FDR is today celebrated as an outstanding president who brought us out of the depression in much the same way that President Obama is lauded today for leading us out of a severe recession. There plaudits are not deserved. Roosevelt’s policy extended and deepened the depression and Obama’s was the worst recovery in almost a century. Yet, Democrats never seem to learn and Biden’s economic plan is likely to be even worse, if it passes and if he is elected.
This is well written history of controversial Supreme Court nominations similar to Merrick Garland and Amy Coney Barrett. I enjoyed the history lesson.
Matthew Peterson puts the riots squarely on the Democrat Party.
Kevin Williamson writes an interesting essay every Tuesday called “The Tuesday”.. Easy to remember. This one talks about how what Democrats don’t like is “illegitimate” as in Trump is an illegitimate president, Amy Barrett is an illegitimate nominee for the Supreme Court. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
This is one of Dan Henninger’s best editorials. He explains why and how the Democrats completely subverted the process and did so because they couldn’t get the legislation they want except through activist court decisions.
The article explains how we got where we are with nominations of Supreme Court justices. Most importantly are the actions of the Supreme Court itself in becoming a super legislative body starting with the Roe vs Wade decision. This raised the stakes for picking judges who often gave Progressives laws they couldn’t get passed through legislators. Ted Kennedy raised the stakes with the nomination of Robert Bork and the subsequent power grabbing steps of eliminating the filibuster on appellate judges by Harry Reid. Now the Democrats are threatening to pack the court and add two Democrat states to the union.
I wrote this opinion essay for the WSJ in 2011 to describe what I thought were inconsistencies within what President Obama called a jobs bill. Its intent was to stimulate the economy after the initial $1 trillion stimulus package failed to do so. He recognized that the recovery was not going well but his recommended solution was both wasteful and counter productive.
I wrote this at the beginning of Obama’s first term in office. We were at the beginning of the financial crisis and I had little faith in what Congress would do to deal with the economic crisis. In this essay, I defined what I thought Congress needed to do. As I re-read this essay now, I think my suggestions are still valid. I guess the behavior of our elected officials has not improved in the last 12 years.
I’ve written a lot about our tax system and this essay deals with one aspect of our tax code – corporate tax rates. The left thinks corporations “do not pay their fair share”. Of course, their fair share is never defined. I argue that the best corporate tax rate would be zero; that would have a huge, beneficial effect on our economy. It would only be bad for politicians.
President Obama made a number of speeches about the need, as he sees it, for high income earners to pay more in taxes. Warren Buffett, a long time friend and a person I greatly admire, supported Obama’s assertion with an extraordinary example. He pointed out that his secretary had a higher income tax rate than he did and this was wrong. I thought the whole discussion was nonsense. If you read all my essays, you’ll see I dealt with this version of class warfare a number of times. When Warren made his public comment, I thought a rebuttal was in order. The number and vitriol of the letters written in response to my op ed was really interesting. I enjoyed reading all those comments at the time. My op ed in the WSJ certainly got people’s attention
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