December 6, 2012
A Policy Wonk Friend of Mine
A policy wonk friend of mine sent this to me. As readers of the Feehery Theory, you know that I have written about Hegel before. Here is another twist on it: The philosopher G.W.F. Hegel came up with a method...
December 6, 2012
Least Among Us
It is in the Book of Matthew that you can read, “I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’” No country does more for the least...
December 5, 2012
Costas-Gate
I like Bob Costas. I like how he presents himself. I actually got a chance to meet him on the set of a show we did together, and he came across as a very reasonable, slightly conservative, well put-together guy. ...
December 4, 2012
Offer, Counter-Offer
Republicans went all crazy yesterday and countered the White House with a fiscal cliff proposal that was first dreamed up by that crazy right-winger Erskine Bowles. Bowles, who used to toil in the trenches as Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff...
December 4, 2012
Reinvent the Safety Net
From today’s Hill. We need to rethink America’s social safety net. We need to make it stronger for people who desperately need it and we need to get rid of it for folks who don’t. There are four distinct groups...
December 3, 2012
Twelfth Month
A very good friend of mine, who shall remain nameless, made this pretty startling statement to me a while ago: “I hate December.” When I was a child, I always liked December. First, my birthday is in December, and as...