Mike Rough
State of Disunion Address 2010 Part 2
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Publisher Mike Rough
O: Our most urgent — our most urgent task upon taking office was to shore up the same banks that helped cause this crisis. It was not easy to do. And if there’s one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans — and everybody in between — it’s that we all hated the [...]
State of Disunion Address 2010 Part 1
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Publisher Michael Rough
O: One year ago, I took office amid two wars, an economy rocked by a severe recession, a financial system on the verge of collapse, and a government deeply in debt. Experts from across the political spectrum warned that if we did not act, we might face a second depression.
M: A year has [...]
The Entitled’s New Clothes
Monday, October 19th, 2009By Author Mike Rough
Thought the entitled, though it seemed not to matter, the economy in tatters,
with aliens that it had to feed, its muscled might atrophied,
choking on federal excess, foreign wars, and IMF largess,
barbarians at the border it seemed “A new set of clothes are in order.”
Enter the tailor and his entourage, dashing, smooth, the [...]