Radical Move for a Radical Bill
Does she have the votes? Can she get them? That’s what everyone is wondering. “She” is Nancy Pelosi, and the votes will decide not only the fate of ObamaCare but also of Obama’s presidency. Michael...
View ArticleA Fiscal Suicide Pact
If you believe the Obama administration (and I doubt there is a person on the planet not in custodial care who actually does), ObamaCare will, if enacted, save the government $132 billion over the next...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Michael Barone on ObamaCare: “In fall 2009, Democrats could have pivoted on health care to craft a popular bill or a watered-down unpopular bill to be passed by a bipartisan safe-seat coalition....
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Wondering where the American Jewish community is on Obama’s Israel-bash-a-thon? Well, being a “wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party, whose fidelity, financial and electoral, all Dem...
View ArticleWhom Do You Trust More?
Last month Berkshire Hathaway sold two-year bonds that yield less than federal notes of the same maturity, according to Bloomberg (h/t: Michael Barone). That is a truly astonishing fact. The interest...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Michael Barone explains young Americans’ economic outlook in the Obama era: “The programs of the Obama administration and the Democratic congressional leadership will increase government’s share of the...
View ArticleRepublican Resurrection
Michael Barone is a person with extraordinary knowledge about politics. So his statement in the American Enterprise Institute’s blog, The American, caught my attention: “Recent polls tell me that the...
View ArticleNovember Is the Cruelest Month
Patrick Ruffini, in mulling over the November midterm elections, writes this: All in all, I don’t think a 70 seat gain is out of the question. Michael Barone’s comments on Ruffini’s analysis can be...
View ArticleA Sea Change on Spending
One of the reasons I’m sanguine about the elections this year is that I sense a sea change in the political climate against spending. I’m hardly the only one. Just for instance, there’s E. Thomas...
View ArticleThe Reviews Are in
On the op-ed page of a certain famous mass-circulation newspaper, the editors declare: The country is frustrated and apprehensive and still waiting for Mr. Obama to put his vision into action.The...
View ArticleSocial Security in the Hole
Social Security is in the hole this year, five years ahead of when it was expected to develop a negative cash flow. As Michael Barone points out, Social Security in the first half of 2009 took in $366...
View ArticleA Game of JournoList Chicken
Tucker Carlson at the Daily Caller is sitting in the catbird’s seat. He has reams of JournoList e-mails revealing how vicious the blogospheric left is. They wish their opponents dead (Rush Limbaugh)....
View ArticleJournolisters Risked Their Integrity
When you read those who were part of the now infamous Journolist group — hundreds of mostly liberal journalists and academics who joined an online listserv — they present their discussions as...
View ArticleWidening Conservatives’ Vision
Matt Continetti makes an extraordinarily smart point about conservatives’ agenda: Numbercrunching is a valuable skill, but it also has a tendency to crimp the political imagination. So Republicans must...
View ArticleWhy the November Election Will Be Unprecedented
Gallup just released its weekly “generic” poll, and for the second week in a row it is forecasting a colossal wipeout for Democrats — with likely voters voting Republican by a margin between 12 and 17...
View ArticleRE: Surprise: The Tea Party Is Important!
As a follow-up, Ken Buck, running for Senate in Colorado, has a beautiful ad in which he discusses how the elite ignored the Tea Party as long as it possibly could. But as Buck says at the close, “on...
View ArticleWhy the Dems’ Campaign Is So Bad
Karl Rove writes: Last Saturday at a West Newton, Mass., fund-raiser, the president said, “facts and science and argument [do] not seem to be winning … because we’re hard-wired not to always think...
View ArticleA Straw in the Wind?
One of the best predictors of elections over the years has been the mock elections held in schools. Most school kids only reflect what their parents think and, unlike parents avoiding pollsters and...
View ArticleThe 2010 Midterm Election in Perspective
In shifting through the fine analysis that emerged in the aftermath of last week’s midterm elections, a few data points are particularly noteworthy: Republicans picked up more House seats than in any...
View ArticleMoynihan on Democracy
Yesterday I quoted Ronald Reagan on the central role freedom and human rights should play in American foreign policy. Today I want to follow up with a quote from the man Michael Barone called “the...
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