“Doctor why have you stopped the bypass surgery - the patient is dying!”
“I’m sorry. It’s not bipartisan.”
When “bipartisanship” clogs health care reform, we should bypass it.
[Hat tip to Senator Bernie Sanders for the inspiration.]
Scary. I was listening to NPR this AM and thought of Dean Baker when this went on. It appears he was thinking the same thing.
Tonight Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal channeled the worst of Al Gore and Bert (of Bert and Ernie fame) in his GOP response to President Barack Obama’s economic address to congress. The contrast with Barack Obama’s speech made things even worse. Obama was gracious and addressed major issues with the maturity and importance that […]
Here’s my prescription for a (possibly) competitive Republican Party that I wouldn’t vote for but others might: socially conservative, fiscally liberal Republicans. They would emphasize opportunity through things like infrastructure spending, a substantial (but responsible) social safety net, etc. That brand of GOP, kind of an anti-libertarian party, probably could attract a very […]
Senator Charles Schumer says we should stiff governors who want to take only selective stimulus money for political gain. I agree - this isn’t a game, it’s a world depression. Take the money and do some good - or don’t take it and face your voter’s wrath.
Dear Mr. President,
Recently you discussed wasteful military spending with Senator John McCain, who pointed out that a new naval helicopter assigned to you might reflect wasteful spending. Examples like this, however, aren’t the only examples - even in the Navy.
I am equally concerned about a past practice of having marginally, or perhaps even unqualified […]
Some federal legislation is confusing and hard to evaluate. Sometimes it’s due to complexity - other times it’s because opponents create complexity to mislead the public. Congressman Peter Roskam recently decided to confuse what the recently passed stimulus package does - and then criticize it for what it doesn’t do.
The federal stimulus package […]
This morning on WGN John Williams interviewed Congresswoman Judy Biggert of Hinsdale. John asked Congresswoman Biggert about Congressman Michael Capuano yelling at banker CEOs yesterday at a congressional hearing, quoting him saying, “So basically all or most of you engaged in all or at least some of the activities that actually created this crisis, […]
Michael Steele has recently admitted that he took part in a ghost payroll scheme, receiving money from the state of Maryland from 2003 to 2007, without working at a job there. Those years coincided with Steele’s term as Lt Governor of the state - some sort of volunteer position as he tells it. […]
Washington, D.C. - Republican Senators accused of obstructing the national economic stimulus package pointed out that with 142,099,000 Americans employed in January, and job losses that month of almost 600,000 people, they could keep their own jobs for about 20 years with similar monthly job losses before no one was employed in the United States. […]
