Lee Atwater, love him or hate him, was a unique piece of work in American political history. He was a South Carolina-born, guitar-playing rhythm-and-blues politico who helped start dozens of Red, Hot and Blue Barbecue restaurants around the South. He also happened to help, in his spare time, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush 41 […]
I believe that the OWS crowd has a legitimate beef with the Wall Street Barons who: -Made all the financial/investment mistakes imaginable leading up to the Crash of 2008 that is still lingering with us; -Ran to Washington to get bailed out; and -Now have had all of their wealth restored and kept their jobs with […]
Nobody ever won a war with a string of Pyrrhic victories. You remember King Pyrrhus, he who ‘won’ two major battles with the Romans only to ‘lose’ in the long run because he ran out of men? Just like no football team ever won the national championship with a string of ‘moral victories’ (meaning ‘close […]
A very high-level and important person said that this is the answer President Obama gave when he was asked why he did not introduce the Bowles-Simpson (let’s call it BS for brevity’s sake) recommendations as a bill in the US Congress: The Chicago Guys would not let me do it. Just who is the President […]
When you see that macho ‘burly-man’ senior on the AARP commercials threatening the Super Committee from discussing any reductions to SS/Medicare, show him this chart: You know the ad I’m talking about. The one where the burly-looking senior looks in the camera like John Wayne and intones something to this effect: ‘You mess with our Social […]
America is great because: A) We have great infrastructure; public education and public welfare systems, or B) People have the freedom to make and create whatever products or services they want to and are only constrained by their creative energies. Massachusetts Senate Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren recently fired the opening salvo in her campaign against […]
‘My Fellow Americans: Now is not the time to weep or moan. Now is not the time to look back and assess blame. I have made more than my fair share of mistakes. People in Congress on both sides of the aisle, on Wall Street, in the Big Banks, in Detroit and in the mortgage […]
You would like to think that someone in Washington must know how to ‘create jobs’ with all the talk that emanates from the White House and Capitol Hill on a daily basis, wouldn’t you? If you listen to Republicans talk, you would be led to believe that all you have to do is ‘swear on […]
Now that S&P has fired a shot across the bow of the United States in terms of a debt downgrade, maybe it is time for the adults to show up in the room in Washington and dictate the next steps. If there are any, that is. There are many good reasons for being unabashedly for […]
When the National Mall’s Port-A-Johnnies are shut down. No kidding. It happened before in 1995. It will happen again in 2011 or something very similar. President Gerald Ford, one of the greatest spending bill veto-wielding Presidents in the history of the American Republic, coined the phrase: ‘Our long national nightmare is now over’ when he […]
