Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so as to give their candidate an edge and allow the power of massive money to be felt. But reform laws will become irrelevant and redundant as the Internet replaces the special-interest fat cats as the best way to raise money and takes the place of TV as the most effective way to get votes.