“Let’s be clear about one thing – it’s Obama-Clinton not Clinton-Obama.” – Ellis Henican The rumors have started - Hillary Clinton replacing Vice-President Joe Biden on the Obama ticket for 2012. Advancing the idea as “a natural” this time around is former Labor Secretary with the Bill Clinton administration, Robert Reich. “Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of [...]
“No more World War II analogies. Real candidates – people with poll numbers, money and real campaigns can’t get on the ballot. There is something anti-democratic going on.” – Ellis Henican Remember when Hank Williams, jr. compared Barack Obama’s golf outing with John Boehner to an imagined game between Adolph Hitler and Benjamin Netanyahu? Now, Newt Gingrich’s [...]
“There was no one, not Lech Walesa - not even Ronald Reagan, who inspired so many from beneath the boot of Soviet domination as did the brave Václav Havel.” – Ellis Henican Václav Havel – playwright, essayist, poet, dissident, human rights activist, politician, former president of the Czech Republic. He changed the world – shining a beacon [...]
This Week’s News In Song Only the best Christmas song ever by the best Christmas singer ever. PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS by Aaron Neville tinyurl.com/merryaaron Friends and relations send salutations Sure as the stars shine above This is Christmas, yes, Christmas, my dear The time of year to be with the one you love [...]
“LI’s economic recovery is in our hands”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, December 24, 2011 Fuel oil is south of $4 a gallon. The average 30-year mortgage is well below 4 percent. New unemployment applications fell last week to their lowest level in more than three years. But everybody’s still feeling squeezed. That’s the thing [...]
“These guys were reckless, they came running for our money and, I’m sorry, our money comes with string attached.” – Ellis Henican A Federal Reserve proposal by the chief U.S. banking regulator says the largest U.S. banks and financial companies should hold extra cash on their balance sheets to cushion themselves against financial crises and [...]
“There has to be some tipping point where we hate Congress so much that we actually don’t send our guy back.” – Ellis Henican John Boehner and House Republicans have said they will not vote to approve a bipartisan two-month extension of the Social Security payroll tax cut that cleared the Senate over the weekend and are demanding [...]
“(Obama) was against it - he didn’t think it was a good idea to go in. But once we were there, you can’t erase history.” – Ellis Henican The War in Iraq is over. Comparing statements made by Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee contends that the President flip-flopped his opinions of the fight and withdrawal of troops. E-mail ellis@henican.com Follow him at [...]
“I’m going to judge Newt by his policies, by his leadership skills, his reliability – not his dating history.” – Ellis Henican Newt Gingrich became the latest Republican candidate to endorse the so-called marriage pledge, a document put forward by an influential evangelical group in Iowa that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion. Mr. Gingrich stopped [...]
“A knee-jerk reaction to ‘Tebowing’”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, December 18, 2011 Of all the boneheaded stunts teenagers are capable of, why crack down on “Tebowing”? If you don’t know the term, you should by now. From Facebook and YouTube to random campuses across America, young people are striking the same prayerful one-knee pose that [...]
ELLIS HENICAN is a columnist at Newsday and a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He also hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network, is author of a New York Times Bestseller, and is the voice of “Stormy” on the hit Cartoon Network series “Sealab 2021.”
