Surviving the “shutdown.”
Literally hundreds of federal programs, agencies, offices and bureaus that you have never heard of are “shut down” and yet life in our great land continues apace.
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Who will rescue America from the rescue plan?
Republicans are pushing back on a monstrous spending bill and President Biden is pushing back on the pushback.
Democrats should listen to Alan Dershowitz.
Absent a provable serious crime, the only proper venue for removing presidents is the ballot box.
Not up to the job.
Toughness is not an adjective that one would use to describe either of Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell. Yet with respect to leadership in the Congress, toughness has never been more urgently called for.
Make Congress suffer under Obamacare with the rest of us.
If President Trump wants to get Congress off the dime in dealing with Obamacare, he can do it with an executive order forcing Congress to eat its own cooking.
It’s time for Republicans to get on board.
For reasons that are becoming harder to understand with each passing week, the GOP majorities in both houses of Congress can’t bring themselves to act like the majority.
No longer our own masters.
The erosion of liberty happens in increments. Few alive today know that the federal income tax as we know it started at a mere one percent on all incomes up to an amount equal to $10.5 million in today’s dollars.
Obama’s State of the Campaign speech.
So now it’s the American Jobs Act and $400 billion in the form of money that we don’t have to be thrown at fixing roads and bridges and job training for the unemployed.
If it doesn’t hurt, it’s not a cut.
Following 9/11Continental Airlines was in nowhere near the financial trouble the U.S. government is in now. Yet Continental’s CEO made dramatic cuts to his company’s expenses to ensure economic survival. No one in Washington is making any such proposal for the United States.
It’s time to shut ‘er down.
Republicans may wish to avoid a fight with Democrats that results in a government shutdown. But wishing not to fight and refusing to fight are two different things. It’s time to fight.
One last shot.
Three days after Christmas in 1975 the Dallas Cowboys were faced with ending their season by losing the NFC Divisional Playoff Game.
The 50-year Tug-of-War.
Since 1960, the country has been in a tug-of-war between those on the right that believe that one can only be truly free when one accepts full responsibility for one’s own life…
It’s hard to buy votes with a maxed out credit card.
The late U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen was of an era of quotable politicians. It was Dirksen who famously said, “A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”
Democrats to Jacko: “Thanks for covering for us.”
With respect to the Michael Jackson story, the Drudge Report the other day had the best headline. It read, “Michael Jackson: Never Can Say Goodbye.” I really feel like our celebrity-obsession crossed some line in the past two weeks and I believe Bernard Goldberg when he says we have become the ‘United States of Entertainment.’ And while we were all absorbed with the never-ending news coverage and retrospectives and downloading ‘Thriller’ to our iPods, Congress...
Spending a trillion dollars used to take time.
I hate talking numbers. If you’re not careful, talking numbers in a forum such as this can become a crashing bore. But the times dictate a conversation on numbers and I’m going to do my best to keep everyone engaged. Let’s talk money. We’re going to play a little time and money game. Imagine that you are spending money at the rate of one dollar a minute. But instead of moving forward in time with...
Call them back and make them do their jobs.
Did you call the president like I told you? I know some of you did because you called the station and asked again for the number. Get a pen and paper because I’m going to give the number out again. If you missed last week, I urged everyone to call the White House and urge the president to exercise his constitutional authority to call the Congress back to Washington from the August recess and put...
Give ’em Hell, W! Call ’em back and let ’em sweat.
It’s August and if you think it’s hot and miserable here, you should go to Washington, D.C. If you’ve ever been in our nation’s capital in August you know. If you haven’t, take it from me it’s about the most miserable place in the country this time of year. Geographers can give you all of the reasons for Washington’s summer discomfort. I don’t really care about the particulars. Suffice to say that the heat and...
Congress: Lead (not likely) or get out of the way.
All the recent opinion polls say the same thing. The majority of Americans want action on high energy prices and they want action today. Right now. Citing just one poll, the Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll taken June 17 and 18, 76% of respondents favor more drilling for oil in the United States, 77 percent favor increased offshore drilling, 51 percent favor building more nuclear power plants and for the first time a majority – 53...
Are shareholders smarter than Congressmen? No contest.
Click here to listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on Newstalk 600 KTBB, Friday, May 30, 2008. There is a key similarity and there is key difference between being a shareholder in a publicly traded company and being a member of Congress. The similarity is that if you own shares in a publicly traded company or if you are a member of Congress, you get to vote at the meetings. The difference is...