Dems’ New Pork: Trains to Nowhere
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 20th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Dems’ New Pork: Trains to Nowhere
Debra Saunders, San Fran Chronicle
Ousted Politicians Reflect on What Went Wrong
Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
This is the time of year when Congress is in transition and defeated politicians get together to reflect on what went wrong, and to share their pain across party lines. “There's a new definition of bipartisanship in Washington. It's called former member,” said Texas Rep. Chet Edwards, who, together with three other defeated lawmakers, shared the stage at the Bipartisan Policy Center on Thursday morning to assess their collective 80 years of experience and to find solace in the group catharsis.
Chinese Chess
Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard
The Chinese are playing grandmaster chess against an amateur America that can’t see beyond the second move. In a bipartisan display of geopolitical obtuseness, America continues its historic trade policy: It’s free trade, except occasional lapses into protectionism when a whinging constituent must be placated, with a reliance on the World Trade Organization to settle disputes (and believing it has won something of significance when the WTO sides with it in a dispute over such a key product as cheap tires). Occasional public complaints about …
