[Calling such ambition good]: “This was the most ambitious president we’ve heard in this chamber in decades. The first half of the speech was FDR, fighting for the New Deal. The second half was Lyndon Johnson fighting for the Great Society, and we’ve never seen those two presidents rolled together in quite this way before.” [...]
Archive for February, 2009
25 Feb
Reasonable insights . . .
“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.” –French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) “With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud [...]
25 Feb
White Cower
Attorney General Eric Holder ruffled some few feathers Wednesday, when he gave a Black History Month speech in which he described America as “a nation of cowards” when it comes to “things racial”: Though race related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues [...]
25 Feb
These Foreclosure ‘Victims’ Deserve No Sympathy
It shouldn’t be long before ACORN recruits “Octomom” Nadya Suleman to serve as the radical left-wing group’s foreclosure poster child. The jobless, unmarried mother of 14 faces eviction from her home in two weeks. Suleman’s mother, who owns the residence, hasn’t sent a mortgage check in 10 months and owes $23,000 in back payments. Nonetheless, [...]
25 Feb
Subsidize Bad Behavior?
President Obama’s massive mortgage-bailout plan is nothing more than a thinly disguised entitlement program that redistributes income from the responsible 92 percent of home-owning mortgage-holders who pay their bills on time to the irresponsible defaulters who bought more than they could ever afford. This is Obama’s spread-the-wealth program in action. Team Obama is rewarding bad [...]
25 Feb
SOTU – Sort Of
Article II Section 3: [The President] shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. Last night’s speech by President Obama was not an official State of the Union address (SOTU as those of [...]
25 Feb
The Republican Response by Gov. Bobby Jindal
Following is a transcript of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s remarks on behalf of the Republican Party on Tuesday night, responding to President Obama’s address, as recorded by CQ Transcriptions: JINDAL: Good evening, and happy Mardi Gras. I’m Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana. Tonight, we’ve witnessed a great moment in the history of our republic. In the [...]
25 Feb
A Nation of Cowards
Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States is “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race relations. In one sense, he is absolutely right. Many whites, from university administrators and professors, schoolteachers to employers and public officials accept behavior from black people that they wouldn’t begin to accept from whites. For example, some [...]
25 Feb
Honest assessments . . . .
“Democratic leaders say their legislation will grow the economy. What it will do is grow the government, increase our taxes down the line and saddle future generations with debt. Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have, on things we do not need? That [...]
25 Feb
Obama Unbridled
Anyone who thought the recession and financial market turmoil would moderate President Obama’s policy ambitions discovered the opposite last night. Far from suggesting limits on Congress or federal spending, the new President made clear in his first State of the Union address that he believes in government power as the answer to our current difficulties, [...]
