Arguably, the most consistently successful stratagem ever devised by the Democrats is their perennial campaign to frighten the elderly into voting for them by claiming that Republicans want to do away with Social Security.
Every election, with the grim inevitability of Greek tragedy, “the party of Jefferson” deploys this canard. And it has been so successful […]
When they aren’t launching viral smear campaigns on the sly, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has been busy promoting the ironic canard that John McCain is a liar.
The audacity of this charge was more than I could stand, so I wrote a piece for the American Spectator highlighting some of Obama’s whoppers. Here’s an excerpt:
Obama’s whoppers about McCain’s […]
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As I have pointed out before, the one health care position John McCain and Barack Obama have in common is their wrong-headed support of prescription drug reimportation. It appears, however, that both candidates may be waking up:
Barack Obama and John McCain are reviewing their support for allowing individuals to import cheaper prescription drugs in light of tainted medicines and […]
Barack Obama is not the only one lying about John McCain’s health care reform plan. Many of his supporters in the establishment media and blogosphere are being equally mendacious. An illustrative example is the following assertion by Joe Klein:
John McCain wants to tax your employer-provided health care benefits. He wants to replace those benefits with an insufficient tax […]
Among the canards promulgated by Barack Obama’s increasingly desperate presidential campaign is that John McCain has gone through a sudden and shocking metamorphosis. The ”once-principled” Republican (i.e. one willing to supinely accept defeat) has somehow become a pathological liar.
This nonsense is, of course, being robotically repeated by all of the usual Obamatons. Yet, with the laudable exception of Andrew Sullivan, none of these people seem to notice any of Obama’s stretchers. […]
Although we can safely disregard the WSJ piece by David Cutler and Brad DeLong on Obama’s health care plan, there is an excellent article on the plan in Health Affairs, and its conclusion is not flattering:
It greatly increases the federal regulation of private insurance but does not address the core economic incentives that drive health care […]
Today promises much toil for a blogger dedicated to cleaning the Augean Stables of the health care reform dabate. I guess a good place to begin shoveling is the steaming pile of BS deposited by David Cutler and Brad DeLong in the WSJ.
An important part of their argument for the superiority of Barack Obama’s health care plan involves the claim that Obama will cure U.S. […]
Kevin, MD has written an open letter to John McCain and Barack Obama challenging them on the primary care crisis. He correctly points out that neither has a plan to deal with the problem:
I do not hear any solutions addressing this issue on the campaign trail. No suggestions to, i) reform the dysfunctional physician payment system which […]
The other day, I wrote a post about the phony inquiry being staged by Alaska Democrats concerning Governor Palin’s sacking of recalcitrant underling Walt Monegan.
For anyone doubting that this whole ”investigation” is a partisan scam cooked up by a bunch of good-old-boy political hacks, here’s a smoking gun from the Obama-Biden campaign web site:
The man overseeing the “investigation,” Sen. […]
Because a nomination acceptance speech requires a candidate to cover so much policy ground in a short space of time, McCain didn’t dwell on health care last night. Nonetheless, he laid out the McCain/Obama choice pretty clearly:
My health care plan will make it easier for more Americans to find and keep good health care insurance. His plan will […]
