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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2009 6 Comments

The Obama administration's strategy of engagement with Iran has been an abysmal failure. The administration hoped that a policy of silent acceptance of Iranian repression of protesters in June would yield results at the negotiating table. But the much ballyhooed breakthrough in September regarding uranium...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2009 6 Comments

Harry Reid got his 60 votes earlier this morning. Some initial thoughts:The mainstream media is going to go back into campaign mode, to see that some form of Harry-Nancy-Obama-care, or is it Obama-Nancy-Harry-care, gets passed. The NY Times already is on the case pressing the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2009 9 Comments

Yesterday I posted on Jane Hamsher's appearance on Fox News to demand defeat of the Senate bill.Today, Hamsher and Grover Norquist, who runs the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, have issued a joint letter demanding the resignation of Rahm Emanuel, and an investigation into Emanuel's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2009 13 Comments

HotAir via Politico is reporting that the Obama administration has learned that there is sufficient resistence in the House to the Senate plan that the push to pass final legislation, after conference, will be delayed until after Obama's January State of the Union address.I'd like...

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 idea...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2009 9 Comments

I may have to turn this into a series. Someone please tell me again that this is a hoax, or a bad Photoshop, or something. Via Big Government, the Obama's White House Christmas tree not only has an ornament with Mao's photo on it, there...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2009 13 Comments

Forget the junior Congressman from Alabama who is defecting to the Republicans. The big defection of the day was the decision by Jane Hamsher, proprietor of the left-wing Firedoglake group blog and organizer of the Hadassah Lieberman boycott, to appear on Fox News to call...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2009 15 Comments

I have been warning since early June about the danger of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board.IMAB is a board appointed by the President with congressional approval, to submit recommendations on Medicare payments and costs. IMAB is modeled, somewhat, on the Base Closing Commission which made...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2009 1 Comment

As part of his broad attack this weekend on opponents of the Democratic health care plans, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) declared:"The lowest of the low was the Republican vote against funding and supporting our troops in the field in a time of war. As a device...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2009 6 Comments

What did the tanning industry ever do to deserve being singled out for a new 10% surtax on all indoor tanning services in Harry Reid's Manager's Amendment?The tanning tax was a substitute for the cosmetic surgery tax (a/k/a Botax) in the prior bill.This may seem...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2009 20 Comments

Sheldon Whitehouse, my Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, has joined the Alan Grayson wing of the Democratic party with a speech so over the top that it is an infuriating embarrassment. I wasn't going to post on this. But then I listened to the speech, in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2009 9 Comments

The meme circulating today is that Republicans made a tactical error by failing to cooperate more with Democrats early on in the health care debate, pushing so-called moderate Democrats like Evan Bayh into the arms of Harry Reid and Barack Obama.That meme is a bunch...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2009 10 Comments

In order to get large pharmaceutical companies behind Obamacare, including getting the drug companies to advertise, the Obama administration cut a deal, among other things, that the re-importation of drugs would not generally be permitted.Unlike some issues, there are legitimate points on each side of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2009 10 Comments

I wonder how Nebraskans will feel waking up this morning knowing that their Senator Ben Nelson sold out the rest of the nation on Medicaid reimbursement in order to secure a deal for Nebraska.While Nebraskans will get new Medicaid mandates covered by the federal government,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2009 3 Comments

Here is a photo of our patio taken a little before 8 a.m. this morning. Looks like we have almost a foot of snow. We are expecting snow for about 5 more hours.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2009 63 Comments

I was in the car most of the day, so I haven't had a chance to post on the Ben Nelson sellout. So here are some initial thoughts:Yes, it is that bad. The Democrats are about to put in place the legislative, regulatory and bureaucratic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2009 2 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Vice-President/Executive Editor Tim King writing at Salem News.com plays the "Rush-O'Reilly-Beck inspire white supremacist killers" hand, while slipping in the Godwin's Law card from the bottom of the deck,...

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