The Other McCain

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

Steny Hoyer Drives VodkaPundit To Do What A VodkaPundit Does

by Smitty Hair of the Dog, always a fine clip, went a bit farther than usual this time. Stephen Green cursed Axelrod’s moustache, mocked Boehner’s sudden loss of vertebrae on earmarks, and had to correct his blood/alcohol ratio for Steny. Click image to enjoy: Update: Save Stephen’s liver! CHARLES LOLLAR for U.S. CONGRESS UPDATE (RSM): […]

Here It Comes Again: Senate Democrats Posture Against ‘Shipping Jobs Overseas’

During the PA12 special election, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee ran TV and radio ads that accused Republican Tim Burns of favoring “tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.” There was no legitimate factual basis for such an accusation — where is this policy? when did Burns ever propose such a thing? — but this rhetoric is […]

VIDEO: Ray Griggs On Cavuto Show Flogging ‘I Want Your Money’

by Smitty (h/t BlogProf) Griggs graciously takes the Michael Moore comparison: Will it throw more gasoline on the Democrat political pyre in, as someone reminded me Thursday night, less than 1,000 hours? It may. It may very well.

Florida 20: Send Debbie Wasserman-Shultz To The Beach

by Smitty (via The Corner) The sanest wonk in Congress, Paul Ryan, attempts to speak sense. DWS replies with “fear Wall Street”. If anything, Ryan’s plan is too centrist, in my opinion. My opinion is probably not too politically tenable, either. This blog would like to commend Paul Ryan for extraordinary tact when faced with […]

He’s a Neo-Keynesian, Not a Kenyan

The insuperable problem with conservatives seeking the origins of Barack Obama’s political commitments in the details of his biography is that the Left always stands ready to reply with its standard argument: “Shut up, racists!” Never has any prominent American leader’s ideology appeared more solidly rooted in his personal story — this, after all, was the […]

Economic Growth Hindered by Wasteful Obama Policies and Deer Damage to KIAs

But mainly Obama policies: The Federal Reserve’s “beige book” . . . offers a portrait of an uncertain economic moment in which growth has slowed in much of the United States. “Economic growth at a modest pace was the most common characterization of overall conditions,” said the report, released Wednesday afternoon . . . Consumer […]

Twittering Obama’s Speech

Continuing my Book of Job-style woes — e.g., the antlered jihadi that destroyed my car — today our local Internet provider crashed just as President Obama was beginning his Ohio speech. Through the miracle of Twitter, however, I was able to offer commentary via cell phone: Between having my car totalled — the insurance company […]

Economics, Politics and Propaganda

If the New York Times is going to add an economist as a columnist, who do you think they’re going to pick? Perhaps someone like Thomas Sowell, whose free-market arguments could balance the neo-Keynesianism of Paul Krugman? Of course not. They bring aboard Peter Orszag, who until recently was Obama’s director of the White House […]

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