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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2010 1 Comment
On February 28, 2009, Barack Obama gave a weekly address regarding his proposed massive budget in which Obama ramped up his attack on lobbyists: I know these steps won’t sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2010 7 Comments
The conspiracy to undermine the Constitution has taken an interesting turn. A career prosecutor at the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has determined that John Yoo and Jay Bybee did not violate their professional obligations in analyzing whether certain enhanced interrogation techniques constituted...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2010 3 Comments
Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu sold their reputations for hometown deals as part of the Senate health care bill. Now that the Senate bill is dead, they have nothing to show for the sale. Raymond J. Donovan was Secretary of Labor under Ronald Reagan. Donovan...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2010 22 Comments
In case you have not heard, the Democrats have come up with a plan to nullify temporarily the Massachusetts voters in the Senate special election on January 19, if Scott Brown wins. As reported by the Boston Herald, interim Senator Paul Kirk is on record...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2009 2 Comments
Barack Obama loves to try to blame George Bush for our deficits and out of control spending, as if Democratic control of Congress for the last several years, and Obama’s control of the budget this year, had nothing to do with it. So how will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2009 9 Comments
The Telegraph in Britain has a story about a massive iceberg which broke off from the Antarctic ice cap and is heading for Australia. The iceberg is so large that if it hits the mainland it would cause a 3.0-4.0 tremor on the Richter scale....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 1 Comment
Mary Landrieu’s deal for an extra $300 million in Medicaid funds for poor Louisiana residents has been hailed by Landrieu as a great victory for the people of Louisiana, and by just about everyone else as a shakedown of Harry Reid and the American people....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 8 Comments
The Nation magazine has an extensive article detailing a classified operation in Pakistan by Blackwater, acting expressly under U.S. authority and coordination, to fight al–Qaeda: At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 7 Comments
It gets curiouser and curiouser. Yesterday, Mary Landrieu closed the deal for a payoff to Louisiana in exchange for her vote to let Harry Reid’s health care restructuring bill go to Senate floor debate. The deal had been negotiated over weeks, with initial reports putting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2009 5 Comments
There will be plenty of time to analyze the wisdom or lack thereof in bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York City for a civilian criminal trial. Plenty of times as in years and possibly decades of legal wrangling over a host of issues. But...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2009 2 Comments
Yet another “shocked to find gambling in Casablanca” moment. This time, the AP — yes the AP! — checked claims of jobs “created or saved” by stimulus bill spending, and found that the number of jobs was overstated by a factor of 1 in 6:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2009 2 Comments
Politico has an article today on a secret arrangement struck last April among corporate lobbyists, the Obama administration, and Senator Max Baucus, exchanging favorable treatment for corporate interests for advertising dollars in support of Democratic health care reform: At a meeting last April with corporate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2009 2 Comments
Every now and then, like the proverbial broken clock, Frank Rich at the NY Times gets something mostly right. His column, The Rabbit Ragu Democrats, gets it mostly right and does a good job exposing the reality that lobbyists for corporate interests are running just...
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