Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
November 30, 2010
Wow, did we show them! In these trying economic times, we ran through Black Friday and days following like a bottle of Epsom Salts. I first thought that front page Globe photos were of looters leaving Big Box stores. It was loot, all right, meaning discounted largesse from retail corporations. And here we thought we […]
Posted in Politics |
Tags: ConocoPhillips, Dick Armey, FreedomWorks, Joe Miller, JPMorgan Chase, Ken Buck, Rand Paul, Rolls Royce, TARP, Tea Party protests, The economy, the Stimulus, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, United States Chamber of Commerce
2 Comments »
November 23, 2010
This year will be no different than any other. We give no thanks to presidents till they’re out of office. Till then, we give them a lot of lip, like kids who think their parents are dumb and later realize they’re were pretty smart after all. This is especially true since JFK. The so-called “seer” […]
Posted in Politics |
Tags: Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton, Bitburg Cemetery, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Helmut Kohl, JFK, John Boehner, Lyndon B. Johnson, Michelle Obama, Ronald Reagan, White House
2 Comments »
November 8, 2010
One can only hope that the arrival, at last, of voting day and of therapeutic release through balloting, may have broken the fever of too many months of extreme emotion. But such emotion must be seen for what it was–and wasn’t. We were first told that the electorate was seized by anger, and I had […]
Posted in Politics |
Tags: Anger, Anger and Hostility, Barney Frank, Emotion, Fox Broadcasting Company, Tea Party
4 Comments »
November 3, 2010
Wednesday morn, cup o’ joe in hand, I turned to major news channels for post election analysis–CNN’s usual straight election reportage complete with views from Dems and Publicans, and Fox’s “fair and balanced” anaylsis limited to the things they could most crow about: Ohio, Ohio, Ohio. “Fox and Friends” is the lamest stab at truth-telling […]
Posted in Politics |
Tags: Carl Paladino, Carly Fiorina, Christine O'Donnell, CNN, Deb Whitman, Fox and Friends, Ken Buck, Linda McMahon, Lisa Murkowski, Midterm elections, Obama, Sarah Palin, Tea Party
3 Comments »
October 26, 2010
Or mad women for that matter. A great part of the electorate in this year of our Lord 2010 is described as “angry.” Oh, tell them to get over themselves. What are we supposed to do, run and hide when they show up? Actually, that’s what some people do, to wit, stay home and not […]
Posted in Politics |
Tags: Credit card debt, Foreclosure scandal, George W. Bush, Interest rates, Mad Men, Mortgage Bankers Association, Polls, Reagans' taxes, Truman, Voting
1 Comment »
October 22, 2010
In this ridiculous political climate, attacks focus not only on the President, but his wife and his religion. First Ladies usually are immune from public criticism, unless they’re Democrats, of course. Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong but when her hubby was found to be a cad, somehow she was considered party to it. Michele Obama […]
Posted in Politics, Social Issues |
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Maher, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jeremiah Wright, Oval Office, Pat Nixon, Ronald Reagan, United States
1 Comment »
October 14, 2010
If ever the American electorate went mad, this is the moment. People have scoured the past for prior insanity but came up short. The 1960s were close, considering Vietnam, the Nixon era and Watergate, not to forget the Generation Gap, a renewal of the Civil War’s “father against son, brother against brother”–not to mention the […]
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture |
Tags: CBS News, Colbert Report, Comedy Central, Daily Show, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, United States
2 Comments »
October 9, 2010
Sometimes when I get Up To Here with all the blah-blah about taxes, I drive down to Newport, RI–the mecca for all who dream of a world devoid of taxation. It is there and among yesteryear’s houses of the poor smothered rich that I can smell, as well as understand, why some people today wish […]
Posted in Politics |
Tags: GOP, Missouri vote on health care, Newport RI, Personal income tax, right wing, Taxation, Taxes, wealth
4 Comments »
September 9, 2010
Anything Obama says or does will be criticized by the radical right, who are masquerading as “conservatives,” though not worthy of the name. It warmed my heart to see him give voice to religious freedom in regard to the mosque center–and he did not “back off” or “qualify” that stance the following day. Whoever can […]
Posted in Guns Control, Politics, Race in America, Religion, Social Issues |
Tags: FDR, Guns, JFK, Lincoln, Manhattan mosque center, Obama, Reagan, right wing, the Bushes
3 Comments »
Ichabod's Kin 