An article archive of blaming Bush.
Stephanopoulos and the Social-Issue Setup
During the first debate of 2012, former Clinton communications guru George Stephanopoulos surprised Gov. Mitt Romney with a question about contraception that no one-on stage or in the hall-had expected.
The question targeted Sen. Rick Santorum, who was then-despite a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses-still considered a distant long shot for the nomination. Romney won praise from conservatives for pushing back, calling it "unusual" and "silly," noting that no state or candidate (including Santorum) wanted to ban contraception, even if states had that right.
NPR Runs Interference for Obama on Gas Prices
National Public Radio led its Morning Edition broadcast this morning with a story about rising gas prices that could have been written by the White House press office.
Its basic message was as follows: 1) President Barack Obama feels your pain. Really. 2) Politicians like President Obama can't do anything about short-term gas prices. 3) We're producing more domestic oil under Obama-and investing in "domestic energy." 4) Republicans are making a big deal out of gas prices for political reasons.
FakeGate: Just Another Day at Team Green
FakeGate reminds me of my own experience with the reality that Greenpeace long made a practice of taking peoples' trash, on a regular (in my case, and the case of then-White House aide Phil Cooney, weekly) basis.
As I follow FakeGate's trajectory, on its way to being another instructive crash-n-burn for the global warming industry's zealots, I see a pretense in certain quarters that Peter Gleick -- who I suspect is preparing another shoe for dropping, involving the provenance of the fake memo he touted as real -- was operating somehow outside of what is deemed acceptable for his movement. Which is facially absurd upon even a moment's scrutiny of those other quarters, in which he is being lionized.
Surtax on wealthy in UK results in lower revenue
Barack Obama has spent the last several months insisting on a tax hike for higher income earners in the US, casting it as an issue of "fairness" and of deficit reduction.
In his State of the Union speech, Obama used the word "fair" or a derivative nine different times, and calling for the wealthy to pay their "fair share" of taxes - even though the wealthy account for a much higher percentage of income-tax revenues both as a share of the revenues and as a share of income than the rest of the population. Democrats have tried to push through a "surtax" on income over a million dollars in a year in order to put Obama's rhetoric into reality.
Did the FCC try to drive a LightSquared competitor into bankruptcy?
The Daily Caller follows up on its dot-connecting yesterday on the Obama administration's efforts to make LightSquared pay off for its Democratic-donor backers with a look at the other side of crony capitalism.
Matthew Boyle tells the story of the original government effort to expand broadband to rural areas, Open Range, which partnered with GlobalStar, a competitor of LightSquared's predecessor company Skyterra. The difference between the two was that GlobalStar actually owned spectrum allocated for terrestrial cell-system use, which Open Range wanted to use to expand broadband.
OWS Letter to the Editor in USA Today: We Will Storm Wall Street With Guns
Over at USA Today, a self-employed massage therapist from Austin, TX has a letter to the editor responding to an editorial suggesting that Occupy Wall Street has lost its way.
Notice the language here. Rich Latta, the author, threatens outright to head to Wall Street with firearms. Janet Napolitano, where are you? He says they out to head to Washington, D.C. packing heat. Secret Service, you're being paged.
The legislation (H.R. 3541), sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), was originally entitled the "Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Non-discrimination Act of 2011."
A bill to ban selective abortions based on race or gender was approved by the House Judiciary Committee on a 20-13 vote, with the biggest hurdle to passage being the Act's name as Democrats proposed calling the bill "The Ronald Reagan Impose Your Beliefs on a Woman's Womb Act" and "The Tea Party Determines What Rights a Woman Has Act."
AP source: Treasury to release corporate tax plan
A senior administration official says that the Treasury Department plans to release information about its forthcoming plan to overhaul the corporate tax system on Wednesday.
Fakegate: Can't Hide This Decline
Peter Gleick adds yet more fraud to the warmists' resume.
The warmists were atwitter last week because they imagined they had their own equivalent of Climaquiddick - someone fraudulently managed to get confidential documents from the Heartland Institute by portraying himself as a board member. Heartland has been at the forefront of supporting skepticism of hyperbolic climate claims, and has accordingly been put in the crosshairs by defenders of Big Science for years.
Dana Perino: Media Blamed Bush for High Gas Prices But Gives Obama a Pass
Former Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino has noticed the press handling their duties differently when it comes to reporting high gas prices.
This isn't surprising. Back when it was clear the MSM was in the tank for Obama, there was no reason to assume that wouldn't also include the gas tank...