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Looking for cover
Responsibility is an endangered species inside the Beltway, but cowardice seems to be thriving. Any time our politicians are afraid to address a sensitive subject, they either wait for their...
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Shut down the U.S. Postal Service?
Government is good at one thing and only one thing, and that’s blowing up stuff. We aren’t good at spending money for the bombs, nor the delivery vehicles or the technology, but in the end we produce...
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You better be sitting for this…
The next time you go to a movie, look around the auditorium and consider how many of those in the theater are paying anything in federal income taxes; I bet you’d be surprised. If there was one thing...
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Theater of the absurd
Many of you may not be aware, but there was a vote to increase the debt ceiling in the House of Representatives this evening just after 7:00PM EDT. It’s still a little puzzling as to why the vote was...
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How much is too much to create a job?
It’s an interesting dilemma. When the Obama administration took its first dip into the deficit spending pool, they went right into the deep end with 3/4 of a trillion of red ink in his stimulus...
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Debt ceiling: Crisis or political gamesmanship?
If you’re to believe Treasury Department officials, including the Secretary Timothy Geithner, when August 2nd arrives the U.S. government will be unable to pay its debts. The problem with this crisis...
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Obama, House and Senate reach debt ceiling deal
Given the choice of driving into a brick wall at 100 miles per hour or hitting the same wall at 70 miles per hour, the latter would seem to be the better choice; such has been the theme of the debt...
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While Rome burns, Congress and the White House go on vacation
What would it take for the Congress and the White House to take the country’s current financial crisis seriously enough to put their month-long vacation on hold and take immediate action on the debt?...
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Warren Buffet: Please tax me more!
Because many wealthy Liberals are losing sleep at night, feeling they are not paying their fair share of taxes, they lump all successful people into the category of people who are somehow scamming the...
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Democrats and Republicans plan to spend their way into 2012
Tea Party be damned! The Democrats and Republicans will spend with abandon this Holiday season to avoid being labeled uncaring. The House and Senate are set to spend approximately $120 billion to...
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CBO Issues Report of the Obvious
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report today stating that if the tax cuts signed into law by President George W. Bush are extended and the current spending spree continues, the federal...
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Stockton, California Files for Bankruptcy
Amidst the hullabaloo over Obamacare, the contempt charges against Attorney General Holder, staggering news came out of the northern California city of Stockton which became the largest city to file...
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Fiscal cliff negotiations not going well
Negotiations to avert the “fiscal cliff” have not gone well. After meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, House Speaker John Boehner said Geithner offered no “specific” plan for averting the...
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GOP issues plan to avert fiscal cliff
President Obama has been traveling around the country telling the GOP to show their hand; and now they have. Monday the House Republicans released their own proposal to avoid sending the nation over...
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Grover Norquist’s Christmas Gift To John Boehner
After what appeared, even to this author, to be the nail in the coffin of the speakership of John Boehner, an angel came to his defense offering the Speaker a much-needed lifeline. The power behind...
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GOP goes into complete surrender mode on debt
Without the first shot being fired GOP members of the House are already waving the white flag of surrender. The House will vote this week to raise the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling for three...
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GOP governors cave on ObamaCare Medicaid expansion
Republican governors are beginning to cave on the implementation of expanded Medicaid eligibility and some of the names are quite disappointing. The first governor to roll over was Ohio Governor John...
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White House tours: No. White House concerts: Yes!
Imagine, your school has been gathering funds from bake sales, car washes and donations for a long-awaited trip to the nation’s capital to tour the monuments, the US Capitol building and the White...
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How the ACU is selling out Conservatism
The Republican Party is going through a transition that doesn’t bode well for an organization that has dubbed itself the party of responsible government. Now one of the nation’s largest and oldest...
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