The gang of six: An epic of futility
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
The Baucus Caucus wouldn’t rush—the chairman made it very clear,
He’ll take whatever time it takes. Could be a month. (Could be a year.)
There’s high finance, then there’s slow finance
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009
There’s a guy standing there. Mid-40s maybe, in a T-shirt, shorts and sandals. He’s waiting to use the drive-thru, too.
Just another heckler in the crowd
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009
The congressman in question was one Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, but it didn’t have to be Joe Wilson. It could have been somebody else. And if it hadn’t happened when it did, on Wednesday evening, it would have happened soon enough. It was waiting to happen.
School daze: Why Obama's critics fan fears of the gullible
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009
Why, if just a handful of students in each and every state were somehow lured into listening to this president and following his advice—let alone his example—you might suddenly have that many more students working hard, going to class, doing their homework, listening to their parents, respecting their teachers, pushing through the tough parts—and taking personal responsibility! Horrors! We can’t have that!
Keeping the man on the message
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009
“Actually, sir, it’s the only reason you’re doing this speech in the first place. That whole press conference was supposed to nail down the case for health care, remember? Except that you…”
Sound and Fury: The Cheney Show
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009
If I were Dick Cheney, I’d probably be doing exactly what Dick Cheney is doing. It beats going to prison.
The lion at rest
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
Losing Ted Kennedy at 77? It’s hard to feel cheated. None of his three brothers—his three “older” brothers—made it to 70. Or 60. Or even 50.
A beach. A book. It’s bliss
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009
Much interest from the luxury boxes this week, as the White House disclosed Barack Obama’s reading list for his family vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.
You thought THAT was bad: 22 more reasons to fear health care reform
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009
Page 112: Requirement to remove all metal objects before certain diagnostic tests—a plot to confiscate CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED guns from anesthetized Americans.
At the corner of Chimera and Mirage
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009
Obama the Developer has got his heart set on Bipartisan Acres. There’s plenty of other places available, his friends keep telling him. The old union hall downtown. The mill over on Partyline Road. But he’s got his heart set on Bipartisan Acres. Which means he has to go through Grassley.
Health care debate: Beware of foreign objects
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009
Why wouldn’t you be confused? You’ve got multiple versions of multiple bills coming out of multiple committees on Capitol Hill. Hundreds, even thousands, of pages of complex provisions, and for every provision—for every clause of every complex provision—there’s somebody determined to push it through, and somebody equally determined to bury it. And then there’s all the rest of us who, technically speaking, don’t have a clue.
How to account for Palin’s Facebook falsehoods
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009
Possibility No. 1: She had nothing to do with it. Some Sarah Palin impostor somehow got access to Sarah Palin’s Facebook page and posted the bizarre (and fact-free) comments that have stirred up such a fuss.
After Clinton’s mission: The sound of music
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009
How do you sovle a problem like Korea?
How do you run Dear Leader out of town?
The presidential campaign of 2009
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009
Somehow—something in the water? mass hypnosis?—large segments of the GOP have managed to convince themselves that if they don’t treat the 2008 results as official, then they’re not. That if they persist in treating last November’s numbers as merely a first-inning score, or the rest of his term as a perpetual recount, then Barack Obama isn’t really president. Not yet. And if they have their way, not ever.
If it squeals like pork…
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, July 30, 2009
When you want to get things done, you have to go right to the particular people who make those particular things happen, so that’s just what I did. I called the House Appropriations Committee. They weren’t expecting me. “I’d like one of your C-17s,” I told them.
