My Hero!
April 29, 2011
While doing research for work, I ran across this picture on the Web site of the Council on Environmental Quality.
A number of commentators have remarked on President Obama’s tendency to try to stay aloof and detached from the details of crafting policy, preferring to wait until members of Congress have done the hard work and then either jump on the bandwagon or criticize them for doing it wrong (e.g., in the health-care debate a couple of years ago, and in the budget debate now).
New Patch on Old Cloth?
October 30, 2010
(Or do I just want to teach an old dog an old trick?)
The Constitution originally provided that, while the members of the House of Representatives would be elected directly by the people, members of the Senate would be chosen by state legislatures. This part of the Constitution remained unchanged for most of our country’s history. Then, about a hundred years ago, the Seventeenth Amendment made senators directly elected, like congressmen. Read the rest of this entry »
Makes a Most Careful Count
April 17, 2010
(Summary for if you don’t have time to read this whole post: I am angry but you should still fill out your Census form.)
You may have heard the recent ads on the radio or elsewhere trying to persuade you to fill out the 2010 Census form. The one I heard most often said something like (coudn’t find a transcript online, going from memory here), “Imagine that our town has a hundred children. We need about five teachers to teach them and two school buses to pick them up for school. But what if our town grows and now we have hundreds of children? Without the Census, we wouldn’t know how much we’ve grown. Read the rest of this entry »
Celebrate Good Times
January 20, 2010
Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley yesterday in the race for the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, 52% to 47%. If you haven’t been following it, here’s the skinny:
This probably means that Democrats no longer have enough votes (60) to overcome Republicans’ filibuster of the health-care bill in the Senate. That means that the Democrats’ version of health-care “reform”—already getting less and less likely as time went on, given that they hadn’t passed it before this year, an election year—is probably now dead. We won. Thank You, God, and a big thank-you to the people of Massachusetts. Read the rest of this entry »