Category Archives: President
Centerpiece
“I’ve been struck by the speed and decisiveness of his move to the center,” Will Marshall, of the Progressive Policy Institute, said of Obama – in June of 2008! Now that he’s taken over health care, autos, and the internet, could Bam be at it again? Carl Leubsdorf, in the Dallas Morning News, says Democratic presidents have to move to the center to survive.
Federal Power
A federal judge ruled that the federal government doesn’t have the power to make you go out and buy something you otherwise wouldn’t – health care in this case. The government claims its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce gives it the right to do just that.
Nat Hentoff doesn’t think any clause of the constitution gives the government the right to assassinate its own citizens who become jihadists.
Poker Face
While endorsing the Obama tax deal during his Friday presser monologue, Bill Clinton cited Charles Krauthammer’s view that the deal was a big win for the Democrats. They just don’t recognize it. Maybe Obama is following Reagan’s advice that you can accomplish anything if you don’t care who gets the credit. It’s enough to make a Republican cry.
Melt Down
President Obama called Replublicans “hostage takers” and the left of his own party “sanctimonious”. Peggy Noonan thinks this shows he hates his own tax deal.
Obama’s announcement of his tax deal drove his own party bonkers. Bernie Sanders conducted a 9 hour Senate filibuster. Meanwhile someone in the House Democratic Caucus muttered “f… the president”.
