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Archive for March, 2010

Pope’s Palm Sunday Homily Indicates Vatican Prepared To Go To War Rather Than Come Clean

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, March 28th, 2010. Filed under Catholic Church, Religion

If Pope Benedict’s Palm Sunday homily is any indication, the Vatican is thinks that the best way to respond to the growing sex abuse scandal is to attack the messenger:
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Pope Benedict, facing one of the gravest crises of his pontificate as a sexual abuse scandal sweeps the Church, indicated on Sunday [...]

Tea Party Activist: There Are No Racial Slurs At Our Rallies. Well, Except For The One On This Sign

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, March 28th, 2010. Filed under Dumbasses, Health Care Reform, Politics

From a Washington Times article about the Tea Party movement and the charges of racial epithets having been thrown around at rallies, we have:
Dale Robertson, founder of teaparty.org, said no one knows who might have yelled out racial epithets during the Capitol Hill protest. He said a Democratic lawmaker refused to accompany Capitol Police officers [...]

None Dare Call It Fascism

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, March 28th, 2010. Filed under Business, Congress, Democrats, Economics, Freedom of Speech, Health Care Reform, Individual Liberty, Political Parties, Politics

But if it’s not fascism, it comes pretty darn close:
Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, has summoned some of the nation’s top executives to Capitol Hill to defend their assessment that the new national health care reform law will cost their companies hundreds of millions of dollars in health [...]

What To Expect From ObamaCare

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, March 28th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

The Heitage Foundation has a video out explaining what you can expect now that ObamaCare is the law of the land:

Enjoy !

Judge Napolitano: Supreme Court Will Strike Down ObamaCare, But Not Until 2018

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, March 28th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Legal, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution

Judge Andrew Napolitano joins those predicting that the health care reform bill will be struck down, although his time frame is far longer than anyone else’s:
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV’s Ashley Martella, Napolitano says the president’s healthcare reforms amount to “commandeering” the state legislatures for federal purposes, which the Supreme Court has forbidden as [...]

The End Of The Special Relationship

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, March 28th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Some British Members of Congress Parliament are saying that the relationship between the United States and Great Britain, forged in a war for civilization, and solidified in the final years of the Cold War, has come to an end:
LONDON (MarketWatch) — An influential multi-party group of British parliamentarians on Sunday called for British leaders [...]

Despite The White House P.R. Campaign, Public Still Doesn’t Want ObamaCare

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, March 28th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

No wonder the Obama Administration thinks it needs to hit the road to sell a bill that has already become law:
Americans overwhelmingly see the new health-care law as a major shift in the direction of the country, but they remain as deeply divided today over the changes as they were throughout the long congressional debate, [...]

Obama Makes 15 Recess Appointments, Revealing Bipartisan Hypocrisy

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, March 28th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, George W Bush, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Republicans

Shortly after the Congress went out of session for the Easter Break, President Obama named fifteen people to positions that had not made it through the confirmation process yet:
WASHINGTON — President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass [...]

Is Obama’s Treatment of Netanyahu And Israel Anti-Semitic? No, Now Stop Asking Stupid Questions

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, March 28th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Glenn Reynolds is a usually pretty reasonable guy, so it pretty much shocked the hell out of me when I read this:
WHY HAS BARACK OBAMA TREATED NETANYAHU SO RUDELY? “Obama would never treat the president of Equatorial Guinea that way.”
Possibly Obama just hates Israel and hates Jews. That’s plausible — certainly [...]

Democratic Congressman Calls For Elimination Of All Republicans

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, March 27th, 2010. Filed under Congress, Democrats, Dumbasses, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans

One can argue, perhaps, exactly what he means by elimination:

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