Though not of course for politicians and their staffers, nor for Obama’s chosen cronies.  Some pigs being more equal than others.   So you may as well get used to bending over and taking it, subjects: Declaring that the “Affordable Care Act is here to stay,” President Obama on Thursday urged Americans to ignore Republican misgivings about his signature legislative achievement just five days before the launch of open enrollment

If you don’t mind a tiny bit of constructive criticism, let me remind you that the McCain / Romney presidencies never really went as planned.  Similarly, the decision to balk at the very constituency that brought you to power in the House has, as you know, not given you the kind of positive press from the left-leaning legacy media that you expected it might. Which is all just a very

Not just, as Mark Levin noted last evening, a “useful idiot” for the left, but an actual traitor — a man who runs his campaigns lurching to the right only to return to the Senate and cast his lot, intentionally and in a way that was pre-planned, with Senators Reid, Durbin, and Schumer, three of the most anti-constitutional, cynical, and reprehensible Senators in the once august body.  Who, because they

On the one hand, if you’re Chris Christie and you’ve lost Meghan McCain, that would augur problems down the road for your national political ambitions. On the other hand, if you’re Chris Christie and Meghan McCain won’t support you, it’s almost a conservative law that we constitutionalists must give him another look. The formulation is simple:  if Meghan McCain likes X, then Y is the correct choice; if Meghan McCain

Harry Reid corrected Sen Ted Cruz this morning, noting that what he’s engaged in is “not a filibuster.”  Immediately on Twitter, our socialist friend Tawny Fawn parroted that remark. And yet, as Charles Cooke points out at NRO: Is it a filibuster or not? Apparently this depends on who is speaking. In 2010, socialist senator Bernie Sanders performed precisely the same trick that Ted Cruz has over the past twenty-plus

Sign the petition.  We aren’t supposed to have a king and a court.  We’re supposed to own the government; instead, the government acts like our pimp, demanding we go out and earn to subsidize its velvet-lined Cadillac and fur cape. Your political affiliation shouldn’t make a damn bit a difference here.  “Progressives” who go on constantly about “fairness” — and yet who back a law that is fundamentally inequitable, at

The King and you: And yes, I fully expect that I’m on any number of potential “domestic terrorist” lists.  But fuck it.  Of course, if there’s a list for telling the truth and sticking to my intellectual guns (pardon the pun), I’m on that one, as well. I can live with that. (h/t Guido)

What’s the lesson here?  Well, to me, it’s that if Cruz, Lee, et al., really are engaging in a “gimmick” in order to milk the dullards in the grass roots of their money — and that in truth they really aren’t terribly hopeful about rallying the GOP establishment behind their cause, and the cause of we, the people — at least they’re doing more work to run their con then

From Freedom Works alerts: Right now, Ted Cruz is fighting on the Senate floor to protect you from ObamaCare. He is leading a filibuster to make sure Harry Reid doesn’t force hard-working Americans pay for a health care disaster they don’t want or need. But he needs reinforcements on the Senate floor! The more Senators that join Ted Cruz, the better chance we have at stopping ObamaCare. Call your Senators