What might have been…
David Brooks has an interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times today. In it, he theorizes on an alternate history of the Obama administration’s handling of the financial crisis – one that might have averted the electoral beat-down that the Democrats are sure to suffer this November. It’s a polar-opposite approach to what has [...]
The Impending Democratic Bloodbath
I borrowed the title from Jamelle Bouie’s article at The American Prospect, because I couldn’t have said it better. Bouie showed this graph of the new Gallup poll indicating Candidate Preferences in 2010 Congressional Elections, and it’s not pretty: This is the largest advantage for Republicans in the poll’s 60-year history. If this holds, Republicans [...]
Moonbat alert: It’s Witch-Hunt Season
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Amongst lefty moonbat theorists who are currently prominent in media, Paul Krugman has to be the moonbattiest. His woefully misguided economic pronouncements are systematically eviscerated (at least until he restricted the size of comments in his New York Times column, so anyone with more than a “you tell ‘em [...]
It can’t be worse than what we’re doing now…
And it could, quite possibly, be a lot better. Paul Ryan writes in the Washington Post today about his plan for saving Medicare, and the federal budget. I’ve seen various aspects of his plan, but never read the whole thing. Despite accusations of his plan being budgetary “chicanery” and “served up with flim-flam sauce” (from [...]
Shai Gaba Umbala Shoombala OOM!
Interesting bits from around the web From Ace of Spades: The folks in Missouri apparently want to right to refuse Obamacare (by a 3 to 1 margin) Hey Paul Krugman, how does a stimulus multiplier of 0.8 sound? By way of Amateur Economist: You mean all of the stimulus money wasn’t used to produce jobs? [...]
