Well, the April 15th tea parties came and went. Depending on whom you ask, they were either a) a rousing success that demonstrated the level of frustration common to most middle class working Americans or b) or a few isolated conservative crack-pots huddled together and being just plain contrary.
ACORN, the delightfully non-partisan organization solely devoted to community organization and NOTHING ELSE, tried desperately to disrupt the tax-day community organizations by dismissing them as right-wing crybabies. Across the board the talking heads on TV, who usually love any sort of protest aimed at the US Government, spent three days
Archive for April, 2009
Tax Day in Bizarro World
April 28th, 2009 by Ronald A. RoweThe Politics of Smoking
April 21st, 2009 by Ronald A. Rowe
With a cigarette smoking president in the White House for the first time in decades and an economy in the dumps, the perennial battle between the Federal Government and the tobacco industry lobby could be a little bit more interesting than usual this year. If you haven’t been following this dance for the past half a century, this is basically how it has played out.
- Doctors figured out that smoking is bad for your health.
- A decade or so of study later, the Government agreed.
- The Government said “We need to protect people from themselves.”
- Tobacco lobby said “Hold on there,
Political Guru Kal Penn
April 14th, 2009 by Ronald A. Rowe
President Obama took a bold step this week. In order to shore up America’s flagging confidence in the state of the economy, protect our borders from foreign attack, and regain our standing among the world powers, the president hired actor Kal Penn as a PR liaison.
Penn, widely heralded as an expert on world affairs because he’s been on TV, took a huge pay cut from his gig on TV’s House in order to accept a position at the White House. He joins ambassadors Angelina Jolie and Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High as three of
Penn, widely heralded as an expert on world affairs because he’s been on TV, took a huge pay cut from his gig on TV’s House in order to accept a position at the White House. He joins ambassadors Angelina Jolie and Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High as three of
Governmental Motors
April 7th, 2009 by Ronald A. Rowe
Now that President Obama fired the old boss, I guess that makes him the new CEO of General Motors. Since the federal government has done such a good job of running lean and mean in the past, we certainly can trust that Chairman Obama will have GM producing cheap, fuel efficient, stylish cars at a solid profit in no time, right? The horrifying implications of the government seizing control over private enterprise aside for the moment, I wonder what next year’s Cadillac will look like? As I’ve noted in a previous post, the president has not asked
