Month: March 2011

Dan Balz of the Washington Post takes a look at the Obama administration’s gearing up for its reelection campaign. One thing that Balz notes is that the administration still maintains its belief in the power of...

I recently participated in an exchange in a comments thread.  I responded to: My understanding is the public is already ready to blame the GOP and not Obama for a shutdown, although congressional democrats get some blame as...

(Reposted from June, 2010. Why? Because it’s about time we woke the fuck up. That’s why.) Just a quick word from my latest incursion into Middle America. I have been on a band bus for well over a week. On...

John Boehner keeps telling me that our country is broke. Who am I to disbelieve him? If we’re broke, we’re broke. House Speaker John Boehner routinely offers this diagnosis of the U.S.’s fiscal condition: “We’re...