Meanwhile, back in Washington the dysfunctional government continues to dysfunction. Even the most simple, the most obvious, the most reasonable solutions to government overspending seem beyond the ability of the president or Congress to comprehend or implement.
While Mr. Obama is busy spiking the Osama bin Laden ball in the end zone — while telling the rest of us not to spike the ball in the end zone — we might consider [Biden’s] latest clunker.
Why, you ask, do the progressive elites want to stuff the middle class into high-density housing and force them out of their cars on to mass transit?
Jonathon Swift, if you recall, penned “Gulliver’s Travels” as a satire on human nature, and it is as fresh today as it was in 1726.
Should you try to quote any of this at the end of the season just to humiliate me, I will simply say you’ve taken it out of context. Why not? Works for the political class.
RICHARD L. HERSHATTER Contributing Columnist hershatter@lbknews.com The crystal ball grows dimmer; The contest has been fun; But don’t predict the winner, Too much damage has been done. “And the days dwindle down…to a precious few… September…November…” So the song goes. Twenty-one Republican debates ago, with nine or 10 feisty candidates in contention, most observers would [...]
While the future of ObamaCare is an important political question, the really important issue before the court is whether they will finally draw the line on the power of the Commerce Clause or say goodbye to James Madison’s system of limited and divided government powers.
Trick question: no one will really control the Senate come January 2013 as neither party has a realistic chance to reach the 60 seats required to break filibusters. Still, it is important for a party to have even a 51 to 49 majority as it allows that party to control the committees, set the floor debate and determine what bills are considered by the Senate.
Problem is, our “smartest president ever” hit a clinker with Columbus. If you attended high school or college, you should know that no educated European of Columbus day thought the earth was flat.
Those who attended a standing-room-only debate last Monday at the Bayfront Park Recreation Center between Vice Mayor Dave Brenner and challenger Ray Rajewski for the third district seat on the Longboat Key Town Commission were treated to an excellent and informative display of what a political debate should be.
