What does it take for some people to learn a lesson? ======= Andrew Cuomo has a bridge to sell you, and we wish that was the set-up to a punch line. The New York Governor and government unions are hatching a plan to use the state’s pension funds to bankroll public works like replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge. In a radio interview with... Read more
Archive for the ‘Party Politics’ Category
Mr. Corzine and His Regulators
December 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsI suggest removal of some body parts would not be out of line… for Corzine and perhaps a few others. =========== More than $1 billion of client money is still missing at failed brokerage MF Global, according to the bankruptcy trustee’s latest estimate. At Thursday’s hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the company’s principal regulator will try to explain how his agency... Read more
The Hillary Moment
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsNot to bad of an article here… ==== When Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson accepted the reality that they could not effectively govern the nation if they sought re-election to the White House, both men took the moral high ground and decided against running for a new term as president. President Obama is facing a similar reality—and he must reach the same... Read more
The Divider vs. the Thinker – Noonan
October 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party PoliticsPeople are increasingly fearing the divisions within, even the potential coming apart of, our country. Rich/poor, black/white, young/old, red/blue: The things that divide us are not new, yet there’s a sense now that the glue that held us together for more than two centuries has thinned and cracked with age. That it was allowed to thin and crack, that the... Read more
“Rape and robbery…” – Biden
October 20 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Party PoliticsWhere is the “objective” press? Where? Do we need an APB for the press? ========== The Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee released the following statement in response to remarks made by Vice President Joe Biden in which he used rape and robbery as a metaphor in supporting the American Jobs Act. Yesterday in Philadelphia, Vice President Biden decided to express his support... Read more
Compromise Hasn’t Served Conservatives Very Well — Letters to the Editor – WSJ.com
September 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsSome good responses – especially the first one… ============ Peter Berkowitz cautions conservatives not to demand uncompromising purity from their politicians (“The Myth of Conservative Purity,” op-ed, Sept. 7). Mr. Berkowitz argues that achievement of basic conservative goals requires clarity of principles, but also pragmatism that gives “due weight to settled expectations and longstanding practices” (e.g., public education and state assistance to... Read more
