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Today on Krotchett
Bush Taps Obama to be Commander-in-Chief
Impressed by a recent display of tough talk regarding unchecked terrorists in Pakistan, President Bush has announced that Barrack Obama would be his new Commander-in-Chief. “I was surprised,” the president was quoted as saying, “This guy had ME shaking in my boots!”
The comments referred to a speech Mr. Obama at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. More
Why Taxes Won’t Matter to Voters for a Long Time
Fiscal issues always play a role in presidential politics, and taxation typically stands front and center. In 2008, though, it really doesn’t matter. Lesser candidates have made provocative statements that were promptly disregarded. In the recent CNN/YouTube debate among Democrat candidates for the nomination, Mike Gravel sternly lectured potential voters about the benefits of a consumption-based “fair tax”. Bill Richardson declared that he would abolish the little understood but increasingly invasive Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
Nobody seemed to care.
Do to huge increase in federal subpoenas, Justice officials say it will take at least 12 months to catch up on the backlog
Subpoenas are everywhere. So much so that the Justice department, following the dubious and embarrassing lead of the Immigration Service, has sent out a directive to withhold any further subpoenas until the backlog is cleared. Like the visa delay, this process could take at least 12 months. “We’ll be hiring illegal immigrants to work 16 hour shifts in new temporary offices created in abandoned Katrina trailers to handle this backlog,” an undisclosed source told gkdzx.com. “We don’t think that we have millions in the backlog, but the number is still significant.”
Winsor on the YouTube Debate
Stemming from the CNN/YouTube debate this week, the verbal slaps exchanged between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton really amount to nothing more than her calling him naïve and youthful, and him calling her cold and uninventive. At least that is how the media is covering it. Each campaign is exploiting what public perception indicates are the weaknesses of the other candidate. Big deal. That doesn’t sound like news to me.
The Campaign to Bribe the President
Just do a Google search on ‘lobbyist’ + ‘ban’ and you’ll hit upon hundreds of newspaper articles featuring a variety of politicians announcing their plans to ban lobbying to their members. Federal, State and local officials all embrace clean and open government in their dutifully covered speeches to the media, but the lobbying goes on.
Winsor on the girlification of Clinton
Recently, I have noticed what I feel to be an unnerving trend – the ‘girlification’ of Hillary Clinton. I turn on my TV only to be disturbed by some entertainment show, where the reporter is lucky enough to get 20 minutes with one of the most powerful women in America, and the sound bites they display for the millions of viewers are about the reporter commenting on how hot Hillary’s shoes are.
Courts Rule Half of Country Too Ignorant to Vote Congress Launches Investigation to Determine Which Half
With Republicans threatening to filibuster a new democratic effort to educate voters, the Supreme Court has ruled that 51% of the nation’s voters have inadequate intellectual skills to meet minimum standards for voting in national elections. “Punch chads, fill a little whole with your #2 pencil, put your voting card in an envelope, these are tasks most first grade students can do with ease, half of fully functional adults can’t get it right,” says Marvel Atme, National Director of Voter Standards. The Supreme Court Decision came down 4-3 with the two most recent judicial appointees abstaining. The president had no comment.
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