Category Archives: Political Commentary

They Don’t Like The Answer

A lot of Democrats are commissioning polls, and then not releasing the results. Probably because they’re seeing results like this:

Voters disapprove 55 – 40 percent of the way Obama is handling the economy and disapprove 55 – 40 percent of the way he is handling health care. By a narrow 42 – 39 percent margin voters trust Obama, rather than congressional Republicans to handle health care.

But they disapprove 53 – 39 percent of the federal health care overhaul that he recently signed into law.

So much for the “health-care bounce.” More like a splat.

Abolish The Department Of Education

Jerry Pournelle says that it’s a necessary, if not sufficient condition to fix public schools:

I have always thought that Congress, which has the undoubted right to run the DC school system any way it wants to, should make that the shining example of how schools ought to operate. THEN we might listen when the Department of Education tells the rest of the country what to do. But for the moment I believe the DC school system is actually the worst in the US. Of course the Washington educrats still assert the right to tell the rest of the country what to do. Why not?

The same would apply to DC gun laws.

Iceland

Here’s a joke that’s been going around the Intertubes — it was the Icelandic economy’s last wish that its ashes be scattered over the EU.

Speaking of which, here’s some cheery news. There may be a bigger eruption coming.

[Update a while later]

Here are some more. I liked this one:

Iceland goes bankrupt, then it manages to set itself on fire. This has insurance scam written all over it.

Heh.

Celebrate The Mistrust

Thoughts from David Harsanyi. The less trust we have in government, particularly the federal government, the better off we’ll be, so the latest polls are good news for those of us who want to restore it to constitutional principles. Barack Obama, with all of his lies, is doing the nation a favor. As are those who repeat the lies in his service.

[Update a couple minutes later]

“I don’t promote government failure — I expect it.” It’s certainly the way to bet.