Karl Rove is spot on in his WSJ opinion column today. Obama and the Democrats in Congress are making the striking differences in principles between them and the Republicans clearly evident as they work feverishly to push through massive spending bills and other unpopular initiatives. They have managed to accomplish what Republicans could not in recent election cycles: Demonstrate the difference between GOP and DNC. Obama is now saying things which both he and the media pilloried McCain for saying a few months ago. He’s signing off on huge numbers of the earmarks he promised to fight. He’s growing the deficit at an unprecedented rate. Rove is making a similar point to what we discussed here.
Read Rove’s column.
Did Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner give misleading testimony to Congress this week? Sure looks that way.
CBS News polling included both Rush Limbaugh and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, in their list for favorable/unfavorable ratings. Results discussed here.
Former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont writes in today’s WSJ about the contrasting approach to taxation and growth in government spending in the states of Delaware and California, and compares each to the model being followed by the Obama Administration. Tell me there’s an end to the spending spree that Reid, Pelosi, and Obama are [...]
When the U.S. Congress decides to run roughshod over the wisdom of free markets, we get irrational results such as what we see today with Ethanol (WSJ).
It’s hopefully not a new idea to you that news organizations are prone to present just about any story as “THE MOST SHOCKING, BIGGEST, UNPRECEDENTED, MUST-SEE MUNDANE STORY WE’VE EVER REPORTED!!!!!” Why? They are deathly afraid you will change the channel when they cut to commercial, or walk past the newsstand without buying that paper, [...]
I’ve seen several mentions of the record deficits in Pres. Obama’s budget being understated. Yes, they’re the highest ever, but they are very unlikely to remain at those levels - they’ll almost certainly go much higher. Here’s one example from Newsweek:
Defense—a.k.a. national security—has long been government’s first job. In Obama’s budget, defense spending drops from [...]
The deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act, also known as Card Check, has been introduced into the U.S. Congress. The passage of this act was a campaign promise of Pres. Obama, and is a top priority of organized labor leaders.
The act would radically change the current process for organizing elections in the workplace. Such elections, in [...]
