fly now pay later

From Irwin Stelzer at the Weekly Standard:

Americans overwhelmingly say that their main concern is jobs, and that they are satisfied with their current health care arrangements. In response, an allegedly chastened President Obama “pivoted,” and says his primary concern from now on will be job creation, which will take priority over his controversial plan to radically change the nation’s health care system. Yet, last week he backed a $15 billion job-creation bill, which passed the Senate, and a $1 trillion health care bill. Since the federal balance sheet is already under huge pressure, this set of priorities tells us that the Obama administration intends to concentrate available resources on transforming the economy — a long-term, permanent restructuring of the health care and energy sectors that was planned long before the failure of Lehman Brothers triggered the financial mess Obama inherited.

Illinois Politics

The Illinois Democratic Party has taken quite a beating lately. Most recently, it's Scott Cohen, who won last week's Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor--by 26 points!--but who was forced to drop out of the race yesterday.

Cohen's dream became a nightmare after his surprise win, when reports emerged that he was arrested and charged in 2005 for domestic battery. Cohen was accused of pushing his girlfriend's head against a wall and holding a knife against her throat. The charges were dropped after she failed to appear in court on the date of the hearing.

Moreover, the girlfriend in question had been arrested for prostitution.

You can't make this stuff up.

And Barack Obama was considered a genius in the Cook County Democrat Party

Why Fear Big Government?

Victor Hanson spells out some of the subtle (and not so subtle) aspects of having the government getting bigger. We all need government for defense, security, and infrastructure. But the larger the government at local, state and national levels, the more dangerous our lives become, particularly when put into context of the liberty that our founders envisioned for us.

J.C. Watts culinary tastes

You gotta love JC Watts. From his article in Review Journal:

The president dismisses his lack of success by claiming he has not communicated his message enough. Really? I don't care how many news conferences you have, how many speeches you give, or how much money you spend on public relations, if the dog food is bad, the dogs won't eat it.

My theory on why he left politics - an honest man can't make money there.