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Guns and the False Threat of Tyranny in America
Tweet Share on Facebook January 24, 2013 CommentLet's say you're making lunch in the kitchen while your kids play in the living room. When you come in with their mid-day meal, the place is a disaster. You look at them. They look at you. And before you know it they're blurting out something like "the elephant did it!"
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Hannity, Shapiro, and the Politics of Situational Patriotism
Tweet Share on Facebook January 17, 2013 CommentRemember when conservatives used to say, "America, love it or leave it"? When just about any protest coming from somewhere else along the ideological spectrum was cause to question that person's loyalty and love of country? Ah yes. Those were the days.
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On Debt Ceiling, House GOP Puts Principle Over Responsibility
Tweet Share on Facebook January 10, 2013 CommentLast week, as most Republicans were going through the desultory process of returning John Boehner to the speaker's chair, some brave souls offered a handful of alternatives. You remember ... a couple cast their votes for Allen West (who had already been voted out of Congress). One suggested former U.S. Comptroller David Walker (who's never been a member of Congress at all).
I didn't think much of it at the time, but the dysfunction on display in the Republican caucus these days is making me reconsider. I mean really, why not reach outside Congress to find someone else to lead? One could hardly do worse.
So as a service to our country, I have come up with the following modest proposal for House reform: replace the Speaker with a Coracias garrulus. That's right. For lack of a more delicate term, it's the vomit bird.
