On August 2, the day the nation’s debt ceiling deal was finally enacted, we were given yet another example of how true moderation has ceased to exist in America. The deal inexplicably ignores reality by withdrawing $1 trillion from the economy despite pallid growth rates and cutting federal benefits for the unemployed despite soaring unemployment rates. It insists that we [...]
As far back as November President Obama was aware that Congress was going to have to raise the debt ceiling. It’s anyone’s guess why he thought it better to wait until the 112th Congress was seated in January, but he did. He was rewarded with weeks of grueling negotiations resulting in a deal passed by Congress on the final day [...]
Here we are — four days until the federal government hits the debt ceiling and Washington remains under lockdown as a debt limit increase bill has yet to be passed. The struggle, of course, is not over whether the debt ceiling will be increased — both parties are of the consensus that the limit must go up — but over [...]
On Wednesday, as debt deal talks continued to consume most politicians inside the beltway, the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls stepped away from politics as usual toward the politics of the future — a Twitter debate. With all of the quoting (read: retweeting), finger-pointing (read: @mentioning) and following (read: following) inherent in any political debate, the Republican contenders and their followers [...]
The magazine National Journal does a survey each week called the Political Insiders Poll. In the June 4th issue, the editors asked insiders from both parties to answer different questions. Democrats were asked, “Who would be the Republicans’ strongest presidential nominee in 2012?” That list was short, with clear front-runners. The first choice was, as with the Republicans, Mitt Romney [...]
Art by Kailun Wang Thomas Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton. James Madison. These are just a few of the prolific members of a generation of Americans that determined the destiny of our nation. The countless tributes to their respective names include street signs, public squares, dollar bills, and universities. As our founding fathers, they are unquestionably among the most influential and culturally [...]
On November 9, 2010, Tina Fey was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Known for her spot-on impressions of the former Vice Presidential candidate and Alaskan Governor, she made certain to give credit where credit was due, to the woman who provided her with the material that made her a sensation: Sarah Palin. But instead of making a [...]
by Garrett Saito January 3, 2011 is going to be the beginning of the end for the Tea Party movement. The day Tea Party darlings Pat Toomey (R-PA), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) are sworn in as US Senators is the day they will begin to share responsibility for the problems facing the United States. From that day on, these Tea Party test cases will realize the harsh truth of
President Barack Obama appeared this past Wednesday on Jon Stewart’s, The Daily Show as part of Stewart’s weeklong special in Washington leading up to the mid term elections (or perhaps better described on The Daily Show website as his “MIDTERM TEAPARTY GANZA”). This coverage is leading up to his much-hyped “Rally to Restore Sanity,” which is scheduled to kick off [...]
It may be that, at long last, the right wing has begun to take aim at itself, find a way to separate the wheat from the chaff, and attempt to harness productively the tremendous surge in anger and resentment that has propelled it these past two years. (Note: I realize that the news du jour is Stanley McChrystal. But he [...]
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