Byron Tau
Meanwhile, we can’t afford beef hotdogs or brand name spam.
What’s wrong with Ruby Tueday? My golf group regularly held our annual dinner there. They reserved a banquet room for our group of 8 golfers plus spouses, and served a very nice dinner and drinks. The money came from our bets through the season and instead of handing the money to the winner of the day, we put in a pot for our annual dinner in Ruby Tuesday. They had the best salad bar, with 40 or 50 items.
Perhaps, but you certainly don't need to spend it to win elections, as Cantor found out. Maybe if Cantor had actually spent some time listening to his constituents, he wouldn't have to worry about running up huge tabs at fancy restaurants wining and dining lobbyists only to end up looking like a fool.
Byron Tau
Byron Tau
Politico Goes to Pot While Ignoring IRS Scandal Developments
By Tom Blumer | July 27, 2013 | 09:56
Pretty much all you need to know about the current negligent media culture in Washington is summed up in two items involving the Politico’s home page this morning — one which is there, and one which isn’t.
The featured story at top of the home page by Byron Tau is about infighting between “Big Marijuana” — it seems like “Big Pot” would be a more succinct nickname — and those who want to extend recent electoral victories in legalizing the drug. What isn’t there on the home page, as confirmed in a word search, is any story with a headline or tease containing “IRS.”
http://newsbusters.org/category/people/byron-tau#ixzz34OnXsXqg
Memo to POLITICO’s Byron Tau: Pro-Business = Pro-Markets
Posted on October 18, 2013 by George Scoville
Writing today for POLITICO Influence, scribe Byron Tau describes a Washington Post story thus:
BUSINESS VS. THE TEA PARTY: Wholesaler-Distributors lobbyist Dirk Van Dongen calls the tea party caucus “the Taliban minority.” http://wapo.st/16UgvCu
This must be controversial because, so the conventional wisdom goes, Big Business loves Republicans, and so do, apparently, Tea Party movement activists. Therefore, if Big Business calls the Tea Party movement “the Taliban minority,” the Tea Party movement must be really bad.
This isn’t, however, shocking — not even a little bit.
Meanwhile veterans stand waiting for basic medical treatment and our neighborhoods decay...Job loses climb as waves of low illegals pour in...All this as big biz and wealthy political insiders wink and nod, flying in dining at high end Beverly Hills steak houses. Back room deals, friendly campaign bribes, all networking and bumping belly’s for personal gain and power.
Typical DC Elite. Spends over 100,000 for something that quickly turns into toilet bowl turds. Well hopefully they had some good Wine and Whisky.
The writers are already running out of things to talk about with Cantor. For most of us, Cantor remained a mostly invisible presence on the periphery of the Congressional Sequestrations and rhetorical slugouts. Boehner was/is the front man for better or worse.