Obama Pundit

The U.S. has revoked diplomatic visas for four Honduran officials working for the interim government, which the Obama administration STILL has not recognized.
I guess it’s okay to meddle in a country’s affairs when it doesn’t hold some sort of strategic value and also makes your left-wing friends happy.

by Obama Pundit
Right now it appears that Obama’s Presidency is mired in a descending spiral that could get much, much worse.  Not only are his approval ratings steadily falling, but his oratory appears to be faltering, with gaffes and improperly calibrated statements the order of the day.
So, things look bleak.  Unless, of course, something happens.
Past Presidential first [...]

by Obama Pundit
The way things are going, Obama is on his way to a major defeat on health care.  However, it is not yet a fait accompli.
How can he turn things around?
I think the smartest thing he can do right now is to pivot into a populist position.  He has been spending much of the [...]

by Obama Pundit
Why Does Obama Keep Siding With His Party’s Left?  asks Clive Crook of the Atlantic.
Um, this should only be perplexing to those who do not yet realize that Obama is a man of the left, full bore.  During the campaign, there were plenty of signs:  his 97 percent liberal National Journal rating;  his [...]

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Turns out the surtax on the rich proposed by the Democrats as a way to fund health care will have the perverse effect of affecting doctors the most.
The top eight highest-paid professions in the U.S. are–you guessed it–in the medical or dental fields.
Medical and dental specialists top the list of the highest paid [...]

by Obama Pundit
You know the Left is worried when a liberal like Robert Reich calls on all Democrats to unite to pass health care. 
This bill is dead…

Robin Hood provided one of taxations greatest soundbites, “rob from the rich and give to the poor.”  The real power behind soundbites comes when the phrase outlives the usefulness of its context.  The Obama Administration’s push for Universal Health Care/Coverage is being spun as just such a Robin Hood approach; increasing taxes upon the wealthiest [...]

by Obama Pundit
I opined a few weeks ago that Obama and the Democrats are headed for a health care disaster on par with 1994 and, amazingly, all the pieces are falling into place.
As in 1994, the GOP has come out with a chart to depict the madness of the pending health care bureaucracy that will be created [...]

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Only in Newsweek–which has devolved into nothing more than an echo chamber for the Obama administration–can you see a headline that asks:  Is Obama More Catholic Than The Pope?
When Obama meets the pope tomorrow, they’ll politely disagree about reproductive freedoms and homosexuality, but Catholics back home won’t care, because they know Obama’s on their [...]

by David V. Johnson
Last November, President-elect Obama declared he wouldn’t appoint lobbyists to his administration, because he sought to curtail the influence of “special interests” and “stop the revolving door” between big business and political power.  His advisers ballyhooed the lobbyist ban as part of “the strictest, and most far reaching ethics rules of any [...]

by Obama Pundit
Apparently, it’s okay if you are Barack Obama.
George W. Bush was lambasted for his entire presidency for the way he would doggedly stick to a decision, even when things didn’t appear to be going his way.
Now, Obama has said that there is ‘nothing’ he ‘would have done differently’ about his stimulus plan.
Really?  Nothing?  [...]

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I don’t think I agree with the U.S./Argentina comparison as a whole.  There are some cautionary tales to be learned from the Argentinian experience, but few real parallels, in my opinion.
As for Singapore, I have actually been there myself and found it to be an extraordinarily clean city, if a bit boring.  But [...]

In Alan Beattie’s new book False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World, the world trade editor of the Financial Times examines why some countries get rich and others get poor. He makes a fascinating comparison between the United States and Argentina. A century ago, each country seemed equally poised for greatness. [...]

by Hector N. Fertig
Since you are reading this, you probably have some interest in politics or at least are concerned about what is going on in Washington D.C. these days.  Knowing only this, it is likely that you are less enthusiastic about the current administration’s performance than your politically disinterested friends.

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by C. William Chattin
Is President Obama really going to orchestrate the return of Manuel Zelaya to power?  My reasonable liberal friends assure me that the President is just posturing and, for diplomatic reasons, aligning himself with Latin American governments in demanding the restoration of Zelaya, i.e., he’s not really serious.  But make no mistake, there [...]

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Thomas Friedman of the New York Times today perfectly–though unintentionally–encapsulated the modus operandi of the current administration, Congress and their political allies
Regarding the just-passed Cap and Trade Bill in the House, the supposedly serious thinker Friedman writes:
It is pathetic that we couldn’t do better. It is appalling that so much had to be [...]