With Congress planning on staying in session during the holiday to discuss changing the debt ceiling, I have to continually pound my head against a wall when I hear that Republicans absolutely refuse to move on raising taxes. Now, I get it; Republicans don’t want to look weak against a president they can not stand, [...]
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Protesting Gone Awry
Earlier today, eight or nine (reports vary) individuals continually interrupted the peoples business in House of Representatives as debate closed on the Democratic federal budget plans by singing, one by one, an altered version of the Star Spangled Banner (transcript). Currently, The City Weekly is reporting that one of these individuals was Deb Henry, local [...]
Bills to Watch: HJR 2 – Joint Resolution Applying to Congress to Call a Constitutional Convention on the Process for Repeal of Federal Laws, D. Clark
So, as I was thumbing through my 8th grade American History text book, I came across a section that talked about how a bunch of states got together and decided that they did not like the laws the federal government was passing. Oooh, those states got riled up, and so they did what they thought [...]
Election Predictions
It is that time again, where less than half the population chooses who will lead everyone for the next two, four, and six years (depending on the election). Here are my predictions based on gut feeling, recent polls, and just a touch of hopeless optimism that people like liberals as much as I do. Nationally [...]
Matheson is Pelosi’s Lap Dog? Hardly
I must admit that I was rather entertained when, earlier this week, the right wing bloggers went so far as to call Representative Jim Matheson a “lap dog.” for Speaker of thr House, Nancy Pelosi. This, coming on the heals of the ever-so-clever “Matheson=Pelosi” lawn signs that have popped up over the past week shows that [...]
An Honest Question to the Far Right
I have been thinking about the recent uproar surrounding the immigration debate and the anger being generated by the far right about how them illegals are ruining the country – I am looking at you tea-baggers. But, sometimes in the same hate-filled rants, they tout how the free market is the savior of all our [...]
Rep. Sandstrom gleefully wants to make Utah look even more backward
You may or may not be following the debate currently taking place in our own back yard. Arizona just passed sweeping immigration legislation that has ruffled a few feathers (to put it mildly). The most controversial provision allows law enforcement to question any individual about their immigration status, regardless of why the officer initially wished [...]
I am the face of modern unemployment
I constantly hear those on the Right complain about the freeloaders and moochers who use the system to avoid actually working. Well, to all the commentators out there, let me explain my story in brief in a feeble attempt to break your close-mindedness. I am: White Male Middle Class College Educated In debt because of [...]
As true today as it was 77 years ago…
And 50 years of prosperity followed…
E Pluribus Unum
I will come out and say it, right off the bat, that President Obama was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the work he has done up to this point…but that is not the point of this posting. No, the point is that we live in a political climate where something as praiseworthy as [...]