If there's one thing that President Barack Obama has managed to do over the past two years it's been to bring Democrats and Republicans together—in unanimous opposition to his budget. A budget resolution based on President Obama’s 2013 budget failed to get any votes in the Senate on Wednesday. In a 99-0 vote, all of […]
When I was in high school many eons ago, I went on a kick reading a bunch of books written by science-fiction great Isaac Asimov. Over a period of a few months, I probably read close to two dozen of Asimov's books. About a month ago, I decided to give some of them a re-read […]
Politifraud, the self-appointed arbiter of “truth” has graded House Speaker John Boehner’s promise that he would fly commercial, unlike his predecessor, Democrat Nancy Pelosi who famously acted as though the U.S. Air Force was her own private airline. The grade from Politifact: “In the works.” Here’s their research: His spokesman, Michael Steel, told The Hill […]
I’ve got friends who think the Texas representative is the bees knees. One posted a link approvingly to this post by what appears to be the pastor of the Grace Family Baptist Church in Houston. While I find commendable some of Paul’s proposed fiscal policies, on foreign policy the man is at his worst. First, […]
The so-called supercommittee went bust this afternoon. Here in the blogosphere we have a term we use for occurrences such as this: predictable. The group of 12 politicians, six from each house of Congress and six from each political party, accomplished absolutely nothing—which is what Washington, D.C. does best. Also predictable: I will pin all […]
I didn’t get to watch the video of the Gloria Allred press conference with the woman who claims that GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain had sexually assaulted her, so I can’t speak to whether I found the woman’s claims to be persuasive. It’s possible Cain’s a lecherous cretin. It’s possible that people are lying in […]
The media coverage this week of allegations that Herman Cain sexually harassed some women back in the ’90s are so devoid of details and incriminating facts so as to be less than useless. What we know is that Cain allegedly did some thing or things that made a couple women uncomfortable. If that’s the standard […]
This week's GOP presidential frontrunner, Herman Cain, appeared on "Meet the Press" yesterday. I haven't watched video of the interview, but I have read the transcript. Host David Gregory is supposed to be one of the more intelligent Washington journalists. If he is, than this particular exchange doesn't say much for his intellect: MR. GREGORY: […]
The Miami Herald reported last weekend that Spanish-language network Univision had created a segment on a decades-old drug bust of Republican Senator Marco Rubio’s brother-in-law. In an effort to get Rubio to appear on one of their shows, Univision reportedly offered to soften or spike the story if Rubio would appear. If Rubio appeared on […]
As I mentioned in the previous post, I only caught the tail end of the GOP debate earlier this evening. What I did see (but not hear because I was on the phone) was the post-debate commentary on MSNBC. It included: Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, Michael Eric Dyson, Eugene Robinson and Lawrence O’Donnell. I don’t […]