February Archive

Voters speak?

Sheila Liaugminas | 03 February 2010

What a bizarre primary Illinois just had. After the Chicago Tribune editors ran a series on the ’state of corruption’ urging voters in the strongest terms to grab their brooms and shovels, shoulder the sword, marshall their forces and get out the vote to clean up ‘politics as usual’ once and for all…….the primary went down with a record low turnout. With the majority of the voters staying home, what they said was “I don’t care”, which is equal to saying ‘let the status quo just be’…

Just call the budget…an investment

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 February 2010

Why didn’t the president think of that? After all, politicians are so good at spin. "“Don’t talk about the deficit as a historic deficit. Talk about it as a historic investment. Make the subject record unemployment relief, and record state relief, and record job spending, and record small business investments, and record tax cuts. Tell a positive story you want to defend rather than a negative story you want to apologize for."

Budget busting records

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 February 2010

This is where it gets wonkish, even for the most informed and actively engaged citizens. Health care battles are over for now (fickle Congress), and last weeks’ jobs emphasis has just been displaced by the Obama budget proposal for fiscal 2011.

State of Disunion

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 February 2010

The fallout from President Obama’s highly unusual address before the Joint Session of Congress and all branches of government and the American people last week is still generating buzz. What made it unusual was his rancor, blaming everyone but himself for failures in Washington and anger in the nation over the past year. It didn’t lift people up….it put them down. Starting with the previous administration, which is getting old. He has to own his office and what he’s done with it for the past year, and since he won’t, pundits are working overtime counting all the misleading or downright untrue statements he made.

Bankrupt papers can still line bird cages

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 February 2010

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