Archive for 'Politics' Category
Buyers remorse. “Seller’s” Remorse.
In 1959, the late great comedic actor Peter Sellers starred in “The Mouse that Roared”, a quirky comedy about a tiny bankrupt nation that decided to declare war on America for the billions of dollars in reconstruction funds they hoped to receive following their crushing defeat (ala The Marshal Plan). Comedy ensues when Sellers and [...]
1.2.3. What are We Fightin’ For? Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan.
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Country Joe & The Fish said it best in their famed anti-Vietnam War song: “1.2.3. What are We Fightin’ For?” A question I’ve been asking myself since President Obama took office.
Last night, President Obama addressed the nation from the West Point Military Academy to tell us he was sending another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan [...]
Thoughts on the Afghan War Prior to Obama’s Speech
This will be a short commentary preceding President Obama’s address to the nation Tuesday night regarding sending additional troops to Afghanistan.
It is expected that President Obama will announce plans to send between 32 and 35 thousand additional troops to Afghanistan, slightly less than the 40,000 General Stanley McChrystal reportedly asked for last September. What conditions [...]
Debunking 8 Ridiculous Myths Against Healthcare Reform.
Saturday, the Senate passed its own healthcare reform bill, which will now go to Committee for melding with the House Bill into a single healthcare reform bill to be voted on by both houses of Congress. Just getting this far was a monumental task. It was passed in the House with only a single Republican [...]
Fox wants to make it harder to fact-check them. Plus video: Bush on trying terrorists
About a month ago, the Obama Administration admitted what we all knew: that Fox News was a mouth-piece for the Republican Party. Fox “News” was SHOCKED, SHOCKED I SAY that the White House might think they were anything but “fair & balanced”. But dutiful bloggers like myself, with the most cursory of online digging (a [...]
Thoughts on a Historic Week: Fort Hood and Healthcare.
Last week was historic for all the right AND wrong reasons. A health care reform bill that includes a “Public Option” with no “triggers” or “phase-in period” passed the House Saturday night after a long ugly battle with Republicans. That was the good.
“The bad”, however, was a killing spree at the Fort Hood Army base [...]
Houston to Elect Openly Gay Mayor. Where’s your “Obama Effect” now?
While the Conservative-controlled media has been obsessing over the Governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia, and asking what a Democratic loss in each state would tell us about “President Obama’s popularity” (according to voters, the answer is “absolutely nothing“), there was one race that slipped in under the radar: the Houston (Texas) Mayor’s race.
Due [...]
Conservative AHIP Says Republican Healthcare Solution Will Do Nothing to Lower Costs.
Back during the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Senator Obama and Senator McCain talked about how they would fix healthcare. While Senator Obama endorsed “the Public Option”, Senator McCain promoted the Republican “free-market” solution: “allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines”, presently restricted by Federal law, which would “increase competition and reduce prices”.
For nearly a year, [...]
Remembering the Bush’s Repeated Criticisms of CBS News
Pity threw a party and nobody came. Last week, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn called Fox News, “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party”:
Fox then spent days whining about the “Obama Administrations’ attack upon Fox News.” Fox “News” Sunday spent a good portion of their show last week bemoaning the [...]
The Nobel Peace Prize, War, and The Generals Bush Replaced
Yes, the Nobel Peace Prize. And yes, I know, questions abound as to what was done to deserve it. You don’t have to say it.
Personally, I think the award should be for “accomplishments” not “expectations”, but one thing was mightily clear… the strongest explanation as to why President Obama received the NPP boils down to [...]
Argh! When even a Super-Majority isn’t enough.
Dear Gawd! Didn’t you think that when a fed-up country flipped control of BOTH houses of Congress in 2006 that we would FINALLY see a change in the disastrous Conservative policies of the past 26 years? And when voters, with their eyes slowly opening like 2-week old puppies, began to realize that Republicans were responsible [...]
Reboot Afghanistan. Here’s How to Win.
A little over 200 years ago, the most powerful military empire on Earth became mired in a decade-long war that ended in humiliating defeat. The locals, consisting mostly of poor uneducated rural farmers and ranchers with few resources, used their “homefield advantage” to eventually defeat the foreign invaders.
If you haven’t already figured it out, I’m [...]
