I am hearing a lot of carping lately about how Obama is going to raise taxes and is driving spending through the roof and tanking the economy. As Bill Maher recently said if “McCain had won the economy would be fine because Sarah Palin would still be shopping.”  Katie bar the door; the...

Is there any end to the continuous embarrassment to Republicans and conservatives that is Rush Limbaugh? He is so arrogant in his pronouncements that he makes me want to vomit. He continuously puts Republicans and conservatives in a bad light with the things he says. I remember when he had a brief s...

For years there has been a dwindling moderate Republican contingent of the California Republican Party. A group that supports lower taxes, supposedly small government (whatever that means anymore) and is a bit more—to a lot more—liberal on social issues that is an anathema to the GOP’s ...

Just when I thought I was safe from Republicans campaigning for president, in rides the five governors of the apocalypse. - Sarah Palin, of Alaska - Bobby Jindal, of Louisiana - Mark Sanford, of South Carolina - Haley Barbour, of Mississippi - C.L. “Butch” Otter, of Idaho With America ...

For the last five years Republicans have been played for stooges by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gov. Schwarzenegger has left California Republicans hanging out to dry with his self-centered attitude and amateurism when it comes to politics. One of the tenants of politics is, if I carry water (ie. ...

What have we become as a nation? It seems at every level America is in a state of decline. We are coming off a failed presidency of George W. Bush.  A Presidency that stumbled into the war in Iraq that consumed the last five years of his administration and has brought us to the brink of financi...

It took six ballots and the relentless efforts of insurgent Republican National Committeeman (RNC) Sean Steel, to help put the RNC back on track. It was particularly satisfying to watch the rejection of George W. Bush’s appointee, Chairman Mike Duncan. The faster Republicans purge all things ...

I was appalled last night as I watched the television and video tape feed on the Contra Costa Times Website of the protest at Saint Mary’s College over the fact that Bill Ayers was speaking at the event.  What does it say about a political party when they become everything they used to hate. ...

As I watched Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking to the legislature during the “2009 California State of the State” address, I was reminded of that old BB King song The Thrill is Gone.  This aging Hollywood actor turned politician is at the end of the line politically. The sizzle ...

As California sinks deeper and deeper into financial morass I am starting to look for new types of leadership to head the tarnished Golden State. Governor Arnold is not even putting in a full week in Sacramento any more. He was AOL at the New Years eve announcement of his plan to close the state...