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I asked a friend who works up in Washington for a Congressman, What’s going to happen on the debt ceiling? They’re all, he said, all the leaders, dying to raise it. The Republican leaders will agree to raise the ceiling $2 trillion in exchange for $2 trillion in spending cuts over ten years. …
Read MoreThe U.N. Goes Gay
Richard, the Intellectual, sat down at breakfast and out of sheer devilment looked across the table at Mike the Democrat and said, Well, I see in the newspaper this morning Obama’s now gotten the United Nations to officially go ‘gay, lesbian and transgender’ friendly. Ole’ Will Patton, the lawyer, looked up and said, How’s…
Read MoreCarville’s Advice to Obama
James Carville is still one of the smartest and most perceptive people in politics. Most of all, he knows how to get the hay down to where the goats can get it. So itâs worth sharing his advice to President Obama about the economy, courtesy of CNN: Sir, I’m sure the last thing that you…
Read MoreLukewarm
“To the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write…thou art neither cold nor hot…” Lukewarm seems to be a political watchword up in Washington when it comes to the war in Libya. The House just voted down legislation giving President Obama the authority to continue the war – so the House is…
Read MoreNever in the History of the World
Richard pointed to a newspaper article and said, We’ve built schools and hospitals and highways in Afghanistan to buy good will – but it’s backfired. On one project we paid Afghanistan contractors who turned around and gave $5 million to the Taliban. He went on to explain how a professor at Marine Corps University…
Read MoreObama Defines ‘Hostility’
President Obama’s spending $10 million a day launching drone attacks on Tripoli and dropping bombs on Qaddafi’s compound, but the President’s just sent Congress a message saying we’re not involved in any ‘hostilities’ in Libya – which means he doesn’t have to worry about the War Powers Act and doesn’t need Congress’ approval to go…
Read MoreThe Politics of War
President Obama promised last night – after 10 years of war – that America is finally going to do what some people suggested we do in Vietnam: Declare victory and leave. Nobody will like the comparison, but a lot of Democratic and Republican politicians today put me in mind of George McGovern’s 3 a.m.…
Read MoreThere Will Surely Be A Reckoning
The following article about the war in Afghanistan was in the newspaper Saturday: ABOARD A BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN By ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS, Associated Press The Army medics had just dropped off a Marine wounded in a bombing when one reached over and handed me a scribbled note inside the noisy U.S. helicopter. …
Read MoreGeek Tragedy/Comedy
The Anthony Weiner scandal exposes (so to speak) the deadly mixture of three narcissistic pursuits: politics, social media and the gym. Weiner, by all appearances (so to speak), is a classic political geek: the president of the debate club who wasn’t exactly Cool in School. But in politics, he’s cool. Once he gets to…
Read MoreMore Political Foolishness
Talk about political double talk. President Obama says, Of course, it’s perfectly legal for him to make war on Libya without Congress ever declaring war. How’s that? Because, Obama explained, his war in Libya is not an escalating war. So, after two centuries of believing the Founders wrote only Congress could declare war,…
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