All Things Being Equal, Many Aren’t Moderates

Swinging up and down completely differs from remaining level.  A boat bouncing severely while riding stormy waves isn’t enjoying what averages out to a smooth journey.  While that’s true in the real world, it’s not so in the rather perverse confines of Washington, D.C., where even physics lessons are commonly ignored.  Within that ignoble swamp, [...]

Why Take a Bite When You Can Try to Swallow the Whole Cake?

If they had played it cool, President Obama and his congressional teammates might be celebrating Democraticare’s passage with a ceremonial ice cream social right now.  But we’re lucky they’ve become insufferably extreme to the point that they think a self-immolating process like reconciliation sounds wise.  Call Nancy Pelosi and beg her to go for it: she’ll [...]

Republicans Aren’t Democrats…Duhh

Watching the circus that was President Obama’s health care “summit” on Thursday  highlighted many things for me, but one in particular:
Republicans are VERY different from Democrats.
I’ve spent months listening to people like Glenn Beck say there’s no difference between Republicans and Democrats. For awhile, I bought it and came to the point of wanting to [...]

Obama Inspires Us to Ensure He Won’t Win Again

The one good result of the 2008 election is how people are already paying more attention to future elections.  It was easy for casual political followers to get swept with the tide during the last presidential race and applaud while grinning about hope blah change blah.  But numerous people are now choosing to wear defiant [...]

Now Is Not The Time to Back Off The Health Care Debate

by Wendy Sullivan
During the 2008 presidential election campaign, Senator John McCain repeatedly interrupted campaigning, first to rush back to DC to deal with the first bailout package, then when Barack Obama’s grandmother was dying.
It was the “right” thing to do. The “respectful” thing to do. The “Christian” thing to do. Oh, and we lost.
I’m not [...]

A “Townhall” Event: Cincinnati, Ohio

By Laura Adelmann
The Women’s City Club of Greater Cincinnati hosted a healthcare townhall on August 3, 2009, with Congressman Steve Driehaus. The event was held at a local church and was standing room only with overflow into an adjoining room with speakers. Congressman Driehaus began with a speech after stating that he [...]

Palin Supporters Should Thank Her Haters

By Anthony Bialy

We can officially stop waiting for the Sarah Palin scandal. Most supporters cringed after her July 3 resignation speech because they were anticipating that the hurricane’s eye was about to pass; her backers were next preparing for a career-destroying storm. But there’s no need to hunker in the bathtub as she, for the moment, leaves life as an officeholder behind.

That’s unless the latest complaint against her, where she was supposed to make herself less famous somehow to avoid raising money in order to fight the other complaints, sinks her, which it won’t. Instead, we can safely presume that she’s simply doing what she feels is best. It’s fantastic news for those who think her forthcoming guidance will also be what’s best for all of us

Song Sung Blue

by Paige Bennett
I am a cradle Republican and proud of it. I was born 62 years ago in Logan, West Virginia .I am a third generation republican. My favorite toy as a child was a stuffed elephant that I named Ellie and loved dearly. Ellie was life size when I was four and I hugged her so tight her head was in danger of falling off. She got lost somehow along the years, but I have never forgotten Ellie or the symbol she has become for me. I knew from that age that elephants represented the GOP and I needed to hold on for fear of loss.

My grandmother often talked of the “dirty Democrats”. Imagine my surprise when in 1960 during the Kennedy- Nixon election I learned that the name of the party was simply Democrats. But West Virginia was and still is a Democrat state and during that 1960 election Logan County became “famous”, making national headlines . They were selling their vote to Kennedy for a pint of whiskey. So maybe my grandmother was right about the dirty part. . .

Psychopolitics with Dr. Brian

On the psychopolitical front:

Marion Barry, former Washington, D.C. mayor and current city councilman, is in trouble with the law…again…this time for allegedly stalking a woman. His priors include drug use, after which a majority of Washingtonians re-elected him as mayor, and tax evasion, after which a majority of Washingtonians in his ward re-elected him to the city council. See a pattern? (Maybe that’s part of the reason why my parents moved from D.C. to Kansas to raise their kids.)

Buyer Beware

By Kelli Krauss
At a town-hall-style meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico President Obama said, “We can’t keep on just borrowing from China. We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.” He called the current deficit spending “unsustainable” and said that [...]

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