‘Daily Right’ Archives
Daily Right 3/10/10
*Presidential approval: -21 and falling. RELATED: 68% now oppose passing ObamaCare without Republican support. *Obama and the L-Word: The President’s habit of telling untruths, by Matt Welch. “Obama’s dishonesty, by contrast, seems to spring from a different place. As a man who has spent most of his career wowing people with [...]
Daily Right 3/9/10
ObamaCare *Sigh. Stupak “more optimistic” on the bills passing then he was a week ago. But remember, the House has to pass the Senate bill as is before the abortion issue can be addressed, and it must be addressed in a separate bill that must pass both the House and the Senate. Does Stupak and the other (allegedly) pro-life dems [...]
Daily Right 3/8/10
*Obama’s Dereliction of Duty, by Matt Patterson. “I cannot bring myself to believe that any president would manipulate the economy in such a manner for his own political purposes. But I do know this: while Obama continues to fiddle his atonal health care tune, the flames of war and recession and fiscal collapse rage all around [...]
Daily Right 3/4/10
ObamaCare *Why Democrats Believe They Must Pass Health Reform: Holy Grail, by Gary Andres. *The President’s Imaginary Health Plan, at NRO. *AWOL in the Bunning Battle: The GOP shows why ObamaCare is a good bet for the left, by Andrew C. McCarthy. “In sum, Bunning’s battle gave Republicans a chance to make points about runaway [...]
Daily Right 3/3/10
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 [...]
Daily Right 3/2/10
*Pelosi’s Challenge: Hold the Line, by Patrick O’Connor. *Unprecedented, by Michael G. Franc. This is a great rundown of when, and how, reconciliation has been used in the past. *For Obama and Pelosi, Health Care is Ego Trip, by Byron York. *The Democrats on Reconciliation, by Jeffrey H. Anderson. “You know, the Founders [...]
Daily Right 3/1/10
The round-up is fairly longish today, since we didn't have anything up yesterday. Our Own Greek Tragedy, by Mark Steyn. “The problem is there are never enough of "the rich" to fund the entitlement state, because in the end, it disincentivizes everything from wealth creation to self-reliance to the basic survival instinct, as represented by [...]
Daily Right 2/24/10
*Medicare Doctor Shortage Endangers Seniors’ Access to Care, by Matt Patterson. *New Rasmussen poll shows that 10% of the American people are insane: “Voter unhappiness with Congress has reached the highest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports as 71% now say the legislature is doing a poor job… …Only 10% of voters say Congress [...]
Daily Right 2/23/10
*Is Obama a socialist? “Of course he is,” says Newt Gingrich. *Our Mission is Finally Accomplished…Anyone Care? By David Bellavia. “What we achieved in the face of an implacable enemy, overcoming many in our own government willfully ignorant of our struggle, is what I believe to be the defining moment of my generation. The [...]
Daily Right 2/16/10
*When Does the Realism Kick In? By Jennifer Rubin. “Obama is a prisoner of so much ideology, it’s hard to keep track. There’s his blind faith in multilateralism. There’s his infatuation with the Left’s notion that an American groveling deficiency is at the root of “misunderstandings” with the “Muslim World.” And let’s not [...]
Daily Right 2/15/10: ClimateGate Edition
*Q&A: Professor Phil Jones, at the BBC. I won’t excerpt, but he admits there has been NO warming since 1995, that his data may be “lost,” and admits that the medieval warm period may have been worldwide. These admissions, taken together, put a stake through the heart of the infamous hockey stick graph (below), and by extension, the [...]
Daily Right 2/10/10
*Say No to Democracy, by David Harsanyi. “What, one wonders, will Democrats have to say about the filibuster when Sarah Palin is jamming through her first-year agenda as president?” *It’s the Constitution, Stupid: What the TEA partiers really want, by Ron Futrell. “While the media tries to marginalize the movement and make it seem [...]
Daily Right 2/9/10
*Cheney’s Revenge, at the WSJ. “As long as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were responsible for keeping Americans safe, Democrats could pander to the U.S. and European left's anti-antiterror views at little political cost. But now that they are responsible, American voters are able to see what the left really has in mind, and they are saying [...]
Daily Right 2/8/10
*America is Not Ungovernable, by Jay Cost. *The Answer to Socialism, by Doctor Zero. *The 2007 Solution, by Fred Barnes. “Republican senator George LeMieux of Florida has done the math. If government spending were reduced to its 2007 level, we’d have a balanced budget (with a $163 billion surplus). Returning to the 2008 level of [...]
Daily Right 2/5/10
*The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010, by Charles Krauthammer. “This being a democracy, don't the Democrats see that clinging to this agenda will march them over a cliff? Don't they understand Massachusetts? Well, they understand it through a prism of two cherished axioms: (1) The people are stupid and (2) Republicans are bad. Result? The dim, [...]
