Rant No. 5 – Republican Senate Leadership – As we head into Senate consideration of Cap & Tax, Republican Senate leadership gives me no confidence that we will successfully filibuster this bill to death. As Yogi said, “it’s deja vu, all over again.” Flashback to the anemic Senate leadership of Mitch McConnell during the stimulus fight and it is difficult to muster any confidence that | Read More »
You need not tune into MSNBC to hear Keith Olbermann’s shouts of glee cascading through the hallways of Rockefeller Center – nor, tune into the Morning Joe to detect the cackling coming from the Huffington Post and Tina Brown. So loud is the collective secular chortle that one might casually hear it amidst the hustle and bustle of a warm Vegas night or in the | Read More »
Back from a week taking my wife and our kids to Washington, D.C. for the first time – while I have been there many times, this was a first for her and the children. What a terrific week! If you will indulge me this bit of recollection – we drove to Gettysburg last Sunday and Monday morning spent the time touring the battlefield with a | Read More »
Can’t help but being struck by stinging irony in yesterday’s tragedy at the Holocaust Museum. In reporting on this despicable act, the major news media rightfully focuses in on the assailant’s crazy, hateful views on Jews and his incredible disavowal of the Holocaust – declaring him to be nothing short of a madman. Yet tomorrow, that same media, carrying the pail of appeasement, will be right | Read More »
According to NBC’s Brian Williams’ adulatory interview of President Obama, taped yesterday to air next week, our president admonishes those who have critiqued Sonia Sotomayor’s self-proclaimed judicial superiority, based on her race, as purveying “nonsense.” If anyone knows purveyors of nonsense, it’s this president. Remember this pearl of wisdom from Attorney General Eric Holder, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting | Read More »
Ok, so your brother-in-law is lining up his putt tomorrow. He’s beating you badly on that front nine, even giving you strokes, so you resort to the oldest trick in the book. Greenside chatter – ol’ fashioned trash talkin’ - NEVER in his backswing, that would be a breach of etiquette, of course – but enough crap to get him thinking as he hops in and out | Read More »
You live by the sword, you die by the sword. Right, Nancy? I don’t know which is more silly – Speaker Pelosi initially believing that she could get away with lying about not having advance and contemporaneous knowledge of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” or each succeeding iteration of lie that she trots out every three or four days. You bet there ought to be a Truth | Read More »
It appears that my prediction last week, in Specter Worth Is Not Proved, that Arlen Specter will be viewed as poorly by the Democrats, as he was the Republicans, is coming true. Not only did Specter vote against the Administration in his first two votes as a Democrat Republican Democrat, he is now being vilified by Democrat blogs for his unprincipled moderation. Shazzam!! Pigs do | Read More »
In his announcement today, Senator Arlen Specter (R D-Pa) urged our understanding of how he came to be at the top of Harry Reid’s dance card, by explaining that his political career is “not defined” by party. Respectfully, Senator Specter, your political career is “not defined” by anything, let alone party affiliation – and your explanation, while largely honest, provided one of the few moments of clarity in | Read More »
Promoted by Jeff. Read the whole thing…it’s worth it. The more I hear about this “torture” debate, I cringe – the discussion of the CIA using tools of water submersion, sleep deprivation, physical slapping, diet and mind control . . . well, the thoughts for me are not “what would that be like?” The flashbacks for me are quite real. You all talk about this | Read More »
Spending this weekend doing Obama’s 90 day review. He is my employee, after all. A month ago or so – in fairness to him – I urged a preliminary review using my kindergarten report card. He was just a new president – it seemed a “kinder, gentler” way to review his nascent efforts. I am done being nice. Done. I woke up this morning to | Read More »
What is with 4-6 inches of snow in April? Oh, yeah, stupid question . . . global warming. How could I forget? When it’s extra cold out in the winter or you get a lot of snow from November through April in Michigan, it’s because of global warming AND when it’s hot in the summer, it’s because of global warming. C’mon, Al and Leonardo. The | Read More »
Within the last few hours, it has been leaked to multiple news sources that GM’s Rick Wagoner has agreed to step down as Chief Executive Officer at President Obama’s insistence, on its face as a condition of further bailout financing. While it may be the visceral reaction of many that this is exactly what needs to occur in order for GM to obtain more taxpayer money, let | Read More »
Amateur Hour at the White House continues – Unbelievable!! The AIG Mess – ahhh!! Let me do something that may tick my conservative brethren off – I don’t think it’s that big a deal. Maybe, I should rephrase that – we are all focused on the wrong part of the issue and all by design. Let me explain. What is the real problem with the | Read More »
Most employeeshave a probationary period of ninety days, at which they receive their first employee review. But, I thought it would be more fair to our young president, if we used different standards to evaluate his performance to date. I mean he’s just getting started, so is a regular employee review really fair? I don’t think so. What would be fair? As a very new | Read More »
Beginning to see a pattern – Obama announces a policy and then announces an exception to his policy, while claiming that his policy is the best policy to ever be adopted. If that sounds innane, it is. If that strikes you as duplicitous, it is. If that strikes you as hypocritical, it is. For those who haven’t heard – exceptions nos. 2 and 3 have | Read More »
Reports have broken today that Timothy Geithner’s choice, although not officially named, for Deputy Treasury Secretary, Annette Nazareth, has withdrawn her name from consideration. In the midst of the greatest financial freefall in decades and great uncertainty in financial markets around the world, Secretary Geithner has failed to name, let alone have confirmed, a single top deputy or assistant secretary. Simply stated, this is inexcusable. Many | Read More »
Amateur hour continues at the White House. While I share few, if any, political views with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the importance of the historical relationship between the United States and Great Britain warrants appropriate protocol be followed. Hey, Rahmbo – when the British Prime Minister comes to town, it’s a BIG DEAL and the White House, including President Obama, should treat it as such. I | Read More »
Two words of advice. Grow up. It’s not good enough that you apologized . . . issued your mea culpa. In one silly interview, you have foolishly made your inflated ego the story, instead of seizing the moment to promote the Republican alternative to the greatest federal power grab in American history. That Republican alternative, Mr. Steele, whether you like it or not has been carried | Read More »
The Bush Obama Administration in a recent court filing succinctly stated (as in two or three sentences) that terror war detainees in Bagram did not have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. In a radical break from the much-maligned prior administration policy that said that terror war detainees in Bagram did not have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts, | Read More »
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