GOP House

    State of the Union: The Waiting is the Hardest Part

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 25th at 12:36 PM  | 

    Say yes to conservative Obama job-creation proposals, one issue/bill at a time while singing Tom Petty’s The Waiting The state of our union circa 2011 need not be so dire. Was it going to take years to climb out of the wealth-destruction hole wrought by the bursting of the housing bubble coupled with decades of accumulating national and personal debt? Yes, but after President Barack | Read More »

    Selective Shut Down strategy better than Debt Ceiling bluff

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 17th at 03:35 PM  | 

    Despite my “gamecock” nickname, I have never favored games of chicken and so don’t support a House GOP contest of Blind-Debt-ceiling-Man’s Bluff either. I have always thought that protest votes, especially if cast by a majority that would have the United States default on its current obligations, were irresponsible. Moreover, how much credible a threat is such a bluff under current circumstances? Zero, with but | Read More »

    The American Drive-In Bowl and 2011′s Person of the Year

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 1st at 12:20 PM  | 

    On the impact of policies vs elections Before Cockstradamus previews the 2010 portion of the bowl season now that the Gamecocks recorded their fifth loss after a Chick-fil-A sandwich in the ATL, let us review 2009′s obvious Man of the Year. Based upon the Time-magazine criteria of “the person who had the greatest impact for good or for ill”, President Barack Obama crushed all tea | Read More »