The Watcher on Apr 16 2010 | Filed under: Politics
Charles Krauthammer is greatly relieved by the results of the recently concluded Nuclear Security Summit: What a relief. I don’t know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they’re capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn’t scored that [...]
The Watcher on Apr 14 2010 | Filed under: Politics
The New York Times does an anthropological study of the Tea Party movement and observes (via a poll) They are far more pessimistic than Americans in general about the economy. More than 90 percent of Tea Party supporters think the country is headed in the wrong direction, compared with about 60 percent of the general [...]
The Watcher on Apr 04 2010 | Filed under: Politics, Weasel Watching
Juan Williams wrote an excellent column in the Wall Street Journal the other day, Tea Party Anger Reflects Mainstream Concerns. Williams concluded: This all makes for populist anger, embodied in the tea party movement, at politicians who are not focused on the jobs agenda. The politician at the top of the totem pole right now [...]
The Watcher on Mar 26 2010 | Filed under: Politics, Weasel Watching
Via Hot Air Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) defended the ObamaCare bill on WJR’s Paul W. Smith show yesterday when the host wondered why Democrats wait until 2014 to stop people from dying through lack of universal health care coverage. Dingell tells Smith that it takes a lot of hard work and preparation to create a [...]
The Watcher on Mar 25 2010 | Filed under: Politics
The Washington Post, I suppose, is honest enough to acknowledge: The Supreme Court has given Congress wide but not unfettered latitude in regulating interstate commerce. It barred federal efforts to promulgate laws that ban guns near schools and those addressing violence against women, ruling that these activities have nothing to do with commerce. But health [...]
The Watcher on Mar 25 2010 | Filed under: Politics
Here are a couple of anecdotes about what our health care has been. First from a few month ago, here’s the Optimistic Conservative: My mother went in for cataract surgery on both eyes earlier this summer. She was able to elect to have this surgery now, even though she was not blind yet in either [...]
The Watcher on Mar 18 2010 | Filed under: Politics
Marjorie Margolies(-Mezvinsky) encourages Democrats to drink the Kool Aid. I feel your pain. Eighteen years ago, I was elected on the coattails of a popular young Democratic president who promised a post-partisan Washington. A year later, with partisan gridlock capturing the Capitol, there was a razor-thin vote on the House floor over legislation that Democrats [...]
The Watcher on Mar 15 2010 | Filed under: Politics
via memeorandum: W.H. plan to remake education law Sphere: Related Content
The Watcher on Mar 15 2010 | Filed under: Politics
Yesterday Barry Rubin provided a refresher course on the topic of the Jewish presence in “east” Jerusalem. October 31, 2009: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lavishly praises Israel as making “unprecedented” concessions in stopping construction on West Bank settlements while it is still going to build in east Jerusalem. November 1, 2009: The U.S. [...]
The Watcher on Mar 15 2010 | Filed under: Politics
Obama by Proxy via Instapundit. Palin’s admirers often marvel at how the charges leveled against her are far more applicable to the current President. People who voted for an undistinguished junior senator from Illinois with few accomplishments are quick to assault Palin’s “lack of experience.” The same folks who instruct us that Barack Obama is [...]
