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To be fair, I think the title is a bit pollyannish, but we really need a loyal opposition in these times: GOP-ers Swoon Over Obama Despite Differences @ 1:26 pm by Michael O’Brien President Obama won praise from some of the House’s most conservative lawmakers as “engaging” and “respectful” during his meeting with congressional Republicans [...]

Hugh Hewitt: Boehner and Limbaugh are on the same side, but President Obama is clearly more worried about Rush and the conservative media network than he is about the Congressional GOP, at least for the moment. It will be up to the GOP Senate to send a message that its cooperation depends at least in [...]

David Warren: To set any of the Guantanamo inmates free, on some jurisprudential technicality, is to smear one’s hands with the blood of their victims when they return to their trade. This is not a hypothetical proposition: for while the numbers are disputed, a proportion of “low risk” inmates already freed from Guantanamo have returned [...]

A primer here. Mark Steyn: Congress, meanwhile, is behaving disgracefully, magically transforming pork into “stimulus” by sticking another three zeroes on the end. Severe asset deflation is just about manageable. Severe asset deflation plus government-mandated prevention of market correction plus out-of-control spending and the eventual return of inflation is a recipe for catastrophe. And then [...]

This Pelosi response is simply repulsive: PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY Sun Jan 25 2009 22:13:43 ET Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic “stimulus” package, claiming “contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.” Pelosi, the [...]

Rush is sounding the alarm — is anyone listening? To make the argument about me instead of his plan makes sense from his perspective. Obama’s plan would buy votes for the Democrat Party, in the same way FDR’s New Deal established majority power for 50 years of Democrat rule, and it would also simultaneously seriously [...]

I thought it curious when the phrase Global Warming was gently morphed into Climate Change — now we can have it both ways! So a warming Antarctica and a cooling Antarctica are both “consistent with” model projections of global warming. Sure seems like sloppy science to me.

Excellent idea: Some had expected up to a $20,000 tax credit for the purchase of a home in the first two or three quarters of 2009, a huge kick in the pants to the buyers who are waiting for the bottom of the housing market to appear. Such an incentive would in effect create the [...]

This is simply over the top: Obama breaks from Bush, avoids divisive stands By LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush’s unpopular administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands. He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered [...]

Economically? Even Britain, accounted one of the more prosperous economies is facing unprecedented hard times. The Daily Telegraph reports government warnings hat: Families must brace themselves for a slump of far greater severity and longevity than the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s, they warned. They said the current crisis will be of a scale [...]