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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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 [...]
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 [...]
Bush and Obama – the “N” word…Nazi
One disturbing and growing theme during the health care debate has been that far right conservatives are panning Obama is a socialist/un-American/Nazi who wants nothing more than to kill your grandmother. Of course, we on the left find this laughable if only because we remember the bad-old-days of the Bush administration. Indeed, many on the [...]
Governor Herbert? Part I – 2012 Election Ramifications
The news that is rippling through the Utah political scene today is the announcement by President Obama that he has tapped Governor Huntsman to be the U.S.’s ambassador to China. The ramifications of this still remain to be seen but, needless to say, they are many – both nationally and state-wide. Let us begin with [...]
Don’t get too Happy About Spectors’ Switch
So, for the two of you who have not heard, Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania recently switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. The political ramifications of this is that when (not if, conservatives) Al Franken of Minnesota is officially made the Senator from that state, the body will consist of 60 Democrats and [...]
Are They High?!
Due to my desire to consistently give myself facepalms, I naturally clicked on CNN’s headline “GOP senators say Obama off to bad start.” Sure enough, both Senator McCain and Lindsay Graham are stopping their feet saying that Obama promised to sit down and talk to Republicans and talk about the stimulus and that Obama is [...]
Whelp, so much for Bipartisanship
So all 176 Republicans (along with seven Democrats) present for the vote on the stimulus package voted nay. Not one, not one Republican thought it was a good idea. This, despite the fact that President Obama has made concession after concession on the package. This, despite the fact that President Obama invited and worked with [...]
Chris Wallace is a Dumb Ass
I submit as my first piece of evidence: Now I know that the far-righters out there really don’t want Obama as President, but this is pushing it even further than the whole “is Obama a citizen?” “controversy.” If we push Wallace’s logic to its natural extreme, the will of the Chief Justice of the Supreme [...]