Posts Tagged ‘john-kerry’

Recess appointments

February 11th, 2010 | No Comments

President Obama is complaining because the minority party is holding up 200 of his judicial appointments. “I respect the Senate’s role to advise and consent, but for months, qualified, non-controversial nominees for critical positions in government — often positions related to our national security — have been held up despite having overwhelming support,” Obama said [...]

Republicans aren’t quite dead yet.

January 14th, 2010 | No Comments

When Obama won in 2008, he brought a lot of Democrats in with him.  That was just the icing for what had been a slow erosion of the Republican pinnacle of the early 21st century.  Republicans have rarely wielded a whole lot of power in the Senate and Congress, so being outnumbered probably meant a [...]

Fannie Mae is now an entitlement program

May 11th, 2009 | No Comments

A lot has been made over the collapse of Fannie Mae.  For a while, peeps kept insisting it was apparently a short term blip and that a huge infusion of cash would apparently make everything good.    Other peeps, like me and a few others, have argued that unless they change the rules and allow [...]

Aliens running our country ( and Google’s not too kind to Boxer )

March 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment

OK, I got this email.  I thought it was kinda funny: 1947   Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico. This is [...]

2010 US Senate Races

January 13th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Here we go.  The members of the US Senate class of 2008 haven’t even been fully seated and we are already sepculating on 2010.  CNN has already decided the Republicans are in trouble in 2010 simply because, get this, they had trouble in 2006 and 2008.  Logical huh?  Wikipedia references something called the Cook Political Report [...]

Protecting UAW and other unions

November 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment

In 1979 the US government bailed out Chrysler.  It was a resounding success as Chrysler restructured, cranked out new and innovative vehicles, and paid back the loan in four years. In 2008, Chrysler, GM, and Ford are back at the begging table for another bailout. In 1979 I was a teenager more interested in babes [...]

Nancy Pelosi’s derivatives lie

October 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Nancy Pelosi famously denied Democrats had any responsibility for the financial crisis that we are dealing with right now.  She stills sticks with that fantasy.  However, I don’t think too many people believe her.  Today the Washingtonwatch blog listed the members of Congress who voted for the 2000 Consolidated Appropriations Act which allowed trading credit [...]

The Dems just don’t seem to like country folk

October 21st, 2008 | No Comments

Earlier this year, a pretty good flap was made over Barack Obama trying to understand country life.  He basically came to the conclusion that in order to live in places where people aren’t walking on top of each other, you had to be kind of bitter, and cling to things that aren’t made of concrete [...]

Those pesky election year market crashes

October 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment

This is getting too predictable to ignore.  However, the media in general pretty much has.  See if you can follow me on this. In 2000, we were definitely changing presidents.  It was a neck and neck race with two very politically diverse candidates running.  One was a staunch conservative Republican and the other was a [...]

Russell and Obama

September 9th, 2008 | No Comments

Russell Brand, the British comedian who I honestly had never heard of, had some things to say during the Video Music Awards, which I never watch.  First, he attacked the Jonas Brothers for advocating no sex before marriage: Now, I’m sure that sat real well with the religious crowd in the US. He then attacked [...]