With New Year’s Day in the middle of the week, business won’t get back to full volume here in Washington until this coming Monday, when I am booked up solid for ten hours of consultations. The rest of next week is like that too, and so when Gretchen had to begin offering clients the choice of… Continue reading GOP Insiders Proclaim – No Fools On Our Ticket!
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Tea Party Boiling Mad About Budget Deal
Even in Washington, things do slow down somewhat during Christmas Week. Nevertheless, I still had full consultation schedules every day but Tuesday, which was Christmas Eve, and, of course, on Wednesday, Christmas Day, when everybody in town except the military, the cops, the firemen, the spies and the hookers goes off duty. But President Obama… Continue reading Tea Party Boiling Mad About Budget Deal
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
Ted Cruz and the Natural Born Hypocrites
After dinner at Rasika followed by a night of club hopping in Adams Morgan, Cerise and I slept late this morning. I prepared breakfast in bed – duck eggs Benedict, featuring freshly made hollandaise sauce and grilled New Zealand fern fiddle heads with organic Canadian bacon, accompanied by hand-squeezed Barcelona blood orange and Veuve Clicquot… Continue reading Ted Cruz and the Natural Born Hypocrites