A Problem Congress Can Solve

Years ago a doctor asked my mother her definition of happiness and without batting an eye she said: Love and money.   When it came to fundamentals mother got right down to brass tacks.   A while back up in Washington a piece of the federal government – theNational Academy of Sciences – decided Congress needed to…

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2014

Millions of dollars will be spent and billions of words spilled, but only one thing will decide this election: Will voters be madder at President Obama or at Republicans in the legislature?   On today’s market, the outlook for Democrats is as chilling as a New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge. For two months, the…

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E.T.

When I saw the headline I thought it must be a hoax but it turned out to be true: Congress, which hasn’t passed a budget in memory, had held a dead-serious, high-level, official hearing to establish whether there is extra-terrestrial intelligence in the universe.   As one wit quipped on the Washington Post’s website, First, they…

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Pickpockets

You would think by now out of sheer boredom Congressmen would be looking for new ways to fool voters but, undeterred at using the same old worn-out trick again, just before Christmas eager-beaver Paul Ryan rolled out his new budget, saying how he’d made a deal with the Democrats to cut spending and cut the…

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A Symbol

The newspaper headline read: Dome, full of cracks. And the newspaper reported: The aging iron dome ‘is slowly crumbling…riddled with hundreds of cracks and rust.’   The dome is the Capitol Dome. But the newspaper could just as easily have been writing about Congress itself.

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