Click to see the beacon journal online
Homes   Jobs   Cars   Shopping
All Da King's Men -- Community Blog

From the category archives:

voting

Rumors Of GOP Death Greatly Exaggerated

November 4, 2009

When the Republican party scored big gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia yesterday, emerging victorious in those two blue states that voted for Obama only one short year ago, I couldn't help but think of all the pundits and talking heads who giddily predicted years and years of GOP'ers scrounging for food in the [...]

Read the full article →

Enemies Of The People

July 31, 2009

Barney Frank (D-VT) wants the federal government to decide how much Wall Street executives (and all other executives of private companies) are paid. Barney also wants the government to decide how they are paid. Legislation to ban incentive-based pay for private corporations has been approved by the House Financial Services Committee.
I don't know where [...]

Read the full article →

Your Government At Work

July 29, 2009

President Obama is a fiscal hawk. I know that might sound strange to some of you (the sane ones), seeing as how Obama passed an $800 billion stimulus package, a record breaking, pork-laden $410 billion Omnibus bill, and a record breaking $3.55 trillion budget during the worst recession in 70 years. Yes, Obama will have [...]

Read the full article →

Friday At The Freakshow

June 19, 2009

We have another Obama nominee who didn't pay taxes (notify the CDC. This is becoming an epidemic):
President Obama’s choice as chief of protocol for the State Department, a position that carries the status of an ambassadorship, did not file tax returns for 2005 and 2006, errors she corrected last November. The nominee, Capricia Penavic Marshall, [...]

Read the full article →

Senate Passes Unconstitutional Bill

March 1, 2009

A couple days ago, the Senate voted 61-37 in favor of granting voting rights to the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives.
The problem with the bill is, it's blatantly unconstitutional, and shouldn't survive a Supreme Court challenge. Article One, Section Two of the Constitution says the following:
Section 2. The House of Representatives shall [...]

Read the full article →

Wanted: Senator, No Experience Necessary

December 29, 2008

The media is all abuzz about whether Caroline Kennedy is qualified to be appointed the junior Senator from New York. This in a year when we elected a President who had only two years in Congress prior to launching his presidential campaign, and who has no prior executive experience. This in a year when a [...]

Read the full article →

Obama Rides High Into Power

November 5, 2008

Barack Obama – 52%
John McCain – 46%
The anti-Bush backlash is complete. Barack Obama (D-IL) will become the 44th president of the United States of America, and take with him solid Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress (as of now, 54-44-2 in the Senate, and 248-187-1 in the House Of Representatives). This gives [...]

Read the full article →

Election Day Is Here, Finally

November 4, 2008

This has been the longest presidential election cycle ever. It's been going on for, what, about 17 years now ? It seems like it. I have Obama's rap down so well that I know what he's going to say before he says it. I amuse my girlfriend by pausing the television and then telling her [...]

Read the full article →

Obama To The Rescue

October 30, 2008

"Bitter partisan fights and outworn ideas of the left and the right won't solve the problems we face today, but a new spirit of unity and shared responsibility will" – Barack 'The One' Obama
Wow. That's inspiring stuff. Do you feel the tingle ? I know I do. At least I think it's a [...]

Read the full article →

The Sarah Palin Show

October 4, 2008

I heard yesterday that the Nielsen ratings for the Palin-Biden VP debate were 40% higher than for the first McCain-Obama presidential debate. A transcript of the debate can be found here.
And the audience wasn't tuning in to see Joe Biden.
The VP debate was all about Sarah Palin. Democrats were eagerly tuning in to watch [...]

Read the full article →

Some Political Parties Are More Equal Than Others

August 30, 2008

There is one important way in which the Democratic and Republican parties work together in bipartisan harmony. They collaborate to rig the election system to keep third party and independent candidates off the ballots and out of the public debates. They also use their vast financial resources and connections to litigate fledgling political movements into [...]

Read the full article →

How Obama The Uniter Got Started In Politics

June 19, 2008

Barack Obama claims to be a new kind of politician. He's a uniter, not a divider (hmmm, that sounds familiar). Obama is all about HOPE, and above all, CHANGE. We know all this because Obama tells us so, repeatedly.
It's a little bit ironic then that Obama won his first Democratic primary in 1996 by getting [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

 

© The Akron Beacon Journal • 44 E. Exchange Street, Akron, Ohio 44308

Powered by WordPress
Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).