Can we get serious here for a second? Mitt Romney is the most uninspiring, milquetoast “front runner” for a major Party Nomination I’ve ever witnessed in my adulthood. And that includes Micheal Dukakis. He inspires no one. He creates no “buzz”. He has no bandwagon, beyond the golf-cart of the political professionals, and the governing elites. Everywhere he goes, his main line of defense is, | Read More »
All Right! Whoo-Hoo! It’s Recovery Winter! According to the Labor Department (yes, that’s right: Obama’s Labor Department!) is shouting from the Mountaintops that we’ve added 140,000 jobs in November. Cool. I mean, wow… I’m all tingly. When numbers like this pop up, we tend to think of a really big stadium, jammed with 140,000 people, each one celebrating their newly-found gainful employment. Except… There are | Read More »
Who we as Republicans elect to the Presidency is important. Who the President appoints to their cabinet is just as important. Here are some suggestions to animate the discussion… Secretary of State: John Bolton Secretary of the Treasury: Steve Wynn Attorney General: Kenneth Cuccinelli Secretary of Defense: Lt. Col. Oliver North Secretary of the Interior: John S. Walton Secretary of Energy: Sarah Palin Secretary of | Read More »
AM Radio used to be the home of static and Saturday morning recipe shows. It was the place you could hear (faintly) Elanor Rigby for the three-millionth time. You could catch your hometown high school football team if you weren’t more than five hundred yards from the transmitter. They tried to fix AM radio with some contrivance called “AM Stereo”, as if hearing a fade | Read More »
One political party, one world view, and one President have wrought a monumental disaster on the mighty Armed Forces of the United States of America. I only WISH these same wretches had been as focused on winning wars, providing for our wounded warriors, getting the absolute best materiel and armaments for our soldiers on the battlefield, as they were focused on all their stupid, trifling | Read More »
Can I be candid for a moment? Barack Obama is the first President in my lifetime to have had the luxury of some twenty-four months in office, and yet have no need to exhibit even the slightest bit of leadership… On anything . He’s deferred tough decisions regarding the budget deficit to a "blue-ribbon" commission. He let Nancy Pelosi and her gang of Merry Pranksters | Read More »
I simply love all the strutting around, the political preening, the blabbering and moral indignation being slathered on like buttah from the Great Seers and the Senators regarding the "repeal" of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell". Ignoring for the moment that these self-same Divas of the Defense Department are the same ones whose skivvies get all twisted and start screeching that NO federal statute or law | Read More »
Okay–; All morning long, I’ve hear the refrains of Roy Clark tumbling around my brain-pan: I’ve made a small fortune, and you’ve squandered it all… You’ve shamed me till I feel about one inch tall. But I thought I loved you, and I hoped you would change… So, I gritted my teeth, and didn’t complain …Thank God and Grayhound, She’s Gone! Now, I know the | Read More »
Hold on, hold on. The title here is what is known in the writing biz as a “metaphor”. Polling, while being more of an exacting art than it was a generation ago, is really nothing more than guesswork– albeit, guesswork based on the inexactitude of earlier guesses. My sense (that, and $1.75 will get you a cup of coffee at McDonald’s) is that the Republicans | Read More »
You pack up several thousand absentee ballots, for the jurisdictions from which your soldiers hail, ship them via Second Day FedEx to Afghanistan and Iraq, and you mark them "Urgent". You then inform CentCom that you screwed up getting ballots off to our fighting men and women in time, and that you would appreciate their help in making sure these folks get the ballots they | Read More »
If there was ever a time for guerrilla-war political tactics, they will begin on November Third. And if there was ever a time for Republicans to pull their heads out of the (sand), it is today, October 12th. The problem with being so tightly wound around the concentric circles in Washington of political consultants, poll-takers, bundlers and the like, is that they tend to make | Read More »
If there is one think I’ve noticed out in the culture that really seems to have reached its apogee in the Era of Obama is the bleak, minor-chord, heavy-waltz, steel-gray, ersatz character of pop music. Camilla Paglia had a jaw-dropping and bullseye-accurate profile of Steffani Germanotta (aka “Lady Gaga”) that brushed up against this phenomenon. Evidently, consuming music has become an activity which requires muscling | Read More »
An actual piece of electronic lint I found balled up in a corner of my in-box: Dear MoveOn member, HUGE news: President Obama just appointed populist hero Elizabeth Warren to establish and lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau!! This is the boldest step Obama’s taken so far to rein in the big Wall Street banks. And it’s a major victory for grassroots progressives who rallied for | Read More »
Symbolism is an amazing thing. For all anyone on this planet knows, I purchased a copy of the Koran (Q’uran??) yesterday at Borders, took it home, and set fire to it on the hibachi. But, because no one other than God knows whether this is the truth or not, the symbolism is lost, and is thus, worthless. It is worthwhile to ponder, though, how much | Read More »
“The White men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservaton, until, at last, there had sprung into existence a Great Ku Klux Klan, a veritiable empire of the South, to protect the southern country”. -Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Democrat. The vast ocean of bigotry is sailed mostly by Liberal Democrats; Always has been, always will be. One of Wilson’s first | Read More »
In his recent tabulation on the Senatorial election “Balance of Power” matrix, Scott Rasmussen counts the odious “Independent” Charlie Crist as a “Democrat”. Must be when he gave Obama the big ol’ smoocheroo in 2009, the Governor must have picked up the pathogen. Methinks Marco ought to make some hay over this.
