Republican Kittens and Jupiter the Thespian 12.22.11by Jude CowellSometimes when people try to be ‘too clever by half’ they end up out-doing themselves instead of the people they work so hard to best. At least, my hope is that this is the case with th…
Tag: Capitol Hill Theater
Is the US infested with the Hegelian Dialectic?
In an attempt to make sense of the mess the US is in, the following article link is posted for your consideration with an excerpt:The Hegelian Dialectic is designed to get us into a frenzied defense or offense of a particular idea or thesis. The natural outgrowth of the original idea is the opposite idea or anti-thesis, which will breed it’s own defense and offense. The predetermined answer of
Government Shutdown New Moon 3.4.11 w Shutdown 1995
Thinking of a potential government shutdown on March 4, 2011 if Washington politicians can’t do any better, I searched for info on the last time they came to outs (with the rest of us stuck in the middle.)Government shutdown 1995 actually occurred in two clumps: Nov 14 through Nov 19, 1995 and from Dec 16, 1995 to Jan 6, 1996. I remember the disgust we-the-people felt that they couldn’t do things
112th Congress = "Swords" vs "Torches"?
In his weekly radio address today President Obama has called for Republicans to stop their symbolic battles, battles which seem to this blogger to be meant in part as a salve to the Tea Partisans watching GOPers closely for backtracking on their promises to do things differently than Congress’ previous sorriness.And the millions of dollars that GOP ‘symbolism’ has cost the US taxpayer during only