“But really, Joe Biden really drags down that ticket.”– Sarah Palin, on FOX’s On the Record, August 13, 2012On Tuesday, Sarah Palin, political savant and John McCain’s recurrent nightmare, strutted her Ph.D.-level knowledge of...
For the second time since February 2009, I’m republishing “Is The GOP Actively Courting a Depression?” Why? Recently, renewed speculation that this may indeed be the case reminded me that I’ve believed this was...
This morning on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown, Iowa’s GOP Governor Terry Branstad called up all the verbal gymnastics he could muster to avoid answering Chuck Todd’s initial question about Branstad’s stance on same-sex marriage issues...
If we could harness it to good purpose, there’s enough gas in analysts of gasoline prices to run the world for a thousand years. Particularly gassy are the GOP presidential contestants who assert the...
About supercommittee hysteria . . . I wonder how that happened . . . DUH . . . It’s commonplace now, but still astonishing, the sense of panic consistently created by our news outlets,...
Tonight, The Hill reports that the new GOP deficit reduction plan presented to the Democratic Supercommittee members is as popular as a hippie at a square dance, or less. To say that Democrats were...
Ed. – – And some people wonder why Wall Street remains occupied territory. ProPublica published the following story to explain why. It’s a “where are they now” that trumps even the astonishing Brady Bunch: Where...
From our nemeses in the GOP we constantly hear how the Obama administration has during its tenure failed to create any jobs whatever. Of course, that’s patently false. This, in turn, proves to already-made-up...
Wall Streeters have much to say about the Wall Street Occupiers. Mostly they are dismissive, hostile, amused. Some, though, in their public statements, have been less so, some have seemingly taken the high ground, praising...
Why did the GOP congressional leadership send a snail-mail missive to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke? Haven’t they gotten the news about “e-mail”? Do they need pen pals that badly? Do they need a...
