Why are the “fact checkers” checking? ============== In his speech in Charlotte, N.C., last Thursday, Mr. Obama said, “I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy. I never have.” In truth, he did. Mr. Obama and his economic team claimed in a Jan. 9, 2009, report that if his stimulus bill were passed, joblessness would peak at 8% in... Read more
Archive for the ‘The Left’ Category
Airbrushed History and Dusted-Off Promises
September 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftHenninger: The Obama Democrats
September 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Obama, Party Politics, The LeftDon’t look for this analysis in the liberal press… ============== … the Chicago teachers union …[have] got goals, and what they want from the people of Chicago or America is compliance. … The modern Democratic Party, the party of Obama, is about permanent division and permanent opposition. Despite seven Democratic presidencies since FDR, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Harvard still grieves, “The system is... Read more
Eric Holders Gritted Teeth
September 11 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Party Politics, The LeftThis will cover the NY Times for days, I’m certain of it. =============== It must be tough on the left, not being able to trash John Durham. Mr. Durham, recall, is the special prosecutor appointed in 2008 by then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate allegations that the CIA had illegally destroyed videotapes of CIA detainee interrogations. The prosecutor’s mandate was expanded in 2009... Read more
‘Who They Love’
September 6 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, American Thought, Party Politics, The Left“What they don’t verbalize…” ========== ” . . . First, the Democrats are eager to wage cultural war. They love abortion and same-sex marriage, although there was a telling rhetorical difference in the way they handled those two subjects. They are embarrassed by, maybe even ashamed of, their enthusiasm for abortion. The word itself was almost never mentioned. We recall it escaping the... Read more
The Democrats Rally – Noonan
September 6 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, The Left. . . The Democratic Party is the party of abortion; it supports the widest possible interpretation of choice, and is heavily funded, literally, by the abortion industry. Abortion involves the killing of children. Sometimes Democrats speak of it, publicly, in such a way that it sounds like a small thing, a tooth extraction; sometimes they speak of it in... Read more
“We Have Lived Beyond Our Means”- Brown
August 31 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Party Politics, The Left, UnionsUnions howl.. ==== In a long-overdue moment, governor Jerry Brown has finally admitted the obvious, the state’s pension system is broke and California Has “Lived Beyond Our Means”. Unions of course are howling at that obvious admission. California Governor Jerry Brown and lawmakers have reached a deal to raise public employees’ retirement ages, have them pay more into their pension accounts, and cap... Read more
