Against: The Club for Growth today declared its opposition to the tax compromise proposal reached yesterday by President Obama and congressional Republicans. “This is bad policy, bad politics, and a bad deal for the American people,” said Club President Chris Chocola. “The plan would resurrect the Death Tax, grow government, blow a hole in the deficit with unpaid-for spending, and do so without providing the permanent relief and security our

Is it possible I underestimated the GOP? James Pethokoukis: Congressional Republicans appear to be quietly but methodically executing a plan that would a) avoid a federal bailout of spendthrift states and b) cripple public employee unions by pushing cash-strapped states such as California and Illinois to declare bankruptcy. This may be the biggest political battle in Washington, my Capitol Hill sources tell me, of 2011. That’s why the most intriguing

Question: When is “rape” and “molestation” rape and molestation? Answer: When it’s labeled as such by erstwhile willing partners schooled in leftist victim politics and contemporary feminist theory — and when the culture in which it happens has been institutionalized to believe that the meaning of an action belongs to the receiver alone. Live by the leftist worldview, die get arrested and held for gender crimes by the leftist worldview.

In response to my comment last evening that TEA Party types took it in the rear yesterday on the tax compromise, Stephanie writes: The TEA party has been advocating for lowered tax rates which they got in the form of continuation of the current tax rates (no increases on anyone), reductions on payroll taxes, reductions on business taxes, reductions on estate taxes (under current rules would have gone to 55%