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On Spending, Congress Will Take the Coward's Way Out
Tweet Share on Facebook March 2, 2011 Comment (1)Before Congress and the president finally agree on a budget, there will be many twists and turns in this saga. Well-connected special pleaders with more access to policymakers than ordinary citizens are already at work trying to preserve what they regard as sacrosanct. Several weighed in last Sunday in the Washington Post. All argued that the cause they advocate comprises a very small part of the budget and that cutbacks will not make a significant dent in the deficit.
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Obama Should Send U.S. Troops Into Libya
Tweet Share on Facebook March 2, 2011 Comment (21)Qadhafi is a madman, a dictator, and is committing genocide. He was our enemy, our friend, and now our enemy again. Sound familiar? It should. It reads like a page from the U.S.-Saddam Hussein handbook.
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New Polls Bring More Bad News for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2011 Comment (54)A trio of new surveys bring more bad news for embattled Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker. All three show that the public is taking a dim view of union-busting efforts, and all three have results that more or less dovetail with each other.
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Canada Shows Universal Healthcare Doesn't Mean Universal Health
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2011 Comment (5)A study of 14,800 Canadians—all of whom, it goes without saying, have access to the country’s universal, single-payer healthcare system—found that disparities in health outcomes between low- and high-income citizens are incredibly stubborn.
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Pressure Mounts on Defunding Planned Parenthood Over Abortion
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2011 Comment (11)Just about two weeks ago, the U.S. House of Representatives, as part of the continuing resolution to fund the operations of the federal government through the end of the current fiscal year, adopted a measure that cuts off funding to Planned Parenthood, by some estimates the nation’s largest provider of abortions.
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Donald Trump in 2012? That's Just Silly
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2011 Comment (18)There is a time in the yearly news cycle commonly known as "the silly season," a period in which people do stupid but often harmless things that make for amusing copy. Usually, this occurs during the heat of summer, or when there’s little actual substance to examine, such as two wars, an economy wrestling itself out of recession, and uncertainty in the Middle East.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the Mad City Machiavelli
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2011 Comment (36)Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker never graduated from college, though the University of Wisconsin is one of the finest public universities in the land. (Thanks, President Lincoln!)
Walker fancies himself a second coming of President Ronald Reagan--okay, without the charm, looks or political finesse--although he just took office in January as a Republican in a state soaked in progressive history and politics. (Thanks, Sens. Robert La Follette and Russ Feingold!)
Before he dropped out of college, Walker must have read Niccolo Machiavelli's classic Renaissance power tract, The Prince. Give the governor this: he's a formidable opponent, thanks to a grandiose sense of purpose. In a few winter weeks, Walker revealed himself to be a ruthless, calculating and mean-spirited man in a corner hideaway of Madison's state capitol, which has jammed with thousands of protestors inside the rotunda and out there on the square.
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