Month: January 2013

Tom Coburn’s salary is stupid

Because as the good Senator said himself, if we don’t raise the debt ceiling it’s only the stupid things that would not get paid. [I]t’s the non-essentials that wouldn’t be paid, it’s the $250-300 billion a year in...

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How to Divide and Conquer

I hesitate to even say this out loud because I don’t want to clue the Republicans into what is happening. But, they are about to see their Speaker break his promise not to put any more bills on the floor that don’t...

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Listen to David Frum

Another way of articulating David Frum’s point might be to say to the Republicans and their base that (in the fight over the budget) they can destroy the economy but they cannot win. They were able to force a deal in 2011...

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Hand Grenades? Well, allrighty then!

A Sheriff in Kentucky, Denny Peyman of Jackson County, says he feels a moral obligation to not enforce any new gun laws as part of his duty to protect the American Constitution. Okay. Not sure that’s a moral obligation...

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