Lot of loose talk about how, whatever else their doing, the Republicans are sticking up for their principles. Most of the talk is from Republicans congratulating themselves and their apologists in the Media sucking up.  But I've detected a rueful admiration on the part of more independent-minde...

I liked how Barney Frank went after Jim "Let It All Come Crashing Down Around Our Ears Just Give My Friends Their Tax Breaks" De Mint last week. "No tax break built a road," Frank told him.  "No tax cut puts a cop on the street." Good stuff to keep in mind.  Important.  What's also im...

Presidents are undone by their vanities.  Even the best ones, with the possible exceptions of Washington and Lincoln, have scuttled their own boats on the shoals and reefs of their own high opinions of themselves. I used to think that Barack Obama might match Washington and Lincoln in having th...

Shorter Republican Congressional Caucus on the stimulus bill: Nevermind that the tax cuts for the rich, screw everyone else economic policies we and President Bush pursued for the last eight years caused this mess, if President Obama pursues the exact same tax cuts for the rich, screw everyone else ...

Unless the aliens landed before noon Tuesday and he donned his old flight suit, jumped into the cockpit of an F-14 conveniently parked on the White House lawn, kept fueled up and with rockets armed for eight years for just such an emergency, and flew off into the skies to shoot down all the flying s...

I liked this part of the President's Inaugural address--- Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. ---more because of the follow-up later than for the chas...

You probably know the type.  Character in the office, around the neighborhood, in your family who manages to involve everybody around them in their personal dramas? Usually it's the case that all they want is to talk about it.  They don't even want you to listen, just sit there and pretend...

Hate to admit it, but I hadn't been paying much attention to the talk that Caroline Bouvier Kennedy might become my state's Senator. I figured the talk was just that, talk, Media types expressing their half-wish, half-belief that politics is a 1980s style night time soap opera like Dynasty o...

Of course I don't know Barack Obama or anything about what makes him tick, and how could I?  Why should I?  I don't need to know who he is, only what he's doing.  But I don't feel that I know him.  And I have a feeling that I'm never going to feel I know him.  Not the way I ...

No way!  NO WAY! No way Obama should be polling 10 points behind here in New York than what he's polling in Nevada! No way he should be polling 8 points behind here than what's polling in Texas! Good Lord!  Obama's even doing better in Florida. Oh the shame of it.  How I cry for thee ...