Democrats Fleeing ObamaCare
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 8th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Democrats Fleeing ObamaCare
Jeffrey Anderson, Weekly Standard
Well, it's good to see that the Democrats have finally, belatedly, come around to our thesis: that those who voted against Obamacare will be on far safer ground in November than those who voted for it. Politico now reports that at least five congressional Democrats who voted against what one of them calls “massive government health care” are running ads touting that fact. Meanwhile, Politico writes, “[I]t appears that no Democratic incumbent ““ in the House or in the Senate ““ has run a pro-reform…
Leadership Scenarios Abound for the Next Congress
Fighting Obama Makes His Case
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
For President Obama”s supporters, watching his speech at a Milwaukee labor rally on Monday was old-fashioned fun from a leader who hasn't given them all that much fun in a while. To draw enough Democratic-leaning voters back into the electorate to stave off disaster, he'll have to stay in fighting form for the next two months.Even his most controversial line served a mobilizing purpose. “They talk about me like a dog,” Obama said, chuckling about the Republicans. “That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true.” The reminder of all furniture and…
Bleak Truth About Unemployment
Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post
Somewhere between the rantings of the Republican right, which is peddling the nonsense that excessive government spending is to blame for high unemployment, and the Democratic left, which clings to the false hope that another helping of fiscal stimulus is all that is needed to get millions of Americans permanently back to work, is this stubborn reality:The loss of 8 million jobs reflects problems that are largely structural, not cyclical, which means they won't be brought back by fiddling with a magic dial in Washington that controls how much the government spends.When I say that the…
