First a quick video. A bit of crowing perhaps: Now the real meat of the story: California lawmakers are struggling to spin the results of the May 19 special election, fearful of the possibility that the voters may have just fired the first shot of the next great tax revolt. I was on NPR with Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) the day after | Read More »
California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore resigned today as Chief Republican Whip due to his opposition to a massive tax increase deal brokered by Republican legislative leaders. DeVore said, “The St. Valentine’s Day deal to raise taxes on hardworking Californians will neither close the budget deficit nor control spending. I believe leadership thinks they are doing the right thing – but I cannot be a party | Read More »
Barbara Boxer was on C-Span this morning discussing the stimulus bill when she declared: “Writing this bill is like making sausage.” That’s about right. Coincidentally, we have a web ad on a similar subject released today:
Yesterday’s awful vote on Timothy Geithner aptly demonstrates that Washington has lost its bearings. For this purpose I’ve created a new calculator to show you just how your taxes will work moving foward. It’s pretty straight forward:
photo: WashingtonPost.com Let’s go on a trip down memory lane to the not-too-distant past. In 1986, Linda Chavez left her high ranking post in the Reagan Administration to run for the U.S. Senate against Maryland liberal Barbara Mikulski (a political clone of Barbara Boxer, but that’s another story). In a bad year for Republicans, Chavez lost the race. In 2001, President George W. Bush nominated | Read More »
From the diaries, by Erick On Monday, January 5, President-elect Obama selected former Cong. Leon Panetta to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta’s chief qualification is his utter lack of intelligence experience – meaning that he has not been involved with any of the intelligence activities in the past 7 years that have kept America safe. This makes him an acceptable candidate | Read More »
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