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If any further proof was needed that the answer to that question is "not no but hell no" here goes. President Obama hurt the Wepublican senators wittle fee-fees in his press conference:"The Republicans were stung by Obama's Wednesday press conference, when he unfavorably compared GOP lawmakers to his school-age daughters, who he said get their homework done on time." Actually, that is unfair--to the president's daughters. Republicans have a ways to go before they reach...

From The Hill yesterday:"The White House, seeking an agreement to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by Aug. 2, on Monday said it would not insist that any deal include an end to former President George W. Bush's controversial tax rates on the wealthy...The White House said the president is pushing the GOP to agree to eliminate some tax breaks for businesses and loopholes for wealthier taxpayers, but is not seeking to eliminate the...

Astrogirlkel got the ball rolling a few days and I've struggled to figure out where to go with it. She talked about patriotism and how it seems to be manifesting itself these days. I watched the Jon Stewart vs. Chris Wallace discussion (another blog post) and Stewart referenced the fact that FoxNews viewers were the least informed among those polled. Before we get too far into that little debate I thought we should look at...

Extreme conservative House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has pulled out of the ongoing debt ceiling talks in Washington.Republican Senator John Kyl of Arizona--who has a problem with facts--has also left these talks.It appears that additional stimulus  and possible tax increases for those most able to pay may be on the table as needed steps to help the economy.What a welcome difference from the Republican strategy of working to keep the economy from recovering in order to hurt President Obama politically.I'm wary of all sides...

From an editorial in the St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006:"[T]he changes that George W. Bush has made to our nation's constitutional firmament may not depart with the first family's bags. His disregard for the separation of powers has so dramatically distorted the office of the president that he may have engineered a turning point in American history....Bush has taught tomorrow's leaders that, if there are no consequences for ignoring legal constraints on power and...

Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry has referred to himself as a prophet in an interview with Fox News.(Above---The Prophet Elijah Receives Bread and Water from an Angel by Peter Paul Reubens (1577-1640). I suppose it is possible that Governor Perry lives on bread and water in the $10,000 a month Governor's Mansion he lives in at taxpayer expense.) Here is what Governor Perry said---CAVUTO: You have kind of like the Chris Christie phenomenon: very popular outside your state, still popular but not...

FDR, 1936:  "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as...

Senator Jim Webb at yesterday's confirmation hearing for Ryan Crocker as the new ambassador to Afghanistan:"When we are putting hundreds of billions of dollars into infrastructure in another country, it should only be done if we can articulate a vital national interest, because we quite frankly need to be doing a lot more of that here...If there is any nation in the world that really needs nation-building right now, it is the United States." ...

Athens Public Works Department 120 W. Dougherty Street Athens, GA 30603     To the Honorable (snicker) Congressman Paul Broun (R-Ga); Dear Sir, In light of your recent comments, effective today, June 8, 2011, please make arrangements to have your own garbage transported to the local landfill. If a water main breaks at or near your residence, feel free to pick up a shovel and fix it yourself. If the sewer backs up and fills your yard with...

Those of you unfamiliar with the Twitter world would not recognize the headline as what they call a hash tag. In past generations, a hash tag may have been a cooking instrument, but now it denotes news items and subjects on the rise. Palin's version of history is trending in the same way as the Chuck Norris jokes. They provide one liners that delve into a mind that seems uninteresting in anything of intellectual value.Perhaps,...