Category Archives: budget
Lockdown
The Democrats accused the Republicans of murdering women and children. The president scolded everyone and called for grownups. Meanwhile Paul Ryan slipped through the back door with a plan to rein in entitlements with $6 trillion in cuts through 2021.
NPR Seeks Tea Party Invitation
NPR faces the same federal defunding fate as cowboy poets. Former NPR executive Robert Schiller was caught on tape calling members of the Tea Party gun toting racists. That cost him his next job at the Aspen Institute (he was already leaving NPR). NPR CEO Vivian Schiller (unrelated) got the axe too.
Some of NPR’s top guns, including Robert Siegel, Scott Simon, and Nina Totenberg, put out an open letter denouncing Robert Schiller’s comments. Here’s an LA Times story.
I wonder if cowboy poets tote guns.
