Reid’s Bad History
Poor Harry Reid. With his health-care plan deeply unpopular and with him trailing Republican opponents in Nevada, he is beginning to show signs of cracking under the pressure. On the Senate floor, for...
View ArticleJumping When Unions Holler
Obama’s promise of a better, cleaner, and more transparent brand of politics has not been fulfilled. Not by a long shot. The president appoints the SEIU boss to the deficit commission. Congress behind...
View ArticleRE: The Tax Issue Is Back
As I’ve noted before, Obama has brought the tax issue roaring back. Nothing like a liberal president willing to raise taxes on the non-rich (after promising not to), small businesses, and capital...
View ArticleSenator Robert Byrd, R.I.P.
Senator Robert Bryd was the longest serving senator in U.S. history. He cast more votes than any other senator. Others have commented on his maturation on civil rights issues. We’re told that his...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Every Supreme Court nominee is an advocate of judicial restraint, but not all justices are. Elena Kagan: “[T]he Supreme Court is a wondrous institution. But the time I spent in the other branches of...
View ArticleCan We Find Out Who Kagan Is Before She Takes the Bench?
Election-law professor Rick Hansen (h/t Taegan Goddard) writes: If you were trying to schedule Senate hearings on a Supreme Court nominee to garner the least attention possible, you could not have...
View ArticleThe Law of Unintended Consequences
In addition to the insightful comments by John’s friend who works in finances, I wanted to call attention to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal on the Dodd-Frank financial “reform” bill. According...
View ArticleSenator Brown Objects
Scott Brown, who was a critical vote in passing the financial-regulation bill in the Senate, proves he’s as smart as CONTENTIONS readers. He writes a letter to Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd: I...
View ArticleAnother Senate Seat in Play?
This report suggests that the Democrats will have another Senate seat to defend: West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin voiced support for holding a special election this year to fill the late Sen. Robert...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
How dumb does Obama think businessmen are? “The White House has launched a coordinated campaign to push back against the perception taking hold in corporate America and on Wall Street that President...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
How could Rep. Joe Sestak think he was supporting Israel when he called for a “fair” UN Human Rights Council investigation of the flotilla incident? The UNHRC has appointed its kangaroo court. (The...
View ArticleGood Luck with That
West Virginia’s Senate seat is slipping away from the Democrats. In a wave election year, the voters there may decide it is more important to keep their governor home and to send to Congress someone to...
View ArticleMove the Capital to Nebraska?
Earlier this month, Ben Sasse, a Republican running for senator in Nebraska, briefly made national headlines when he suggested that the U.S. government should move the federal capital from Washington...
View Article
