Doesn’t John McCain wish that we could re-run the 2008 Presidential election right about now?
Barack Obama now has a negative approval rating in every state he flipped from the Bush column to his in 2008. In each of those places his level of support is now in the 44-46% range. It’s probably a good thing he doesn’t have to run for reelection this year. He can only hope things start turning around for him once the midterms are in the rear view mirror, much as they did for Bill Clinton.
February 19, 2010 – 9:52 am
It seems clear enough that Democrats are trying to kill Medicare Advantage. But will they risk angering all of America’s Medicare-participating doctors with a huge pay cut? Not bloody likely. Look for Congress to postpone this year’s cuts in doctor payments soon, in the dead of night, but just too late to affect Medicare Advantage.
February 15, 2010 – 9:50 am
The argument in bad faith is, of course, something that post-1960s American liberalism has raised to an art form, but it is especially egregious in this case, because it not only defames, trivializes, and insults an ancient and much-abused people and their tradition, but it does so in the service of the most sickening kind of hypocrisy.
January 22, 2010 – 4:14 pm
“The anguished cries of left-leaning folk over the Citizens United ruling seem to me to be emanating from an alternate universe, so bizarre are they.”
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Campaigns, Congress, Constitutional Law, Corporate Speech, Democrats, First Amendment, Free Press Clause, Free Speech Clause, Justice Stevens, Law, Matt Welch, Media Corporations, Republicans, Scott Brown, Supreme Court, Will Wilkinson
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January 21, 2010 – 1:33 pm
My quick reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling is that it is quite reassuring to see that the Supreme Court is dedicated to the principle of free speech, even if some in Congress are not.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Campaigns, Congress, Constitutional Law, Corporate Speech, Democrats, Eugene Volokh, First Amendment, Free Press Clause, Free Speech Clause, Justice Stevens, Law, Media Corporations, Republicans, Scott Brown, Supreme Court
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December 8, 2009 – 6:32 pm
It seems that we may still not have learned the lessons of Ross Perot and Ralph Nader, modern third-party candidates cannot win and only serve to elect the opponents nominee. Will we have a repeat of that in 2012?
By Brad Jackson
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Posted in Blogs, Politics, The Whip
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Also tagged 2012, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ralph Nader, Ross Perot, Sarah Palin, Tea Parties
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September 25, 2009 – 7:11 am
Senator Reid has promised the three leading sponsors of proposed legislation which would lift the current ban on re-imports of Food and Drug Administration-approved prescription drugs that their bill would receive a floor vote.
August 13, 2009 – 6:23 am
Four years ago, the Left was proud of its stance on withdrawing not just medical care but food and water itself from Terri Schiavo. That was their choice. If the price to be paid is a public in need of assurance that President Obama and his plan don’t share those values and won’t encourage the same thing, well, choices have consequences, and the voiceless dead can still haunt us in ways we had never foreseen.
I am sure that there are plenty who will think that this post only serves to reflect my political biases, but while I agree with Boaz’s argument that the Founders would have been appalled by the policies of the Obama Administration, I disagree with the contention that they would have been appalled by John McCain’s foreign policy suggestions.
The editors and colleagues of The New Ledger weigh in on Sarah Palin’s shocking announcement that she will resign the governorship of Alaska: three possible reasons why she did it, what Republicans should take from the media assaults that led to her decision, and an answer to whether she’s got any shot at the presidency.
Sarah Palin announced an abrupt resignation from her role as chief executive of the nation’s largest state today. Palin’s future as a Republican standard bearer is very much in doubt. And if you’re looking for someone with questions to answer, it ought to be John McCain: did he destroy Palin’s prospects by picking her too early, and by letting his staff turn her into a scapegoat for their election loss?
