Wouldn’t you love to have been a fly on the wall as the Republican House members debated what to do yesterday? All week John Boehner and company have been saying that nothing could be done unless the Senate was called back. After approving a 60 day extension on tax cuts for the middle class and [...]
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A glorious attempt at failure
Posted in Accountability, America, Congress, Integrity, My Beloved Country, Opinions, President Obama, Tea Party on November 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What did we expect? Did anyone in his or her right mind expect that this “super committee” of bipartisan senators and representatives…believe that the committee could possibly be successful? It was impossible. Obama knew it. Members of Congress knew it. Economics think tankers weren’t even taking bets or conducting office pools. This super committee was [...]
Stop the protests and get to work
Posted in Accountability, America, Changing yourself, Congress, Corruption, Demonstrations, Greed, Opinions, Politics, Tea Party on November 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I don’t like protests. They will always conjure up a picture in my mind that is ugly and served no purpose. The protest of which I’m speaking occurred in the late sixties. S.I. Hayakawa a semanticist and Professor of English at a California University, was scheduled to speak at Northeastern University in Boston. At that [...]
