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By Gregory Taggart, January 28, 2010 1:55 am

Decorum indeed! “You lie!”

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By Gregory Taggart, January 20, 2010 10:33 pm

Maybe Santyana looked into the past to predict the future. Maybe he read that

. . . in the twenty-nice years since the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, Americans had already risen in revolt three times, and on each occasion over taxation (A Darn Good History of the United States, 161).

Maybe Congress and the President should read a little history.

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By Gregory Taggart, January 16, 2010 3:12 pm

How do these guys manage to run a campaign, let alone the country, with their foot always planted firmly in their mouths? First, second, third, and fourth (etc.) it was Coakley, now it’s Van Hollen’s turn. Hollen, chairman of he Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, had this to say about how the Republicans shouldn’t be handed the keys to the Cadillac, er, I mean, the House, just after he said that it was “pure hallucination” to think that Scott Brown might beat Martha Coakley in the contest to see who will succeed Teddy Kennedy as the new senator from Massachusettes:

“Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?” Van Hollen said. “For the Republicans to say vote for us and bring back the guys who got us into this mess in the first place, I don’t think it’s a winner.”

Okay, so Chappaquiddick isn’t a ditch.

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By Gregory Taggart, January 16, 2010 2:29 pm

Last night my wife and I were watching the talking heads–can’t remember who–and someone quoted someone else about how we need to raise taxes to pay for the war in Afghanistan, and my wife says, and I quote (loosely):

I am so sick of this! How dare they! Why should they raise taxes on us to pay for the one thing that our Constitution very clearly says our government is supposed to do? The tax revenue they already have should pay for the common defense first. So cut other programs if you have to, but don’t tell me you have to raise my already-high taxes to do the one thing the Constitution says our government is supposed to do.

Hard to argue with that, especially if the person saying it is a babe–my wife.

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By Gregory Taggart, October 9, 2009 10:19 am

Hey, I’m running to Kmart to pick up a Nobel Peace Prize. Want me to pick one up for you?

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By Gregory Taggart, August 26, 2009 12:33 pm

And so my question is, with nearly 700,000 used cars off of the market, what has happened to the cost of used cars–the cars people of meager means might buy?

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By Gregory Taggart, August 4, 2009 11:20 am

Well, it’s been what, over a month since the State Department started the process to determine whether the events in Honduras amounted to a coup, legally speaking, as opposed to, you know, Presidential or Secretary of State speaking.

The answer, as of the August 3rd Daily Briefing at the Department of State, is:

QUESTION: Do you acknowledge that it was a coup, a military coup? 

MR. CROWLEY: Well, there are legal issues there that we have chosen not to exercise at this point. But clearly, in every way possible, we have said that what happened in Honduras is a violation of the OAS Charter, which is why we took action against Honduras. It’s a violation of the Inter-American Charter, the Inter-American Democratic Charter. And we continue to work intensively to try to resolve the situation. 

Stay tuned for further updates. In the meantime, I can assure you of one thing: This gang couldn’t shoot straight if they owned a gun in the first place.

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By Gregory Taggart, August 4, 2009 10:52 am

What I want to know is whether those who say this is racist also say the creators of the blue Obama poster are Communist.

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By Gregory Taggart, July 5, 2009 4:41 pm

This is maddening. In a July 1, 2009, State Department “Background Briefing,” an unidentified “Senior Administration Official One” responded to a reporter’s question/statement that “earlier this week, Secretary Clinton gave us to understand that you were holding off on a determination on whether [the removal of President Zelaya] was indeed a military coup. . . . that the Legal Advisor’s Office has begun the process of determining whether [the removal] was a military coup . . .” by saying:

In regard to the first question, both the President and the Secretary have described events in Honduras as a coup, which they certainly were once the current claimant to the presidency swore – was sworn in before the congress after the forcible removal of the legal and constitutional president, Mel Zelaya. 

Fine, so “this is properly classified as a military coup, right?

“Senior Administration Official One” again:

Well, I mean, it’s a golpe de estado. The military moved against the president; they removed him from his home and they expelled him from a country, so the military participated in a coup. However, the transfer of leadership was not a military action. The transfer of leadership was done by the Honduran congress, and therefore the coup, while it had a military component, it has a larger – it is a larger event.
 

. . . as I believe it was answered earlier, the review is ongoing.

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By Gregory Taggart, July 3, 2009 12:19 pm

I just wrote Edward Schumacher-Matos about the so-called “coup” in Honduras, so called, because the State Department has yet to decide if, legally speaking, it was actually a coup. Below is my correspondence with Mr. Schumacher-Matos, a writer syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group, who, by the way, says the Hillary Clinton “declined to call the action a coup.” Not if you believe what she said on Monday, June 29 at a State Department Briefing. 

Per the former Senator, in response to a reporter’s question: “Well, we do think that this has evolved into a coup.” 

Any way, here’s my correspondence: