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 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 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 [...]
I give the Democrats about a 20% chance of holding a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate (Alaska-90%, Minnesota-50%, and Georgia-40%). Regardless of whether they have the super majority or not, these are my wishes for the next Congress. I wish for the Democrats to take the moral high ground that the Republicans have lacked over [...]
The American political spectrum is an endless pendulum, steadily swinging back and forth from left to right, and back again. The swings usually follow a few election cycles. Why ‘only’ a few election cycles? Hubris. You get in office, your party takes control. You get re-elected a few times and you begin to think YOU [...]
