If Republicans can’t win with ideas, they cheat
They say cheaters never win, but Republicans across the country are determined to try.
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They say cheaters never win, but Republicans across the country are determined to try.
Prince Harry of Wales recently compared his experience in active combat to playing video games during an interview with Britain’s Channel 4. The prince is brave to have left a comfortable life for warfare, but it was wrong to compare it to a video game. It reinforces an impression of a perilous situation, that while they may not admit it, many Americans already have of our campaigns in the Middle East.
When my elders start to reminisce about how good things were “back in the day,” I am tempted to remind them that back in their day, there was no cure for polio.
There was little to do but chuckle as I came upon a past article by The New York Times, “Michigan’s GOP governor defies easy labels,” a hagiography of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s moderate presence in the state.
People say you shouldn’t politicize tragedies. But you should. Every mass shooting, like the recent Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., is an opportunity to have a conversation about our gun culture. For it is the rare occasion, despite the frequency of these horrors, that you have the public’s attention.
The New York Times reported Dec. 3 that U.S. auto manufacturers posted sales had risen 15 percent in November. This year there has been plenty of positive news to report on the American auto industry. In January, it was reported that General Motors, which is headquartered in Detroit, repositioned itself as the top auto manufacturer in the world.
Was it the political miscalculation made by Michigan’s labor movement to forward an amendment to the state’s Constitution that ultimately failed?
I was disappointed early into Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration, which started in January 2011. He said he wanted to “reinvent” the state.
Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., resigned from Congress Wednesday. His letter of resignation to Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, cited his poor health and treatment for bipolar disorder at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
The election season is over and by estimates from the Center for Responsive Politics, it cost $6 billion to elect our president. Records from the International Monetary Fund show that is more than the gross domestic product of several small nations like Grenada, Malawi and Belize.
The most inept comment to come from a Republican official this election season wasn’t from Richard Mourdock, the Senate candidate in Indiana, or from Todd Akin, a candidate in Missouri, both of whom made outlandish comments about rape. Women’s health wasn’t the issue either.
“Senator Clinton has a different approach,” said the slender Chicagoan to the Stepford Wife.
I voted for Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, in 2010. Should he decide to run for reelection in 2014, I will reaffirm my support. I also think estate taxes should be abolished and the individual mandate included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 was a conservative approach to healthcare policy that can be appreciated.
There is a problem in this country that neither the incumbent president nor the new contender for the presidency seems prepared to address: American capitalism doesn’t work. It hasn’t worked properly for decades, but now it is even more so out of whack.
Often before more youthful crowds when the question of marijuana legalization arises, President Barack Obama displays an annoying habit: He chuckles.
I know the Obama administration doesn’t like to kill children, but it has, and it does.
It was the Tea Party that derailed discussions over the U.S. debt ceiling in 2011, and it was Occupy Wall Street that disrupted a few trades on the New York Stock Exchange before it dissipated. By comparison, 2012 may be the acme of idiot populism. Ballots this election cycle will be littered with anti-tax measures and other anti-stuff initiatives and referendums.
“The president has proposed raising taxes for job creators,” said Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee. “I will cut taxes for job creators.”
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” asked Ronald Reagan during his final debate with President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
What is Mitt Romney hiding by concealing his tax returns?