You Sleep When You Die

My advice: Take off your war paint, drop the sign, and go do something Jobs would have done. Find an unmet need, have a great idea, start a company. If you don’t like a bad bank, start a better one. Build something. Find something that pisses you off and work constructively to change it.

Mitt Romney is having problems, though. You want to know why? So do I. Personally, I think it has nothing to do with the so-called “Romneycare” program in Massachusetts. I believe that’s just a cover story, a code word, a distraction that’s been manufactured by someone. What is the real reason Mitt Romney is not mopping the floor with far less qualified opponents like Michele Bachman and Rick Perry? If it isn’t some huge gap in his credentials (and it isn’t), or his character (it isn’t that, either), or his experience (compared to whom?) … then why in the world isn’t this man the clear choice?

It’s way too early to predict who’s going to win the Republican nomination for president … but it’s not too early to start speculating on who’s got the inside track on the best Big Idea of the 2012 Campaign.

Here are some tough-minded observations on America’s ever-worsening fiscal nightmare from a leading US politician. See whether you can figure out who’s talking.

If the members of Congress don’t shape up, put our country’s financial house in order, and stop running deficits, then they’re fired. Period.