Feb 9, 2010
If the Republican Party wins every Senate seat in which it now holds a lead, according to Rasmussen s polls, it will capture eight Democratic seats while holding all of its own.
The two remaining pickups, to assure control, could be in Indiana, where former Sen. Dan Coats...
Feb 5, 2010
As President Obama tells us he wants to reduce the dangerous budget deficit, he brings to mind the hapless engineers at Toyota who find that their vehicles accelerate regardless of whether the driver wants them to.
It appears that, no matter how hard Obama jams on the...
Feb 2, 2010
President Obama is being disingenuous when he says that the budget deficit he faced when I walked in the door of the White House was $1.3 trillion.He went on to say that he only increased it to $1.4 trillion in 2009 and was raising it to $1.6 trillion in...
Jan 29, 2010
Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None, if it really wants to change.
Any president, at any time, can choose to embody the consensus his nation has reached after it has engaged in a period of extended debate. That process, called...
Jan 28, 2010
When President Bill Clinton faced Congress in 1995, after first losing any hope of healthcare reform and then control of Congress, he used his State of the Union speech to declare, The era of big government is over.
President Obama's State of the Union speech Wednesday...
Jan 22, 2010
Now is the time to finish off the prospects of Obamacare with the Democrats reeling from the defeat in Massachusetts.
We must not trust them.The apparent reluctance of the House Democrats to pass the Senate version will evaporate once Obama puts his weight behind the bill...
Jan 19, 2010
After Obama succeeds in jamming healthcare changes down the collective throats of his embattled constituents, his next move will be to bring overt socialism to the United States in the guise of regulatory reform.
The legislation he seeks to pilot through the Senate (it...
Jan 18, 2010
Beyond a pleasing sight for the heart, what would Ted Kennedy's seat going Republican really mean?
A lot.
First, there would be the psychological effect:
• On Democratic donors It would discourage them from opening their checkbooks.
• On Republican donors ...