Category Archives: Government
Clinton Speech
The fact checkers say the president is not gutting welfare reform. Mickey Kaus says otherwise.
Bill Clinton will place the name of his nemesis in nomination for four more years on Wednesday night.
VP Debate
It’s good to see the VP candidates reach across party lines. They both agree that government will enslave us.
The Washington Post editorial page considered those lines from Ryan’s acceptance speech an insult to voters. The Obama Julia ad sees it differently.
Neil Armstrong
Not that I have anything against 90 inch HD flat screens. It’s just that it was so cool to watch the old tube as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface (or the Arizona desert, if you’re so inclined) and then to go outside and look at the moon and comprehend that he was really there. The technology that put a man on the moon now seems kind of primitive, yet no one has been back in 30 years.
Wikipedia has a chart (sourced to OMB) that shows NASA’s budget, as a percentage of federal spending, peaked at 4.41% in 1966 while 2011 spending was down to .53%
Before The Fall
The president is threatening that there’s more where the auto bail-out came from.
Meanwhile a Congressional Budget Office report says a walk off the fiscal cliff will plunge the economy back into recession.
Open Book
During his surprise press conference Monday, the president defended his campaign tactics by again calling for Romney to release his tax returns. He said, “if you want to be president… your life’s an open book when it comes to things like your finances”.
He also accused Romney of “just making stuff up” in an ad that accuses Obama is gutting welfare reform.
