Things Will Get Worse Before They’ll Get Better
House leaders have agreed on a compromise continuing spending resolution at the same level as before from October 2012 through March 2013. It’s likely now that the President(s?) will probably try to...
View ArticleRyan’s Follies: A Crushing Burden of Public Debt
Paul Ryan (photo: love4utah / flickr) In celebration of Paul Ryan’s nomination, and in consideration of his reputation among Washington, DC villagers as a fiscal guru, I thought it might be fun to do a...
View ArticleRyan’s Follies: Oy! Taxes, Decline, and Austerity
More on Ryan’s follies and the overall quality of thinking we find in this young “guru”! Here’s more from his answer to the President’s 2011 SOTU. ”On this current path, when my three children – who...
View ArticleRyan’s Follies: Health Care Reform, Bankruptcy, and Tipping Points
Still more Ryan’s follies from his answer to the President’s 2011 SOTU. On the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ”Then the President and his party made matters even worse, by creating a new open-ended health...
View ArticleRyan’s Follies: Bureaucracy, Austerity, and Depression
Here’s the next group of Ryan’s follies from his answer to the President’s 2011 SOTU. On bureaucracy and innovation: ”Depending on bureaucracy to foster innovation, competitiveness, and wise consumer...
View ArticleNo, Barack, It Just Ain’t Gonna Happen!
Who else thinks the President’s speech didn’t include any plans to create the 29 million full-time jobs for the dis-employed? Please raise your hand! About jobs he said: ”We can help big factories and...
View ArticleNo Plan B?
Woodward (photo: Bektour / wikimedia) Bob Woodward’s releasing a new book, so we are now seeing articles based on it. A few days back, The Washington Post published the ”Inside story of Obama’s...
View ArticleAlan Grayson’s Right; But He Misses the Larger Point
The Cliffs of Sanity (Photo: aeu04117/flickr) Alan Grayson’s e-mail on Moody’s warning that it might reduce the US’s AAA rating, suggested that Moody’s was either threatening a downgrade because it...
View ArticlePromises for America
(Photo: Vectorportal/flickr) The polling since the conventions shows that Democrats are doing better than expected. President Obama now apparently has a clear lead over Mitt Romney. Democratic Party...
View ArticleThese Folks are Soooo Clever . . .
Last week, Reps. Michael Honda, Keith Ellison, Raul Grijalva, Jan Schakowsky, John Conyers, Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey stalwarts of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) begged for mercy from...
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