Daily Right 2/4/10
*A Message From Congress: No one questions our authority, at CNS News. *You know what’s hilarious? Unsustainable debt: *The President’s GOP Outreach Comes to Late, by Karl Rove. *Government Creates Wealth? By Jennifer Rubin. “Looking around the world and at our own recent past, there’s plenty of evidence that the liberal [...]
Daily Right 2/3/10
*Please, No More “Half-As-Much” Republicans, by J. Robert Smith. “What’s a half-as-much Republican? One who’s willing to do half as much as liberals on big government initiatives.” *Book’im, Dan-o, by Stephen Green. “I love my local funky used bookstore. But, dude, you’re hosed. Totally. Maybe you can borrow some Kleenex [...]
Daily Right 2/1/10
*Rhetoric of Fear Behind Health-Care Agenda, by Matt Patterson. “So how do you convince people who are happy with what they have to go along with radical change? Convince them that what they are happy with can be lost at any time, and through no fault of their own. In other words, scare them.” ALSO by Matt Patterson: 2010 Dawned With [...]
Daily Right 1/28/10: SOTU Edition
*The complete transcript of the speech can be read here. *Statist Quo, at National Review. “Everything changes except President Obama. His agenda doesn’t change. He has had no second thoughts about the wisdom of his health-care policies, or any of his policies; resistance is always and only a reason for redoubling. Also unchanging is the [...]
Daily Right 1/26/10
*Tuning Out the State of the Union, by Gene Healy. “When Obama had to make way for "Lost," some lamented the fact that many Americans preferred trash TV over presidential enlightenment. But the public's lack of interest in the SOTU is actually a sign of political health. When all eyes turn to the president, demanding he cure whatever ails [...]
Daily Right 1/25/10
*We Should Listen to Massachusetts, by Matt Patterson. “That we could come so close to implementing a new trillion dollar federal program that would actually raise health care spending, and saddle the nation with hundreds of billions in new taxes in a year when our economy hemorrhages jobs at a rate not seen since World War II (over 4 million [...]
Daily Right 1/22/10
*The Supreme Court has finally overturned the most odious portions of McCain-Feingold, ruling that corporate entities have the same free speech protections as individuals. Just to give you a taste of how obnoxiously unconstitutional this bill was, the Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart actually argued that the government had the right to [...]
Brown Victory Round-Up
*Why the Great and Growing Backlash, by Victor Davis Hanson. “Devotees turn on false prophets with a special vengeance. Obama is beginning to grate. His flip-the-switch-on, evangelical cadences at rallies sound more like a Harvard nerd doing blues imitations than Martin Luther King Jr.” *What Has Brown Done for Us?, by C. Edmund [...]
Daily Right 1/19/10
*The Beginning of the End of Obamaism? By Jennifer Rubin. *It’s Time to Put the Political Axes Down, by Andie Brownlow. “The fact that we’re even considering what will amount to universal health care shows just how far off our foundation this country has been pushed with lies and deception. Our current entitlement liabilities have been [...]
Daily Right 1/14/10
*Are you not stimulated? Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann, of ClimateGate fame, received $500,000 in stimulus money for global cooling warming climate change research. RELATED: The Climate is Changing, by Tom Switzer. “When I say the climate is changing, I do not mean, as many people do, that man-made global warming is destroying [...]
Daily Right 1/13/10
*Why doesn’t this surprise me. John McCormack, a reporter for The Weekly Standard, was shoved to the ground last night by a Coakley campaign staffer after trying to ask her a question. “After Coakley finished her answer, she began walking away from the restaurant, and I walked behind her asking why health care industry lobbyists were [...]
Daily Right 1/12/10
*Accountability, Transparency Are Casualties of HealthCare Debate, by Matt Patterson. “Under wraps. Behind closed doors. Backroom deals. These phrases crop up again and again in reports of the Democrats' health care legislation. Would you go along with any plan that had these sinister signs swirling 'round it? Would you even go on a [...]
Daily Right 1/11/10
*Harry Reid Off Camera, at NRO. “In a private conversation Reid sounded . . . well, borderline racist. Language matters. Academics like Randall Kennedy can use the word “Negro” in a conscious manner to make a professorial point, but it’s no longer an acceptable term in casual conversation. Blacks can use the n-word -- and do. But whites [...]
Daily Right 1/7/09
*Who is Wesley Mouch, by John Stossel. “Although Rand idolizes businessman in the abstract, "Atlas Shrugged" makes clear that she (like Adam Smith) understood that they are not natural friends of free markets. They are often first in line for privileges bestowed by the state. That's called "crony capitalism," and that's what Orren Boyle [...]
Daily Right 1/5/10
*Does America Sit Under a Rising or Setting Sun? By Matt Patterson. *David Brooks draws a distinction between the “educated class” and the “public” in his latest article: “The educated class believes in global warming, so public skepticism about global warming is on the rise. The educated class supports abortion rights, so public [...]
