Her naughty bits feel a tingle at the thought of Obama’s tanks blowing up heretic members of Congress . What is a president in a presidential constitutional republic to do when faced with an intransigent, bull-headed faction among his people’s representatives? Well, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first democratically elected president, was once faced with a similar situation exactly 20 years ago, in October 1993. The parliament, then called the Supreme Soviet,
October 3, 2013
October 3, 2013
TNR Senior Editor Julia Ioffe yearns for Obama’s big stick or something … [Darleen Click]
October 3, 2013
Removing the filter
Here are the actual GOP compromise proposals, both of which Harry Reid and Barack Obama have rejected — and both of which the media have eschewed reporting in favor of breathless concerns over canceled park vacations and a sadly fade-to-black Panda cam: 1) agree to a universal 1-year delay for Obamacare enrollment rather than granting delays to selective constituencies; 2) insist that those lawmakers who crafted and passed ACA be
October 3, 2013
NROHNOES!
I made this observation earlier on Twitter, but let me repeat it hear, where fewer people will read it: reading through the comments of an NRO piece by Robert Costa this morning, it occurred to me that the commentariat at NRO is really not significantly different these days than the commentariat at Huffpo. And it’s not just that the left has brought in a vocal minority: look at the up
October 3, 2013
How intentionalism can save us from Obamacare: addressing the left’s big canard
We’ve all heard it by now: “ObamaCare is the law of the land!” — the implication being, even from some Republicans (and John McCain), that a law passed using parliamentary gimmicks and tied to budget reconciliation cannot possibly be dealt with by the House in what is, in fact, a budget standoff. But those constitutional and ethical points aside (the Dems passed the law in a corrupt manner, foregoing regular