Archive for January 2011
‘Hu’s’ He Trying to Kid?
Red Carpet. Camera flashes. Black ties.,Fine China. Hollywood celebrities. Colgate smiles. All the bells and whistles you’d expect for a visiting Head of State, albeit dictator, Hu Jintao. Sure, China has oppressed Tibet for decades and the rights of women even longer, but it’s hard to bite the hand that feeds you – especially when you are guest for dinner.
The noted Nobel Peace Prize recipient, President Barack Obama, pulled out all the stops for Hu when he served poached lobster, organic greens and apple pie. Obama’s little more than obligatory foreign policy comments during his State of the Union address gave indication there will be no tough stance on China, or even a clear substantive plan on how to reduce our dependency on and ties to a nation that serves as a sort of global Fannie Mae. Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome to Washington, Dr. Berwick
By Susan Stamper Brown
Another dreamer quietly joined the Obama administration last summer without Congressional approval. Despite resolute promises that Obamacare would not include rationing or result in a single-payer system, please give a hearty and belated welcome to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services director, Dr. Donald Berwick. Read the rest of this entry »
The Absence of Civility, Conscience and Sensibility
By Susan Stamper Brown
Once upon a time in America, civility inspired citizens to pause from partisanship long enough to acknowledge horrific tragedies like the Tucson Arizona Massacre for what they are rather than use the tragedy as an opportunity to twist, spin, distort, pervert and misrepresent facts and hurl unfounded accusations in a feeble attempt to gain political ground.
For the Progressive pundit “journalists,” civility is a faint memory – if it ever existed at all – as they relentlessly hold Sarah Palin in their crosshairs and justify the politicization of the Tucson massacre by drawing an imaginary line between Palin and Conservatives to the bloodshed. Read the rest of this entry »
111th Congress: “So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good bye”
By Susan Stamper Brown
Oh, the irony of poetic justice. Every once in a while it happens. In the Bible story of Esther, Jew hater Haman was hung on the same gallows he’d originally set up to hang Queen Esther’s Jewish uncle. In the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie, the Nazi double agent who claimed to “believe” in the grail, but secretly loved the swastika, fell to her death after greedily reaching for the grail.
After November midterms, it seemed poetic justice had struck again when the worst Congress in modern day history who has made an art form out of kicking the American people where it hurts was itself booted out of power – until it became apparent it takes more than losing an election for those with selective hearing to get the message. Read the rest of this entry »