a little more unserious
One of my favorite movies is Dave. It is a movie where an average citizen (Dave) impersonates the President of the United States for a living, and is thrown into the real job due to some really shady political operatives. (Quick aside – Kevin Kline is awesome in that role!) There’s a scene in that movie [...]
motives
Finally there appears to be some agreement that we must reduce spending. Unfortunately, the mindset of those who wish to do this is all wrong. I guess I shouldn’t care about the motives of the Democrats and Republicans here, as long as they do what we all want them to do. But it does [...]
careful what you wish for
This is an uncomfortable position conservatives find themselves in as a result of last night’s election results – between electability and the raw passion of the tea party candidates. Not every conservative should be considered electable. For every Nikki Haley – who has shown incredible message discipline and restraint in the face of scurrilous accusations [...]
elena kagan – it could be worse
How does it add anything to a SCOTUS nominee’s qualifications when it is noted that a nominee’s life story is inspirational, a real American rags-to-riches success story, and so forth and so on? While the life experiences of Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor are certainly a made-for-TV movie waiting to happen, they have nothing to [...]
the state of the middle ground
America was not designed to be run by elitists – nor was it designed for pure mob rule. What we need to find here is some middle ground – a government that will be responsive to the needs of the people without being subject to the whims of daily polling and public opinion that is [...]
dirty tricks
This is wrong, unethical – and somewhat boneheaded. But enough about what I think about the Dems’ new (old) trick to pass the health care bill. Let’s read what the Washington Post had to say about it (bold text my addition). Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote [...]
too much awesome
(h/t Hot Air) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, ladies and gentlemen (on the must-pass health care bill): You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care [...]
fratricide
While we can all agree Rahm Emanuel is not the most warm and cuddly guy in politics, this Eric Massa sounds like a real jerk, and it doesn’t surprise me that these two hate each other’s guts. It seems that the Democrats just can’t help themselves when it comes to the fratricide now in progress [...]
heading toward the cliff
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is willing to sacrifice the political futures of her fellow House Democrats in order to get the health care bill passed. That’s generous of her, and the Republicans will absolutely accept that result. I just wonder how many left-leaning true believers are left in the Democratic Congress. The answer [...]
i don’t get it
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) won’t seek re-election to the Senate. Looks like the Democrat juggernaut is running into a few problems on its way to liberal utopia. It’s not just Republican obstructionists or tea partiers getting in the way of the Democrat agenda. Some Democrats, like Evan Bayh, object to the focus of this administration [...]
