July 8, 2011
DeMint The Moderate
Is Jim DeMint becoming a moderate? I ask that question because his insistence that a balanced budget amendment be included in any extension of the debt limit is not really that conservative. Indeed, if you look at it clearly, attaching...
July 7, 2011
Reductio Ad Absurdem
Reduced to the absurd. Ideologues on both sides of the philosophical divide fall dangerously into this trap. Conservatives who believe that government does not need to exist are every bit as wrong as liberals who believe that the private market...
July 6, 2011
Tax Sham
Nonsense. The President’s position on taxes is complete and total nonsense. He has made a big deal out of taxing corporate jets. I remember when Bill Clinton made a big deal out of taxing yachts in the mid-nineties. He called...
July 5, 2011
The Declining Art of Negotiation
Otto Habsburg, the last heir to the throne of the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire and oldest member of the Habsburg family, died yesterday at the age of 98. The Habsburg family used to be kind of a big deal in Europe,...
July 5, 2011
Fireworks and Freedom
I am writing this blog post as I watch the Capitol Fourth on public television. When I worked on the Hill, I used to have access to the Capitol building, and I could watch it in person. Believe me, it...
July 1, 2011
You Dick
Sure it’s disrespectful. That is the whole point. When someone calls you out for being a dick, they are saying that you are unnecessarily being a jerk, a tool, an idiot. Mark Halperin got it exactly right yesterday. The President...