For what it’s worth, the Republicans don’t seem to be in favor of much of anything these days that actually makes sense. On the one hand, I can understand their fixation on reducing the deficit; that is something this country needs to tackle before it gets much worse. Then they say they are in favor…
A brief note before jumping into this week’s post: I love writing the longer posts, though they take so much time to do the way I would like to do them that one or two of them a week is about all I could do with the longer ones. Therefore, I will be putting more…
Today, we saw a repeat of what happened the last few months with regard to the special extensions to unemployment benefits; on Tuesday, millions of Americans will, once again, see an interruption in their unemployment checks thanks to Congress balking at extending the measures that were intended to only be temporary. At least this time,…
[tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] If there were ever an unfortunate name to have in politics, it would be the situation that Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) currently faces. As head of the House Rules Committee, she is being given the dubious honor of having a dubious idea to pass health care reform in the House of Representatives…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=News&iid=7997266" src="1/4/a/7/US_President_Obama_6e24.JPG?adImageId=10462564&imageId=7997266" width="380" height="268" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] 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 very…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=Evan+Bayh&iid=7667778" src="1/9/8/2/Sens_McCain_Bayh_b570.JPG?adImageId=10353022&imageId=7667778" width="380" height="519" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] 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 week…
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