Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean revisits one of his biggest foot-in-mouth moments and the irony passes him by. The party allowed its opponents too often to define debates and control issues, such as faith and family values, Dean said. ''We need to talk about values and not be afraid of them,'' he said, going on […]
I'm writing another post on the Schiavo debate in parallel with this one. In it I praised Maryland Democrat Steny Hoyer for making one of the more statesman-like speeches of the evening. Then he said this: Because, like birth, death will come to us all. Ummm...not according to your party, Rep. Hoyer. Millions of people […]
A reader sent me an e-mail the other day regarding my post last week on the supposed "minor" fixes that would cure Social Security's long term solvency problems. In that post I did some seat-of-my-pants calculations that showed how the demographic problem would translate into the average worker's FICA line on their paycheck. The reader […]
Teresa Heinz Kerry was in the Pacific Northwest at a fund-raiser for Democrat Rep. Adam Smith. She opened her mouth, and her brain fell out. A practicing Catholic, as is her husband, Heinz Kerry remains outraged at attacks by bishops on her husband's pro-choice views. "You cannot have bishops in the pulpit -- long before […]
I've called on New York Times economist/columnist Paul Krugman to deliver on his promised plan to fix Social Security, so far without success. On "Fox News Sunday" today, anchor Chris Wallace tried to get the Democrats' plan to save Social Security out of House minority leader Nancy Pelosi -- also without success. After letting Pelosi […]
Today's New York Times has a shocking editorial on the GOP's efforts to turn the United States into a fascist dictatorship. Actually, the editorial is about the prospect of changing or clarifying the Senate rules regarding the use of a filibuster. [T]he White House's insistence on choosing only far-right judicial nominees has already damaged the […]
The media today started to pick up on Sen. Robert Byrd's GOP=Nazis comment after Jewish groups denounced him. Byrd's response? Not apology, but denial. Sen. Robert Byrd's description of Adolf Hitler's rise to power was meant as a warning to heed the past and not as a comparison to Republicans, a spokesman for the West […]
Former Klansman and current senator from West Virginia, Robert C. Byrd, went to the floor of the U.S. Senate and gave a speech comparing Republicans to Hitler and the Nazis. Byrd is old enough that he should know the difference between the two -- and if he doesn't he needs to be put in a […]
I did a Google News search for word that France had agreed to send one (1) soldier to Iraq to help train the Iraqi police. Brit Hume made mention of that on his "Special Report" program last night. I didn't find an article to confirm that fact, but I did come across a criticism of […]
Senate minority leader Harry Reid made waves late last year when he went on "Meet the Press" and attacked Justice Clarence Thomas for being a poor writer and a bad justice. When asked to comment on Thomas as a possible replacement for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Reid told NBC's "Meet the Press": "I think that […]