kill the pig, rescue the taxpayer
Those who are still pushing this absolutely-must-have-right-now-or-the-world-will-explode “emergency rescue plan” aren’t all that concerned with sticking to the $700 billion price tag. Is it too much to ask from this Congress that we have a straight up-and-down vote on whether we should bail out private industry? Why yes it is. They just couldn’t resist adding [...]
more on the “rescue plan”
One day after the House Republicans, with the help of a significant number of Democrats, stopped this disaster of a federal bailout, the world hasn’t collapsed. The Dow rebounded a little today after its terrible day yesterday. I still think those who voted against this bill did the right thing. I am, however, unsympathetic to [...]
dnc: barack’s historic night
Is anyone else tired of Al Bore’s “I really won the 2000 election” canned jokes? If we could just find a way to harness the hot air coming from our former Vice President, we would have a endless source of renewable energy. Give the Democrats credit though. They have a group of skilled attack dogs [...]
dnc: shiny tie night
More of the Clinton show on day three — former President Clinton (the elected one) showed Hillary how a convention speech should be delivered. I was surprised by the massive outpouring of cheers and applause for Bill Clinton, because the whole message of the primaries was that the Democrats had moved on from the Clintons [...]
dnc: night two
Say what you will about Hillary voters eventually falling in line and voting for Barack Obama, the rift between the Hillary campaign and the Obama campaign is not a fabrication of Fox News and the MSM. The Clintons don’t really believe that the Democrats are about to nominate the right person for president. That makes [...]
dnc: the first night
Let the progressive love-in begin.
The Democrats kicked off their national convention Monday, and they decided to demonstrate their commitment to making a break from the old, partisan politics of George W. Bush and John McCain by choosing Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy to speak that night — who are stellar examples of unity and harmony [...]
it’s biden
Did you really think that Barack would tell you his pick before the media found out? That’s some kind of faith, I must say. Biden’s hardly the most exciting choice, and I can understand why some of you may be disappointed. But it does change one calculation by McCain — he can’t pick a VP [...]
sense and nonsense
Guess I don’t know much about the VP selection process — because I thought that Obama would have to pick one of Dick Morris’s boring white guys (Evan Bayh) to bring some balance to the ticket. He still could pick Bayh or Tim “The Eyebrow” Kaine to keep this team from getting too much buzz [...]
no choice
The continuing discussion over the wisdom of Senator McCain choosing a pro-choice VP should be about more than whether conservatives would actually sit the election out. I don’t think we can afford to make that threat. Senator McCain has a long pro-life Senate record, and we have a clear indication of where he stands on [...]
frum’s unconventional idea
David Frum wrote an article last week for Opinion Journal that is worthy of discussion regarding the party conventions of the Democrats and Republicans — he suggests that they would be more useful and interesting if we got rid of the media circus and the two major presidential candidates.
He says:
But what if the journalists were [...]
