Author: HughS

The New York Times owes the late David Halberstam an apology. Halberstam, readers may recall, wrote the definitive history (The Reckoning) of the failure of the domestic auto industry …

I've never been a big fan of automatic pay raises (private and public sector) or, for that matter, cost of living adjustments (COLA's). The fact that Congress is on …

I wonder what Senator Trent Lott (R- MS, Former Senate Majority Leader) thinks of Representative Charlie Rangel's (D-NY, Chairman House Ways and Means Committee) problems? There is no dearth …

The search is over. George Stephanopoulos found Vice President elect Joe Biden the other day without a minder. As we've come to expect, Biden didn't disappoint as he sermonized …

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich says I will fight, I will fight, I will fight, a reaction that some folks in politics wish had been Jeri Ryan's response to her …

With apologies to John Irving it must be said that "In the world according to TARP, we are all terminal cases" and that includes GM and Chrysler despite the …

UPDATE: White House is considering orderly bankruptcy of auto firms. Just last week during the Senate's attempt to craft a domestic auto bailout (a negotiation that that UAW President …

The recent financial turmoil has demonstrated to industry observers (and surprisingly, some members of Congress) that they can't turn their heads for a moment less a few ten or …

Sometime late next January there will be a decree from the White House and a (very short) debate in Congress as to whether a stimulus package exceeding one trillion …

Jennifer Rubin remarks that the Republicans are on a roll (albeit a roll that would only be recognizable to the base). Notably, Republicans retained Chambliss' Senate seat in Georgia, …