ObamaCare
*Abuse of Power, at the WSJ.
“The goal is to permanently expand the American entitlement state with a vast apparatus of subsidies and regulations while the political window is still (barely) open, regardless of the consequences or the overwhelming popular condemnation. As Mr. Obama fatalistically said after his health summit, if voters don’t like it, “then that’s what elections are for.”
In other words, he’s volunteering Democrats in Congress to march into the fixed bayonets so he can claim an LBJ-level legacy like the Great Society that will be nearly impossible to repeal. This would be an unprecedented act of partisan arrogance that would further mark Democrats as the party of liberal extremism. If they think political passions are bitter now, wait until they pass ObamaCare.”
I urge you to read the whole thing.
*Pelosi’s Suicide Squad, by Jim Geraughty.
*Twenty-One Key Democrats, and Three Things for Them to Consider, by Jeffrey H. Anderson.
*Stupak: It’s Not Just Abortion, by Janet Adamy.
*Irreconcilable Differences, by Daniel Foster.
“If the Democrats try to use reconciliation to finish a bill as unwieldy, unpopular, and unprecedented as this one, it will set off a parliamentary battle that could make the maneuvers in advance of Christmas Eve look like a study of legislative efficiency.”
*The Democrats Contorted and Implausible End Game, by James C. Capretta.
ClimateGate
*Why the IPCC Must Be Investigated, by Andrew Wheeler.
“The UN IPCC has blurred the lines between science and advocacy to the point where they are unable to separate situational awareness from proposed remedies. They have been advocating for specific policy actions and ignoring the original charter of informing the public on the state of science.”
Misc.
*Decentralize the Government, by Joel Kotkin.
“Obama seems to possess a desire not so much to fix the basic infrastructure of the country but to re-engineer our entire society into the model championed by liberal academia.”
*A Knife in Obama’s Back? By Jonah Goldberg.
*The Five Varieties of Bad Political Thinking, by Michael Weiss.
*Politically Correct Killing? By Victor Davis Hanson.
“I wholeheartedly support the president’s expanded use of Predators against suspected terrorists in Pakistan and its environs — if we agree that we are in a global war on radical Islamic terrorism, and are also consistent in seeing our adversaries as non-uniformed enemy combatants not subject to the normal rules of war. But the expansion of targeted assassinations does not square with the administration’s past rhetoric and its present interest in seeing anti-terrorism as more akin to criminal justice than war.”
