The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Senator Bunning In USA Today

by Smitty (h/t Drudge) What a near-display of courage from Senator Bunning: I have been serving the citizens of Kentucky for nearly 24 years in Washington. …begins the article, which gets into the details of PayGo and the sudden desire to fix things on the way out.  Then the Senator concludes: After four legislative days […]

What Do You Expect? His Tenure Thus Far Has More Or Less Been The Political Equivalent.

by Smitty The BlogProf has a thorough post up detailing BHO’s support for that modern scourge called abortion.

Politicians Increasingly Aware Of Reality

by Smitty Fabius Maximus links Reuters on the Prime Minister of Greece having a Come to Beevis meeting regarding their situation, floating the question: “How soon until an American President says similar words?” American Glob links NJN.net with Chris Christie having a state-level exercise in fiscal lucidity. Christie is worth hearing in full, as he […]

Federal Receipts As The Inverse Of Liberty

by Smitty American Thinker has the graph: I’d like to revisit a few ideas from last June for attacking the systemic problems within Congress: Every Congress must win approval from two thirds of the state legislatures in the 18th month of the Congress, or none of the members of the Congress are permitted to run […]

GOP House Press Conference

by Smitty (h/t NiceDeb) Various GOP heads talk to the ObamaCare hydra that still has a few moving heads.Their tone is rather somber, and they attempt to: Express interest in starting from scratch, and Focus attention on the tanked economy I really would like to hear them discuss more strategic thoughts, but freely admit that […]

‘Tremble in Fear!!!!’

Mock fearmongering or fearmonger mocking? We report, you deride.  Speaking of fearmongers deserving of mockery . . . Charles Johnson. Allahpundit mocks Dylan Ratigan, whose performance prompts Dan Riehl to ask, “What is he, some kind of Olbermann wannabe?” and prompts Professor Reynolds to reflect: One of [Ratigan’s] producers called to ask me to be on […]

Obama Still Trying to ‘Do a Chicago’ in Push for Health-Care Bill (UPDATED)

Threatening “reconcilliation” to muscle Senate Republicans: White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks [today] President Obama will indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial “reconciliation” rules requiring only […]

‘Epic Fail’: GW University Event Tonight Will Examine Obama’s Policy Failures

Jonah Goldberg of National Review, Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Donald Lambro of the Washington Times will speak at a “Barack Obama Epic Fail Teach-In” at George Washington University tonight at 6 p.m. Among the policy failures to be addressed: 5.8 million people have been searching for work for more than 27 […]

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