Lafayette More headlines, and more hopelessness seems to emerge around housing policy in the United States as both homeowners and others desperate about the economy desperately read between the lines looking for an answer and only finding more cluelessness, even as some nuggets of the Obama Administration’s failed policies continue to slip out. This time …
Category: National Politics
Americans Elect and its Spoiler Strategy
NewOrleans Watching Steve Colbert on TV at the gym, I saw a complementary rerun interview with the head spokesperson for Americans Elect (www.americanselect.org). He described their petition effort to establish a 50-state ballot place for a slate of candidates in the 2012 Presidential election. His rap was that this internet facilitated process would be a …
Republican Mansions by the Sea
New Orleans You get the feeling that the popular Republican political embrace of “servant” leadership is more like a simple handshake or an air kiss than a full pressure bear hug. Too many of them seem to be saying, well “me first” and then, hey, if I have time, I might squeeze in a couple …