CNN reports that less than 50% of Republican voters are less than thrilled with their potential candidates for 2012, which is hardly surprising. Conversations with Republican voters have revealed the same thing to me. This could be a potential problem come November of that year, but there’s a possibility that there’s a silver lining...
President Obama once said that he would obey the Constitution when it came to signing statements. He was bashing President Bush, rightly I feel, for his use of signing statements as a method for essentially writing law. However, now President Obama has just done the same thing, using a signing statement to keep funding...
I admit it. I’m one of those guys who waits until the last minute to file my taxes. I knew I was going to owe, so I saw little need to rush it. However, one of the more frustrating things about the season was using part of the tax preparation software I was using. ...
I’m going to make a proposal that might shock a few of you, coming from a fiscal conservative like myself. I’m going to propose we eliminate the debt ceiling completely. Forget raising it as people have been discussing. Let’s just get rid of the damned thing completely. I somehow suspect that getting the votes...
A group calling itself “Patriotic Millionaires” is formally asking for taxes to be raised on incomes over $1,000,000. The group seems to believe that “soaking the rich” is the only way to pay down the national debt, despite ample evidence that even seizing the entire net worth of every billionaire in the nation would...
President Obama has vowed to veto any form of continuing resolution, arguing that urgency must drive negotiations. Unfortunately, it could come back to bite him in the backside if he’s not careful. You see, a shutdown is just over the horizon. A continuing resolution could avert just such a thing. Thursday was rife with...
Americans have this tendency to pick a President that will promise to give them a better life. They want prosperity, and any failure to deliver can kill a political career almost as fast as a dead girl or live boy. In all of this hoopla, something gets missed. One key factor that is constantly...
There’s been a lot of talk about Paul Ryan’s budget proposal out in the blogosphere, and with good reason. Ryan’s proposals, whatever they might actually be, are bound to fire up some deep emotions within people. For some, that emotion is joy. For others, it’s anger. And this was without even knowing what the...
I generally don’t care about the personal arrangements between two people. It’s none of my business unless it infringes on the rights of another. When I read this from CNN yesterday, I had found that one thing that crosses any lines and should unite every single American regardless of ideology: From a thriving industry...
