The Other McCain

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

The Great Conflation

It's a fact: In 2010, President Obama invented health care. Prior to 2010, people got sick and then Republicans killed them. For profit. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 3, 2013 Just got through watching President Obama lying on TV, and the method of his dishonesty is what fascinates me. He (and other liberals) engage […]

The Crisis of the Obama Cult

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) Ace nailed it the other day: [T]he Liberal Chattering Classes are facing a question now: “Will my reputation and sense of pride survive Obama’s incompetence?” And: “How absurd am I willing to make myself in order to cover up for this arrogant buffoon’s incompetence?” Some […]

‘Forget About Repealing #ObamaCare. Repeal Obama’

by Smitty Emphasis original: Below is a note from Bill to C. Steven Tucker. Bill is the man stricken with cancer who Tucker helped out after seeing Bill on Megyn Kelly’s show talk about how ACA mandates caused him to lose his coverage in the middle of cancer treatments. “Steve, the company decided to keep […]

Do Democrats Think They Can Spin Their Way Out of the ObamaCare Catastrophe?

One of the things you may have noticed in the past couple of weeks is that some liberal pundits are claiming that ObamaCare is essentially a public relations problem: The program is just wonderful, but there have been some P.R. problems with the rollout. Democrats need to learn that denial is not the name of […]

Obama Is the Subject of the Sentence

You may be old enough to remember the ABC cartoon series, Schoolhouse Rock, one episode of which was “The Tale of Mister Morton“: Mr. Morton is the subject of the sentence and what the predicate says, he does. One of the tricks of media bias is to confuse readers and viewers about who is the […]

The Endless Debacle of ObamaCare

Old ObamaCare: "We have to pass it so you know what's in it." New ObamaCare: "Never mind. Executive orders. Asterisks. Whatever." — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 14, 2013 No one can remember a policy disaster quite like this. Every day brings multiple new bad-news headlines. We could compare the sudden and seemingly permanent debacle […]

Shorter Obama: ‘It Sucks to Be Me’

It’s an endless tsunami of political pain for Obama nowadays. When your signature issue goes sideways, there’s really nowhere to hide when you’re the Leader of the Free World. Has anyone else noted the irony that ObamaCare now is basically “Bush’s War” circa 2006? Everyone is now realizing that this massive failure is an electoral […]

Nov. 13: ObamaCare Failure Day

Historians should mark this day on their calendars as the point at which the failure became obviously irretrievable. Troubled HealthCare.gov unlikely to work fully by end of November — Washington Post White House officials get earful from Democrats on Obamacare — CNN Obamacare is in much more trouble than it was one week ago — […]

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