What an artful turn of phrase, and one that I think captures the Perry phenomenon pretty well. RICK PERRY has never spent any serious time outside of Texas, except for a five-year stint in the military. Nobody sent him off to boarding school to expand his horizons. He grew up in Paint Creek, where he […]
Category: politics
Other peoples’ moral courage with your money
Speaking truth to her own power as a legislator. Tirelessly finding ways to spend your money on her ideas. CHICAGO (WLS) – A lot of reaction Wednesday morning to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky‘s interview with Don Wade and Roma. Schakowsky said that Americans don’t deserve to keep all of their money because we need taxes to support […]
PBS: rigorous standards, universally applied, for the most part
I get outraged when right wing nuts claim the media is liberal and in the tank for BHO. I mean just look at the evidence. This is exactly the same treatment Palin of GWB would have received. Sometimes this left wing-media conspiracy stuff goes just a little bit too far. Its not as if BHO […]
House divided and class warfare: end of what’s left of the republic?
the mkt cant wait to hear Obama say something. yeah. meanwhile the dems are loading up their muskets for some good old class warfare with the middle class, as if the workers and the middle class ought to be on opposite sides of social issues. that’s just a win for pundits and media, and politicians. […]
Incompetence meets extortion
or “what happens when you finally tell the truth” , one which no one wants to hear oops; this probably means no access to the Lincoln bedroom either The Obama administration is finally playing hardball in negotiations 😛
Jingo-ism for the next 15 months
not content to let the cartoon that Rick Perry has already become dominate the stage, Michelle Bachmann leaps in with a “me too” about the treasonous Fed” I wrote letters to Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner and to Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and called on them not to release that money,” Bachmann said. […]
Republicans finding ways to make Obama look presidential
what an uninspiring set of choices we are offered Its Perry’s race to lose, and he looks like nothing more than Bush 2.0, without the speech impediment, but fewer ideas if that were possible. Pawlenty dropped out after lacking the courage to even debate Romney when he had a chance, then tried to beat up […]
Economics by fiat
This is how the President thinks businesses work: that they hire on the hope that it will contribute to better national economic numbers which will generate them some business: President Obama urged businesses to “step up” and hire workers, pressing banks and other corporations to do more to help an economy that he said would […]
the next knee-jerk reaction
now i suppose there is a good reason why Obama, who has been silent in public on his reasoning and authority to committ the US to another war in the Middle East, has now decided, in the face of pressure to address the nation. The most obvious reason, ie the latest tap on the knee, […]
Knee-jerk meets policy
this is the very definition of a knee-jerk reaction. What does our Libyan policy havein common with a knee-jerk? it’s autonomic: without conscious thought or reasoning it’s an uncontrolled spasm it could trigger an uncontrolled, uncontrollable series of equally uncomcious responses it’s unconnected to a strategy, a plan, a vision of the future it’s a […]