High Ground Underground

A Target-Rich Environment It’s such a target-rich environment that I hardly know where to begin.  Not that more pot-shots are really needed in the pile-on – even many liberals (Pres. Clinton, Senators & Congressmen, pundits) and some mainstream media are joining in like rats jumping the sinking Obamacare ship (or train wreck, if you prefer).  I’ll be quoting and linking several liberal sources.  Finally – the bipartisanship Obama promised!   It is refreshing to see the smug, condescending looks on the faces of Democrats replaced by worry or panic, and a loss for words replacing their political advice to the GOP.  For a change, here’s some advice to them:  don’t sell your half-baked utopian plans to the American people with fraudulent promises – you will eventually be found out, and they won’t be happy.  And you should have listened to us in early October and taken us up on the offer to delay Obamacare.  Does anyone believe ...

The “Great Victory” Charles Krauthammer said that Obama is like Lucy & the football (in the Peanuts comic strip).  As much as he says we need to stop governing by crisis, he continues to do so.  And to use them to further his political objectives – as Rahm Emanuel said, “never let a crisis go to waste.” They called this a “great victory”???!!!  They merely kicked the can down the road a few months, and did nothing to address the problems with Obamacare, the deficits, debt, etc.  All of which are hurting our economy already.  In his “victory” speech after the CR, Obama called the shutdown “completely unnecessary” – that’s right, he could have negotiated earlier, but was the one in the end who didn’t give an inch, and was willing to go beyond Oct. 17.  It takes 2.  “The American people are fed up with Washington .”  Spoken in his usual accusatory tone, as if he were not part of Washington , and part of the problem – even a big...