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In what The Washington Post called “a bold act of political defiance,” President Obama Wednesday announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray’s nomination had been blocked by a Senate filibuster. There was no way he was going to win approval in 2012. Enraged Republicans denounced the appointment [...]
Liberals now blame the Tea Party for America’s AAA credit downgrade. This is possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s like blaming the 9/11 Commission Report on 9/11. It’s like blaming my bad 6th grade report card on report cards. It’s like blaming ladies for Lady Gaga. Simply because the debt problem continues to [...]
Filed under: Congress, Conservatism, Politics, Tea Party
According to a report in The Washington Post, Representative Joe Pitts, a Republican from Pennsylvania, and other U.S lawmakers received financial contributions from pro-Pakistan lobbyists who were being funded by the Pakistani military, including by its infamous Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). In return, Pitts and other Pak-paid congressman, including Dan Burton, Republican from Indiana, [...]
Filed under: Congress, Foreign policy
I have not paid much attention to the rancorous debt ceiling debate. That’s not because I don’t care about federal spending. There are few aspects of government policy that don’t interest me at least somewhat, and, as a relatively young man, I’m constantly horrified by our government’s spendthrift ways because it’s my future income they [...]
Filed under: Congress, Economics, Foreign policy, Politics
She had seen May Day parades when people were still enthusiastic or did their best to feign enthusiasm…[a]s a group approached the reviewing stand, even the most blasé faces would beam with dazzling smiles, as if trying to prove they were properly joyful, or, more precisely, in proper agreement. –The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan [...]
This Weekly Standard profile of Rand Paul may represent a high water mark in the Obama-era détente among competing factions among the Right. Matthew Continetti contrasts the subtle differences between the two Pauls on foreign policy without resorting to the usual smears: Foreign policy used to be the ceiling that prevented Ron Paul from breaking [...]
Filed under: Congress, Conservatism, Magazines, Politics
When Obama decided to go to war with Libya some Capitol Hill leaders in both parties decided to question whether the President had the authority to do so. When George W. Bush was president Obama once posed the same question, stating in 2007: “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize [...]
The time has come for those who claim high regard for the U.S. Constitution to show that they mean what they say. The time has come to begin impeachment proceedings against President Barack H. Obama for high crimes and misdemeanors. The United States has initiated a war against Libya, as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates [...]
Congress should think twice before forcing a government shutdown, as the consequences could be the loss of the power of Congress to control spending through authorization and appropriation bills. Congress permitted President George W. Bush to accumulate new powers in the executive, and these powers have passed to Obama. Bush succeeded in establishing that, as [...]
To someone who has been writing about the military’s Massive Message Machine for a few years now, or as the military more politely puts it, Strategic Communications, a whopping $4.9 billion of our taxpayer money for winning hearts and minds here and abroad in 2009 alone, Michael Hastings’ latest piece, “Another Runaway General: Army Deploys [...]