High Ground Underground

Obama is once again raising issues he should think twice about – I don’t think he really wants to go there, and will regret it.  Lately he’s been attacking Romney because some of the companies Bain saved did some outsourcing (the cherry-picked exception rather than the rule).  Of course there’s the dispute over whether Romney should have that imputed to him during the period (2000-2002) when he was running the Olympics full-time, and only on the Bain roster in name.  But even giving them that, we now realize that (as even Chuck Schumer acknowledges) apparently 79% of the Obama stimulus (nearly a trillion dollars, I believe) went to outsourcing companies (or countries) like GE, less than half of whose employees work in the US, and who paid zero corporate tax in 2010.  In other words a much larger number of outsourced jobs, and for a much lower ROI (return on investment).  Obama has a near-zero net job creation (flat unemployment), whereas Romney & Bain ha...

The Supreme Court was at its unpredictable and unfathomable best with its decisions on the Arizona immigration law and Obamacare.   It is even being called a constitutional crisis.   But the bottom line is that the hot potatoes have now been tossed back into the political realm, and a lot more people have greater reason and motivation to vote for Romney and Republican Congressional candidates. Apparently the Obamacare decision was unusually rancorous and divisive within the court.  The 4 dissenters didn’t sign it or refer anywhere in their opinion to the majority’s (Roberts’) opinion/arguments – unheard of for many decades.  And the language of the dissent is scathing in its condemnation of unprecedented governmental encroachment.  (Prager guest July 3).  The dissenting opinion has been described as much more coherent and convincing. The indications in oral arguments before the court were that the administration’s case was extrem...