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Tommy Mack McEldowney

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Say What?

The Gipper was one of the best either on or off script and was the last great rhetorician to occupy the White House.

The Not-So Great Society

As LBJ put it to Congress, “Very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but the symptom."

Asking Not

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” Kennedy declared

Gridlock Eric Cantor

In GQ Magazine’s “The 50 Most Powerful People in Washington*,” Eric Cantor tops the list.["*People with the last names Obama and Biden not included."]

Tea Party: A Koch Industry

The Koch Party has had a strategy for the 2012 election: keep unemployment high and to restrain economic growth.

Gingrich: The Honest Liar

At least, Newt is an honest liar. He admits it. But, lying is still dishonest.

Wishful Thinking

Gingrich as a man of great intellect and of big ideas? To borrow a Richard Nixon quote, "That's just plain poppycock."

Buying Bad Ideas

The Republican Party’s self-inflicted loss in 2008 is due as much to its selection of Sarah Palin for Vice President as the country’s guts being full of the Bush Presidency.

The Something Missing

Replace the word "self" with "public."

The Republican Brand: An Empty Hat

A television audience is a poor substitute for a constituency.

End Sweeping the Voting Rights Act

Voting is constitutional right. There is no Bill of Privileges.

Class Warfare: Boo--Hiss

The 112th Congress has yet to address the fact that almost one in 10 Americans is unemployed and 15% live at or below the poverty level.

The Tea Party Shutdown Movie

The routine stopgap measure blew up and illustrated that Boehner's control of the House majority only exists on paper.

Hating Obama and Raising Money

Remember the GOP "Pledge to America? Hate Obama. Vote Republican.

Presidential Approval: So What?

The American people do not like the president, any president.

Eric Cantor's Rhetorical Deniability

He makes $193K. She makes $194K. They are beneficiaries of the Bush tax cuts.

The Tea Party and RICO

Both criminal and civil litigation under RICO can at least marginalize the Tea Party’s willful and destructive influence in Congress and defeat its members.

History and Consequences

President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) “Great Society” and established Medicare when LBJ signed the Social Security Act of 1965 into law.

The Deadline Gambit

It would be more characteristic of Boehner to believe that he said, “Eric, you can go, now.” It’s a chess move where you sacrifice a Rook to a Queen.

Repealing the Great Society

Congressional Republicans seem to be thinking about something other than fiscal responsibility, business, or the social fabric of the country.

GOP Leaders Breach Oath of Office

The financial destruction of the nation that these Republicans seek is beyond what any terrorist could hope to achieve.

Congress’s Scorecard: 17% and Falling

The Rasmussen survey also says, “Eighty percent of respondents say members of Congress care more about advancing their own careers than helping their constituents.”

Fair Tax: One More Time

Politicians like to drag out the tax code and beat it like a populist’s piñata. It worked for President Obama.

Where Are the Jobs?

They kept campaign promises to people who don’t like Obama by people whose platform is not to like Obama. They promised jobs to everyone, just not in these bills.

H.R. 3: An End Sweep of Rights

It end sweeps of the 14th Amendment and Roe v Wade and re-regulates women’s reproductive rights in the process.

Peace and Prosperity: Nothing Personal

By any measure the cost of wars is astounding. The problem is that the money has got to come from somewhere, taxes or deficits.

Another Fake Debate: Raising the Debt Ceiling

the 1940 Democratic platform “made no mention of that fiscal dodo, that old museum piece: a balanced budget. Franklin Roosevelt held to precedent—he didn't mention it, either.”

Net Neutrality

Genachowski said, “I don’t see any circumstances where we’d take steps to regulate the Internet itself.”

House Crier: Faking a Shutdown

The government did shut down in 1995 and 1996 under Newt Gingrich’s speakership. Two years later, voters sent 20 Republican members packing and the speaker took the blame.

Hidden Tape Emergency

The news programs Fresh Air and All Things Considered must drive the GOP nuts.

