Category: party politics

party politics

The Amazing Brilliance of Sarah Palin

Palin described “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act” as death panels.  The Cathedral, (meaning the MSM, the politicians, the professoriat, senior public servants, and assorted people employed in the upper reaches of the ever more numerous quasi governmental organizations) react with apocalyptic outrage – thereby drawing the public’s attention to various parts of the act that are, indeed, death panels.  Sarah Palin smiles sweetly and lets them hammer themselves to pulp. …

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Purple shirts:

Hotair thinks this will rebound against the Obama, but history tells us otherwise. People love the strong horse, and despise the weak horse, and beating people up looks very much like strength if you can get away with it.

party politics

The nomenclatura

each benevolent intervention either by its nature does not effect people like the beloved leaders themselves , or, as with the health plan, people like the beloved leaders are specifically exempted from this kindly help.

party politics

One more crazy murderous totalitarian pal of Obama’s

I conjecture that Obama, and Obama’s science czar, is enabled by people like Larry Summers, who can find no end of rationalizations along the lines that Reverend Wright and John Holdren are moderate reformers who want reasonable and moderate changes in our lifestyles, not withstanding the fact that these guys are screaming their heads off that they are fanatics who want to totally smash our way of life. Coalition building is a lot easier if you maintain total delusion about your allies.

economics

The “stimulus” is far too large and far too small.

Republicans are getting traction by condemning the “stimulus”, as an outlandishly extravagant porkfest, as miserly and inadequate, and as a disaster that should not be repeated – an attack made all the more effective by the many radical Democrats who complain the porkfest was inadequate, and call for a bigger and better porkfest: “Stimulus II” Obama’s approval ratings, though still high, are plummeting fast under this withering criticism. In Japan, …

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We are all terrorists now

The liberty papers found an interesting Obama document.  It seems that it is not those poor misunderstood adherents of the Religion of Peace that are a problem.  It is any American who disagrees with the Obama agenda.  Michael Malkin confirms the document is real, not a parody. Veterans are also terrorists, no doubt it comes of persecuting those poor adherents of the Religion of Peace.

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Worshippers of the Obamessiah start to wake up

The New York Times almost gets it right: Obama’s Ersatz Capitalism What the Obama administration is doing is far worse than nationalization: it is ersatz capitalism, the privatizing of gains and the socializing of losses. It is a “partnership” in which one partner robs the other. Close but no banana. It is crony capitalism, which at its more socialist extreme is fascism, the corporate state, where business and the citizen …

economics

Obama plans massive permanent reduction in US standard of living

Under current USA nuclear regulations, you cannot launch any new nuclear projects unless the waste is going to go to a federally approved repository, and Obama has announced there is not going to be a federally approved repository.  Hence no new nuclear projects.  Obama has also announced that carbon emissions are going to be reduced sometime soon, though not yet.  If less carbon, then less coal and oil.  If no …

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Smoot Hawley again

One of the several government actions that so greatly prolonged the great depression was Smoot Hawley.  The Becker Posner blog reports that the democrats want do do FDR all over again – meaning do the great depression all over again.