Jane Chastain : Politically Direct

The last thing we need is 535 ‘generals’ in Congress telling our troops how to win this fight. Sen. James Inhofe, R.-Okla.

Sen. John Warner’s call for a symbolic troop reduction in Iraq is an indication that perhaps we should consider a mandatory retirement age for members of Congress. Read the rest of this entry »

How does this Congress plan to win the war on terror?  Pork – pure unadulterated pork!

Rats. I wanted to write a book about Mark Foley and the Republican Party but Bob Woodward stole my title. “State of Denial” best describes the attitude of House leadership that turned a blind eye toward the unusual amount of interest the Florida congressman showed toward young boys who were serving as House pages.Of course, House Speaker Denny Hastert should step down! That’s what an honorable man does when he makes a mistake of this magnitude.

Republican partisans are rallying to the speaker’s defense and blaming it on Democrat operatives who held and released those sexually explicit instant messages just before the election. However, there is still plenty of time to call everybody back to Washington and pick a replacement for Hastert. Read the rest of this entry »

Greased pig races used to be quite common. Little piglets were selected for these events and they were next to impossible to catch. Just when you thought you had one in your grasp, it would slip through your fingers and run into the bushes. Instead of a race, it became a game of hide-and-seek.

That’s what has been going on in Washington. During the month of August, there was a search for a couple of pigs in bushes – the two-legged kind, who line up at the public trough and gobble large amounts of tax dollars faster than you can say “government waste.” Last week, they were captured (identified), and now a couple of others are on the loose. This is hide-and-seek coupled with musical chairs. Read the rest of this entry »

Osama bin Laden is dumb. There was no need to send a team of radicals to hijack American planes and guide them into th.e World Trade Center in order to destroy the U.S. economy. If he just had a little patience – instead of hiding in a cave – he could have joined some of his Islamic buddies and bought this country at bargain basement prices.

A plan is underway t.o bankrupt the United States, and the terror cell that is implementing it is hiding in plain sight in the nation’s capital. In fact, it is operating within the nation’s capitol building. Read the rest of this entry »