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Obama and his supporters on the left still don’t get it. They seem to have no idea that a majority of Americans just don’t like their policy agenda.
That’s why we end up with stupid articles from the Huffington Post about how America has become “ungovernable.”
Bill Clinton had two years on “offense,” when he tried to push an ambitious domestic agenda, followed by six years on “defense,” after his party lost control of Congress in 1994. Barack Obama, despite his determined posture in his State of the Union address, seems to have gotten just one year on “offense,” now that Scott Brown’s Senate win has Democrats running scared. When a 59-41 Senate majority plus a substantial edge in the House is deemed too slender a margin on which to enact a relatively centrist health reform, we may as well ask it out loud: has America become ungovernable?
We also get venom from people like TIME’s Joe Klein who blames all of Obama’s failures on the American people, who are just a bunch of dumb horses, too stupid to be led to water.
Absolutely amazing poll results from CNN today about the $787 stimulus package: nearly three out of four Americans think the money has been wasted. On second thought, they may be right: it’s been wasted on them.
David Harsanyi posted an excellent article yesterday at Reason.com which pointed out two things.
1. Government needs more checks and balances, not less.
2. The American left is full of shit.
Observe his awesome awesomeness…
If you’ve been paying attention to the left-wing punditry these days, you may be under the impression that the nation’s institutions are on the verge of collapse. Or that the rule of law is unraveling. Or maybe that this once-great nation is crippled and nearly beyond repair.
You know why? Because the 40 percent (or so) political minority has far too much influence in Washington. Don’t you know? This minority, egged on by a howling mob of nitwits, is holding progress hostage using its revolting politics and parliamentary trickery.
Leading the charge to fix this dire problem is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who advocates abolishing the Senate filibuster to make way for direct democracy’s magic.
It had better be quick. The populace is fickle. Jacob Weisberg of Slate believes that Americans are crybabies who don’t know what’s good for ‘em, causing “political paralysis.” Even President Barack Obama, after his agenda had come to a halt, claimed democracy is a “messy” process—as if that were a bad thing.
Imagine that we were living in an America where Republicans had control of the executive and legislative branches of government. Rich Lowry of National Review pens a piece saying that America has become “ungovernable.” Sean Hannity of FOX News devotes an entire program to the subject of “ending the Senate filibuster.”
Would the Paul Krugmans, Joe Kleins and Huffington Posters of America be nodding along in unison then?
Somehow, I doubt it.
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Wow! CSPAN was finally allowed into the room. Wasn’t it Obama who promised that would happen?
This video is 59 minutes long but Palin’s speech is about 40 minutes long. The rest is a Q & A with the organizer of the event. Enjoy!
OK, the CATO Institute didn’t actually say that Libertarians are wicked smart but they did suggest that Libertarian minded voters are probably the lead indicator of political trends in 2010.
David Kirby and David Boaz wrote the report:
Libertarian — or fiscally conservative, socially liberal — voters are often torn between their aversions to the Republicans’ social conservatism and the Democrats’ fiscal irresponsibility. Yet libertarians rarely factor into pundits’ and pollsters’ analyses.
In 2004 libertarians swung away from Bush, anticipating the Democratic victories of 2006. In 2008, according to new data in this paper, libertarians voted against Barack Obama. Libertarians seem to be a lead indicator of trends in centrist, independent-minded voters. If libertarians continue to lead the independents away from Obama, Democrats will lose 2010 midterm elections they would otherwise win.
We find that 14 percent of American voters can be classified as libertarian. Other surveys find a larger number of people who hold views that are neither consistently liberal nor conservative but are best described as libertarian. A 2009 Gallup poll found that 23 percent held libertarian views. A Zogby poll found that 59 percent considered themselves “fiscally conservative and socially liberal,” and 44 percent agreed that they were “fiscally conservative and socially liberal, also known as libertarian.”
BONUS VIDEO: The CATO guys analyze the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts. “This is like Ted Kennedy being elected in Utah.”
Oh, but watch out for the CATO Institute! According to the DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee), those Libertarians are just a bunch of right wing extremists!
Jumping In Pools requested an interview with me last week and they published it tonight.
We talked about Scott Brown, New England, Massachusetts, Republicans, Libertarians, blogging and more.
I just added Jumping In Pools to my blog roll.
You would be well advised to do the same.
Stacy McCain and his faithful co-blogger Smitty were hard at work over the New Year. They upgraded their website and in the process, added a significant amount of awesomeness.
Their new home on the web is TheOtherMcCain.com! Be sure to upgrade the link in your favorites folder.
The new site is not just a redesign. They made a huge jump from Blogger to WordPress and did so flawlessly.
Of course, they’re already covering issues of national security and American politics.
I wish Stacy and Smitty ever increasing traffic in 2010. They’re great writers and great guys.
As we lead up to the 2010 mid-term elections, I’m sure they’ll have a lot to say.
The only question which remains is, how long will it take them to utilize their new blog to cast a spotlight on liberal hypocrisy?
Doh! My bad. They already have.
I’m a Libertarian. I like this guy.
Tucker interviews Karl Rove on the Detroit terror attack. Video by The Right Scoop.
This couldn’t have been an easy decision, there was so much to choose from this year.
