CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University faculty who made political donations at the federal level overwhelmingly contributed to Democrats or liberal organizations, a review of data from the Federal Election Commission shows.
As an institution, Harvard has long had a reputation for leaning left. The campaign finance data provide a limited but revealing snapshot of just how predominant the tilt is.
Good intentions are not the same thing as good results. Nowhere is this as clear, consistently, as in matters of government policies. Failed government policy is without question a bipartisan affair, but liberals and progressives tend to hide behind their intentions far more than conservative lawmakers do — and to resist any effort to be held accountable for the unintended consequences.
The Obama administration is a repeat offender. The biggest legislative initiative of President Obama's nearly eight years in office is the Affordable Care Act — or "Obamacare". Gallons of ink have already been spilled on the lies that were told to the American public about the law before it was passed, both by the president's policy advisors (like Jonathan "the stupidity of the American voter" Gruber), as well as the president himself, who promised Americans on over three dozen occasions that they could keep their plans and their doctors if Obamacare passed (a statement which was awarded Politifact's "Lie of the Year" award in 2013). And then there were the following facts: that the bill was 2700-plus pages long, that Congress had only a few days to read the bill, that many admitted they never read it before they voted on it, and that it passed without a single Republican vote. And let us not forget former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's infamous line, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it…"
