My new gig as an unemployed person leaves me a whole lot less time to peruse the news (ha! I’m a poet!). I catch headlines on the fly and hear snippets in passing rather than listening to CSPAN and MSNBC all day the way I used to at my old job. This new fragmented awareness [...]

President Obama is going to give a speech about a jobs plan tonight. He’s giving it before a joint session of Congress. He was supposed to do it last night but Speaker Boehner turned him down and asked to reschedule. He cited logistics but we all know it was because of the GOP Presidential debate [...]

Yeah. So. Health care reform. Deeeeep breath… I have refrained from talking about health care reform and the Affordable Care Act up until now because I was professionally involved in lobbying for its passage. People I worked with were involved in the discussions of what the bill should and should not include. Seeing this bill [...]

As usual. the mainstream media is being annoying. The is probably partly my fault since the only news article that I’ve read in its entirety this morning is a story about an upcoming remake of Dirty Dancing. I won’t lie: I gasped and clutched my pearls in shock at that news. Dirty Dancing is timeless! [...]

OK, so after weeks of wrangling, Congressional leaders and the White House came up with a plan to increase the federal debt ceiling. Well, actually, no. That’s not what they did. They came up with a plan for lots of other stuff that has only a tangential relationship to the debt ceiling that is designed [...]

This is going to be brief. The debt limit needs to be raised. If you have a Member of Congress is part of the bloc who is refusing to authorize any plan to raise it, don’t just vote against them in 2012: RUN against them. Any one of you would do a better job than [...]

Dear President Obama, Vice President Biden and Congressional Leaders, Grow. The. Fuck. Up. No one likes any of you right now. No one thinks any of you are doing a good job right now. No one wants to hear about one more minute of talks. No one wants any more press conferences where you talk [...]

The President made history last week by hosting the first Twitter town hall. This was an event that allowed him to take questions via Twitter and answer them by, not tweeting, but talking. So it was more like a Twitter question box, really. Obama didn’t use Twitter because 140 characters isn’t enough to explain that [...]

No, actually. No girl fight. As  most of us know, Minnesota Congresswoman and American history mangler Michele Bachmann is running for President. She’s announced this two or three times now and she’s on the road either announcing it more or raising money in primary states as we speak. That’s a good thing because while she’s [...]

I just saw this quote from Newt Gingrich and it’s bothering me. “Obama is the most serious radical threat to traditional America ever to occupy the White House.” – Newt Gingrich, quoted in a new book, Subversion Inc., as reported by the American Spectator. Ok, usually, I have to give a lot of credit to [...]