It occurs to me that one needn’t convince another that a stimulus measure was stimulating were it actually stimulating. That, were said stimulus stimulating, the results would largely be self-evident.

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And I thought Obamacare was so great because it will make health care both more affordable, and be more compassionate (it is part of the fucking name, you know). Robert Pear via The New York Times on that “free” health care: The rules stipulate that no co-payments can be charged for tests and screenings recommended […]

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Dan Balz and John Cohen on Obama’s sinking popularity with the voting American public: Overall, a slim majority of all voters say they would prefer Republican control of Congress so that the legislative branch would act as a check on the president’s policies. Those most likely to vote in the midterms prefer the GOP over […]

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President Obama walks in to a large conference room full of business leaders. He waits to be acknowledged as The One before sitting at the head of the meeting table and begins to speak. President Obama: What is it about the current economic environment which has made it difficult to get private enterprise moving forward, […]

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Dan Balz via The Washington Post: The co-chairs of President Obama’s debt and deficit commission offered an ominous assessment of the nation’s fiscal future here Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer “that will destroy the country from within” unless checked by tough action in Washington. Isn’t it comforting that it only took a specialized […]

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First we have a massively unpopular redistributionist bill shoved through Congress against the will of the American people, and now we have more El Supremo BS with completely bypassing congress appointing the guy who will administer Obamacare. Robert Pear of The New York Times: President Obama will bypass Congress and appoint Dr. Donald M. Berwick, […]

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N.C. Aizenman via The Washington Post concerning the new “tan tax” in Obamacare: But the levy’s supporters argued from the start that it had a dual purpose: to raise funds to cover some of the cost of extending health coverage to the uninsured and to discourage a habit that scientific studies have linked with increased […]

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Neil King Jr. And Keith Johnson of The Wall Street Journal: Obama Decried, Then Used, Some Bush Drilling Policies Criticizing Bush during his presidential campaign, then co-opting his shitty policies and making them all his own, then blaming Bush when shit goes wrong is par for the course with Obama. What is the deal this […]

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President Obama in a speech given in Racine, WI as he once again blames Republicans because his own progressive government spending measures don’t work: They still believe that even after the Wall Street crash, even after the BP oil well blew, that we should keep a hands-off attitude. Now I’m not exactly sure what “they” […]

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Legally speaking, I have no fucking clue if this decision to block the 6 month moratorium on deep water drilling is correct or not, but it sure is nice to know that we still live in a land where some of our 1st amendment protections work. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of […]

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