Seventy-Four GOP Members Defect on China Bill
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 1st, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Seventy-Four GOP Members Defect on China Bill
Clinging to Arrogance
Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics
The bookish, twice-unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once sighed that if most thinking people supported him, it still wouldn't be enough in America because “I need a majority.”For some reason, Democrats have chosen to follow the disastrous model of Stevenson and not that of feisty man-of-the-people Missourian Harry Truman — though the former nearly wrecked the party and the latter got elected. Receive news alertsFormer President Jimmy Carter likewise seems to feel that he's still too smart for us. Carter, who turns 86 on Friday, is hitting the…
Don’t Be Fooled by GOP’s Sick Healthcare Rhetoric
Gene Lyons, Salon
Just how gullible are you? Of the many absurdities in the Republican Party's “Pledge to America,” the most problematic may be the Republican vow to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, colloquially called “Obamacare.” Not the most ridiculous, mind you. That would have to be the vow to reinstate the expiring Bush tax cuts at a 10-year cost of $4 trillion, slashing government spending to 2008 levels while balancing the federal budget.
