Posts Tagged ‘Democrats’
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A Long Way From Fort Sumter
Posted on April 14, 2011
Earlier this week marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in our nation’s history. A century and a half ago, rebel forces...
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The President’s Bold Speech
Posted on April 13, 2011
The President boldly put forward a brave plan to deal with our national debt problems. First, he wants to increase taxes, especially on rich people, notwithstanding that he had an...
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Debt Ceiling
Posted on April 12, 2011
It was Alexander Hamilton who first took on public debt as a political issue. Hamilton understood that if the federal government assumed the debts of the states, it would not...
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Medicare
Posted on April 11, 2011
Amid all the talk of a government shutdown, Democratically-aligned outside interest groups started running commercials against Congressional Republicans about something that had absolutely nothing to do with the government shutdown:...
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Shutdown Politics
Posted on April 8, 2011
I first got a chance to meet John Boehner when he came to the Congress in 1991. He entered the Congress with a bang, teaming up with the so-called “Gang...
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