This post is updated, here: “Parker Griffith, a Blame America Democrat, to Face Conservative Primary Challenge.” ********** Everyone’s getting all excited about Alabama Representative Parker Griffith. A first-term Democrat, Griffith has announced he’s switching parties. Griffith serves Alabama’s 5th congressional, and by changing parties he’ll “become the first Republican to hold the historically Democratic, Huntsville-based […]

Crossposted from STACLU: Gun Sales Surge, Violent Crime Drops Its hard to find any optimism with the healthcare disaster so close to being a reality, but glimmers of hope do exist. Democrats are actually pinning their hopes for the midterm on this unpopular healthcare bill. The rest of their strategy is to continue to blame […]

Several lefty commentators are noticing — and, as commentators do, commenting on — the fact that the health care “reform” bill, currently limping through the Senate like a Skeksis on his way to dinner, doesn’t take effect until 2014. Five years from now. For example, Ezra Klein: There’s a lot of talk over whether the […]

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A couple of points need to be highlighted regarding Paul Krugman’s opinion piece at New York Times today, “A Dangerous Dysfunction.” (Via Memeorandum.) The first is that the essay’s a good indication of the outsized influence of unhinged radical bloggers have on people like Paul Krugman, a Princeton professor and Nobel prizewinner. For example, just […]

Really, is it any wonder why Americans hate this administration? From the Wall Street Journal, “Change Nobody Believes In“: A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve. And tidings of comfort and joy from Harry Reid too. The Senate Majority Leader has decided that the […]

Megan McArdle thinks it’s really, really bad for them: Democrats are on a political suicide mission; I’m not a particularly accurate prognosticator, but I think this makes it very likely that in 2010 they will (lose) several seats in the Senate–enough to make it damn hard to pass any more of their signature legislation–and will […]

There are a lot of different memes on what’s happening with the ObamaCare debate. For one thing, the legislation’s not passed yet. And while I’m not sure if we’ll stop it, protesters are gearing up. See Nice Deb, “EMERGENCY HEALTH CARE RALLY, Omaha, NE, Sunday 12/20.” Plus, watch the opposition on the House side. See, […]