Martha Zoller

Candidates, including me back in the day, used to run on balancing the budget in 10 years.

We are in a political season. There’s no doubt about that. And in the age of social media, you think you have to have an opinion on everything.

I know I have strong opinions, but I like to think of myself as the “Velvet Hammer.” I ask the tough questions, I consider the tough opinions but I do it in a nice way.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler went on air with her first ad and talked about the waste of time on impeachment and I have to agree with her.

Whether you have an opinion about the Royal Family or you like or loathe President Donald Trump, you have an opinion on who is telling the truth.

As little Greta threatens to line up elected officials and do something to them if they do not follow her vision of what climate considerations look like, the United States of America is doing something amazing—reducing carbon emissions to the lowest levels since the 1990s and to lower levels than the so-called Paris Climate Accord.

I am thankful for you. I’m taking the rest of the week off and a couple of days next week to recuperate from some much needed orthopedic surgery. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t in the countdown to a number of things.

Just like the wall is a foundation to the discussion about immigration reform. You can’t have one without the other. The debt, spending and deficit problems cannot be addressed until the budget process is fixed and happens on time and within a schedule.

A couple of weeks ago, Ellen DeGeneres was skewered because she posted a picture of her sitting in a box with former President George W. Bush watching a football game in Texas and apparently, they were having a good time together. Somehow, she was selling her soul by being nice to someone.

Whenever anyone talks about cutting or controlling budgets, the naysayers conjure up an image of soup lines and desperation. I’m more in the paraphrased Lee Iacocca club of, “You can cut 5% out of anything and not hurt operations.”