10 Random Thoughts
- How bad does the healthcare bill have to be if the Democrats can't secure the support of Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins?
- Senators Shelby and Collins represent much of what is wrong with the Republican party. How could they vote for an appropriations bill that hiked spending allocations to many federal departments more than 10% over the prior year? This is legislation that three Democrat Senators voted against, and one, Evan Bayh, called for Obama to veto.
- Remember the president's solemn campaign promise to comb through the budget line by line to reduce waste and eliminate earmarks? Remember the omnibus spending bill early in the Obama administration that was signed by the president with thousands of earmarks? Remember how he promised to do better next time? Well, next time was today. He signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with thousands more earmarks. Maybe next, next time.
- Who ever thought Howard Dean would make a little sense?
- When did Bob Villa become president? Obama was on TV yesterday for 10 minutes extolling the virtues of home insulation? Wow!
- 2012 is a long way off, but I wouldn't find it particularly shocking if Hillary mounted a challenge for the Democratic nomination?
- The only person having a worse year than Obama is Tiger. Al Gore will have to settle for the bronze. Lifetime "achievement" awards go to Pelosi and Reid.
- Let's hope Obama's didn't slip his letter to Santa into the Kim Jong Il envelope.
- Chuck Schumer learned the hard way that the only people who say "no" more often than the Republican caucus are USAirways flight attendants.
- The House passed a $155 billion "jobs" bill today. Doesn't Nancy Pelosi remind you of a wind-up toy that ran itself off a table and is lying upside down on the floor with its wheels still spinning?
I think Gen, McCrystal should get honorable mention for worst year. After all, he was hand picked by the pres. to develop a strategy for Afghanistan, was ignored for over 4 months after he submitted it, and ultimately got 3/4ths of what he needed with a mandate to be finished in 18 months. Not to mention NO reference to Victory.
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I think you may have identified the front runner for worst year in 2011.
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