This is from a progressive named Brad DeLong: You Know, I Arrived in Washington in 1993 to Work for Lloyd Bentsen’s Treasury as Part of the Sane Technocratic Bipartisan Center… And it took me only two months–two months!–to conclude that America’s best hope for sane technocratic governance required the elimination of the Republican Party from [...]
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The following are Democrat/progressive policies. The Dems and progressives claim to be the guardians of the poor and middle classes. Let’s see… Preventing Energy Production: This raises gasoline and electricity prices. Who can least afford higher gasoline and electricity prices, the poor and middle class, or the rich? It also results in higher prices for [...]
Everyone must read this column by John Hayward: Empire of Debt. Here’s just one section I loved: Debt is not universally interpreted as a sign of failure on the part of government planners. On the contrary, it becomes a weapon used to demand more taxes. The same politicians who spent $1.7 trillion more than they [...]
If you’re a fan of Thomas Sowell like I am, you’ve no doubt read his debunking of the “class” model expressed in quintiles of earners. What Dr. Sowell exposed is that Democrats speak of the various classes (poor, middle, and rich) as though they are fixed, containing the same people year in and year out, [...]
Confessions of a Right-Wing Social Engineer, by John Hayward (the artist formerly known as Doctor Zero) at Human Events is a must read. Not only do I love John’s style, but he hits the nail on the head time after time. A sample: We live among the ruins of nearly a century of left-wing social [...]
Please read this. Paul Ryan sums up the differences between the Progressive elite view, which he calls “shared scarcity” and the Free Market Capitalist view beautifully. I loved his quote from Jack Kemp: “We can’t progress as a society by using government to diminish one another. The only way we can all have more is [...]
Hopefully you’ve been keeping track of the National Labor Relations Board’s lawsuit against Boeing. To sum up, Boeing decided to build its newest airliner in South Carolina after they weren’t able to make an agreement with the Machinist’s Union in Washington state not to strike. You see, Boeing figures to have high demand for these [...]
I was going to discuss Obama’s gas-price task force myself, but Ed Morrissey does such a great job at Hot Air that there’s not much more to say: Obama’s gas-price task force and example of Obama’s warning? The cause of rising gasoline prices is obvious to the most casual of observers. First, the Democrat, environmentalist, [...]
John Hinderacker does a masterful job of commenting on Pres. Obama’s incredibly bad budget speech in his Power Line post: “Obama Channels Ted Kennedy” (the Kennedy reference is a comparison of Obama’s characterization of Ryan’s plan with Kennedy’s demagoguery of Clarence Thomas). There’s one thing John didn’t comment on that got my attention. In talking [...]
President O-Blame-a Strikes Again
I did it again, and I’m kicking myself. I listened to President Obama in a news clip. I’m trying to learn to reflexively mute the radio when I hear his voice, because he tends to make me crazy whenever I hear him speak. I just wasn’t quick enough. Damn. The president is on his “blame [...]