Around ten yesterday morning, Gretchen began receiving calls from “some pushy woman named Parker,” as she put it, more or less demanding an immediate telephone consultation. Gretchen managed to work her in during my lunch break, which she accomplished by canceling my reservation at the Capital Grille and having a taxi deliver sushi from the… Continue reading Obama Pegs Annise Parker in an Awkward Position
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Ach du Liebe Zeit! NSA Private Cell Phone Tap Penetrates Angela Merkel
Fortunately, despite the desperate state of the world, it did not prove necessary for Gretchen to book any consultations on this particular weekend. So she had both days off – although I am, technically speaking, on call year-round, 24/7. And so it was that shortly after breakfast in bed, while Cerise and I relaxed with… Continue reading Ach du Liebe Zeit! NSA Private Cell Phone Tap Penetrates Angela Merkel
DC Government Endures Humiliation and Injustice
Maybe there were several hundred thousand federal workers with nothing to do this week, but Gretchen and I have been as busy as one-armed paper hangers. Apparently, there’s nothing like the economic repercussions of a government shutdown combined with the impending financial cataclysm of a US government default to increase the demand for nearly every… Continue reading DC Government Endures Humiliation and Injustice
Washington Gets Them Federal Shutdown Blues
Five days into the US federal government shutdown, the one striking effect that sticks in my mind is how extraordinarily easy it has been to drive downtown. With the vast majority of federal workers – who, truth be told, are among the worst drivers anywhere – stuck at home with their families (who, truth be… Continue reading Washington Gets Them Federal Shutdown Blues
Tea Party Master Debaters Vow to Beat Boehner – Later
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle’s on a poodle and the poodle’s eating noodles, they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle. – Representative Lois Frankel, D-Florida,The Congressional Record, Saturday, September 28, 2013 Ladies and gentlemen, you can’t make this stuff up. … Continue reading Tea Party Master Debaters Vow to Beat Boehner – Later