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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2009 6 Comments
Bruni de la Motte explains in The Guardian why East Germans were better off before the Berlin Wall fell: On 9 November 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down I realised German unification would soon follow, which it did a year later. This meant the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2009 5 Comments
The NY Times is naming names of House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill. It’s all public record, so it’s not “outing.” But it is interesting that The Times feels the need to go into such detail to highlight the Democratic heretics. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2009 23 Comments
First impressions and reactions can be dangerous, but here goes: Passing the monstrous health care bill by just 5 votes in the House is a pyrrhic victory. Yes, it is a victory tonight for Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, but at an enormous political price....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2009 1 Comment
The attempts by Nancy Pelosi to cajole and/or threaten House Democrats into voting for the House health care restructuring bill has a surreal quality about it. Pelosi reminds me of a suicidal jumper on a ledge, with Republicans trying to talk Pelosi down since if...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2009 4 Comments
Don’t have much time this morning to comment further, but note the irony that today the jobless rate hit a 25-year high at 10.2%, and tomorrow night Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning to push through a health care restructuring bill that is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 05, 2009 1 Comment
No, not really. But neither did the Democrats on Tuesday, notwithstanding Nancy Pelosi’s proclamation on Wednesday that “We won”: “From my perspective, we won last night. We had one race that we were engaged in — it was in northern New York. It was a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2009 3 Comments
The Congressional Budget Office has released its “scoring” of the House health care restructuring bill. The CBO is required to score bills the way they are drafted, even if the assumptions in the legislation are unrealistic or politically unlikely to be fully implemented. Accordingly, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2009 9 Comments
Joe Klein is a concern troll. In purporting to criticize Obama’s attacks on Fox News, Klein devotes most of his latest post to attacking Fox News: Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2009 21 Comments
With each passing day, I am becoming more and more convinced that the Obama administration’s sustained and crude attacks on Fox News are a big diversion. Sure, the attacks on Fox News are unprecedented in the post-Nixon era. Barack Milhous Obama may not be change...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2009 11 Comments
Barack Obama is on another “it’s all Bush’s fault” tear again. This time, using the tired campaign theme of cleaning up Bush’s mess: Another way of putting it is when, you know, I’m busy and Nancy busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2009 16 Comments
You knew this had to happen. A popular left-wing blog, Jack and Jill Politics, has a photo of Rush Limbaugh as Hitler with blood dripping from his mouth, and “KKK” lettering. “The Real Face of the RepubliKKKan Party” The genius posting this garbage was the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2009 3 Comments
Had anyone outside of 8th Congressional District in Florida heard of Alan Grayson prior to Grayson’s rant that Republicans want people to “die quickly”? Using the standard of causation employed by Nancy Pelosi, Patrick Kennedy, the nutroots, and other Democrats, Grayson is inciting violence against...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2009 19 Comments
We do not know how or why Bill Sparkman — a part time Census worker — was killed in Kentucky. Let me repeat this, since this is the internet and lower case lettering does not carry any meaning: WE DO NOT KNOW HOW OR WHY...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2009 9 Comments
During the 2008 campaign, there were serious concerns that al-Qaeda would attempt to disrupt the elections in the United States as it had disrupted the elections in Spain. Warnings about the threat of terrorism gave prominent left-wing bloggers an excuse to accuse the McCain campaign...

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,...

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

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2009 2 Comments
What is it about this August. It seems that every caricature of Democratic incompetence, intolerance, snobbery, tax-and-spendiness, and manipulation is coming true right before our very eyes: Matthew Yglesias: If Only We Had Some Means of Taking Rich People’s Money and Devoting it to Public...
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