Paul Ryan, Message Machine
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(James Rowen)
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The New York Times says a recent Paul Ryan riff was a "minor masterpiece of image calibration."
In the span of two dozen sentences, Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, mentioned the Bible, or rather a beginner’s version of it, which he said he was reading aloud to his 6-year-old son. He mentioned his truck and his appetite for hard rock, thus establishing automotive and musical affinities that balance his wonkier, number-crunching bona fides. He mentioned hunting — with a bow, no less.
Then came the capper. He mentioned his talent for what I’d like to call venison charcuterie, just because he so clearly wouldn’t. “I butcher my own deer, grind the meat, stuff it in casings and then smoke it,” he said, making clear that Sarah Palin in all her moose-eviscerating glory has nothing on him.
Senator Ron Johnson has found a House member loony enough to join him as a co-sponsor of his bill to stop ALL new government regulations until the national unemployment rate goes down to 7.7 per cent, or the world ends, whichever comes first.
Great news, Wisconsin! RoJo's not our only certified nut case. The House member who signed on is Reid Ribble, a freshman Republican from Wisconsin,
Never mind that no one has credibly made an argument that regulations are what's costing us jobs, or that removing regulations would create them. (Note the word credibly; RoJo might make that argument, but it has no basis in fact."
Johnson said Thursday that the growth of regulation has been a “bipartisan problem” pre-dating the Obama administration but he and GOP colleagues who joined him Thursday assailed the president’s record on regulation.
“What this bill does is say stop the madness,” said Johnson.
Senator, you ARE the madness.
Elected women outperform elected men, Study says
Anything an elected man can do, an elected woman can do better, so says a recent study by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Chicago.
According to the Politico article about the study that found women outperform men:
. . .on average, women in Congress introduce more bills, attract more co-sponsors and bring home more money for their districts than their male counterparts do.
The study, which examined the performance of House members between 1984 and 2004, found that women delivered roughly 9 percent more discretionary spending for their districts than men.
Despite this, women still are the vast minority of elected representatives in Congress and state and local level office.
Politico's Erika Lovely wrote
"The Great Unfinished Business of Our Time": Health Care Reform
In the closing passages of his speech to the joint session of Congress, President Obama urged members of the House and Senate to rise to the finest in our national character and finally provide a humane way to address the health needs of all of America's citizens. We know the status quo is broken. What'll we do about it?
Woven into the soaring rhetoric of President Obama's speech were specific calls to three prominent Republican senators: Senator John McCain, Senator Orrin Hatch, and Senator Chuck Grassley.
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