Brown’s victory over Coakley is certainly a setback for the current administration no matter how they spin it. But another major development in the electoral process was largely missed. When Ben Nelson flipped for Obama Care in the Senate it
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The McCain Feingold bill sought to restrict the influence of big money in politics. Yesterday it was struck down as a violation of free speech. It should have been. When one avenue of influence is cut off it just finds
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It is stunning to see such a reversal in the Democrat’s fortune in the course of one year. As the electorate sees the hopes and dreams degenerate into deficits and taxes, the administration will be inclined to spin the outcome
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I find that following and being followed by a few thousand people on Twitter gives one a certain feel of the pulse of the electorate. I realize that most of my followers are right of center, thought I aim to
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It is worthy to note how the president’s popularity has dissipated so rapidly in his first year. I believe it is for three reasons. Obama’s success was more related to luck than his party wants to admit. The timing of
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Team Obama has missed the reason for high unemployment and slow growth in spite of low interest rates and seemingly endless stimulus. In the Wall Street Journal Gary Becker, Steven Davis and Kevin Murphy writes “Uncertainty and the Slow Recovery”.
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While banks are returning TARP money, some having taken it under duress, Fannie Mae continues to lose money and receive more bailout. In return for such dismal performance executives are getting pay raises and bonuses. It is a growing contention
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There are those who see our financial problem as a moral failure. In one sense it is, but not in the sense those who wish to frame it in moral tones believe. To blame greed for the meltdown is simplistic
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I was cleaning out some old files at work and came across a page I had written called “characteristics of a great sales person”. Looking at the long list 12 years later the page looked ridiculous. The list was compiled
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In politics, as in comedy, timing is everything. A program that works in one time or place may not work in another. Unions were able to raise wages and benefits in our major manufacturers after World War II largely because
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Kudos to Nick Schultz at American Enterprise for the very revealing chart. See his post here.
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Are lobbyists that bad? If the government was about to make sheet-rock illegal because of bad or misguided information and you were in the sheet-rock or home-building business, wouldn’t you seek to persuade the lawmakers than their efforts were wrong?
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Obama won by a 7 point spread, a change of a little more than 3.5% would turn the vote against him. If a third of the votes were independent, and he got most of their support, the loss of those
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Woodrow Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create the League of Nations. The United States did not join the League of Nations . This precursor to the United Nations was powerless to stop the Italian
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War seems unnecessary to Europeans because they have been largely protected from it for 65 years by the west. War seems necessary to preserve critical values to Americans because they have born that burden of defending those who find it
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Kudos to Obama and Gibbs for looking beyond racism for Wilson’s outburst. Jimmy Carter should use this teaching moment. However inappropriate Wilson’s outburst may have been, it becomes almost racist itself to deny any other motivation especially when there is
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Obama’s claim that a government option will somehow keep the private health insurance carriers honest is either disingenuous or incredibly ignorant of basic economics. Can the government honestly be expected to both regulate and compete with private insurance carriers? When
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Jim Cramer shows a correlation between Obama’s rising disapproval ratings and the rise in the S&P 500. While correlation is not necessarily causation it is worth noting.
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During the last term of George Bush we referred to those who made outlandish accusations against the President as being infected with the “Bush Derangement Syndrome”. Their hatred seemed so venomous that it was impossible to have any sort of
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Obama’s campaign was blessed by the financial collapse only a few months before the election. When it struck, few of the voters could absorb or analyze the cause, and with a compliant press it was natural to blame the party
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