A sardonic congratulations must go out to Congressional Democrats who, after some years in minority exile, have made up for lost time by bringing home $800B worth of bacon. The massive spending bill, equivalent to around 25% of the total annual federal budget, was passed with no Republican votes in the House and only 3…
Category: Politics
Intellectual Honesty
Andrew Sullivan says that conservatives are being intellectually dishonest by opposing the Democrats’ $800B spending plan because of the deficits the nation ran under the Bush administration. There’s a grain of truth in what Andrew says – both Reagan and Bush 43 were big spenders whose policies have contributed substantially to the problems our children…
In God We Trust (not in Government)
Even readers of MSNBC know that much.
A Must-Read – Jeffery Miron on Stimulating the Economy
Harvard’s Jeffery Miron’s CNN article about stimulating the economy in fact, rather than in hyperbole, is a must-read. While not lengthy, Miron’s points are direct and to the point. Two excerpts of particular note: Limit Union Power: Later this year, Congress is likely to vote on the card check bill, a new law that facilitates…
Democrats and Taxes: Math is Hard
When Barack Obama selected Tom Daschle to be his secretary of Health and Human Services one of the last thinks he could have imagined was that Daschle was a 6-figure tax evader. Yet here we are again. What is it with Democrats and taxes? According to Vice-President Joe Biden, paying taxes is a patriotic duty. …
Obama Planning to Slash Defense Budget
Fox News is reporting that Barack Obama has asked the military’s Joint Chiefs for Staff to cut the defense budget by 10% for FY 2010. This is an unfortunate “request” given the massive expenditures being planned in virtually every other area of the budget. These proposed cuts are not a good idea for national security…
Culture War’s End in Sight? Not Likely.
Damon Linker writes at The New Republic that it’s not beyond the pale to think that Barack Obama may be able to lead liberals to a victory in the decades-old culture war. How? By subtle, gradual conversion away from conservative positions on 3 traditional value issues: Church/State Separation, Homosexual Rights/Gay Marriage, and Abortion. Not bloody…
New Jobs Under-Stimulated by Dem’s Plan
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) had some unpleasant words to say about the Democrat’s economic stimulus plan: Not since the passage in 1909 of the 16th Amendment – which cleared the way for a federal income tax – has the United States seriously entertained a policy so comprehensively hostile to economic freedom, nor so arrogantly indifferent…
Stimulus
Jim Manzi at NRO’s Corner blog feels the same way I do about the contents of the so-called Stimulus Package but draws a different conclusion about whether the spending is a good idea: consider the gigantic—as in close to $100 billion—amount of extra federal money these guys are proposing to spend on education. Study after…
What’s a Republican to do but Bask in Barack Obama’s Glow of Greatness?
Sister Toldjah has an idea: Why not stand up for some traditional conservative values, you know, like they mean something. Republicans have known for several months that they’d be facing Barack Obama as president and a Democratic majority in Congress. But knowing their opponent hasn’t translated into a strategy for dealing with Mr. Obama’s enormous…