Sorry, Folks, But Gridlock Is Good For The Economy
Investor’s Business Daily Americans now rank “gridlock” as their top concern when it comes to the economy. We are reluctant to disparage the wisdom of the masses, but in this…
It’s A Shutdown, Not Armageddon
Investor’s Business Daily The media and the left are playing up the economic damage from the shutdown. No doubt, there will be some disruption. But it won’t be economic armageddon,…
Shutdown: How Obama administration put nation at risk
It may be one of the most serious missteps of the federal government shutdown. After weeks of planning, the nation’s spy chief sent home nearly three-quarters of the workers at…
How the Shutdown can inform the debt ceiling debate
by George Landrith & Iain Murray It’s all-shutdown-all-the-time in Washington these days. But all that talk has obscured the far bigger challenge facing the nation next week, when the government…
‘The devil made me do it’
As the Obamaland Government Shutdown Circus comes up on two weeks of performances, President Barack Obama seems to have resurrected the old Flip Wilson line in which character Geraldine Jones…
Politics of the shutdown evident in actions of Obama administration
For furloughed workers, the federal government shutdown has clearly had an impact. But for most citizens, the shutdown has been notable for largely going unnoticed. That’s not because federal officials…
A Crisis of the President’s Own Making
Unless Mr. Obama is willing to make a serious deal on spending, he will spend the next three years fighting the same budget wars over and over. For months now,…
Only Obama & Jack Lew Can Cause a Default
One remarkable aspect of the shutdown/debt limit battle is the irresponsibility (on the part of the Obama administration) and incompetence (on the part of the news media) concerning the claim…
Harry Reid wants Americans to Suffer from Shutdown
Word came this week that the National Institutes of Health has suspended therapy-dog visits to sick children at its clinical center because of a 25% reduction in staff, even though…
Obama: It is either my way or my way. Period.
It has been said that politics is the art of compromise. Try as they may, Washington leaders hardly ever get absolutely everything they want. Polls show Americans are worried about…
White House should end absurd theatrics and open parks and monuments
National parks and monuments from coast to coast have been shuttered since Tuesday, but not because of the federal government shutdown. No, most of these tourist attractions and community recreation…
The Government slow-down: A case study in bad faith politics and failed leadership
The Obama administration continues to play politics and operate in perpetual campaign mode, rather than lead or govern. Obama has shutdown portions of the government and even private property owned…
Governing with Malice and in Bad Faith
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Burwell sent out a memo instructing agency heads not to consider whether the cost of shutting down a government website is…
Who caused the Shutdown?
by Charles Krauthammer The Obamacare/shutdown battle has spawned myriad myths. The most egregious concern the substance of the fight, the identity of the perpetrators and the origins of the current…
Shutting down World War II Memorial: A Symbol of Malice
The mainstream media is in the midst of one of its regular exercises in completely missing a wave of groundswell conservative anger — this time over the closing of the…