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Dems Self-Destructing? Who Could Have Thunk It

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 09, 2009 2 Comments

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...

Reality Sinking In For Democrats

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2009 4 Comments

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...

Andrew Sullivan Predicts Republican Health Plan Will Pass

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2009 8 Comments

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...

Hillary Had A Mandate For Mandates

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2009 4 Comments

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...

Love Me I’m A Liberal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2009 11 Comments

E-mails which start out "you are a ...

Ohio Republicans Propose Ban on Asking for Preferred Pronouns on Applications to Public Universities

U. Minnesota Suspends and Fines Pro-Hamas Rioters Who Took Over Building

Brown University Transfers Ownership of a Portion of its Land to Local Indian Tribe

The Battle to End Wokeness is Just Getting Started

U. Michigan Regent Says School Reconsidering DEI Policies

San Francisco State U. Firing Lecturers Due to 'Financial Emergency'

Throwing Darts at HR3200 – Day 7 (Don’t Wish Too Hard)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2009 2 Comments

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...

Glenn Beck Boycott Lessons Not Learned

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2009 7 Comments

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...

Obama Next On Their List For Removal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2009 6 Comments

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 and Gene Robinson, the next White House official to...

L’Affaire Van Jones is Histoire

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2009 2 Comments

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...

Maybe The Van Jones Vetters Didn’t See These Problems As A Problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2009 9 Comments

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...

Van Jones Sends Thrill Up MSNBC’s Leg

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2009 7 Comments

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...

Van Jones Not A Truther, He Just Played One In Real Life

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2009 5 Comments

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...

Throwing Darts at HR3200 – Day 6 (No Mulligans)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2009 0 Comments

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...

Beating Up Honduras

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2009 6 Comments

The Obama administration is taking its bad August out on Honduras, announcing today the imposition of economic sanctions: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, responding to calls to increase pressure on the de facto Honduras government, announced the termination on Thursday of about $22 million...

Van Jones and Truthers Are Mainstream Democrats

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2009 6 Comments

The internet is abuzz today with news that Glenn Beck foe and Obama administration Green Czar Van Jones is a 9/11 Truther, meaning he thinks the Bush administration either planned or at least knew of the 9/11 attacks in advance.Jones will end up resigning, and...

Life Is Not Fair, And Neither Is Drudge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2009 11 Comments

Life in the blogosphere is not fair. For weeks I have been beating the drum about the IRS being involved in our health care under Democratic proposals: IRS The New Health Care Enforcer (August 14, 2009).I greatly appreciated the links from InstaPundit, American Thinker, and...

Another Snowe Job

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2009 5 Comments

The hot topic at this precise moment in time is the concept of a public option "trigger" being proposed by Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe.Snowe was one of only three Republicans to vote for the February 2009 stimulus plan; without those three Republicans (one of...