So far this year, according to my Google Calander, I’ve taken 8 vacation days. I also have the recollection of a day of (inadvertent) absence to take care of some personal stuff relating to my car. And, I also spent two days visiting my parents in Tennessee–, but I combined this trip with some business travel on the way back here to Michigan. That’s a | Read More »
In a nod to Rod Serling… Submitted for your approval: Sometime before the end of Summer, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele calls an Urgent National Convention to officially unveil The Contract With America 2010. This document would be simple, one that covers the basics should the Republicans retake the House or Senate: Congressmen shall be required to read bills they vote on, Congress will | Read More »
I think my dad, a World War Two combat veteran who came back injured from the Battle of San Pietro, was a fairly typical Democrat voter at Mid-Century: “The Republicans were always the party of the Rich Bankers, and the Democrats were the party of the working-class,” was, more or less, how he put it. But, by the time I became politically cognizant in the | Read More »
-They’re gonna build a Mosque at Ground Zero. Despite the fact that that a mile-wide cordon is maintained off the debris field of the Titanic (-it is, after all, a hollowed gravesite), and despite the fact that there are dozens of American cemeteries scattered around the globe where the highest level of secure installation of the honored dead is observed, the fact that 2,605 absolutely | Read More »
Well, let’s see. So far, our Boy Wonder President has wracked up a Nobel Peace Prize (-for settling the war between Joe Sestak and Arlan Specter, I guess), been hailed by Fidel Castro as a “visionary”, and has verily wafted amongst the stars, so us mere mortals can gaze upon his angel-like countenance. Now, a Siena College poll of “Presidential Scholars” has ranked this practitioner | Read More »
<!– @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> North of Grand Rapids, in rural Kent County near the City of Sparta, a visionary entrepreneur named Alan Taylor opened up new offices for his fledgling medical device manufacturing business named Hart Enterprises. He moved his new company there from the suburbs of Chicago because he was beguiled by Michigan’s fishing and hunting | Read More »
So, the Republicans in the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body”, are thinking of doing the unthinkable, and may actually start doing some deliberating. The next thing you know, they may start getting huffy, and stamping their feet! Jeff Sessions had the temerity to suggest that — gasp — they “might consider a filibuster” of the Elana Kagan nomination. If there has ever been a more manifestly | Read More »
Well, another tired old trope about President Obama sure seems to have bitten the dust: Mainly, his much-vaunted ability to bring disparate groups of restive neighbors together to accomplish great things. At least, isn’t that what we are told is the specialty of the “Community Organizer”? So, why has he failed so miserably to “Organize” the “Community” that stretches roughly from Kenner, Louisiana to Venice, | Read More »
So, it turns out that the stump-toothed Nevadans engaged in drunken vapors and elected Sharron Angle (who is evidently some female Archie Bunker, by all accounts) to carry the banner for the Grunting Old Party. Can you imagine the temerity of choosing someone to serve in the United States Senate who actually believes in the Constitution? What a bunch of cast-offs from Deliverance those zany | Read More »
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