Rich Algeni, Jr. (@richalgeni) tweeted at 9:30pm - 2 Mar 14:
@RobertGKaiser Wish we had truly known you were such a whack-job leftist! If there were true justice, you’d be a North Korean! (https://twitter.com/richalgeni/status/440328374829858817)
Robert G. Kaiser
@RobertGKaiser
Born and bred in Washington, employed by The Washington Post for 50 years, author of SO DAMN MUCH MONEY, ACT OF CONGRESS and six other books.
Washington, D.C.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertGKaiser
Robert G. Kaiser (@RobertGKaiser) tweeted at 12:34pm - 27 Sep 13:
Idea: Start working now on the explanation you’ll give your grandchildren on how the GOP willingly crashed the economy in 2013 (https://twitter.com/RobertGKaiser/status/383645758508900353)
Robert G. Kaiser (@RobertGKaiser) tweeted at 4:18pm - 30 Jul 13:
NPR has a fine story on Republican disarray in Congress, a problem scary enough to cost you some zzzz’s. n.pr/1640Vkr (https://twitter.com/RobertGKaiser/status/362321419566202880)
Robert G. Kaiser (@RobertGKaiser) tweeted at 8:44am - 24 Jul 13:
Here is a fine piece by Jonathan Weisman with a clear warning: Train Wreck Ahead. The GOP wants the wreck. nyti.ms/1bL8B0R (https://twitter.com/RobertGKaiser/status/360032734908923904)
Robert G. Kaiser (@RobertGKaiser) tweeted at 10:45am - 24 Jun 13:
EJ Dionne is justifiably angry. We seem headed for political disaster this fall because Boehner has lost control. goo.gl/tSJjF (https://twitter.com/RobertGKaiser/status/349191439156142080)
Barney Frank, who chaired the House committee overseeing the financial services industry, and Christopher Dodd, his Senate counterpart. Both Frank and Dodd granted Kaiser frequent interviews while they worked on the bill and encouraged their staffs to do the same.
Or consider Frank’s staff director, Jeanne Roslanowick, who was skeptical of a new agency to crack down on predatory lending. Roslanowick told Kaiser, presumably with a straight face, that moderate House Democrats were cool to the idea because their constituents weren’t interested in it. “If what they were feeling back home . . . suggested the public was crying for an independent consumer protection agency, they would be responding to that,” she explained. A neutral observer might suggest that Roslanowick spend less time around bank-funded Democrats. (Polls consistently showed the consumer agency to be enormously popular.)
Like any good establishmentarian, Kaiser is skeptical of public opinion, and even more so of the politicians who pander to it. His diagnosis of what ails Congress can be summarized as “too much democracy.” He laments the huge drop in the amount of time congressmen have spent in Washington since the 1960s, when the government paid for only three annual trips home. (There is no longer a limit.) He echoes Dodd’s frustration that too much of what Congress does these days trickles into the press, unlike the back-room dealing of yesteryear, and Frank’s concern that the financial crisis ushered in the “greatest breach between elite and public opinion that I have ever seen.”
Let’s concede that the great unwashed can be ignorant, irrational and erratic. As Frank tells Kaiser, “The voters are no bargain.”
He’s pissed because over the years its been harder to get majorities in the GOP to drink the Libs koolaid or admit they like it (though from OUR point of view, THAT has still not gone far enough yet). It was nicer when MORE in the GOP were really Dims wearing a GOP label, when the Dims had more in the GOP they could count on.
In other words, Washington was “nicer” (to Mr Kaiser) when it was more like one party (not that it still isn’t to many of us).
Guess the only people good enough for Robert Kaiser are fellow liberal elites - and the criminal class that props them up.
Robert? Please. Look. Outside.
That white stuff that is on everything from Spokane to Dallas to Albany is not "someone's opinion."
When President Obama states " I am not a socialist," well, yes Robert, that is a "politician lying."
And when people such as Weber make what you believe to be "preposterous statements — and act as though they believe them" you might not want to consider the sources so much as consider YOUR ability to separate the facts from the opinions.
Again, Robert, take a look outside. Heck, you might even try going for a walk out there...
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It could be Kiev. The apparatchiks could be getting set on fire.
Some people don’t know when they have as good a deal as they are going to get.
As a conservative, all I want to do is to turn D.C. from the National swamp it is back to the natural swamp it was. Let the birds of the air and the creeping things overrun it and defecate upon it.
God exists, Robert.
And He doesn’t like you.
He loves you.
But He really, really doesn’t like you.
Kaiser was a pretty good reporter from Vietnam but over the years he drifted to the “socialist” part of the spectrum, associating with various marxists/publications of the Left.
That’s a real shame but He is not the first Wash Post writer to go left and stay there. Karen De Young, their Foreign Affairs editor covered up for the Marxist Sandinistas in the late 1970’s, while Jack Anderson covered up for a lot of domestic communist operations (Tricontinental Films, The Chicago Meeting of the YWLL, the “anti-war movement” - no red leadership, and attacked Jim Angleton at the CIA).
This is what happens to a newspaper when the Left gets in and is given positions of influence.
Father of Robert G. Kaiser
WASHINGTON (AP) — Philip M. Kaiser, a former ambassador to Austria, Hungary and Senegal who during the Cuban Missile Crisis acted to deny the Soviet Union landing rights at airports where its planes might refuel.
Kaiser, a former assistant secretary of labor during the Truman administration, served as the U.S. ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania from 1961 to 1964. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, he persuaded the Senegalese president to deny landing rights to Soviet airplanes.
Kaiser had earlier accompanied Senegal’s president, Leopold Sedar Senghor, on a visit to the White House, where he had a warm meeting with President John F. Kennedy. When Kaiser went to see the Senegalese president to ask him to deny the Soviets access to the airport at Dakar, the country’s capital, Senghor agreed.
“Anything President Kennedy wants,” Senghor said.
President Carter named Kaiser ambassador to Hungary in 1977, and he played a key role in persuading the Carter administration to return the Crown of St. Stephen to Hungary in 1978. It had been in U.S. hands since 1945.
Kaiser is upset because the “conservative” pols he knew pre-Reagan were happy to be in Washington taking their cues from the liberal establishment so as no to make waves. Those conservative pols just said they could manage the welfare state better than libs. They didn’t want to bring it down, life was too good without rocking the boat.
I was all enthusiastic about possibly retiring in Costa Rica.
until I found out its heavily infested with liberal retirees, thats right, there is supposed about a 75% ratio that most Americans retiring in Cr are from a liberal lifestyle.
Kills that idea of having nothing but ex teachers and social workers for neighbors.
Washington Post has been in steady decline since they helped takedown Nixon.
At this point it is garbage, losing money and isn’t worth wrapping your old coffee grounds in.