Joseph Lawler
Yuval Levin doesn’t think that avoiding the Budget Control Act sequester will be so easy. He notes that both the president and Congress will have to draw up budgets for Fiscal Year 2013 in early 2012, and thus will be…
From the supercommittee: “After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee’s deadline. “Despite our inability…
The supercommittee is expected to announce this afternoon that it has failed (Washington Post) Both parties hope to twist the supercommittee’s failure to their advantage (Politico) President Obama will sign bill creating tax breaks intended to spur hiring of veterans…
The supercommittee’s failure is, at first glance, yet another reason to despair of there ever being enough fiscally conservative members of Congress to limit federal spending to sustainable levels. Yet the idea that a bipartisan committee would find compromise so…
Congress passed a CR yesterday to keep the government running (CNN) Herman Cain is the first GOP candidate to be given a Secret Service detail (Politico) The House will vote on a balanced budget amendment this morning (Fox News) President…
Here are two reports to keep in mind as the prospects for supercommittee “success” dim. One is from the Washington Post: If the congressional “supercommittee” cannot agree on a plan to tame the federal debt by next week’s deadline, as…
Liberals are outraged that the House of Representatives scuttled an effort to improve school lunches by maintaining the definition of pizza as a vegetable under USDA guidelines. All credit for this absurdity goes to the giant frozen pizza makers, such…
The House of Representatives failed to approve a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, 261-165. Only 25 Democrats voted with Republicans to support the amendment. Four Republicans voted nay: Paul Ryan, Louie Gohmert (TX), Justin Amash (MI) and David Dreier (CA)….
Rod Dreher wonders, “what the hell is happening to the New York Times Magazine?” He asks if it’s lapsing into self-parody, citing a string of hilariously one-sided stories about social issues. On a related note, here’s a campaign story from…
The Tea Party Debt Commission that took place yesterday and got kicked out of the Senate has released a budget plan. It’s not clear to what extent this plan represents the views and preferences of Tea Partiers around the country,…
