Speeches neither win nor end wars.
Peddling a fantasy that the tide of war is receding can win an election. But unless the tide really does recede, the battle will eventually have to be joined.
Tagged: Barack Obama
“Phony scandal” or real cover-up?
If the president believes that the Lois Lerner/IRS story is a “phony scandal,” why then does he continue to resist appointing a special prosecutor who could prove him right?
Nemesis moves in on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Nemesis, the ancient mythological Greek goddess whose job it is to take down those guilty of hubris, is now living fulltime in the Obama White House.
Knowing not that they know not.
From the president on down, next to nobody in the executive branch of government has any executive experience. They know not. Yet they know not that they know not.
Missing the tide at its flood.
For all his failures as a candidate, it’s it is not terribly difficult for me to imagine Mitt Romney as a better president than Barack Obama.
There’s more to having a job than just a paycheck.
Most wage and hour laws are now little more than anachronisms. The time of their necessity has long passed.
We may wind up being glad Obamacare passed.
Whatever else happens with Obamacare, one thing is fairly certain. The next proposed big-government solution to a real or perceived big societal problem is likely to be met with considerable skepticism.
Does this economy make me look weak?
Year upon year upon year of middling poor national economic data is revealing proof of weak national leadership.
Read my lips. You can keep your health plan.
Until Obamacare went “live,” most people viewed the debate on health care as purely political and mostly abstract. Now it’s real and the reality is causing heartburn for the Obama administration.
Obamacare is only a symptom.
Whether articulated in these terms or not, what we are seeing is what happens when a small number of elites presume to impose upon us their priorities at the expense of those of the majority.
Boehner digs in.
One might forgive the president for standing firm on Obamacare, his signature legislative achievement. But there can be no forgiving his intransigence with respect to the rest of the federal budget.
From pain can come redemption.
For the first time in a lifetime, a liberal president will bear clear and undeniable responsibility for the results of his own liberal policies.