Posts Tagged ‘John Boehner’
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Regular Order
Posted on October 1, 2010
When Denny Hastert started as Speaker of the House, he promised, after four tumultuous years of Newt Gingrich, to bring regular order back to the lower chamber. To Hastert, regular...
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Slime
Posted on September 30, 2010
Bill Murray’s character in the movie “Ghostbusters,” Dr. Peter Venkman, had the iconic line: “He slimed me!” The Democratic Party has taken on the role of the Ghosts in “Ghostbusters”:...
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Mixing the Message on Purpose
Posted on September 14, 2010
John Boehner, the House Minority Leader, mixed his message on the tax battle on purpose this weekend. I, for one, think it was a pretty clever move. Bob Schieffer, the...
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Education
Posted on August 12, 2010
Three teachers helped spark something in me that made my education worth something. I wasn’t a very studious student in grade school or high school. I didn’t have much in...
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Desperation
Posted on July 1, 2010
To paraphrase Pink Floyd, “desperation is the Obama way.” The President and his Democratic colleagues are desperate to find any angle to try to change the course of the coming...
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