That’s a rhetorical question, clearly: […] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) wants to grant the FDA even more unaccountable administrative authority. Specifically, he is pushing for passage of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act in the lame duck session that opened this week. Representative John Dingell (D–MI), who sponsored the companion bill approved by Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) House in July 2009, hailed the proposed act as “a monumental

Sure. But it’s not whether you win or lose. It’s how you play the game. Right?*

Okay. So I paraphrased: As her write-in votes surpassed the votes for Republican nominee Joe Miller this week, Murkowski asserted her independence from the party. Murkowski told the press she feels liberated because she won “not because I came as my party’s nominee but because a very, very wide range of Alaskans of all political stripes have stepped up and said ‘you’re the person we want to represent us in

After blasting Sarah Palin yesterday, Princess Lisa has moved on to the next leg of her “the candidates selected and backed by the GOP Establishment are completely different animals from the kinds of candidates selected by, and supportive of, the TEA Party”- tour, this time taking aim at Jim DeMint: “I think some of the Republicans in the Congress feel pretty strongly that he and his actions potentially cost us

So argues Michael Barone: I don’t claim to be an expert on monetary policy or international finance, but I’ve been astonished by the degree of disrespect expressed here and abroad to the latest economic policies of President Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The policies in question are the Obama administration’s attempts to convince other countries (especially China) to strengthen their currencies and the Fed’s renewed bout of quantitative

Harsanyi: […] President Barack Obama promised Obamacare was going to immediately alleviate some of the pain of rising premiums for businesses. This week, we learned that 111 waivers had already been granted by the administration to those threatening to drop coverage for tens of thousands of employees they can no longer afford to cover. Others around the country, like AARP (sweet schadenfreude) and Boeing, were forced to raise their premiums,

Jules Crittenden sends along this sneak peak at our future as wards of the medical collective: The state’s health insurance connector — the highly touted agency that aims to bring cheap medical care to the masses — has turned into a legal pit bull by aggressively going after a growing number of Bay Staters who say they can’t afford mandated insurance — or the penalties imposed for not having it.

Sometimes the commentators here totally slay me. But I’m not likely to prosecute, so no worries. Carry on.

He’s sliding to the middle, you see. Because he’s pragmatic that way: President Barack Obama told Democratic members of Congress Tuesday he wants the DREAM Act passed in the lame duck session as a “down payment” on substantial immigration reform, according to members at the meeting. And, he said, he’d call resistant senators to get them on board. The president told Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Reps. Nydia Velasquez (D-N.Y.) and