Democrat Congress

Strassel: Pelosi’s Pork Problem – WSJ.com

Picture a freight train roaring down the tracks. Picture House Speaker Nancy Pelosi positioning her party on the rails. Picture a growing stream of nervous souls diving for the weeds. Picture all this, and you’ve got a sense of the Democrats’ earmark-corruption problem.

via Strassel: Pelosi’s Pork Problem – WSJ.com.

The Cap and Tax Fiction – WSJ.com

To get support for his bill, Mr. Waxman was forced to water down the cap in early years to please rural Democrats, and then severely ratchet it up in later years to please liberal Democrats. The CBO’s analysis looks solely at the year 2020, before most of the tough restrictions kick in. As the cap is tightened and companies are stripped of initial opportunities to “offset” their emissions, the price of permits will skyrocket beyond the CBO estimate of $28 per ton of carbon. The corporate costs of buying these expensive permits will be passed to consumers.

via The Cap and Tax Fiction – WSJ.com.

Obama’s curiously close labor friendship – Los Angeles Times

No wonder Barry won. With hundreds of groups with thousands on the streets and the conservative side working to feed their families and those of the Barry volunteers, no wonder Barry marketing machine won. Curious thing I always like to point out… He won by

The SEIU spent $60 million to help elect Obama, according to the union. Stern said the group deployed 100,000 volunteers during the campaign, including 3,000 who worked on the election full time.

via Obama’s curiously close labor friendship – Los Angeles Times.

The ‘Paygo’ Coverup – WSJ.com

But Mr. Obama must think the press and public are dumb enough to buy it, because there he was Tuesday re-selling the same “paygo” promises that Democrats roll out every election. Paygo is “very simple,” the President claimed. “Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere.”

That’s what Democrats also promised in 2006, with Nancy Pelosi vowing that “the first thing” House Democrats would do if they took Congress was reimpose paygo rules that “Republicans had let lapse.” By 2008, Speaker Pelosi had let those rules lapse no fewer than 12 times, to make way for $400 billion in deficit spending. Mr. Obama repeated the paygo pledge during his 2008 campaign, and instead we have witnessed the greatest peacetime spending binge in U.S. history. As a share of GDP, spending will hit an astonishing 28.5% in fiscal 2009, with the deficit hitting 13% and projected to stay at 4% to 5% for years to come.

The truth is that paygo is the kind of budget gimmick that gives gimmickry a bad name. As Mr. Obama knows but won’t tell voters

via The ‘Paygo’ Coverup – WSJ.com.

Canada’s ObamaCare Precedent – WSJ.com

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. The Obama administration’s health care plans are a nightmare and a noose around the necks of the taxpayer in more ways than one.

Canada’s ObamaCare Precedent – WSJ.com.

American Thinker: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

American Thinker: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis.

Cloward-Piven Strategy to force national income by redistribution of wealth. Obama is an aherent and student of it.