Would Mitt Romney Really Repeal ObamaCare?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 20th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Would Mitt Romney Really Repeal ObamaCare?
Philip Klein, Examiner
Mitt Romney talks a big game about repealing Obamacare on the campaign trail these days. But in the wake of the law's passage, he had a more modest goal: “repeal the bad and keep the good.”That's a line that Romney himself used at a 2010 appearance that has now resurfaced. In the video, which Ben Domenech has more on and I've posted below, Romney makes many of the same arguments that would be familiar to those following the GOP primary. He says that his Massachusetts plan was different because it was at the state level and argues that his plan didn't raise taxes…
Can Ron Paul Win New Hampshire?
Jeremy Lott, RealClearPolitics
Unlike Mitt Romney, I am not a betting man. But if I were, I might go to Intrade right now and bet a bundle that Ron Paul will win the New Hampshire primary. The bettors there give that an 8.2 percent chance of happening, which would make for a pretty good payday.Ron Paul can win New Hampshire because he can win the Iowa caucuses. (Intraders think that's unlikely but not implausible, giving Paul's Iowa victory a 32.5 percent chance.) New Hampshirites have never felt it necessary to follow the Iowa caucus-goers, but the dynamics of the race make their state a likely second pickup.If…
Newt and the Revenge of the Base
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
WASHINGTON — It is one of the true delights of a bizarrely entertaining Republican presidential contest to watch the apoplectic fear and loathing of so many GOP establishmentarians toward Newt Gingrich. They treat him as an alien body whose approach to politics they have always rejected.In fact, Gingrich's rise is the revenge of a Republican base that takes seriously the intense hostility to President Obama, the incendiary accusations against liberals, and the Manichaean division of the world between an “us” and a “them” that his party has been peddling in the…
The Death of Dr. Evil
Michael Hirsh, The Atlantic
Kim Jong Il was a real-life Dr. Evil, intent on being taken seriously and yet almost unfailingly laughed at. Strutting and pouf-haired, a self-described connoisseur of fine wine and cigars as well as (according to North Korea’s ever-inventive media) a brilliant inventor who shot 38 under par his first time playing golf, Kim would have been outright comical had one been able to get past the fact that he brought death and untold misery to millions of people. And that he endangered many more around the world with his reckless pursuit of a nuclear bomb and other weapons. Kim, whose…
