BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Rick Perry has been in this race for about 12 minutes and has been deemed the frontrunner; the man who has the best chance of knocking Mitt Romney out of his frontrunner status; the guy who will knock / has knocked Michelle Bachmann out of second place; the man who will force (pick one) Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, or Hopalong Cassidy to reconsider their previous decisions not to get into this race.
BY RICH GALEN
Rerprinted from mullings.com
NOTE: This is the second MULLINGS coming out of the Iowa Straw Poll yesterday. It was written partially in Ames, Iowa; in Detroit, Michigan;and, finally finished at home in Alexandria, Virginia.
How can this happen? How can a successful Governor hire a group of really smart people, spend more than a year, and who-knows-how-many millions of dollars, meeting with potential and actual supporters, and elite members of the media in places like New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC only to come to a grinding halt in a place called Ames, Iowa?
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
I woke up early yesterday morning to follow the story of the continuing drop in the markets following the S&P downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt from AAA to AA+. It occurred to me that, as we enter the second week of August, this may be the most arcane “August Story” in my experience.
Anthony Weiner is the typical August story: Public official, sex, denials, resignation. That it happened in June was just one more reason to not have any sympathy for Weiner.
Last year, every visit to that new office Keurig coffee machine included a discussion about the state of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, brought to you by BP. “Junk Shots” and “Top Kills” sustained us throughout the summer before a relief well was finally completed in September.
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
We need a new way of keeping score when it comes to government spending. The only test is: How much did we spend on a program last year and how much more (or, rarely, less) are we spending this year.
There is no mention of whether the program in question is working well, badly, or not at all. There is no consideration of whether there is a more efficient way to deliver whatever services or goods are involved in the program.
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
There is growing discussion over the nature of country borders in the roiling region of Northern Africa and the Middle East .
SIDEBAR
We should just call the region “NAME” to save typing.
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Dear Mr. Mullings:
We believe we have had this discussion before. When you go traipsing off to interesting corners of the world, we expect to be along for the traipse. What happened to Friday’s MULLINGS?
Signed,
The Old Town, Virginia Explorer’s Club
Yes, well, we were in Zanzibar, which is a series of islands off the coast of Tanzania and the Internet went out Thursday night. I believe I might have uttered those famous words: “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
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BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
There are a number of sites which will recount the month-by-month news for 2010. I’m not going to do that.
There is only one story for 2010 – and it was not Stephen Strasburg needing Tommy John surgery. That was number two.
The only story for this year was the uprising among American voters to produce a 63 seat turnover in the U.S. House plus major changes in the U.S. Senate, in Governors’ mansions, in State Legislatures, county courthouses and city halls from one end of the nation to the other.
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BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com and Townhall.com
If you live in Washington, DC and follow the local Major League Baseball team – the Nationals – you know a little something about slumps.
You know how you can deny that one of their players is heading into one; you can deny he’s in the midst of one; and then you celebrate when he comes out the other side – in spite of the previous denials.
President Obama is in a real, hit-into-a-double-play-with-no-one-on-base slump.