Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Wall Street Journal: "New York Democrat Louise Slaughter, who chairs the House Rules Committee, may insert what's known as a 'self-executing rule,' also known as a 'hereby rule.' Under this amazing procedural ruse, the House would then vote only once on the reconciliation corrections, but not on the underlying Senate bill. If those reconciliation corrections pass, the self-executing rule would say that the Senate bill is presumptively approved by the House -- even without a formal up-or-down vote on the actual words of the Senate bill. Democrats would thus send the Senate bill to President Obama for his signature even as they claimed to oppose the same Senate bill. They would be declaring themselves to be for and against the Senate bill in the same vote. Even John Kerry never went that far with his Iraq war machinations."
By Tony Blankley ·
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The president and the Democratic congressional leadership are fighting furiously to pass, with no Republican votes, the ever-less-popular health bill. An Associated Press poll last week shows that four in five Americans don't want the Democrats to pass a health care bill without bipartisan support, while almost all polls are showing support for the current bill to be at only 25 percent to 35 percent. And all polls show high negative intensity. The resistance of our governing system to passing so unpopular a bill is so powerful that it has driven Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Chairwoman of the Rules Committee Louise Slaughter -- at least for the moment -- to actually publicly consider violating the constitutional process for enacting laws.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
"For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects."
—James Madison, Federalist No. 46
By Mona Charen ·
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
It's interesting that the Democrats are attempting to roll two of their highest priorities into one bill this month. The labyrinthine legislative legerdemain called health care reform now includes a reconciliation package that would fold in student loan reform. And by reform, the Democrats mean increasing direct lending to students by the federal government.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
"A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States."
—James Madison, Federalist No. 46
Monday, March 15, 2010
Columnist Jacob Sullum writes: "'We allow the insurance industry to run wild in this country,' President Obama declared [last] Monday. 'We can't have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people.' Yet Obama's plan to tame health insurers would boost their business, protect them from competition and guarantee their profits, all at the expense of consumers and taxpayers. It is therefore not surprising that the insurance companies, while they object to the president's rhetoric and quibble over some of the details, are happy to be domesticated."
By Burt Prelutsky ·
Monday, March 15, 2010
When I wasn’t invited to address the CPAC convention, I didn’t take it personally. I merely assumed they knew how much I hate flying and, besides, I don’t do well in cold weather. But it’s always nice to see so many conservatives in good spirits, especially during these hard times. Still, I have to admit I found their straw vote worrisome.
Monday, March 15, 2010
"On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?"
—Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, Query 12, 1782
By George Will ·
Sunday, March 14, 2010
WASHINGTON -- The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State
of the Union addresses is indicative of the state of the union, and is
unnecessary: The Constitution requires only that the president "shall from
time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union."
But a reaction may be brewing against these embarrassing events. Speaking
in Alabama, Chief Justice John Roberts said "to the extent that" this
occasion "has degenerated into a political pep rally," he is "not sure why
we're there." He was referring to Supreme Court justices. But why is anyone there?
Sunday, March 14, 2010
When Army National Guard Maj. Scott H. Southworth, a law-school graduate of the University of Wisconsin, went to Iraq with the National Guard's 32nd Police Company, his mission was to train police officers in Baghdad. However, there was an unexpected twist to the story.
By Lawrence Kudlow ·
Saturday, March 13, 2010
The new Obama Fed is going to be very dovish when it comes to fighting future inflation and defending the value of the dollar. The president has nominated Janet Yellen to be vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Yellen is a distinguished economist who unfortunately subscribes to the Phillips-curve model that trades off unemployment and inflation. In other words, rather than excess money creation as the cause of rising prices, she focuses on the unemployment rate, the volume of new jobs being created and the growth of the overall economy. For Yellen, inflation is caused by too many people working and too much economic prosperity.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) is currently the star of an ongoing ethics scandal that presents quite the dilemma for political analysts. The question is: What are Democrats up to while Massa tries to convince us to believe his story? Not only that, but what other sorts of dirt do Obamanites have on other "undecided" Democrats should they fail to cooperate?
By Michelle Malkin ·
Friday, March 12, 2010
"Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House," Nancy Pelosi boasted before the 2006 midterm elections. Looks like those XX chromosomes didn't give her much advantage over the old cleaning crew. The swamp she was supposed to drain is overflowing. And fewer than four years after a sordid sexual predation scandal involving a creepy congressman rocked the Republican Party, a sordid sexual predation scandal involving a creepy congressman is now rocking the Democratic Party.
Friday, March 12, 2010
"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected."
—Thomas Jefferson, autobiography, 1821
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Well, he didn't specifically call Obama a liar, but that's the effect of his claim on the Senate floor.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), "[W]e have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."
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