Family Matters

[greenkombucha.livejournal.com]

Michele Bachmann recently had some words for the media regarding her husband. Apparently she believes that questions and criticisms directed at her family or business are off limits:

"I'm running for the presidency of the United States. My husband is not running for the presidency. Neither are my children. Neither is our business."

My thoughts are that if you run on a "family values" platform, constantly prop your husband up in your campaign, openly state your submissiveness to your husband, and constantly tout your ownership of a small "business" as one of your credentials in running for president, then YES, your family and business are most definitely open to questioning and criticism.

Do you think it's fair to question and criticize a political candidate's family and business? Are they always off-limits or fair game? Does it matter if the politician in question uses their family or business to help promote their campaign?

Debt Crisis

[ofbg.livejournal.com]

"Thirty-four of the last 44 (debt ceiling increases) have been for less than a year. So, this notion that short-term is somehow the exception, it's actually the rule."

-- Sen. Rob Portman

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/07/sen_rob_portman_says_most_debt.html
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