Archive for February, 2010

We hear repeatedly that President Obama and the Democrats’ shouldn’t attempt any boldly progressive reforms because we live in a “center-right” country. Pundits like Charles Krauthammer, when they’re not warning us about the danger of deficits they helped Bush create, constantly tell us that any problem in Washington stems from the Democrats not accepting that… »

Are we really supposed to get excited and rejoice in the targeted assassination of enemy leaders? President Obama might end up making things worse for the opposite reasons Liz and Dick Cheney tell us. He’s so unsure of himself in military matters he’s leaving the big decisions to shortsighted generals.
Drone attacks are terrorism too. Killing… »

In California today there is zero respect for members of the Assembly or State Senate. Everybody hates them. The colossal failure of our elected “leaders” to deal humanely with the state’s finances cancels out any effort by well-meaning legislators who might be trying to do the right thing. The Republicans, who control the state’s finances… »

President Barack Obama appears to want all of his decisions to be 100 percent politically safe. The trouble is there are few meaningful decisions a president can make, especially on matters vital to the country, that are 100 percent politically safe. Take, for instance, how President John F. Kennedy got the U.S. Senate to ratify… »

“Of course people are frustrated,” President Obama told the Democratic National Committee over the weekend, “they have every right to be.” But I don’t know if he really understands the level of “frustration” out there. Democrats who believe that they can just give voters a laundry list of modest “accomplishments” going into 2010 are deluding… »

What the 59-seat Democratic majority in the United States Senate needs is a 6-foot 4-inch grotesque S.O.B. who pulls on your lapels and sticks his nostrils right into your face until you relinquish your vote. If Lyndon Baines Johnson were the Senate Majority Leader today he would have found a secluded spot to grab Ben… »