One thing you’ll notice we never do here is tell you what to think. We do spend a lot of time encouraging you to think at all, but we won’t draw conclusions for you; that, you have to do yourself. And that’s tough for a lot of folks, who would prefer to be [...] [...]
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In the aftermath of this past weekend’s historic– and hugely controversial– health care vote, I spent some time on Politico, reading about TEA party leaders’ fears and annoyances over alleged abhorrent behavior within their ranks (which could happen occasionally to anyone, granted; crazy people come in all political stripes), a vexing problem that has become [...] [...] Much noise has been made just lately questioning the Constitutionality of a long-established, tested, and court-upheld parliamentary procedure in use in the US House of Representatives: Namely, the self-executing provision that is often included in reconciliation rules. The provision, also recently known as “The Slaughter Solution” for the Representative who suggested it as [...] [...] A self-executing rule, simply put, is like a stipulation of a premise’s accuracy when making a logical argument. That is, “given x, then y.” We don’t have to waste a whole lot of time proving x, because we’ve already done that work, and we accept x when arguing y. It’s perfectly legitimate, commonplace, and efficient. [...] [...] I guess we might as well go ahead and respond to this now… while we acknowledge that Glenn Beck’s folks misrepresented Sen. Harry Reid’s comments regarding current joblessness and the need for an extension of unemployment benefits (it seems there’s something nearly every day with this guy), a much bigger smear has to do with [...] [...] |
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