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Screwballs and Slurry Singers

Sunday, May 5th, 2013

I did not attend the Conservative Political Action Conference.  That was partly because, like Chris Christie, I wasn’t invited.  But it was also because I can’t imagine voluntarily sitting through days of speeches.  To me, it verges on enhanced interrogation, but without the water.  After listening to Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Jeb Bush and Mitch McConnell, I suspect I’d tell my tormentors just about anything they wanted to know.

What I don’t get is why anyone wants to sit and listen to...

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Will the US Senate fix the Washington mess?

Monday, February 25th, 2013

I did a post on Wednesday of last week, “How to fix a broken U.S. Government,” which emphasized the importance of negotiating, a lost art from the days of Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson.  During those periods, an old hand at the job, and Johnson and Rayburn were not only well-entrenched but also well respected, could talk to his or her fellow legislators and somehow come to a reconciliation that was favorable for both side.  This mastery of politics has been gone for, let me see, a...

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How to fix a broken U.S. Government

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013



 

I realize I am no expert on social science, wasn’t even really interested in the subject in college, but as a lowly progressive political blogger, I have become fascinated with our political system and its intricate workings.  Actually, the system isn’t working now and if we don’t fix it soon, this country’s downfall could make the decline and fall of the Roman Empire look like a Sunday school picnic.  We are no longer on the fiscal cliff, or curb as some described the pr...

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