The Other McCain

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

Lying by Euphemism: ‘New Revenues’

Journalism is supposed to be about truth. Jackie Calmes and Jonathan Weisman of the New York Times are engaged in deception: With Republican leaders in Congress forswearing budget negotiations over new revenues, President Obama has begun reaching around them to Republican lawmakers with a history of willingness to cut bipartisan deals. “New revenues” = INCREASING TAXE RATES. President […]

Power Line Got That Backward

by Smitty Power Line points out that the Meteorologist-in-Chief is full of hooey, per this 13-word SOTU passage: Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense. But it’s not that this particular crap-shot to the dome is unusual. Even the famous electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket was delivered in […]

‘He Would Fain Have Had It’

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) “I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it. It was mere foolery. I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown (yet ’twas not a crown neither, ’twas one of these coronets) and, as I told you, […]

David Weigel Just Doesn’t Get That There ‘Leadership’ Thingy

by Smitty Peddling his JournoList wares at Slate, Weigel reveals a bit of density, emphasis mine: Republicans have one goal, running through all of these negotiations. They don’t want sequestration to be replaced by tax revenue. Any tax revenue. Forcing the president to swallow $85 billion in cuts this year would do that. They’ve got […]

‘Evolution,’ Complete

You knew this was coming, right? Completing what President Obama called his “evolution” on the question of gay marriage, the administration late Thursday called on the Supreme Court to strike down California’s voter-passed initiative invalidating same-sex marriages. In the new brief, the Justice Department argues that the ban on gay marriage violated same-sex couples’ constitutional […]

What Difference, At This Point, Does It Make Whose Idea The Sequester Was?

by Smitty Oh, the high-minded tones of the apologists, e.g. Mataconis: Therefore, President Obama is incorrect to attempt to place sole responsibility for the sequester on the Republicans. At the same time, though, it’s true that the negotiations that led to the sequester would not have been necessary if Republicans had not insisted in the […]

Miserable Joke Of A Senate That Can’t Pass A Budget Can Pass A Tax Increase

by Smitty The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly opposes the motion to proceed to S. 388, the “American Family Economic Protection Act.” This legislation would fail to address the federal government’s spending problems and would, instead, replace spending cuts with tax increases. The Chamber has long stated that the sequester is bad public policy and […]

By Any Means Necessary

The important thing to understand about the Democrat Party is that they have no moral or philosophical principles of any kind. The Democrat Party is about power for its own sake, and everything that Democrats claim to stand for is negotiable, subject to change if necessary to win elections. For example, if racism will win election […]

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