New Orleans The DREAM Act is bumping and stumbling its way to a vote in the Senate to the quack of the lame ducks and the politics of desperation, but once again young people are showing muscle and grit to lead this movement. For the last two weeks more than a dozen students at the …
Category: DC Politics
Darrell “McCarthy” Issa and the Non-Profit Purge
New Orleans Darrell Issa, the emerging Chair of the House Investigations Committee was interviewed the day after the election about how he saw his “work” shaping up. It was a little late for Halloween, but it was scarier than the worst fright movie. Some commentators took Issa’s remarks as conciliatory, which must be the result …
Post-Mortem: Immigration Policy Lost in Politics
New Orleans The headline writers had it easy last night. All they had to do was figure out different ways to say that the Republicans kicked Democrat butt last night, and, oh, yeah, don’t kid yourself, this was a referendum on the Obama presidency and politics, and voters were not happy campers on the economy. …