BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
From “Biloxi Blues”
Eugene Morris Jerome: Man it’s hot. It’s like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot.
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Another Jacksonian Era
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
The deal to head off a government shutdown Friday night got done because a guy named Barry Jackson said it was done. Not one second before.
I have no – zero – inside info on what in the press world is known as a “tick-tock” who said what to whom, and when they said it. I am not one of Barry Jackson’s pals. I’m not even sure who they might be.
But, I have known Barry Jackson for about 15 years and I know this: He has the ability to focus in on a problem not like a laser – that would be too diffused; but like the beam of sub-atomic matter zooming around a particle accelerator.
Get New Scorecard for Judging Value
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.
Shut Down Government
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Over the 12 years of writing MULLINGS, I have often strayed – sometimes pretty far – from Conservative Orthodoxy.
Obama Speech Okay But Late
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
President Obama’s speech on Monday night was, at best, OK. It got tongues wagging about the “Obama Doctrine” which appears to be: “If it won’t drag Iran into the fight we’ll take a look.”
Lybia, Japan and Other News
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
There has been so much going on this week, it’s almost impossible to make sense of it all in just one column.
First of all the is the ongoing non-war in Libya. It is a non-war in which country appears to want to take control.
Bahrain, A Jewel in the Desert
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Headline:Saudi Troops Enter Bahrain to Help Put Down Unrest
Come with me into the Wayback Machine.
Back in the day, I worked for a company called EDS which had been founded by a guy named Ross Perot. Perot was gone in the mid-90s when I was there and got involved with what I’m about to describe to you.
Gingrich and the Presidential Dance
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Newt Gingrich sort of didn’t announce the formation of an exploratory committee as, earlier in the week, it had been reported he would be doing.
Union Wars in Wisconsin
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
The standoff between Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Democrats in the State Senate has been going on for two weeks and may last for weeks or even months longer.
Oil and Global Unrest
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
The price of oil on the international market at yesterday’s close was $93.57 per barrel, an increase of $7.37 in one day.
The Age of Digital Campaigns
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
We’re probably within a week of the first Republican candidate to file papers opening an exploratory committee to “test the waters” in the 2012 Presidential campaign.
Obama Budget Noise, Numbers
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Here are the approximate numbers that you’re going to be hearing about all day today:
The President’s 2012 budget will be a $3.5 trillion-plus plus earmark. Continue reading
A Secular Egypt
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Here’s what’s likely to happen in Egypt : It will evolve into a Turkish-like government with the civil side adopting a pro-Islamic stance, while the military makes certain the place doesn’t turn into Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Every Federal $ Benefits Somebody
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Townhall.com and mullings.com
The chatter around Your Nation’s Capital among the cognoscenti, the intelligentsia, and smarty-pantses over the past 24 hours was: Is there any real meaning to the House vote to repeal Obamacare?
Washington Week: Health Care and Hu
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Here’s the essence of the gulf between House Republicans and Democrats on the Obama health care bill: According to Kelly Kennedy writing in USA Today:
Letter from Zanzibar, Tanzania
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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Slash Federal Spending? Some Tough Choices
BY RICH GALEN
From Nairobi, Kenya
Reprinted from Mullings.com
I have been in Kenya since Saturday night on a trip sponsored by the ONE Campaign. I am with seven other political pros – pollsters, advisors, message masters, and me. Later today we move on to Tanzania for about three days before heading home.
We are not spending much time on photo safaris in Massai Mara National Park. We have been to a research center run by the U.S. Army and followed young Kenyans who went to a rural village to do in-home HIV testing.
How A Bill Really Becomes Law
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
When our 11th grade social studies teacher, Mr. Vinnie Mirandi walked us through the lawmaking process it sounded so simple:
President, Politics and A New Year
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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308,745,538 of Us
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
The U.S. Census Bureau announced yesterday that as of April 1, 2010 there were 308,745,538 people living in the United States – the result of the 2010 census which is required by the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Section 2: