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The Last Two Speakers On Monday, the esteemed Supercommittee failed in it’s one and only job, finding a way to cut 1.2 trillion dollars from the federal budget deficit in the next ten years. It failed as everything Congress has attempted to do in the past five or so years has failed. It failed because both political parties have been blaming the other side for their ineptitude. Congress has come to be known as the “do nothing Cong…
Today is MLK Day, a federal holiday observing the birthday of the foremost spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the American civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Although Dr. King, a registered Republican, was born on January 15, the holiday is always observed on the third Monday in January as part of The Uniform Monday Holiday Act. The federal holiday wasn’t an easy one to get passed in Congress. It was initially introduced …
… “If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly. That’s right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.” And, what happens to Grayson: Nothing! The Democratic Congress does nothing. Speaker Pelosi says she will not force him to apologize or withdraw his statement. A resolution along the lines of the one rebuking Wilson is introduced in the House by the Republicans and fails. This …
…ing given to a Democrat in this column. A bet a whole bunch of you never thought that would happen! I wish I could say the same about anyone else in the Democratic Party. But, unfortunately I cannot. The Democratic members of Congress are currently walking around the country attending town hall meetings with their constituents and are holding scripted material with speaking points probably written by the DNC or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid on how t…
…ng to “vote present.” Therefore, if the Spineless Wonder does nothing, the pipeline is approved. How diabolical! So in essence, the President who’s been running around the country telling his sycophants that “I can’t wait for Congress to act,” will himself be forced to act by an act of Congress. Ah, sweet irony. He will have to decide whether to greenlight a project that could launch 20,000 of those shovel ready jobs he’s been searching for like…
… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, e…
…ant is dead. Maybe it is time to be rid of mythology. How often have we heard that Bush’s administration engaged in illegal wars and never asked for a declaration of war? The reality is that both Bush administrations asked Congress for the right to use force if needed. There was a debate before the buildup toward war, and Congress was given the opportunity to say yea or nay. You can easily make the case that Congress allowed both Bush’s a de…
…rary to what I said in a prior column. To begin with, the government mistook the popularity of the program and only allocated one billion dollars of stimulus money to the bill. That money ran out in less than two weeks. Then, Congress immediately allocated another two billion dollars. That money is running out in less than four weeks. Another Big Government miscalculation! But, the problem with “Cash for Clunkers” is even deeper than that. Automo…
…ing of his Party, especially its leadership, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. If he governs from the center as promised, things will not be too bad. If he doesn’t, we are going to have a long two years until we can get control of Congress back. This little essay is to hopefully engineer what the Republican Party must do to get back into the mainstream thinking of the American people. We must create a plan and vision that will win back the faith of th…
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
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