Ok, get out your calculators, and read the following quotes from this New York Times article on the budget resolution that Congress passed yesterday:
“The House and Senate broke a lengthy impasse over federal spending Thursday night, narrowly adopting a $2.56 trillion federal budget for 2006 that aims to trim the growth of Medicaid by $10 [...]

Mike and Scott have thus far chimed in on the latest topic, Amending the Constitution. I’m going to focus primarily on whether the United States should allow naturalized citizens the privilege of running for the nation’s highest single office. The reason I am focusing on this issue is that I am a naturalized citizen. Although [...]

“… And he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law …”- United States [...]

You can’t stereotype the Democrats anymore. It used to be that they were the “bleeding-heart”, “tax-and-spend” liberals. And while those were pejorative terms used by the right, they did have a point. Democrats wanted to take your money and use it to better society as a whole, where as Republicans wanted you to keep your [...]

You’ve got to love San Diego politics. Perhaps the two funniest, and saddest, sentences I’ve ever seen in print about an American city, from this New York Times article: “The mayor of San Diego, Dick Murphy, caught up in federal investigations into the city’s finances and questions about his political legitimacy, announced Monday that he [...]

So, Scott disagreed with five of my proposals, really, (He didn’t agree with the abortion one, but didn’t really offer up a strong disagreement with it either, so I’ll leave that one alone) so here goes my defense:
1) Electoral College. Why get rid of it? Because I’m tired of elections being decided by white suburban [...]

Stupid work getting in the stupid way… If it wasn’t so necessary for me to, you know, eat and have a roof over my head and clothes on my back and stuff, then I’d be tempted to just ditch the whole thing! But anyway…
Constitutional amendments! Right up my alley, supposedly! I [...]

So, it occurs to me that there has been a lot of talk about the wisdom of filibustering certain nominees and little-to-no talk about who those nominees really are. So, I thought I would fill in the gap a little bit. Below I have listed some relevant information from the resumes of each of Bush’s [...]

Alan Greenspan said today that the budget deficit threatens to stifle the economy if not addressed soon. You know, if I wrote the following story, it would be considered too hard to believe:
- President enters office in time of moderate surplus. Says we need to “give money back to the people”. Fed Chairman agrees. Taxes [...]

It has now been 13 years since the United States Constitution was last amended, and 34 years since Congress last passed a proposed amendment. Given that the Constitution is supposed to be a living document, that seems like way to long in my mind. So, let’s talk Constitutional changes, by asking if/how the Constitution should [...]