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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2010 1 Comment
Harry Reid, having brought you the Stimulus Plan and Obamacare, now is set to push cap-and-trade legislation before Congress goes into recess: Senate and House Democrats are headed for a clash this week over funding for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, as Senate Majority Leader Harry...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2010 6 Comments
There is a silver lining for Democrats in recent PPP polling of hypothetical 2012 matchups. Obama trails Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich by low single digits, and is tied with Sarah Palin. That last one must have Andrew Sullivan spinning while he waddles...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2010 15 Comments
In an upcoming issue of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol pens an editorial in which he argues that while “we are not not now quite at a founding moment, or even a re-founding moment,” we are approaching a point of political crisis which will be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 07, 2010 18 Comments
Rhode Island is the new Arizona. No, actually, Arizona is the new Rhode Island. Despite the failure of the Rhode Island legislature to pass an Arizona-like immigration bill, Rhode Island already has implemented the critical piece of the Arizona law, checking the immigration status of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2010 4 Comments
Last summer’s Cash for Clunkers program artificially boosted used car prices by requiring destruction of the clunkers, thereby restricting the supply of used cars. That was bad enough for people looking to buy used cars. But the market distortion caused by government intervention is hitting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2010 1 Comment
Sharron Angle has come under withering fire from Harry Reid’s campaign and its operatives for highlighting the need to move away from the entitlement state in favor of policies which foster personal choices and responsibility. Yet a budget report just released by the Congressional Budget...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2010 5 Comments
The narcissistic mainstream media and its supporters in the left-wing blogosphere have been toeing the Harry Reid campaign line that Sharron Angle has been “hiding” from the press. What they really meant was that Sharron Angle didn’t grant them an interview. She appeared on plenty...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2010 17 Comments
Kelly Steele is Harry Reid’s campaign spokesman and one of the chief strategists. According to reports, Steele is credited with taking down Sue Lowden, and is in charge of the early efforts to paint Sharron Angle as an extremist and crazy: And that’s where Steele...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2010 4 Comments
Sheldon Whitehouse has taken to the floor of the Senate again to accuse everyone who opposes driving the country further into debt of being against people who are suffering financially. But that accusation, much like Whitehouse’s accusations against opponents of ObamaCare, is based on a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2010 6 Comments
Remember when “Medicare for All” (also known as “Single Payer”) was the banner under which Alan Grayson and his followers in the left-wing blogosphere marched? Medicare for All would not have meant “Health Care for All” because the dirty little secret was that Medicare reimbursement...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2010 3 Comments
The Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition has found its most successful tactic — the use of human shields in the form of Western Useful Idiots backed by Islamist Martyrs-in-Waiting to confront Israeli soldiers in the hope that Israel will be forced either to weaken its defenses or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2010 13 Comments
Alan Simpson, unlike Bob Etheridge, stayed and answered questions during a hostile ambush interview, and gave the questioner, Alex Lawson of Social Security Works (filming for Firedoglake’s “live stream“) an earful about the fallacies behind left-wing attacks on reforming Social Security and lowering the deficit....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2010 1 Comment
Harry Reid crafted Obamacare without a Doc Fix built into the legislation so that Reid could get the CBO score he wanted. Now Reid admits that without additional spending, the legislation will create havoc: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had warned Thursday night of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2010 12 Comments
There is so much wrong with how Barack Obama has handled the Gulf oil spill, it’s almost hard to know where to begin. Put aside the ineptitude of the approval process and clean up response. For today, I’m focusing on the tentative settlement with BP....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2010 9 Comments
In advance of Barack Obama’s presidential address tonight on the Gulf oil spill, it is reasonable to consider the following possibilities (vote only once, this isn’t Chicago): (Poll closed, final pre-speech results below) Question 1: How many times will Obama mention that the Deepwater Horizon...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2010 13 Comments
There is something profoundly bass ackwards in the way Obama is reacting to the disaster in the Gulf. Obama keeps focusing on legal liability: President Obama will use his first Oval Office speech Tuesday night to outline a plan to legally compel BP to create...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2010 2 Comments
While Bill Halter’s failed attempt to unseat Blanche Lincoln understandably has received all the media attention, there is a congressional race in Massachusetts in which labor is trying to unseat a politically incorrect (i.e., not sufficiently liberal) Democratic incumbent. Steve Lynch is a Democrat in...
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