Surrender: House Republicans have abandoned a campaign proposal by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to draft spending bills by agency instead of lumping Cabinet departments together in bulky appropriations measures. Boehner issued the plan in a speech on congressional reform last September, but the Appropriations Committee says it received no instructions from the leadership to follow through with it. As a result, the committee is plowing ahead with the traditional 12

I realize the Visigothery of such a post title is likely to cause the mint in Rick Moran’s Julep to wilt, but here’s Jay Carney at a White House press briefing today, essentially signaling the linguistic shift I and others have been warning about for several months: […] the President sees, as a means of holding everyone’s feet to the fire to ensure that we take the action necessary to

So nice they’re going to use it twice. Because the first time didn’t quite finish off the job of assisted national suicide. (thanks to JD and Rush Limbaugh; see also, here)

Global warming, champion of ethanol subsidies, individual mandate… A simple newspaper archive search bears this out. At an Alegent Health event in Omaha in 2008, Gingrich said it was “fundamentally immoral” for a person to go without coverage, show up at an emergency room and demand free care. During the keynote address to the Greater Detroit Area Health Council’s annual Health Trends Conference in April 2006, Gingrich said he would

Bitch slap! A U.S. senator — a Democrat – is taking a strong stand against a bill introduced by a fellow Democrat that would end energy subsidies for big oil companies. In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Mary Landrieu, from the oil-producing state of Louisiana, said the bill introduced by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) targets an industry that supports 9.2 million jobs and contributes more than 7.7

Statistically speaking, the answer is quite likely yes: Wherever possible President Barack Obama has sought to dilute or disguise the ideological war his administration has been waging against capitalism over the past twenty-seven months. As a result, his massive bureaucratic bailout became an “economic stimulus.” His takeover of the financial markets was labeled “Wall Street Reform.” His socialized medicine plan became the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” act (which

At least, that’s what the new Obama campaign is going to peddle — along with the idea that the economy is finally starting to turn, thanks to Obamas’s policies, and that to switch course now and fail to re-elect Obama would lead to a reversion of the economic horrors of the Bush administration and its 4.7% unemployment. But he’s here to help, if you’ll only let him: Of course, Obama’s