Do as I say
English: President Barack Obama speaks to a joint session of Congress regarding health care reform (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Do as I say, not do as I do. When Congress votes to repeal Obamacare, all of...
View ArticleHypocrisy
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The ripe odor of hypocrisy fills the air with its rotten scent. This morning I saw a blog...
View ArticleGrand Old Party?
English: Official photo cropped of United States Senator and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Official portrait of United States House Speaker (R-Ohio). (Photo credit:...
View ArticleSave USPS
United States Postal Service (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In the next election, not only are we voting to re-elect Barack Obama, we are also voting to save the US Postal Service from destruction by...
View ArticleUncertainty
Racial breakdown of households with six figure incomes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In life only death and taxes are certain, and Congress is always fiddling with the tax code. If you are in business,...
View ArticleFiscal cliff
079 Capitol Hill United States Congress 1993 (Photo credit: David Holt London) Be not afraid. The fiscal cliff is a not a cliff; it is more a fiscal bump in the road. Do not let the economic ignorance...
View ArticleYoung Guns part 2
English: Official portrait of Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-CA22) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The GOP members of Congress who style themselves as the Young Guns are Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and Kevin...
View ArticleDysfunctional government
The red “GOP” logo used by the party for its website (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This should be the GOP Party slogan: We are the party that puts fun in dysfunctional and angry white men in government....
View ArticleImpeachment
English: Grover Norquist at a political conference in Orlando, Florida. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Three GOP members of Congress are threatening to impeach President Obama over his executive orders to...
View ArticleThugs
speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Right wing commentators wrongly characterize union members as thugs. I have been waiting for an opportunity to use...
View ArticleGuns rule
AR-15 (Photo credit: subtlemd) Fear sells Truth tells GOP lies No surprise NRA says, “Jump” Congress, “How high?” FOX lies Democracy dies Smoke clears Victims scream Survivor tears AR-15s trump Will of...
View ArticleUS Post Office
English: U.S. Post Office – Los Angeles Terminal Annex (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Neither rain, nor snow Nor gloom of night Will stay these carriers From the swift completion Of their rounds. Only the...
View ArticleHow to recover our democracy
English: The western front of the United States Capitol. The Neoclassical style building is located in Washington, D.C., on top of Capitol Hill at the east end of the National Mall. The Capitol was...
View ArticleCongress
English: The western front of the United States Capitol. The Neoclassical style building is located in Washington, D.C., on top of Capitol Hill at the east end of the National Mall. The Capitol was...
View Article“Just say no”
Official White House photograph of Nancy Reagan, wife to then-President of the United States Ronald Reagan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There are too many Reagan Republicans in the US Congress, not...
View ArticleJob #1
079 Capitol Hill United States Congress 1993 (Photo credit: David Holt London) Jobs are job #1 for the GOP in Congress. What they mean by that, but don’t say, is preserving their jobs in Congress is...
View ArticleGood news/bad news
English: The western front of the United States Capitol. The Neoclassical style building is located in Washington, D.C., on top of Capitol Hill at the east end of the National Mall. The Capitol was...
View ArticleInsanity
079 Capitol Hill United States Congress 1993 (Photo credit: David Holt London) Insanity is doing something over and over and expecting different results. The GOP in Congress have voted 40 times to...
View ArticleOne nation under God?
Francis Galton, the English eugenicist who wrote extensively on the relation between intelligence and social class (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Is the US a Christian nation? Many on the Right insist that...
View ArticleDo-nothing Congress
United States Capitol Building (Photo credit: Jack’s LOST FILM) How little could a do-nothing Congress do If a do-nothing Congress did nothing at all. This Congress is on course to be the do-nothing...
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