The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The Newtish one has been known to say a few very intelligent things but he can’t help following them up by shooting himself in the foot. On This Week with Whoever Shows Up, speaking about the Hagle nomination, he responded
I would like to think of Eric Holder as cowardly and incompetent which would make our current situation with the Attorney General’s Office and the banks an easy one to understand and solve, but like most things in life, it
The madness over the past week has taught us a number of lessons and hopefully it has adjusted some concepts about terrorism, the American spirit and just what is important to the way we live in these times, in this
David Ignatius commentd on Chris Matthew’s show hat Chris Christie would eat Jeb Bush if they ever went head to head in a presidential debate. Why not, Christie already looks like he ate both the Georges and had Barbara for
Welfare is definitely the main problem in this country; it’s destroying our economy and causing our national deficit to soar. Did I get your attention, all you Right wing conservatives? Do I hear your cheers, all you Tea Party slugs? Well don’t
The gun battle goes on. It looks at this minute, like nothing will actually get done, despite yeoman-like efforts by the President and many pro-regulation backers to get something on the books. But why isn’t it getting done? Mainly because
“Crap and mendacity, that’s what Big Daddy says”, wrote Tennessee Williams and boy was he on target. It is the major tenant of all our current communication networks. I keep getting emails from my Right wing friends filled with accusations
The cherry blossoms may not have appeared yet but budgets are blooming all over The Capital. True the Republicans have been coming out with useless budgets regularly but for the Democrats this is the first in a long time. Of
As I stated in an earlier blog, the problem is not the drones, the problem is the people picking the targets, mainly because they seem to have no idea what is actually going on in the Islamic world. This
Went to a convention of No Labels, the other day. No Labels is an organization that is trying to convince members of congress to abandon their polarizing stances and come together to get stuff done. They are a very encouraging