Jim Kessler, of the left-leaning group Third Way, offers the Democrats a few rays of hope. He argues that this needn’t be a repeat of 1994, and the Democrats can avoid an electoral bloodbath this fall. Were I a Democrat, I wouldn’t be so sanguine. Kessler’s ray of hope are meager indeed. For example, he [...]
Charles Krauthammer has a typically great column on the ongoing debate over “torture” after Nancy Pelosi’s denial that she knew anything about waterboarding. Pelosi, assuming that the liberal press would cover for her, has now gotten caught up in a web of her own lies. So much so that the press has the scent of [...]
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Dave Kopel blasts into the Bush-Pelosi “stimulus package” at The Volokh Conspiracy: Here’s how to deal with a recession: A federal government which is already spending more than its income should borrow even more money, so as to give lots of people a tax rebate. This is the bipartisan plan of President Bush and Congress. [...]
Rep. John Murtha, one of the most vociferous opponents of the Iraq War is now saying that the surge is working: Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), one of the leading anti-war voices in the House Democratic Caucus, is back from a trip to Iraq and he now says the “surge is working.” This could be a [...]