The Pequod Party
I have no idea whether the Obama care will pass, but either way I am sure that it will not stand. Of course, if it goes down to defeat, it will be dead, and the political costs of pushing it will be so great that no rational politician will attempt it again for quite some […]
Read More..>>Obama’s Deficit
Obama has announced his budget for 2011 and he is proposing to spend $3.83 Trillion. To many this is a meaningless number, but to put this in some sort of context consider that the 2008 budget was a mere $2.9 Trillion. The intervening years had TARP and the bailouts, but those are over. This budget […]
Read More..>>Obama and Scaling Back the Federal Bureaucracy
President Obama and the Democrats may be setting the nation up to accomplish something conservatives have been advocating for decades, the scaling back of the federal bureaucracy, and on a scale more massive than conservatives may have even wished. This is not, of course, Obama’s intention. Far from it. Nor will it be for the reasons or […]
Read More..>>An Open Reply…
Brian McLaren’s Recent post at God’s Politics, An Open Letter On Health Care to Conservative Christians in the U.S. is the kind of post that frankly drives me nuts, broad on charges and innuendo, but very thin when it comes to specifics. As such, though I consider myself a conservative evangelical Christian, I have no […]
Read More..>>A Touch of Class
Whether planned or not, one of the results of Obama’s attempted transformation of the United States is to bring a touch of class to the country. But not class in a good sense, but rather the growing division of the country into two increasingly distinct groups, the Elites, and the Public. Three sub-groups then divide […]
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