Hand Outs: Notes on politics and history

Republicans and Democrats in Washington agree on practically nothing except that Jim Bunning was a lot better baseball pitcher than he is a U.S. senator.

Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, won 224 games in his Hall of Fame Major League career and pitched two no hitters, one of which was a perfect game.

But, he has been a perfect dolt as a senator. He is so bad that Republicans forced him out of running for re-election.

They know what a weird and ineffective senator he has been,… Continue

Slowly, the truth is coming out.

The nation's governors have been meeting in Washington for their annual conference and more and more of them are coming to the defense of the federal economic stimulus plan passed by Democrats in Congress and President Barack Obama.

And the support is bipartisan.

Sunday California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, shot down Sen. Scott Brown's contention that the stimulus plan has not created jobs.

Monday it was another…

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The U.S. Senate has sometimes been compared to the English House of Lords - which is an incredible insult to the archaic British body.

The U.S. Senate is far more imperialist, anti-democratic and disfunctional.

Just take a look at Sen. Richard Shelby, the Alabama Republican with the nickname Stonewall Shelby.

He has single-handily stopped the confirmation process of 70 of President Barack Obama's appointments by putting a hold on them.

Obama in 2008 won more popular votes than… Continue

The following was reported by Fox News:

On Jan. 13 the CEA reported that $413 billion in stimulus funds had been spent on tax cuts, subsidies or direct project payments by the end of 2009. The report

also said the stimulus "raised employment relative to what it otherwise

would have been by 1.5 to 2 million."

On Dec. 1,…

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Paul Krugman is a Noble Prize winner in economists and one of the rare voices of reason on economic and fiscal policy. Unlike most of the talking heads on cable news, he actually knows what he is talking about.

He has been advocating for some time now that during a steep recession like the one we are suffering through the government needs to spend more to help the situation because consumers will not.

Today he takes on the critics of deficit spending who were so silent when President… Continue