Political Science

I usually try to avoid outright partisan battles here on Windypundit, but with all the complaining people are doing about the state of the country today, I was struck by a recent tweet by Roger Ebert: Say, how d'ya think we'd be doing about now with McCain and Palin? Yes, let's try to imagine what life in this country would be like if the country had been run by these … [Read more...] about What If McCain and Palin Had Won?

The Republicans' have now revealed their new Pledge to America, an idea based loosely on their old Contract With America. I haven't read any of it yet, but it's 48 pages long. Somehow that strikes me as a bad sign for the future of small government... Update: Yeah, I looked it over and there's nothing much here we haven't heard before, from the impossible, through the vague and … [Read more...] about The Republican Pledge To America – A Very Quick Impression

[Note: This is not the real 2010 Republican response. It's the 2009 response. I thought I'd post it instead of the real one to see if anybody actually paid attention. No one noticed. Which means...nothing, really. And it was stupid of me to deceive my readers in order to test them. Sorry about that. I don't think I'll be doing that again...except maybe on April Fool's Day.] … [Read more...] about The Republican Response – 2010

I usually try to make a few comments about the State of the Union address. This time, I've decided to include the entire text of the speech---even the parts I have nothing say about---so this post is going to be very long. Working from the official Whitehouse transcript: The White House Office of the Press SecretaryFor Immediate ReleaseJanuary 27, 2010 Remarks by the President … [Read more...] about State of the Union – 2010

...is still crazy: Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he's "blacker than Barack Obama" and tells Esquire magazine that he was a real person in a political arena dominated by phonies. Blagojevich, referring to the president as "this guy," says Obama was elected based simply on hope. "What the (expletive)? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter," Blagojevich told … [Read more...] about Illinois’s Crazy Ex-Governor…