Lessons from George W Bush: #438

Tucker Carlson on what the GOP needs to do to regain the majority:
Finally, after the party has settled on what it believes, it ought to go shopping for a leader. I recommend someone who speaks fluent English. This matters, it turns out, and not just for aesthetic reasons. In a democracy, eloquence is a basic [...]

Bushonomics vs. Clintonomics

From Salon:
On Jan. 20, 1993, the day Bill Clinton was inaugurated, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 3,241, the national debt was 4 trillion, and the unemployment rate was 7.3 percent. After eight years of Clintonomics, on Jan. 20, 2001, when George Bush took office, the Dow had reached 10,588, the national debt was [...]

Invisible Hand/Magic Wand

I love that the economist in George Will’s parable about free markets (or at least the parable that he is quoting from someone else) is a woman. How very modern of him.  Though it kind of has me picturing Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” as Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother. Doesn’t this sort of look like “spontaneous emergence [...]

Still-President Bush is still at it

The National Women’s Law Center is alerting supporters to the new HHS proposal that could further limit women’s access to health care.
The Bush Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released a proposed rule that would undermine patient’s access to vital health services and information by greatly expanding existing laws intended to govern [...]