Senator Bunning held up $10 billion in benefits because the senate couldn’t pay for them. Dear Sen. Bunning: of course you couldn’t pay for them. You’re $10 trillion in debt.
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Modern politics is messed up. I could probably pick any newsmaking member of the executive or legislative branch to make this point, but as he’s been resurgent lately, I’ll pick on… Newt Gingrich. Newt recently gave a speech in which he proposes the impeachment of Eric Holder, Obama’s Attorney General, on the grounds that Mr. [...]
The current health care debate in America is intellectually and morally bankrupt. Can I be any more clear than that? The only issue that we should be discussing is how to change the trajectory of health care costs, which are already untenable and continuing to climb. Instead, we have people talking about everything but. Let’s [...]
Leaders have to be more perfect than those around them. When their constituents respond emotionally, strong leaders do not respond in kind—they refuse to get baited. How do they do it? By anticipating the punch they know is coming. Great leaders don’t set themselves up for disappointment by expecting others to be perfect. Instead, they [...]
What Handling Ambiguity means Handling ambiguity—and it’s close cousin, handling uncertainty—means being able to move forward in spite of unclear or non-existent direction. Uncertainty comes about from poor directions, such as “Fold the piece of paper in half,” which leaves one guessing as to which direction—lengthwise or crosswise—the fold should be made. Ambiguity is a [...]
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