Dumfry and Dean are identical twins. When they were but six weeks old, their mother died in an automobile accident where the car she was riding in was hit from behind by a large truck, causing her to be thrown out through the windshield from the front passenger seat and subsequently run over by passing police cruiser, which… Continue reading Sequestration – A Terrible Idea Whose Time Has Come
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OMB Sequestration Report Cuts the Cheese in Washington
A billion here… a billion there… pretty soon you’re talking about some real money. – Everett Dirksen’s Eccentric Aunt Tilly At the moment, by far the most popular US government document over three hundred pages here in Washington is the Office of Management and Budget’s Report Pursuant to the Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012. For… Continue reading OMB Sequestration Report Cuts the Cheese in Washington
Super Committee or Stupid Committee? You Decide!
Cerise is away on business this weekend, so instead of going out on the town yesterday evening, I worked late, had dinner at the Willard and stopped by the Capital Grille afterward. There, I spied Hilton, a Republican congressional staffer who works for the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, known to most Americans as… Continue reading Super Committee or Stupid Committee? You Decide!