The Other McCain

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It’s a ‘Framework,’ Not a ‘Plan’

Last night I glanced at the White House talking-points outline of Obama’s Big Important Speech and had to smile at the effrontery of this part: $4 Trillion in Deficit Reduction: The President is setting a goal of reducing our deficit by $4 trillion in 12 years or less. This deficit reduction would be phased in […]

Word of the Day: Sharing!

Just as I predicted, Obama’s Big Deficit Speech was big on sharing: As a country that values fairness, wealthier individuals have traditionally borne a greater share of this burden than the middle class or those less fortunate. . . . To meet this challenge [i.e., ballooning deficits], our leaders came together three times during the […]

‘Shared Sacrifice’ = Tax Increases

Today, Obama will give a major speech on deficits and here’s an Associated Press video report in which the reporter uses the phrase “shared sacrifice” to describe the president’s plan to call for repealing the Bush tax cuts: White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday that the plan Obama will outline on Wednesday at George […]

Smoke, Mirrors, Some Assembly Required

Some of the conservative pundits who were doing victory laps over Friday’s budget deal — and you know who you are — need to admit they were taken in by the D.C. spin machine: Details of the $38 billion worth of spending cuts factoring in last Friday’s 11th-hour budget that averted a government shutdown have […]

It Looks Like The Debt Limit Increase Will Make The CR Fracas Look Like Beanbag

by Smitty Keith Hennessy has a detailed post, from which I’ll mooch his bullet points: First, a temporary continuing resolution has a hard deadline, while a debt limit increase does not. Second, defaulting on a debt obligation is potentially far more serious than a temporary government shutdown. Third, a freestanding debt limit increase bill doesn’t […]

Obama, the Deficit-Hater

After two years of pissing away trillions of dollars in borrowed money, President Obama this week will present “a multiyear debt-reduction plan” — which is kind of like Tiger Woods deciding to cut back on banging cocktail waitresses after his wife left him. Notice that Obama sends a campaign strategist onto Meet the Press to […]

Glimmer Of Understanding From Ezra

by Smitty Even the eyes of the most deadened zombie can occasionally hint at understanding. There is good reason to think that Boehner will be a much more formidable opponent for Obama than Gingrich was for Clinton. So why were Reid and Obama so eager to celebrate Boehner’s compromise with his conservative members? The Democrats […]

Not Trying to Play ‘True Conservative’ Here, But the Budget Deal Is a Problem

Where to begin? I suppose a good logical starting point is this video with Mark Levin calling in to Neal Cavuto’s show: Those Republicans who are in high-five victory-lap end-zone-dance mode over the late-night budget deal — and yeah, I’m looking at you, Carl Cameron — will be tempted to dismiss Levin’s criticism as just […]

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