Category Archives: Politics
Taxes Two Step
A Washington Post editorial calls for tax deadbeat Charlie Rangel to step down as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Or he could just step out with Tom Delay. The ethically challenged former House Majority Leader has landed a gig with Dancing with the Stars.
Change We Didn’t Expect
The president’s approval index rating is down to -11% according to Rasmussen. The rating is the difference between those who strongly approve and those who strongly disapprove. You can see the detail here.
Wild About Harry
Some of Senate majority leader, Harry Reid’s, constituents don’t like the way health care reform is going. He responded by calling them Evil Mongers. Not surprisingly, he finds himself down in the polls. Now he’s charming his way back by picking a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel (not to quote Mark Twain). He told the Las Vegas Review Journal he hopes it’s going out of business. His defenders say he was joking. Judging by his Evil Monger thigh slapper, they could be right.
Please go here for the counterpunch from the man who buys the ink (Sherman Fredrick, the publisher)
Legacy
Obit cartoons are the hardest. Especially when it comes to Ted Kennedy. The Lion of the Senate was a good father to his children and a father figure to his nieces and nephews. Republicans like John McCain admired him and respected his willingness to reach across the aisle.
I doubt if Robert Bork shared that view. Kennedy said that a Supreme Court with Bork on the bench would mean a return to back alley abortions and segregated lunch counters. If someone on the right side of the aisle were say something that stupid about, say, Justice Sotomayor, to pull a name out a hat, he’d be outcast to the far reaches of wing-nutdom.
Anyone not named Kennedy who swam away from Chappaquiddick island would probably have served more prison time than the Lockerbie Bomber.
Toward the end he had a letter hand delivered to the Pope.
Uncommon behavior for a man with such a common touch.
