4-29-2009

William A. Jacobson: What history shows us is that a liberal, blame-America-first Democratic President, urged on by a liberal, blame-America-first Democratic Congress, is a prescription for political self-destruction. Leave Democrats to their own devices, and they will screw themselves politically, just when they are at the height of power.

Pandemic Panic: The first U.S. death from swine flu has been confirmed — a 23-month-old child in Texas…While it is a tragedy, it is one of only 36,000 influenza-related deaths the CDC expects each year in the United States.

Bruce McQuain: Kimberley Strassel has a good article in today’s WSJ about what she sees as Democrats overreaching on climate legislation. For one, they seem to be misreading the public’s support for the radical type legislation that Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman favor.

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