Palin’s brilliant speech on Crony Capitalism seemed to go right over the heads of most of the voters, but the party faithful understood it, and now this talking point is being used to hammer Obama at every opportunity.
After it has been repeated one thousand times, the voters might well get it. (more…)
A Day of Rage has been declared for this coming Saturday by an obscure leftist group, one sufficiently obscure that anything bad that happens can be blamed on it. (more…)
In a previous post, I remarked that with Governor Romneycare dead on arrival, Perry was now the establishment candidate. Seems I was wrong. Looks like the establishment still has a hard on for Governor Romneycare.
If Governor Perry (welfare for Mexicans, underclass is the new normal) is the anti establishment candidate we are doomed, though perhaps doom will come a little slower than with governor Romneycare.
Sarah Palin has issued a typically brilliant and insightful speech, while still teasing on the issue of whether she is going to run. I think at this stage, getting a bit late to run, better carry on in her lucrative career as a public intellectual, saying the things officially accredited public intellectuals cannot say. (more…)
Brad deLong tells us:
it took me only two months–two months!–to conclude that America’s best hope for sane technocratic governance required the elimination of the Republican Party from our political system as rapidly as possible.
Since Republicans are supposedly terrorists, elimination is apt to mean lining them up against a wall and shooting them. (more…)
Governor Romneycare was the establishment’s favored candidate for president, anointed as front runner, to make Obamanism bipartisan. It has, however, become obvious that his campaign is dead on arrival (strange for a supposed front runner) so the establishment has now anointed Rick Perry, a politician indistinguishable from Bush, as its preferred candidate, shortly to be proclaimed front runner. (more…)
US politicians are engaged in passionate debate and confrontation over the debt limit and spending. The question is whether to “cut” two trillion over the next ten years, which is to say, about two hundred billion dollars a year, which is to say, whether, after ten years, spending will be five or six trillion dollars a year more than it is now, or whether it will be five or six trillion dollars a year more than it is now, assuming that the US government still exists in ten years.
“Don’t call my bluff” says President Obama, thereby implicitly admitting he is bluffing. (more…)
The reason the battle in Wisconsin is so bitter is that the Wisconsin Republicans are doing what Reagan attempted to do and failed to do: Defund the left.
Previously schools were required to buy health insurance through the teachers union. Being free to shop around for health insurance appears to save over half a million dollars per school The dissenting opinion, The Stratasphere, Public School Spending
That is over a half a million dollars a year of taxpayer funded left wing activism in every school district, some of which appears to have been spent on rentamobs.
The SEIU is a far left organization, far far further to the left than any elected Democrat will admit to being. It is the voice of the state organized as political interest group. It has always been a major force backing “moderate” Republicans. (more…)