…but I’ll be damned if they didn’t cause it to boil over. I’m talking, of course, of the mass demonstrations against the budget bill that Governor Scott Walker (a Republican), and the majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature (both also Republican) have been trying to ram through for the past month. You know, the...
Ah, another Congressional recess without addressing the unemployment benefits crisis. According to the Huffington Post’s count, it’s now been 37 days since the impending specter of that final benefit check was hung over the collective heads of the millions of unemployed Americans. I hate to say it, but it doesn’t look like it will...
Yesterday, in case you didn’t notice, was being called Super Tuesday by political pundits, most of the mainstream media, and just about all the campaigns involved in the various primaries being held around the country. Technically, it wasn’t the “Super Tuesday”, as that...
Outrage at Congress’ actions is nothing new, and this year it’s even worse than normal. Let’s face it, between the bitter partisan infighting, the incessant filibusters, and still more earmarks than you can shake a hypothetical line-item veto at, who can blame you for such high displeasure at Congress. If someone...
Lately, it seems like healthcare reform is like a zombie: it just keeps coming back to life when everyone thinks it is dead. Today Yesterday (dang clocks and my workload!) President Obama finally put his own two cents into the debate. The President had to come up with something to revive...
Sometimes, things just have to get done in Washington, regardless of political gridlock. This is exactly why the President has the power of issuing executive orders; he can enact certain things that Congress cannot seem to agree on, which will prove to be...
Over the past year, Congress has had to endure many delays to its agenda; Republican obstructionism, the miscellaneous twists in the healthcare debate, a “snow-pocalypse” as the media calls it, and so on. Yet, still, they seem to take just about every other...
Man, the Democrats just cannot seem to find any good news these days. Healthcare reform is stalled, the unemployment picture still isn’t pretty, they have lost their supermajority in the Senate with the arrival of Scott Brown, oh, and Congress has lost about half a month’s work due to the “snowpocalypse”...
In 1994, after a nasty fight over healthcare, a Democratic majority in Congress was defeated by the GOP in President Clinton’s first midterm elections. This of course sounds eerily similar to what could possibly happen this year, in President Obama’s first midterm elections. ...
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