If you’re willing to bring the federal government to a halt, and stop all business from being conducted for “principles that you cannot compromise,” then you really should have those principles and the courage of your convictions. When you do it solely to deny your opponents any semblance of success, even when you believe that success would be good for the country, then you have neither.

There’s a word for that. It escapes me at the moment.

It passed. Therefore, it is not a matter of “scrambling” — those politicians are picking up what cards they already know are on the table to be picked up. Call it cards, ear-marks, tags, whatever. Were they for the bill or whatever? No. It passed. Are they supposed to then ignore it? Are they supposed to get what they can regrouped for their individual constituents? Well, that’s what they are elected to represent. The rules of our game here in the United States are based upon The United States Constitution. The United States Constitution was drawn up and implemented prior to there being an internet. Our United States Constitution is a living document.

This all filters down to Federal rights vs. States Rights and Macro-Economics vs. Micro-Economics. “Watch the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves.” Well, to translate that to texting is a bit difficult now. Why? Sometimes the OLD ways work quicker and easier. I don’t have a typewriter; I can immediately “keyboard” $ but I cannot back up and overstrike c with / in order to come up with the “cents” and a lot of those signs, “good old underlying DOS” (what operating system does that stand for?) won’t allow for it in an emergency. There are work arounds, but let us face it — any way you cut it, it is indeed a mess.

I refer you to Oscar Goodman, mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. (do I add another period here?) PRECISION is required with underlying computer work. Am I that precise? No. Anyway, Oscar Goodman explains just why he is not running for Governor of Nevada, why he changed to embrace neither political party and states that he has 15 months left as mayor. The question-answer period is *quite* interesting because he makes it clear why he has absolutely no interest in running for Federal Office requiring his physical presence in Washington, D.C. (which was SUPPOSED to remain a District, rather than a STATE). . .Oscar Goodman notes, regarding Washington D.C. — that those people up there don’t even LIKE each other.

http://qik.com/video/4594145

It still comes down to the money. Where is it? Who has it? How can I get it? (Who, what, when, where, how — how much — all questions — and the need for that period or WHOA.)

Jed Lewison wrote this piece for the Daily Kos, a left-leaning mainstream political blog, where I read it. He was commenting on original reporting done by the right-leaning Washington Times, a Washington Daily newspaper. They see themselves as a counterweight to the Washington Post.

I had no hand in writing the article. The “by David” attribute only means that I am the one who posted it to dmperkins.com. Anytime I post material from other sources or publications, I include a link to the original article or articles, and credit the writer, in this case, Jed Lewison.

The longer article in the Washington Times, by Jim McElhatton, can be found HERE, as well as with the two links in the original post above.

UPDATE: I have changed the Daily Kos link in the original post so that it now leads to the reprinted story, as it should have in the first place. Sorry you had so much trouble finding it. My bad.

So then, after much wandering around that “Daily Kos” link — I spent some time listening to and watching the Senator Murtha videos first. Now THAT is really sad. He was only 77, went in for some sort of microscopic or laser surgery, they cut his intestines, I guess he got peritonitis and he died. They must have told the truth instead of trying to cover it up, but he is dead all the same. My husband admired some things greatly about him, although he did not agree with everything he said — well, he loved me and didn’t agree with everything I said, either. Anyway that is yet another subject; our flags ARE flying at half-mast — most of them, anyway, I guess. (Regardless, those videos were recorded live, but of course, they no longer are…)

Well, I finally DID find that article that you have “reprinted” here.

However, what I am curious to know is if “by David” means that you posted it on your site, or what??? Or are you saying that Jed Lewison is a Ghost Writer, you wrote this article and he published it under your name? Which brings us to the question I have asked before: “Just who in the world writes the speeches for politicians???” To me, these are good questions, all of this may have absolutely nothing to do with why you posted this.