Author: McQ

Barack Obama editorial in the NY Times is another part of cranking up the left wing scream machine in effort to counter the detrimental effect townhall protesters have had on the Democrat’s health care grab. It is mostly appeals to emotion and the repeating of discredited talking points (to include the “AARP supports this” nonsense). […]

You know I’ve watched the Southern Poverty Law Center’s rise over the years as the self-proclaimed expert on “extremist hate groups”. But what I’ve also deduced over those years, mostly by observing when and what we hear from them, is it is primarily an organization that sees the “right-wing” as the primary threat to America. […]

You may recall from Obama’s health care pep rally townhall where he claimed that those in opposition to his healthcare plan were spreading disinformation and fear. But he also talked about doctors being more inclined to cut off a diabetic’s foot than treat him because they would make more doing the amputation than with preventive […]

Something that must be kept in mind – while the Democrats are attempting to change the focus of their pending legislation from health care reform to health insurance reform, they’ve not changed the legislation to reflect that. Of all people, Chuck Norris brings that point home with a vengeance. Unlike our lawmakers, he’s apparently actually […]

That’s one of the trends now. If you can’t argue the merits of the legislation, make gross and unsubstantiated assumptions and claims and take off from there. For instance, this from Keith Boykin at “The Daily Voice”, which claims to be “black America’s daily news source”: In the past few months, we’ve witnessed the unleashing […]

Watch this video (Via Michele Malkin), or at least the first 5 minutes of it. In it you’ll see Niki Tsongas tell two whoppers. Seriously – the first topic she covers is about consultation with a physician about end of life care. She claims such counseling is not mandatory and would only take place at […]

Back during the presidential campaign, I signed on to Barack Obama’s website to receive email “alerts”. As an avid blogger, I wanted the info firsthand. Obviously that information is now part of a coordinated astroturfing campaign: Friend — I wanted to send you an urgent invitation to an important town hall with Rep. Hank Johnson […]

Irony, as we’ve all learned, is not something with which the left is well attuned. For instance, until the Obama administration unleashed the unions, the townhall meetings were a little raucous, but not violent. But now that the White House has all but explicitly condoned the demonization and thus the marginalization of those who disagree […]

The most recent Quinnipiac poll isn’t at all kind to “health care reform”. And, it should tell politicians all they need to know about what the priority of the American people is: American voters, by a 55 – 35 percent margin, are more worried that Congress will spend too much money and add to the […]

The videos of what are described as “angry” townhalls around the country keep pouring in. Here’s one from Green Bay, WI. Of course there are tons of others. The Democrats and the left have answered the protests by claiming that they’re nothing more than “right-wing extremists” under the control of powerful interest groups. Thus the […]

This is fascinating. You’ve probably seen this popping up. It first appeared in LA: The UK’s Mail Online says: The right-wing editor of the American Thinker website, Thomas Lifson, wrote today: ‘It is starting. ‘Open mockery of of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a […]

That’s what the UK Times is reporting: Iran has perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead and is merely awaiting the word from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first bomb, Western intelligence sources have told The Times. The sources said that Iran completed a research programme to create […]

Read this carefully. This is from George Stephanopoulos: To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, “We’re going to have to do what’s necessary.” Geithner was clear […]

A young soldier, or perhaps an ex-soldier, does a little educating of the politicians at a meeting with Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) or her staffers. And he’s right: And check out the reception he gets. [Crossposted at QandO]

One of the reasons we’ve reached a tipping point between freedom and welfare statism is because much of the country pays no taxes and increasingly the burden of taxes is being shifted to a smaller and smaller percentage of the population. Now I’m not a tax advocate by any stretch. But it is obvious we’re […]

If this NPR poll has any validity, it removes, once and for all, the “I inherited this mess” meme from Obama’s rhetorical quiver. Americans see this as his mess now and they’re not particularly happy with how he’s handling it: In another part of the poll, respondents were asked which of two statements on the […]

When your political opposition is self-destructing (even while in the majority and in control of the legislative and executive branches), most political observers would advise stepping back and allowing them to do so. But not the Republicans. They’re going to be the “significant other” that gives this president a win on his signature issue and […]

There are a number of things going on in the health care reform debate that are the reason Democrats are at odds with each other. One, obviously is cost. What should be apparent, even to rocket scientists like Nancy Pelosi, is that the American people are not buying into the premise that “government can expand […]

I‘ll leave it to you to read the health care fact check. But this was of particular interest to me: The president continued to take credit for deficit reduction by making a claim that has been challenged by many experts. “If we had done nothing, if you had the same old budget as opposed to […]

I noted the other day that the Obama administration was hiding its revised budget numbers from the public until August. Obviously, in light of the push to pass health care legislation, they don’t want anymore bad news out there than the CBO has already delivered. And, of course, there’s no doubt that had the news […]

A bit of ego, a little dab of moral vanity, a smidge of hubris all driven by an agenda and you have the perfect definition of the political class worldwide. Of course I understate the smidges, bits and dabs by quite a bit. But that class has a problem. Other than boring economic stuff they […]

Uh, no. Especially when locked in a battle in which it is trying to fool the public into accepting a 1 trillion plus spending program as a “money saver”. Then, apparently, it is quite all right to be quite opaque and delay the scheduled release of its revised budget numbers (based on known economic indicators): […]

Who are these people? I’m obviously mistaken if I think they’re in office to represent the citizens of the United States of America. Apparently, instead, they represent the Chinese: “It’s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America — and it’s our own consumption activity […]

We now have the White House Budget Director weighing in on health care reform legislation: PETER ORSZAG: We have to remember: there are some who are advocating delay simply because they don’t have anything to put on the table. The typical Washington bureaucratic game of — ‘if you don’t have a better alternative, just delay […]

I‘m not sure how often everyone has to be told, but here’s the warning again, just as Democrats attempt to pile another trillion plus dollars in federal health care spending (and debt). From the CBO Director’s blog: Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow […]

Does anyone know who Dr. Doug Elmendorf is? He’s the director of the Congressional Budget Office. And today, in testimony before the Senate Budget Committee he answered a few questions from Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) about the supposed great savings the country would reap under the planned Democrat “health care reform” bills under consideration by […]

Move over Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, here comes Sonia Sotomayor . I’m not sure who that was appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the woman everyone expected. As Sen. Lindsey Graham said: “I listen to you today, I think I’m listening to [Chief Justice John] Roberts.” She […]

Keith Hennesey does a fair job of fisking President Obama’s Washington Post editorial in which Obama tries to put a happy face on what his administration has done thus far to combat the recession. Hennesy included a chart by Don Marron that graphically takes Obama to task on one of his favorite claims, namely: Nearly […]

Why don’t they just shut up! The science is settled! We have consensus. Well, except for those 32,000 American scientists who have signed a petition saying they don’t agree that anthropogenic, or man-made, global warming is threatening society as we know it. And now we have another one – another skeptical scientist who attempts to […]

The year? 1972. The problem? Global cooling: In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada’s wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has […]