NOVEMBER 18, 2010 In 1933, Americans ratified the 20th Amendment to eliminate lame duck Congresses. For two decades Washington has been ignoring its intent. By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Americans ought to make this lame duck session of Congress the last in history. Members who lose re-election have no moral authority to continue governing: They were fired […]
THIS LAME DUCK SESSION OF CONGRESS SHOULD BE THE LAST Read More »
November 17, 2010 Dr. Donald Berwick has his coming out party today in Washington. After President Obama snuck him into office during a recess appointment as the head of the second largest health insurance company in the world- CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) without so much as a single hearing, Senators finally have
MEET THE ‘NEW’ DONALD BERWICK Read More »
NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Sen. Jim DeMint is offering Republicans a chance to prove they meant what they said on spending. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Republicans ran to midterm victory last week hitting every single high note. One week in, they risk ruining the aria with some off-key grunge. What issue could prove so important
THE GOP’S EARMARK NO-BRAINER Read More »
NOVEMBER 12, 2010, 4:09 P.M. ET For now: Extend the Bush tax cuts, repeal ObamaCare, support free trade. After 2012: Enact a flat tax, stabilize prices, balance the budget, give politicians incentive pay. By ARTHUR LAFFER Since its cyclical zenith in December 2007, U.S. economic production has been on its worst trajectory since the Great
A GROWTH AGENDA FOR THE NEW CONGRESS – ART LAFFER Read More »
NOVEMBER 12, 2010 ObamaCare’s pre-existing condition program is a bust. Democrats think they know how to run the insurance industry better than the insurance industry, and they’re getting the chance to prove it under ObamaCare. Consider the early returns on its plan to insure Americans denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. To judge by President Obama’s
THE 8,011-PERSON CRISIS Read More »
The American Spectator The Obama Watch Stop the Obama Tax Hikes By Peter Ferrara on 11.10.10 @ 6:09AM Let us survey the wreckage of Obamanomics, which followed in detail the opposite of every policy of Reaganomics. Unemployment has been near 10% for over a year now, after reaching 9.7% in August 2009. The Bureau of
THE OBAMA WATCH – STOP THE OBAMA TAX HIKES Read More »
NOVEMBER 10, 2010 Mr. Issa’s Investigations Oversight is harder than a TV interview. Most Republicans have been suitably modest and restrained in the wake of their victories last week—then there’s Darrell Issa. The California Congressman is set to chair the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in January, and he’s wasting no time adjusting to
DARRELL ISSA’S COMMITTEE INVESTIGATIONS Read More »
Obama murdered Medicare But the market can bring her back to life By Thomas R. Saving and John C. Goodman – The Washington Times October 15, 2010 The health care reform law enacted in spring will have a devastating impact on elderly and disabled Medicare enrollees if its provisions are not substantially changed. The law
MEDICARE WILL BE ON LIFE SUPPORT Read More »
David Limbaugh Obama Doesn’t Seek Compromise; Neither Should We I take no great pleasure in having been correct in predicting Barack Obama’s reaction to his Tuesday “shellacking.” To borrow his terminology, he is wired not to hear the American people’s opposition to his radical agenda, as painfully demonstrated in his postelection news conference. Unhappily, Obama’s
A WAR OF IDEAS – OBAMA DOESN’T SEEK COMPROMISE; NEITHER SHOULD WE Read More »
NOVEMBER 5, 2010 The Boehner Evolution House Republicans and the challenge of divided government. John Boehner is no Newt Gingrich, which suits the current public mood. Americans have had their fill of triumphalism and revolution in a House Speaker. But Barack Obama is also no Bill Clinton, a President with a gift for tactical politics
WHAT THE REPUBLICANS NEED TO DO TO WIN IN 2012 Read More »
