health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 12 Comments
The political world looked bleak on April 29, 2009, just after Arlen Specter had announced that he was switching to the Democratic Party. The Democrats, understandably crowing, seemed to be unstoppable. The Democratic agenda to control the most minute aspects of our lives through health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2009 71 Comments
I waited a whole day before posting about the Sarah Palin resignation. Well, not a whole day, but longer than almost everyone else in the blogosphere. Here’s my take as of this moment in time, subject to change: I don’t know why Sarah Palin resigned,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2009 2 Comments
The controversy over Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA repeatedly misled her and Congress as to detainee interrogation has taken a new turn: Word games. What Pelosi knew, when she knew it, and what she did in reaction, rightly has become a center of attention...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2009 2 Comments
Former Congressman Tom Tancredo was shouted down and bullied off the stage a couple of weeks ago at the University of North Carolina by protesters opposed to Tancredo’s stand on illegal immigration. Tancredo espouses the apparently radical view that we should enforce immigration laws; in...
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