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On the Politics of Fear
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] From my column today: What s particularly odious about Obama s scare tactics is that he s using them for the mother of all bait-and-switches. He justifiably scares people about the magnitude of the financial crisis, but uses that fear not to sell them on a solution to the crisis but to trick them into signing up for a new Great Society. It s like convincing someone he s got cancer and then telling him that s why he needs to buy a new car. One point I didn't get to flesh out: I don't understand what's so bad about using fear in politics. Doesn't it depend on what you use it ...

Joe the Plumber at D.C. Tea Party: No one on the Hill gives a rip about you
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... for her coverage of Parties around the country. I like the “No Taxation Without Deliberation” sign best; read Jonah Goldberg’s piece today at NRO for a shrewd gloss on the haste to make waste. More coverage at ...

Has Obamanomics Vanquished Reaganomics?
Opinionator — ... in expanding government and says he’s scaling back: “Everyone will have to sacrifice some worthy priorities for which there are no dollars, and that includes me.” Really? The only programs he said he’d cut were ineffective education programs, useless weapons systems, and subsidies to agribusiness, and his budget increases discretionary spending by 12 percent next year. To paraphrase Bob Dole, where’s the austerity? “What’s particularly odious about Obama’s scare tactics is that he’s using them for the mother of all bait-and-switches, ” adds Lowry’s colleague Jonah Goldberg. ...