Erickson: Republicans Need To Get Happy
Tweet Last Friday I wrote a farewell to Neal Boortz. Monday’s column suggested that perhaps some Republicans in leadership should occasionally object to things said by talk show host Rush Limbaugh when he crosses the line into the outlandish, and reassert that he isn’t an actual leader in the Republican party. In keeping with a [...]
Read More →Congress Considers “No Budget, No Pay”
Tweet Last week I argued that Republicans needed to reorder the deadlines they face to unwind the remainder of the fiscal cliff by pushing the debt ceiling back until after sequestration and a new Continuing Resolution (CR) are passed. The debt ceiling seemed the wrong battle to have first both politically and for the well-being [...]
Read More →MLK Day, An Inauguration, And Progress
Tweet On Monday, the nation observes the swearing in of President Obama for a second term, marking our ritual of a peaceful transition or reaffirmation of power every four years. The actual swearing in for the President, as prescribed by the Constitution, took place on Sunday. On Monday, the country also observes a national holiday [...]
Read More →Washington Republicans Fighting A Losing Battle
Tweet Republicans seem to be negotiating with themselves in Washington these days, as the realization has set in that regardless of the outcome of these “fiscal cliff” negotiations, they’re likely to come out on the losing end. Democrats, for their part, seem content to blow off any Republican offers with a guffaw and ask Republicans [...]
Read More →Fiscal Cliff Economics
Tweet Today, we’re going to take a quick look at basic microeconomics to help understand why our elected leaders in Washington D.C. see no easy fixes to the “fiscal cliff” issue that will be dominating political news for the rest of the year. For the three of you still reading after that first sentence, I [...]
Read More →Our Leaders’ Leaders
Tweet This week, leaders in the US Congress as well as the Georgia Legislature will begin the process of deciding who will lead them as they try to lead us through the next two years. The battles are not insignificant though most will likely never know these elections happen. The results will determine the direction [...]
Read More →The Wisdom To Know The Difference
Tweet For those of us with Republican leanings, Tuesday was a long night. The vote count didn’t take as long as most of us expected. There are no hanging chads and no demands for a recount. While the popular vote was close, the electoral vote is the only one that matters under our constitution. The [...]
Read More →Time To Govern
Tweet Four years ago, Americans came to the polls and swept Democrats into control of the White House and Congress. It was a landmark and sweeping election of historic proportion.
Read More →Election Night: What I’m Watching
Tweet Today’s the day. This chapter in the never ending campaign cycle is over at 7pm. We then count the votes, which hopefully will be mercifully decisive by the wee hours of the morning. I don’t believe the country is in much of a mood to tolerate a recount of Bush-Gore proportions.
Read More →Final Poll Results Due Tuesday
Tweet This is the column where I’m supposed to tell you what’s going to happen Tuesday night. Except I can’t, and I’m not sure who can. We’ll know soon enough anyway. At least we can hope so. While there are predictions for landslides for both Presidential candidates, there exists the possibility that one or more [...]
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