Archives for January, 2009

Even though Obama has been president for only 11 days, he is well on his way to his first major policy failure in the form of the colossal, inscrutable, larded spending bill, A.K.A. the stimulus package. Obama is asleep at the wheel, and may be held responsible for this atrocity, but Bush and the GOP [...]

Among the most dubious claims by the Obama campaign in 2008 was that a McCain administration would be Bush part II. While both McCain and Bush were Republicans, they were very different political animals – indeed McCain wears the stripes of a “Blue Dog” Democrat. This campaign strategy is all the more interesting now that [...]

With so many lives in a tailspin right now, many people are looking to President Elect Obama and the Democrat Congress for help. Contrary to what Bill Clinton said in 1995, the era of big government is just beginning. FDR called his government programs relief. LBJ’s programs were the great society. Bush touted compassionate conservatism, [...]

But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.LEVITICUS 16:10 Humans need someone to blame. Scapegoating, no matter how irrational, focuses anxiety and frustration into something concrete and [...]

As Congress convenes this week, expect its Democrat leaders to plead their case that the financial meltdown of 2008 was all Bush’s fault. He deregulated financial markets; he failed to heed warnings about the impending disaster; he was a shill for corporate greed. Political memo to Sen. Reid: blaming Bush is a losing strategy. First [...]