03.09.10
Why BN didn’t touch the Massa dust-up
Obvious wack job. May have been right about Rahm Emmanuel, but you know what they say about stopped clocks.
03.05.10
One of those items that needs no additional comment, just wide dissemination
Harry Reid on February job-loss numbers.
03.04.10
To quit being the Stupid Party, one thing the GOP will need is some spine
Andy McCarthy on fear of being demagogued by FHers as the reason no fellow Pubs stood by Bunning. McCarthy also makes the point that, along with jobless benefits, another feature of this maeasure was preventing steep slashes in payments to Medicare doctors. Hell, those are the kinds of cuts they’ll be facing under TCM-care. Why not let them get a taste of the new order of things now?
Can you imagine how the fed-up populist groundswell would have cheered the Pubs if they’d come together on this?
The American people must have a choice between stupid and evil.
Time to get ugly
The jackbooted Freedom-Haters intend to use reconciliation.
This is way outside the parameters of historically normal Washington back and forth.
This is war.
03.02.10
A great weapon to use if they try reconciliation
Hugh Hewitt says, “Counter the jam-down with a flood of amendments.” He suggests everybody get into the act.
Jim Bunning’s objection isn’t holding up a vote
Erick Erickson at Red State points out that a 51-vote majority is all that would be needed for the jobless-benefits-extension bill to pass, and that Harry Reid could call a vote to see if he has it right this second.
Senator Bunning’s position is based on the question, why isn’t unspent stimulus money used for this?
Jim Bunning, American hero
For the simple act of pointing out that we do not have the money for a new package of jobless benefits, insurance subsidies and highway projects, the Kentucky senator is being made out to be some kind of wacko by the MSM and a heartless ogre by the Freedom-Haters.
This gets to the core of the decline in society’s overall maturity level that we discuss frequently here at BN. We have before us a simple fact. The money is not there. Still, the regime whines “But I want it!” like a three-year-old at the supermarket. Hell, yes, they want it. It’s their key to appearing compassionate to a desperate and near-desperate swath of the populace. (So maybe the more apt analogy would be to a teenager willing to max out her parents’ credit card to get a brand of jeans that will gain her acceptance into the cool crowd.)
None of which changes the fact that the money is not there.
03.01.10
The go-to man for writing tax law is embroiled in a big-time tax-cheating scandal . . .
. . . and San Fran Nan says it’s all no big deal. Any Pub in similar straits would have been skinned alive by now.
02.26.10
A beautiful sight: Pubs with spines
I didn’t have a lot of time to stay moment-by-moment abreast of the summit today, but reading the immediate post-pow-wow coverage makes it clear that those with a keen and principled interest in human freedom and the resucitation of the United States of America had it all over the jackbooted socialists .
02.22.10
The right response
John Boehner’s statement on TCM’s latest desperate attempt to salvage socialist health care.
Does this mean you won’t be going to the summit?
02.21.10
It was never about popularity for them
Poll numbers – and not just Rasmussen’s – are plummeting by the microsecond for all things Freedom-Hater: TCM’s performance overall, Congress’s performance overall, socialist health care, handling of the deficit.
Popularity was never more than a tool for gaining power for these people. Their determination to double down on everything the American people want to stop now if not sooner is madness of a most exquisitely despotic sort. It’s the same reason Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez are unfazed by the basket cases into which they have made their economies.
02.20.10
Embarrassingly pathetic
Because he is so desperate to be seen as exerting leadership even while he colludes with Congress to continue suffocating the nation with an unprecedented deficit, TCM has formed a commission of former legislators to come up with a plan to cut spending and shore up the government’s fiscal health. As I say, he’s clearly desperate. He knows that the American people will see this as the height of immaturity and helplessness (comparisons to a drunk hiring someone to keep him on the wagon are already cropping up), yet he must be seen as taking some concrete action. It also gives him and the FHer “leadership” in Congress an excuse to say, “An impartial third party has confirmed that we need to raise taxes!”
Fighting this stuff is daunting work, but I want the record to show that not all Americans living though this insane time went meekly along with this garbage. I intend to be among the ones that the history books depict as remembering what freedom, common sense and dignity were all about.
02.16.10
Retiring senators say the most noteworthy things
Evan Bayh on the stimulus package’s inability to create jobs.
02.15.10
Just wow
Evan Bayh is retiring as Indiana senator. Such a recent development I don’t have a link to a news story about it yet.
It will be interesting to say the least to get the full skinny on this one. I know Dan Coats was ahead of him in the polls, but Evan has never struck me as being afraid of a political challenge. As far as I know, he’s a happily married man. Healthy. Committed to his party.
As I say, as far as I know all the above is true.
UPDATE: Here is the AP story. I’m rather intrigued by his remark “I do not love Congress.” I’m sure he’ll be asked to elaborate on that in coming days.
