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Obama's Fast and Furious Blunder

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

June 20, 2012

President Barack Obama intervened today in an attempt to avert a House Oversight Committee vote on contempt action against Attornery General Eric Holder.

Obama asserted executive privilege over the documents related to Fast and Furious. Previously, the Justice Department really gave no legal rationale for not handing them over. While this may suceed in keeping the documents in legal limbo, there are two problems with this approach. The first is that this hasn't stopped Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa from pressing ahead with the contempt vote. The second problem is that this has gotten the mainstream media to cover Operation Fast and Furious, at least in passing.

Bain v. Solyndra

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

May 29, 2012

Today on the main site, I covered Barack Obama's attempt to resurrect Ted Kennedy's 1994 Bain attacks against Mitt Romney.

Kennedy was able to derail Romney's Senate campaign by portraying his Republican challenger as a profiteering job destroyer. Yet Obama is running into some trouble getting history to repeat itself. One complication I didn't mention in my column is the president's own record of crony capitalism.

Supremes Seem Unimpressed with Obama Immigration Law Arguments

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

April 25, 2012

By most accounts, Paul Clement bested Solicitor General Donald Verrilli in oral arguments concerning the federal health care law.

It sounds like it was more of the same as Clement against crossed swords with the solicitor general in the Obama administration's attempt to overturn Arizona's SB 1070.

Gridlock Isn't To Blame for Senate Budget Failures

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

April 19, 2012

Imagine if Paul Ryan had produced his budget proposal and put it before his committee, but then John Boehner killed it, insisting that the House should not pass a budget of any kind so that his members could be spared a difficult vote in an election year.

But when Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad proposed holding a vote on a budget based on the Simpson-Bowles commission recommendations -- the first meaningful budget vote by Senate Democrats in three years -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promptly pulled out the rug from under him. The Senate will continue to flout its legal responsibility to pass a federal budget.

Hatch Despises the 'Radical Libertarians' Who Oppose Him

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

April 13, 2012

Orrin Hatch is spitting mad about conservatives working against his renomination to the U.S. Senate. The six-term Republican incumbent from Utah denounced them in an interview with NPR.

Constitutional Contempt

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

March 29, 2012

Why the Obama legal team struggled at the Supreme Court.

After three days of arguments before the Supreme Court, the Obama administration and its supporters have been found in contempt. Not of the court, but of the Constitution.

Obamacare Defense A 'Train Wreck'

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

March 27, 2012

Reports indicate that five of the nine Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical of the individual mandate's constitutionality and analysts across the political spectrum concluded that the Obama legal team lost this round.

TARP Has Lost Its Sting?

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

March 27, 2012

USA Today asks if the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), which helped give rise to the Tea Party, has receded as a political issue this year.

The primary bit of evidence is that Mitt Romney has emerged from his support for the $700 Wall Street bailout. I leave it to readers to decide whether a candidate who has struggled to win the Republican nomination despite massive organizational and financial advantages over disorganized and underfunded opponents who in most cycles would have dropped out by now, after several months of trailing a revolving door of political nobodies in the national polls, is truly "unscathed."

Obama Debates Himself on Whether the Mandate is a Tax

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

March 26, 2012

It's not surprising that the Supreme Court justices seem to be rejecting the Obama administration's argument that the individual mandate is a tax.

Barack Obama rejects that argument too, when it serves his purpose. From a 2009 interview with George Stephanopoulos...

Watching the Supreme Court on Obamacare

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

March 22, 2012

This morning Judicial Watch hosted an interesting panel discussion on the likelihood of Obamacare being overturned by the Supreme Court.

Former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, former Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, and attorney Lee Casey ably explained the constitutional issues at hand, the flaws and problems wit the new law as a matter of policy, how those problems intersected with the legal questions, and substantial federal power grab the health care law represents.

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