Archive for May 2011
Sacred Cows
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm Legislative leaders said everything would be on the table for budget cuts. But a Democratic TAPster sent these “quick, back-of-the-envelope numbers” on how deeply the House budget cut agencies headed by Republicans: Department of Labor cut…
Read MoreThe Obama Bump
A caution for giddy Democrats who think the killing of bin Laden will reelect President Obama: This too shall pass. Remember President George Herbert Walker Bush. Eighteen months before the 1992 reelection, right after the four-day Iraq war, his approval ratings were at an astronomical level, near 90 percent. A friend reminded…
Read MoreLafayette Park
Osama’s dead and let’s hope Al Qaeda passes with him (or at least falls apart without him) but there’s one bit of grit in the gears that says maybe we paid a price for his villainy we hadn’t reckoned on. It’s the celebrating. The way we – especially our young people – seem…
Read MoreMorning in Young America
The media and political elites’ reaction to Osama’s killing was predictable. Not so that of Real America. Especially Young America. Democrats – understandably – were all but gloating that it was President Obama, the supposed Muslim Manchurian Candidate, who “got” bin Laden. MSNBC endlessly reminded us that President Bush had minimized the importance of…
Read MoreIt’s Not a Tax…
Today’s new breed of politicians are a lot more versatile than the old-timers most of us grew up with. In the old days when Democratic politicians raised ‘fees’ – like the fee you pay for your car registration – they’d argue stubbornly it was not a tax increase and Republican politicians would argue back,…
Read MoreMission Accomplished
It’s been a bad week for the Obama-haters. First it turns out he was born in America. Then he orders the raid that kills Osama. Curses, foiled again! Now, how long will it take Donald Trump & Co. to question whether that really was bin Laden’s corpse? I was struck by…
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