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A Well-Deserved One, Too
Doug Schoen says that ObamaCare is an electoral disaster for the Democrats.
Good.
I think that this also shows that either Bill Clinton is a political fool, or that he thinks that the party needs a wake-up call like this to get rid of Obama and move away from its current leftist extremism, so he suckered them into it.
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This seems relevant to me — what happened to the neoliberals and free-market Democrats?
The Real Anchors
I have some thoughts on birthright citizenship over at PJM today.
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For those who haven’t read the book
The Magic Is Gone
Thoughts on the obsolescence of Barack Obama:
It was canonical to this administration and its functionaries that they were handed a broken nation, that it was theirs to repair, that it was theirs to tax and reshape to their preferences. Yet there was, in 1980, after another landmark election, a leader who had stepped forth in a time of “malaise” at home and weakness abroad: Ronald Reagan. His program was different from Mr. Obama’s. His faith in the country was boundless. What he sought was to restore the nation’s faith in itself, in its political and economic vitality.
Big as Reagan’s mandate was, in two elections, the man was never bigger than his county. There was never narcissism or a bloated sense of personal destiny in him. He gloried in the country, and drew sustenance from its heroic deeds and its capacity for recovery. No political class rode with him to power anxious to lay its hands on the nation’s treasure, eager to supplant the forces of the market with its own economic preferences.
Obama never understood that the notion of a leftist or “progressive” Ronald Reagan was an oxymoron.
A Problem With Equality
I see articles like this, and can only shake my head in dismay and amazement.
Dewey’s project is complete. The entire public school system has to be razed and rebuilt from scratch.
A Disturbance In The Unicorn Force
Iowahawk has discovered a disturbing new brew, right in the heart of Hope’n’Change Land. What next, an Obamaville outside of Sausalito?
An Inside Look
…at the development of Markos’ new book cover.
Pretty funny stuff.
Paul Ryan
…is too kind to Paul Krugman. He only says that he’s “intellectually lazy.”
How To Save The Country
Some thoughts. Basically, we have to rein in spending, and grow the economy. These are things that the current regime doesn’t want to do, or doesn’t know how to, instead implementing policies that make things worse on both fronts. Maybe we can start to fix that in less than three months.
Why They’re Not Hiring (Part 2)
More thoughts on this post from yesterday:
The flat truth is no one is going to hire new employees unless there is some reasonable promise that the additional cost of the employee will be recovered through increased profits resulting from the new employee’s work. That’s not “greed”, it is bare survival in tough economic times. And all the recent additions to per-employee costs aren’t alone. There is a seemingly endless well of new possible costs coming, including new environmental regulations, the possibility of a massive new “carbon tax”, and “card check” that promises to raise labor costs even further with exactly zero (at best) increase in productivity. Vague gestures towards a few thousand dollars of tax credits to stimulate job growth don’t even begin to cover the risks.
On top of it all, if you happen to be an oil worker on the Gulf Coast, your job is politically verboten. Sorry about that. Or not.
Only a crazy person would be eager to start large-scale hiring in this political environment. Yet many anti-corporation zealots profess themselves outraged that the Evil, Greedy Corporations won’t get with the business of economic recovery.
The country’s in the very best of hands.