Kick the Can

    Kick the Can is a fun, simple game for kids.  However, teenagers and adults generally move on to more sophisticated games.  Unfortunately, that’s not the case with the Obama Administration.  Kick the Can is apparently still theirfavorite game. On a wide range of critical issues, they prefer to kick the can down the road rather than deal with them head-on, as adults.  President Obama has | Read More »

    Al Franken’s Win Was The Worst Thing That Happened To The Democrats in 2009

    Not that Al Franken is so bad as a senator (or not just that), but it allowed the Democrats to arrogantly assume they didn’t even need to bother with the Republicans; they already had their critical sixty senate votes. What they didn’t count on was all of the coddling of Democrats it would take to get those sixty votes. The result has been health care | Read More »

    More Unintended Consequences

    From the same group (Congress) which last year brought the unintended consequences of starvation in various third world countries by pushing ethanol, we now already have unintended consequences showing up from the soon-to-be-law stimulus bill. An AP writer and Congress were apparently surprised to find that restricting executive pay would result in less tax revenues.  The following is a quote from the just-released article: The Congressional | Read More »

    Shameful!

    First a hat tip to President Obama for most of the following wording.  His words blasting Wall Street Bankers for their recent bonuses express sentiments I wish he would send to both houses of Congress.   There will be time for Congress to enlarge government, and there will be time for them to add pork to spending bills.  Now’s not that time.  That is the | Read More »