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I read the news today:Arlen Specter switched parties because he couldn't win the Republican primary, now he loses the Democratic primary to Joe Sestak. This just in Arlen, it's not about party this year, the key word is "incumbent." You're 80 years old, you've been in the Senate for 30 years. Your time is up. Mitch McConnell's hand-picked candidate to succeed Jim Bunning got smoked by Tea Party favorite Rand Paul in the Republican senatorial...

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele should have realized he stepped in it when the National Review advised him to "try thinking before you speak," referring to Steele's opening salvo following President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Steele released a statement criticizing Kagan for her support of Justice Thurgood Marshall's speech in which he said that the Constitution as originally conceived and drafted was "defective."Had Mr. Steele taken the time to...

A Ringling Bros. contortionist would be envious of the positions which President Obama's obstructionist opposition are able to assume on a variety of issues. Take the upcoming nomination of a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens for instance. Daniel Foster at National Review Online wrote yesterday (emphasis mine) : "...the Obama administration seems to think it doesn't matter just how liberal their liberal nominee is. They're looking for a fight no matter...

It's no secret by now that I've been disappointed in some of the actions of the Obama administration. None more so than their continuation of the Bush/Cheney policies of dealing with those accused of terrorist activities. I expected much better from a president who professed to be something of a Constitutional scholar, and the administration bowing to pressure over the weekend from those who are against trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 others in New...

Whatever happened to that calm, cool, and collected candidate from the 2008 presidential campaign? This latest move is born out of sheer panic over the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts and, by the way, something for which candidate Obama criticized John McCain for proposing during the campaign:"President Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic programs, and for increases no greater than inflation after that, an initiative intended to signal his...

Up 'til now I haven't been a proponent of the "pass something" idea on health care reform legislation, but I think the time has come. It has become such a convoluted mess and such a distraction that it's time to get it off the table and move on to economic issues. Like taking on Wall Street for instance:"President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to propose new limits on the size and risk taken by...

Stop the presses. President Obama has finally found something he is willing to fight for on health care reform. No, not the public option, but he didn't campaign on that anyway, or so he says. It's the 40% excise tax on benefits. Politico reported yesterday that the president delivered a "forceful" message to House Democrats that he "wants a final bill that includes a tax on Cadillac insurance plans." AP this morning says:"President Barack Obama...

Ping pong, anyone? With much of the national attention focused on the underpants bomber, the White House, the Senate, and the House are preparing for a game of three-way table tennis, as they work on the final version of the health care reform bill. Well it's not really 3-way, it's the White House and the Senate on one side, and the House on the other. I wonder how that's going to turn out? All this...

Today will be my final post of 2009, but I'll leave you with some recommended reading on where we are now and one view of what 2010 may hold in store. First from The Huffington Post, The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill. Excerpt:"In the fall of 2008, Democrats took the White House and expanded their Congressional majorities as America struggled through a financial collapse wrought by years of deregulation. The public...