By Wink The Democrat-led Senate passed a two month extension to our current payroll tax cuts, and then went home for Christmas. The Republican-controlled House chose NOT to vote on it, and then went home for Christmas. Not voting means the tax will increase effective January 1. The new-age GOP plays zero-sum politics. All of [...]
By Wink Do you think I am full of it? It is okay if you do. Conservatives who read Winkest Link will point out how I am always railing about how the GOP seems to be off base on a number of issues. Maybe I am just a liberal wacko. I don’t think of myself [...]
By Wink Is it cynical to think the GOP is happy about our ongoing recession? Are their actions based on total cluelessness, or is this intentional? What Americans need are jobs. The last thing the GOP seems to care about is jobs. Putting people to work would … Take them off unemployment (which saves money) [...]
By Wink Dinking around, delaying raising the debt ceiling, has cost us money. The U.S. taxpayer is now on the hook for $1.7 billion that we never would have owed had we simply acted more timely to do something we were going to do anyway…. I told you so. Economists told you so. This [...]
By Wink We at the Winkest Link were stupid enough to believe that the House of Representatives would eventually see the light and just pass raising the debt ceiling. To all presidents of both parties this has always been a formality in the past. But now morons run the House, so we at W-L will [...]
By Wink The GOP talking point to regain the House in 2010 was the following mantra: “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.” Nothing else…just ‘jobs.’ It worked fabulously. They took complete control of the House and narrowed their deficit in the Senate. What have their objectives been SINCE the election? Embarrass President Obama. Protect the extremely wealthy [...]
By Wink Not too long ago (February 14 to be exact) we at Winkest Link expressed our displeasure about how often opponents just make up s*** to trash the president. In the political arena we don’t mind a little hyperbole. Politics, after all, is hardball, so…. GOP: Feel free to say Democrats spend tax dollars [...]
By Wink Here is an interesting chart, from the Harvard Business School, showing the distribution of wealth in America. it is not a complicated chart, but please focus on the top bar, because that is real. The other two are just opinions. They are interesting opinions, worthy of discussion, but opinions nonetheless. The dark blue [...]
By Wink Today’s recommended reading is the autobiography of former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey, titled ‘When I Was a Young Man’. This book, published in 2002, is NOT the story of ‘how I became a governor/senator/president of a university’. It is a simple telling of him as a young child, up through the end of [...]
By Wink Robert Byrd has passed away at age 92. The West Virginia senator had a distinctive career to say the least. I do not intend to give a blow by blow rundown of his life. If you wish that, you can get it from many sources. I will just touch on a few of [...]
