Tête-à-Tête-Tête

I remember when the “will of the people” was 51 votes in the Senate. Now, of course, it’s 41 votes in the Senate. But vote counting is quite possibly the least problematic issue associated with the notion of political representatives conveying the “will of the people”.
It goes without saying that representatives from both [...]

My personal favorite is Oolong (which is not a type of leaf, but refers to a type of fermentation process)… But after reading this, I’m tempted to try some Green Tea.

Adam Sewer, via Obsidian Wings:
The Senate is holding a hearing today where several current and former Blackwater employees will be testifying, but honestly the only way Congress would stop giving Blackwater money is if it started registering black people to vote.
Heh. Indeed.

For students of human behavior and its relationship to politics, this is absolutely unsurprising.
The findings indicate that male voters exhibit biological responses to the realignment of a country’s dominance hierarchy as if they participated in an interpersonal dominance contest.

Although my irony meter has been damaged beyond repair by these folks complaining about Barack Obama making an “end run around Congress”, I’ll give Morissey props for both 1) more or less properly relating the administration’s position, and 2) for including a few more facts (if not quite all) needed for contextualizing the administration’s response [...]

These guys are concerned about the direction of the Right. I am too. But I don’t know if they have a case here. Are they really scaring off moderates, and do moderates even exist any more? It looks to me like since the crazy got turned up to Atomic Blast, polls have generally moved against [...]

I agree with Dan… Bob Corker won’t run in 2012. I don’t know if he should or not. It will be apparent by the end of 2010 whether ambitious and talented Republicans should enter the race or bide their time until 2016. That all depends on where Obama is at that point. If [...]

I honestly don’t remember if I got to watch Reagan’s 1988 address to us kiddies. I certainly don’t remember being kept home from school to avoid being indoctrinated. Nor do I remember school officials posturing over it. But, we may not have had CSPAN, or whatever.
By the time Bush I decided to address [...]

… economic and government theory?
Am I wrong in being unable to suppress my enthusiasm for the largely European Catholic supported alternative economic theory of distributism? I believe I’ve linked the Front Porch Republic – the American outlet for this point of view – more than once before… but go read this, and tell me where [...]

In the exceedingly unlikely event that the Lone Star State decides to take its Star and go home… there will be much weeping & gnashing of teeth.
But, assuming the Volunteer State doesn’t follow suit, I can think of some advantages…
1) Dramatic reduction in the size of problematic US / Mexican border
2) Thirty Four GOP [...]