Marching in Madison

Governor Scott Walker is one heck of an inspiration, all right, especially for those who are interested only in power and not in consequences.

Patriot Action: Suspending the 4th Amendment

The bill now goes to the Senate and begs a very important question. Where is the oversight on this issue?

Landmark or Landmine: Roe v Wade

It would be more accurate to say of Roe that “the unborn have never been recognized in the law.”

Assassination and the 2nd Amendment

My hero and presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy broke the news of Dr. King’s assassination.

A Tragic Update

Misery loves company and, unfortunately, tragedies build audience share.

140 Characters, Huh

25 words or less works even using real words

Piss Poor and Other Expressions

Welcome to the 16th Century.

Political Post Hoc and Other Fallacies

Rhetorical fallacies make politics dull.

Opinion Polls Don't Vote

If they appear to be close, then the more beer, cars and pills to treat erectile dysfunction can be sold.

Marginalizing Dr. King's Dream

The GOP is openly hostile to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There is no honor in that.

What the Survey Says

The pesky public can change its' mind.

Tyrants Start Somewhere

"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time." RFK

McChrystal and Steele: Please Fire Me

The issue is not the content of what each man said. The issue is competence in their positions

A New Republican Brand

This is the best of times to be a Republican. As the removed-from-power party, they have the luxury of time.

A Jack, a Hack, and a Quack

The Tea Party backed son of big-time insider, the rookie Rand Paul’s opinion on the Civil Rights Act did not get the coverage it deserved.

Rube-Rhetoric

Neither of them ever says anything about equal justice under law. American flags and a call for female grizzly bear protectionism cannot disguise what that stand is.

Targeting Ethnic Studies

Arizona’s governor is a Republican, a white, and a woman.

Last Frontier of Sedition

Sarah Palin is like Anna Nicole Smith with glasses – known for being known and not standing for anything.

Palin Scopes Targets

2008 Maverick-Loosers Reunion Stars Palin

Fourth Estate: Take Out the Paper

The story of the failing San Francisco Chronicle is just one example of a major metro-area newspaper having been managed into the dinosaur museum of media.

First Bad Bank of the United States

"Right now the nation's largest banks are carrying half a trillion dollars in bad debt."

Correcting Congress

"The Founders did not intend government to be a career. They intended governing as a volunteer position for a set amount of time and then it was time to go back home."

Fairness: the Fake Debate

"Conservative talk radio continues to chant about the “Hush Rush Bill’ as if were a real threat with real backing. It isn’t, it doesn’t and it’s not going to happen. Nor will the sky fall."

Hypocrites Lose and Other News

"The court told them No and noted that most of the activity the plaintiffs called harassment, such as threats of boycotts, was actually protected free speech."

No Viewer Left Behind

"At that point the Obama administration decided to push for a delay because the government is not doing enough to help Americans prepare for and navigate the transition."

Broke Banks Mounting

"Even clients with excellent credit, strong assets and positive history are being denied new loans and are incurring decreased credit lines."

New Bigotry II

"One can interpret that as supporting "separate but equal" treatment under the law which is unconstitutional."

A Lot of News But Are We Aware?

"Since blame is personality dependent, we throw another dart and hope to hit a person."

Smoking Government: A Tobacco Tale

"In my parents’ time, during the print and radio advertising era, icons like Santa Claus and actors like Ronald Reagan lit up. Medical doctors endorsed cigarette brands for 'patients who smoke.'”

Proposition 8: The New Bigotry

"Brown writes further that a “tyranny of the majority” would be established if a ballot initiative could to take away an inalienable right. This is something that the Constitution was designed to prevent."

Where Is Our Money?

"You might think that your question had been answered by Sarah Palin. However, it is much worse than that."

Out With the Old

"I have joined Blogcritics Magazine, “a sinister cabal of superior writers.” Press the red button on the side bar and take a look."

While the Tide Is Out

""At this time the paucity of cash in circulation has undermined some of our previously held, perhaps unfounded, political and market ideas."

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