Will seniors sit still for half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts?
on Nov 16, 2009 in News Seniors: One super-voting bloc politicians mess with at their peril For months now, it’s been clear that the road to “deficit neutral” health care reform is a bumpy, maybe even dangerous, one for seniors. Ironically, in their zeal t...

Dwight Eisenhower: Another Bower In Chief
on Nov 15, 2009 in Comedy History To Charles De Gaulle… To the wife of Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Gronchi… To Pope John XXIII… Maybe he just liked to sneak a peek at their shoes? (h/t: Gaucho Politico & Lawyers, Guns & Money)...

Going Postal On “Going Rogue”
on Nov 15, 2009 in News Palin Not surprisingly, The New York Times review of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue: An American Life isn’t exactly positive: “Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin’s erratic new memoir, comes from a phrase used by a disgruntled McCain aide t...

Breaking news! Obama Superman Win!
on Nov 15, 2009 in News In what can only be called an Epic Win, President Obama has turned his back on Superman! USA rules! With this daring breach of protocol (at the risk of a super-wedgie) Obama has done what no American President has ever done – disrespected Sup...

Republicans Shifting Opinions On Healthcare Purely Partisan?
on Nov 15, 2009 in Democrats Health Care Republicans I found the following numbers from Gallup about government’s role in health care to be, well, eye opening. Check it out… Hmmm, what happened in 2008…I can’t really think of anything. Republicans can not like Obama all the wan...

Unintended Consequences of a Single Payer System
on Nov 15, 2009 in Health Care health care reform Hyde amendment single payer system Stupak amendment Maggie Mahar has an interesting observation in Sunday’s Washington Post: If you’re a progressive like me, and you’re upset by the Stupak amendment, which bars federally subsidized insurance from covering abortions, consider this: Wh...

How The Bowing Posts Came To Donklephant
on Nov 15, 2009 in Barack Blogging Obama Hey all, I’ve heard quite a bit of back channel chatter about the last two posts on the blog and I wanted to explain how I was responsible for the topic even showing up here in the first place. Doug and I are friends on Facebook and he feeds hi...

White House busted! Obama bow to Japanese emperor is NOT just “protocol”
on Nov 15, 2009 in News Not unless the White House is making up its own “protocol” as Obama cruises through his latest road trip. For the past 24 hours, a lot of eyebrows have been raised around the world about this photo of the President of the United States b...

Obama Bows Before The Emperor Of Japan
on Nov 14, 2009 in Barack General Politics I’ll start this out by saying that I’m sure several of you are going to disagree with me. Unlike conservatives, I was willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt when he appeared to give a deferential bow to the King of Saudi Arabia.

Obama To Focus On The Deficit In 2010
on Nov 13, 2009 in Barack Economy Money Obama We all know we’re on an unsustainable course with all of this spending. And this is why I voted for this guy: he’s a realist. We needed a short term shot in the arm when he first got in here, but now we have to worry about the long term c...