Garbage Day 12-22-2K10

It’s Christmas and Congress has been in a giving mood, being anything but a lame duck. Tax cut and unemployment extensions, repealing DADT, approving federal spending until March, and a new Food Safety Bill.  However, the Dream act was defeated.  Still to come...

American Exceptionalism … Explained

From milkkore: Here’s the stuff I guess the GOP is bragging about when they cheerlead in spite of, you know, facts. Wait … not so fast … We’re not number one on some stuff – you know, stuff Democrats want us to be #1...

Garbage Day 12-9-2K10

Everybody’s talking about Federal tax cuts.  Who gets them and who doesn’t.  Do we keep them or not.  Either way, it’s a band-aid on Americas economic disaster.  It doesn’t create jobs.  It increases our debt.  And even worse, it is the...

Obama’s Promises

Yes, he and the Democratic Congress got a lot of impressive stuff done and kept so many promises it makes an impressive list. The problem is the difference between big and little promises. He’s backed away from too many important things with what appears to be...