David Remer: Current Political EventsCommentary, analysis and context of political events and news.Bush to Baghdad: The Patina hides little.- November 29, 2003 by David R. Remer Political News & Analysis The President's surprise visit, (no doubt for security reasons), had all of the patina of McArthur's filmed return to the Phillipines, or Nixon's trip to China. But, this effort to display his role as Commander In Chief, friend of American troops, hides none of the political reason for the war, the poltiical reason for the photo-op, or the political reason for pushing headlines about American miltary deaths off the front pages....http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2003/11/29.html#a3268 Extremes to Demise- November 24, 2003 In response to Dustin Frelich's excellently crafted article on WatchBlog, entitled Conservatives Debate Medicare, I reply in the following way. I understand the philosophy behind those Republicans who believe that social programs are bad for America. It is a philosophy born out of a gross misunderstanding and confusion about the bi-polar extremes of free enterprise fostered by Milton Friedman followers, and socialism as implemented under communist and authoritarian regimes. They fail to...http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2003/11/24.html#a3184 The Energy Bill Fiasco- November 19, 2003 by David Remer Political News & Analysis 111903 Sen. Pete Domenici (R) of New Mexico, the chief spokesperson for the current Energy Bill which has come out of conference committee before the Senate for ratification states again and again that if we don't pass this bill now, there will be no energy bill for as many as 10 years. He propounded a list of energy companies that went on and on that would benefit from the bill. Sen. John McCain and a host of Democrats have flat out...http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2003/11/19.html#a3123 Medicare: A shell game.- November 19, 2003 by David Remer Political News & Analysis Amy Goldstein and Helen Dewar, Washington Post writers, entitled their article, Republican Medicare Plan Faces Challenges. It might have been more appropriately entitled, The Great Congressional Shell Game. When the GOP and the Whitehouse announced they were selling the plan before the 1100+ page document is even completed and before more than just a handful of Congresspersons even know what it contains, I knew it was time for alarm....http://radio.weblogs.com/0124721/categories/currentPoliticalEvents/2003/11/18.html#a3122 |