HITTING THE DEBT CEILING

The Debt Ceiling Crisis of the last week was a political nuke that spread its fallout everywhere.  The US government was held hostage by radical crazies on the Right, seizing on a procedural device to affect the government’s self-destruction. A unique event in American history and one Obama was spiritually and tactically unprepared for.  It … Read more

COLDCAST

So here’s the cartoon that is scheduled to appear in tomorrow’s Washington Post Outlook section, p1.  Funny, perhaps.  But unaware of the firing of Keith Olbermann by Comcast last night. Different drugs, I think are called for.  Ones that will help him and us through Palinism and the huge Far Right Wing moves now being … Read more