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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]