The Other McCain

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

Repealing ObamaCare Is Scary To Gutless Progressives Fearing Reform

by Smitty What is different about Republican calls for repeal today — as opposed to calls for repeal from 2010 to the end of 2013 — is that Obamacare is now in place. It exists. Exchanges are running — many of them badly, but running. subsidies are being paid. Insurance companies have changed the way […]

Obama’s Part-Time Proletariat

Victims of Obamanomics: Having worked as a nurse’s aide for 15 years, Ms. McCurdy has been among the nearly 25 million workers in the United States who make less than $10.10 an hour — the amount to which President Obama supports increasing the minimum wage. Of those workers, 3.5 million make the $7.25 federal minimum […]

Actual GOP Leadership On Display

by Smitty Stanton Evans: "@Gop leadership should be pro-life, they spend so much time in the fetal position. " #Cpac2014 @instapundit — Keystone Keynesian (@smitty_one_each) March 8, 2014 In stark contrast to the Vichy GOP propping up the wrong side of history, here we have a clip of Ted Cruz telling a smarmy little mongrelish […]

Even A River Of Lies Cannot Flow Uphill

by Smitty Look: Progress is dead. The final piece of FDR’s Second Bill of Rights arrived, and it was a river of lies, with headwaters in hell. It’s the law of the land, they tell us, passed fair and square by both houses of Congress, crowned as constitutional by the highest court of the country, […]

Blame Bush!

Or, maybe, blame Karl Rove for the dumbed-down culture of the Republican Party that leads to stupid and unnecessary defeats. Everybody today is talking about Alex Roarty’s National Journal article, “The GOP’s Talent Gap,” which echoes a lot of the complaints one hears from Republican tech consultants and operatives: The turnout experts, TV whizzes, and […]

If #ObamaCare Helps At Least One Person, Other Human Wreckage Is OK

by Smitty Barack Obama will take many things; your life, your liberty, your pursuit of happiness: but he will never take responsibility. That’s on you: Julie, her husband, and four children were covered by a medical plan they liked, and had been promised they could keep by President Obama. But like so many others in […]

#ObamaCare Buzzword Compliance

by Smitty Via Drudge: Obama officials made clear in a press briefing that firms would not be allowed to lay off workers to get into the preferred class of those businesses with 50 to 99 employees. How will the feds know what employers were thinking when hiring and firing? Simple. Firms will be required to […]

What This Economy Needs Is Another Stab In The Heart

by Smitty via Drudge The river of lies is gearing up for a Spring flood, according to the Washington Free Beacon: The Obama administration has yet to finalize 28 additional regulations under Obamacare that could lead to an “avalanche” of regulatory burden on the economy, according to an analysis by the American Action Forum. A […]

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