The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Do Democrats Think They Can Spin Their Way Out of the ObamaCare Catastrophe?

One of the things you may have noticed in the past couple of weeks is that some liberal pundits are claiming that ObamaCare is essentially a public relations problem: The program is just wonderful, but there have been some P.R. problems with the rollout. Democrats need to learn that denial is not the name of […]

Obama Is the Subject of the Sentence

You may be old enough to remember the ABC cartoon series, Schoolhouse Rock, one episode of which was “The Tale of Mister Morton“: Mr. Morton is the subject of the sentence and what the predicate says, he does. One of the tricks of media bias is to confuse readers and viewers about who is the […]

The Endless Debacle of ObamaCare

Old ObamaCare: "We have to pass it so you know what's in it." New ObamaCare: "Never mind. Executive orders. Asterisks. Whatever." — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 14, 2013 No one can remember a policy disaster quite like this. Every day brings multiple new bad-news headlines. We could compare the sudden and seemingly permanent debacle […]

Shorter Obama: ‘It Sucks to Be Me’

It’s an endless tsunami of political pain for Obama nowadays. When your signature issue goes sideways, there’s really nowhere to hide when you’re the Leader of the Free World. Has anyone else noted the irony that ObamaCare now is basically “Bush’s War” circa 2006? Everyone is now realizing that this massive failure is an electoral […]

Nov. 13: ObamaCare Failure Day

Historians should mark this day on their calendars as the point at which the failure became obviously irretrievable. Troubled HealthCare.gov unlikely to work fully by end of November — Washington Post White House officials get earful from Democrats on Obamacare — CNN Obamacare is in much more trouble than it was one week ago — […]

ObamaCare Lie = ‘Incorrect Promise’

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the […]

Obama Administration Gets Its Benghazi On Over In Afghanistan

by Smitty This is just despicable: KABUL — A growing number of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside American troops are being denied U.S. visas allotted by Congress because the State Department says there is no serious threat against their lives. But the interpreters, many of whom served in Taliban havens for years, say U.S. officials […]

Even in Deep-Blue California, ObamaCare Still Inspires Deep Doubts, Poll Finds

Donald Douglas points out that President Obama got nearly 60 percent of the vote in California last year, but the president’s signature health-care program is still widely unpopular there: Sixty-five percent of respondents said people wouldn’t be able to afford the health insurance they’ll be required to have under the law’s individual mandate. Forty percent […]

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