Democrats Can Win the House
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 13th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Democrats Can Win the House
Ben Crair, The Daily Beast
Two months after White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs let slip that Republicans could take over the House of Representatives in November, the Democrats’ prospects have only grown bleaker: No one seems to think that they have a prayer. Nate Silver announced Friday that Republicans have a two-thirds chance of gaining control of the House. Charlie Cook says the Republicans will win “well north of the 39 seats needed for the House to flip,” while, at a recent gathering of the American Political Science Association, several academics predicted Republican…
Obama’s Clunker School of Economics
George Will, Washington Post
Looking back with pride, the British are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, when Churchill said of the pilots fighting the Luftwaffe: Never “was so much owed by so many to so few.” Looking ahead with trepidation, Americans are thinking: Never have so many of us owed so much.Actually, they owed slightly more when the recession began, when household consumer debt was $2.6 trillion. The painful but necessary process of deleveraging is proceeding slowly: Such debt has been reduced only to $2.4 trillion.
Palin Bubble Would Burst If She Ran for Prez
Steve Chapman, Chi Trib
Good Policy, Good Politics From Obama
Stopping the U.S. Road to CanadaCare
Ted Balaker & Sally Pipes, Reason.tv
Now that they've passed ObamaCare, can we see what's in it? Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of The Truth About ObamaCare sits down with Ted Balaker to discuss what's really on the way courtesy of the recent health care overhaul: higher costs, decreased access to care, and the looming spectre of a single-payer system in America.Pipes, who hails from Canada, worries that ObamaCare has set the U.S. on a path toward a Canadian-style system. She weighs in on if and how ObamaCare could be repealed and what should replace it.
