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Clueless About Politics or Naïve About What Drives Policy?

Last update April 3, 2020Leave a Comment

The Internet isn’t our friend. Prescription drugs kill. Gun control is a non-starter on Capitol Hill. These three truisms contradict everything we hear in the media and from lawmakers desperately seeking a bipartisan win. Don’t expect any of the hype to go anywhere. These are issues meant for press releases and Americans who are clueless about politics, not legislation no one will be able to agree on.

Filed Under: Current Events Tagged With: Congress

Powers of Congress We Should Take Back

Last update October 6, 2014Leave a Comment

Don’t worry. This is not a civics lesson about the powers of Congress. There is no point to that because our government is too far gone to resemble the Washington we learned about in school. As far as our Congress is concerned, the only measuring stick that matters is how many times and how hard lawmakers have dropped the ball.

Filed Under: Government Ethics Tagged With: Congress

American Political System Saves Us from Idiot Politicians

Last update July 21, 2014Leave a Comment

Do you think that the American political system isn’t working because Congress is broken, our parties reduced to hopelessly butting heads with no progress in sight? You are wrong. A do-nothing legislature may not be quite what our government’s creators intended, but the American political system works.

Filed Under: American Ideals and Values Tagged With: Congress

Bad Government, Bad Deals, and Failed Bills

Last update April 10, 20142 Comments

That Congress’s newest rotten deal will be regarded as a bipartisan budget victory if it passes the Senate tells you everything you need to know about bad government in 2013. Our senators and representatives are preparing to head home with heads held high when they should be apologizing to the American people for a year of failed bills and bad deals.

Filed Under: Big Government Tagged With: Congress, federal budget

Popular Sovereignty Doesn’t Mean We Get What the People Want

Last update January 25, 20142 Comments

If you are a politician you should know that popular sovereignty means the people tell you what to do. You can stop telling us what the people want. It’s all too often a lie anyway, like the assurances from Democrats that the Affordable Care Act was something the American people had to have:

Second, the American public wants it. 

Filed Under: Government Ethics Tagged With: Congress

Ethical Questions for Democratic Members of Congress

Last update November 8, 20133 Comments

I live in Illinois. Illinois is a conservative’s nightmare. If you are trapped in the Land of Lincoln you can give up on anything worthwhile happening in the political arena. Better to hope for a miracle to minimize the damage from Springfield lawmakers’ decisions or, in the case of public pension reform, the refusal to make a decision.

Filed Under: Government Ethics Tagged With: Congress

Fixing America’s Debt: Too Dangerous for Congress?

Last update December 29, 20183 Comments

The only thing that scares Democrats worse than the Tea Party and Republicans more than Barack Obama seeking a third term is fixing America’s debt. If you are a liberal Democrat in Congress you expect Washington to spend and spend often.

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: Congress, federal budget

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