This is why I always say we need two parties in government – it helps level things out. Now that the Democrats are in charge, they are going overboard on regulation: The panics over salmonella, E. Coli and unsafe foodstuffs from China have heightened the prospects that Congress will enact a measure known as H.R. […]
A new Washington Post/ABC news poll has come out, and it finds President Obama still enjoying a 66% approval rating. 42% also think the country is heading in the right direction. Compare that to when Bush was in office: Right Wrong No direction track opinion 3/29/09 42 57 1 2/22/09 31 67 2 1/16/09 19 […]
Alex Knapp over at Outside the Beltway: Let’s call the “tea party” and “going Galt” nonsense what it is: unprincipled partisan hackery. If these were truly principled protests, they’d have been around all through the Bush and Republican-controlled Congress years, too. Alex has put together an interesting set of observations about the whole “tea party” […]
From Bush’s buddies: The sentencing of a widow to 40 lashes for mingling with two young men has sparked new criticism of Saudi Arabia. Khamisa Sawadi, who is Syrian but was married to a Saudi, was convicted and sentenced last week for meeting with men who were not her immediate relatives. The two men, including […]
There has been so much talk lately trying to blame the market on Obama. Bob has been keeping track of MSNBC’s usage of a graph tracking the market since election day. So I wonder if the media would mind using some other numbers? DJIA when Bush took office: 10781 DJIA when Bush left office: 7949 […]
The media is in a frenzy about the Democrats getting ready to “fight” President Obama on his Iraq plan. Of course they are – the media loves anything that might have to do with Democratic infighting. Personally, I support Obama’s plan. Would I like to see all troops out next year? Of course. But I […]
Andrew Sullivan: It says something that, challenged for posing in a photo with a man with a swastika-bedecked Obama sign, all she says in response is that far left people used Nazi imagery against “Bushitler” for years. This is true and she rightly disdained it. But … so? Why is it ok now but not […]
Well under Bush it appears to have done just the opposite: The 20 largest banks that received government rescue funds slightly reduced their lending to consumers and businesses in the last three months of 2008, the government said Tuesday. The Treasury Department said the banks reduced their mortgage and business loans by a median of […]
Everyone has had to see this graph by now. It’s the one put out by Nancy Pelosi’s people. The blue line is the 1990 recession, red is 2001 and green is current. Just looking at that you start to comprehend the seriousness of the current financial situation. Now let’s consider this. Republicans attribute the Bush […]
Priceless: “In discussing with the American people his approach to the stimulus of our economy, he has first really used some dangerous words,” said Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Republican. Mr. Kyl added, “It seems to me that the president is rather casually throwing out some careless language.” Kyl sure didn’t complain […]