Every time a republican said something stupid during the primary season, it was quickly labeled a “gaffe.” Last week, here in Roanoke, Virginia, President Obama came to capture our hearts and souls with his soring rhetoric. He stated, “[L]ook, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, | Read More »
Barack Obama seems like a pretty nice guy so I have never given too much credence to the entire “Chicago political machine” line. But this latest round of Bain Capital attacks on Romney from the surrogates all the way up to POTUS are beginning to border on the sinister. Sinister, meaning David Axelrod has no intention of actually showing impropriety on Romney’s part, but rather | Read More »
Griffinelection.com has been no fan of Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia in the past, mostly because he is a squishy politician. See here: http://griffinelection.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/governor-mcdonnell-why-is-there-a-drone-in-my-backyard/ http://griffinelection.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/the-democrat-war-on-women/ and http://griffinelection.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/bob-mcdonnell-could-stab-us-in-the-back/ But McDonnell is at it again, this time coming out with statements seemingly supportive of Medicaid expansion. The Supreme Court ruled in its healthcare decision that states could opt out of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion without being penalized (or taxed). | Read More »
Forgive me for being cynical of the “Nuns on the Bus” tour. I have had it with humans stretching the Bible into places it doesn’t go. Recently, a group of Catholic Nuns rode through nine states to protest Representative Paul Ryan’s failed budget offering because it doesn’t help the poor enough. Yes, the budget from two years ago. I am Protestant, so I maybe I | Read More »
Last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta went before Congress to ask that they balk on the Sequestration deal. Remember the deal that said if R’s and D’s couldn’t agree on spending cuts (they didn’t), automatic spending cuts would come from defense and entitlement spending? Well, it is almost time to stick to those cuts. You know the story, every program in the budget is one | Read More »
In the Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson film, “Wedding Crashers” two bachelors attend a wedding uninvited to pick-up women. In one scene they bring fake purple hearts to a wedding while claiming to be war heroes in order to receive free drinks. Hilarious in a movie. Not so funny in real life. The Stolen Valor Act was one of those republican, feel-good, patriotism bills that made it | Read More »
The American people did what no other group of people had ever done before. They declared independence from their masters because of burdening taxes. They also took the opportunity to take note of the unalienable rights bestowed upon us by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They recognized that they had a right to be in control of their government rather than a government that was in control | Read More »
Word has been leaking out for a week that Chief Justice John Roberts switched his vote from entirely overturning Obamacare to mostly upholding Obamacare. What changed the mind of a brilliant legal jurist who felt he understood the intricacies of the law when he first voted to uphold it? Roberts got cold feet about the legacy and “integrity” of the Supreme Court. The thinking is | Read More »
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States surprised the nation when Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court’s five liberals in upholding the mandate citing the healthcare penalty as a “tax” rather than as a penalty. There are many reasons to view the law as a tax and many holes in the majority’s arguments (which we’ll be discussing on Monday). Thus, Roberts seems to | Read More »
It is beginning to become humorous when people talk about going “back” to the politics of civility. The assumption is that there was a golden age where pols didn’t use hyperbole to bolster their ad hominem attacks and where bi-partisan support was the basis for the signing of bills. When Andrew Jackson was President, the Senate torpedoed his nomination of Martin Van Buren as Ambassador | Read More »
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