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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 29 Comments

Isn't that what this all is about at this moment in time? We just have to last another 18 months and win the presidential election, and then our long national nightmare will come to an end.  Until then, we're just trying to limit the damage. Until he...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 4 Comments

A reminder from Bill Kristol (h/t commenter Mike Hinton) But even if [the McConnell plan] created a bad news day yesterday for Republicans, the good news is that it’s already yesterday’s news. It’s House Republicans—not Senate minority leader McConnell—who will control tomorrow’s news. It is dawn yet?  It was just a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 35 Comments

Obama is bluffing.  He so desperately wants to keep spending at high levels and to increase taxes that he is threatening to withhold social security checks from recipients. Republicans should take a reasonsble deal if it is available.  A structure of scaling back spending, even if...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 10 Comments

You will not see that headline.  Instead you will see headlines about Obama's blowout fundraising of $86 million combined for his campaign and the Democratic National Committee.  Of that amount, $47 million was for Obama's campaign. But as The NY Times notes deep down in its article...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 3 Comments

Sent by reader Karl who snapped the photo in Rochester Hills, MI, and who writes: I'm a long-time reader but I haven't registered for comments or anything; however, I was behind this bumper sticker and didn't recall ever seeing it on your list before. Thought you...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 34 Comments

Because the more I think about Mitch McConnell's proposal, the darker things are looking. I tried in my initial post to be fair and balanced, and not simply reactive.  But it's growing on me, and not in a good way. The good news is that 98% of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 23 Comments

Below is the video in which Mitch McConnell sets forth his proposal, and here is the WaPo analysis: McConnell’s proposal would have the effect of forcing Obama and congressional Democrats to take full responsibility for raising the debt limit, and require Democrats to vote on the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 1 Comment

Someone who after 9 years is not suffering from Blogger Burnout or any other known blogging disorder. We all should be so lucky. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 28 Comments

I have praised Mitch McConnell before, when he was fighting an almost impossible battle to hold the line in the Senate on a variety of issues when the Democrats had a filibuster-proof or near filibuster-proof majority. Now McConnell may have set the narrative for 2012 on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 8 Comments

Almost the entire Democratic Party theme for the 2012 elections at every level is that evil Republicans want to destroy "Medicare as we know it," whereas Democrats want to save the program by raising taxes on the "rich." As Michael Alan  documented here, groups behind the "Mediscare"...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 8 Comments

Spotted by reader Will in Denver, Colorado: The car owner obviously is operating under a false impression: That’s what the revenue debate is about.  It’s not because I want to raise revenues for the sake of raising revenues, or I’ve got some grand ambition to create a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 22 Comments

Help me formulate possible answers for a reader poll asking that question. Considering that some people wanted more than two alternative in the Flash Poll today, I'm taking suggestions....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 30 Comments

The story about a Rutgers professor confronting Rep. Paul Ryan at a Washington, D.C., restaurant over the cost of wine ordered by people at Ryan's table rightly has been criticized, including by me. But most of the criticism deals with the professor being a busy-body and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 23 Comments

I was right, mostly. The serious, conciliatory Obama showed up at the press conference today. The only reasonable person in the room was the theme. I was wrong to the extent that in his opening statement and throughout Obama framed the issue as the Republicans not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 19 Comments

That's the question I have, because the French obviously have different rules than we do (h/t Israel Matzav): Syrians loyal to President Bashar Assad stormed the US and French embassies in Damascus on Monday. The crowds managed to break into and enter the American compound, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 24 Comments

Obama is holding another press conference today, at 11 a.m. , with regard to the debt talks.  The last press conference was an unmitigated disaster for him, leading one MSNBC talking head to drop the "D" bomb. My take is that we will see a different...

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