never works for me
CNN: One of the Democratic advisers told CNN there is fear within the party that the president’s signature issue is “on the rocks” because of dramatically high cost estimates for separate bills being drafted by Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts and Max Baucus, D-Montana. The Congressional Budget Office’s estimate for the Kennedy bill — that it [...]
undeniable truths from reason online
Here’s a few things we might want to know about this new and fabulous grand government scheme, more commonly known as a national health care plan. Reason Online breaks it down here. First, that the proposed national health care plan won’t cover everyone. Second, that the subsidized lower plan premiums on a government-run / public [...]
see ya
Senator Arlen Specter finally makes the decision to leave the Republican Party and officially join his fellow Democrats by running for re-election as a Democrat. I can’t say I’m terribly upset about this news. His motivation for doing this doesn’t really matter to me. It does open up more options for challengers like Pat Toomey…or [...]
moving on — part 1
After spending part of my weekend with my fellow right-wing extremists from the York County Republican Party, the experience left me feeling more reflective on the current direction of the national party rather than energized about the good stuff happening on the local level. I’m going to try to put those impressions into words, but [...]
happy jackie robinson day!
Well…at least it was around the world of MLB. For the rest of the country, the discussion was about tea parties and the annual rite of passage for taxpaying citizens to fund wasteful government programs for all Americans. Another April 15th has come and gone, but nothing really has changed. The tea parties, while meaningful [...]
right on
We could learn so much from history if we choose to acknowledge the wisdom of those who have lived before us. I’ve been reading P.J. O’Rourke’s On the Wealth of Nations, a condensed version of the famous economist Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Only P.J. O’Rourke could get me to read a book about economic [...]
good luck with that — part II
John Kerry says that Syria should help in the disarmament of Hezbollah, and he’s an foreign policy expert because he served in Vietnam. Thank God America had the good sense to vote against him in 2004. From Yahoo News: BEIRUT (AFP) – Senator John Kerry said on Wednesday that the new US administration will press [...]
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 [...]
