Politics MMSR: Government shutdown in nine days?
In nine days if Republicans and Democrats don’t come to a budget agreement, the Government will face a broad shutdown. That’s the bad news. The good news is, it probably won’t get to that point, despite the parties’ awful recent track record of being unable to come to an agreement. I found it strange. Unless I missed [...]
Has Obama changed his tune as his approval rating sags?
This morning came news that President Obama’s Gallup approval rating tumbled seven points since last week, to mark his lowest point since his re-election. Don’t get too excited, Republicans–your approval ratings aren’t exactly sterling and one week does not necessarily signify a trend. But it appears the administration is well aware of its sagging poll numbers. The [...]
Reader submission: Obama the death dealer
Remember the good old days when Democrats and later President Obama openly criticised President George W Bush about such atrocities like the incarceration of illegal enemy combatants in Guantanamo, enhanced interrogation techniques (EIT) used to extract valuable information from terrorists, and the ever-despised surge which ultimately put us into a position to stabilize Iraq and enabled [...]
President Obama: the complete partisan fraud
Yesterday the most partisan president in modern history added to his legacy with a partisan attack that barely passed for an inaugural address. The mainstream media and progressives cheered, even as they implicitly acknowledged that the allegedly centrist president who once implored us to not think along the lines of blue states and red states [...]
The McConnell-Biden compromise passes the House
Late last night the House approved the McConnell-Biden compromise to avert the ‘fiscal cliff.’ The final numbers? The bill passed in the Senate 89-8 and then in the House 257-157 257-167. Most opposition came from GOP Congressmen who were upset the bill didn’t have any spending cuts. Noted conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer even went so [...]
Monday morning speed read: Politics
Cliff, cliff, cliff, cliff-cliff. Nothing but cliff-talk dominating the world of politics these days. Allow me to give you the “cliff’s notes” version of this weekend’s events. (Ha-ha-ha, I slay me!) When John Boehner’s “Plan B” failed a week ago last Friday, he basically abdicated the lead to the Senate to come up with something. [...]
You’re not the only one with ‘cliff’ mixed emotions
It’s getting to the point where you have to wonder if our government is capable of anything. I mean, this isn’t even scratching the surface of the problems our elected leaders are supposed to be solving in Washington. With a national debt rapidly approaching 16.4 trillion dollars, Obama and the Democrats and Boehner and the [...]
Reader submission: Boehner tees Obama up a winner
Well, it seems a new tone has been struck in the ill-named fiscal cliff talks. John Boehner tried to cough up the $800 billion in tax hikes on the “rich” that Obama has been asking for during and after the 2012 election. Boehner also offered up some meager cost cuts–and Obama refused. A bit stunned, Boehner responded [...]
Monday morning speed read: Politics
The Sunday talk shows yesterday focused as you would expect on the impending “fiscal cliff” which now is just three weeks away. The question remains–will the Republicans cave on letting the Bush tax cuts for the top two income brackets expire? Will they let Barack Obama raise taxes on the rich while keeping them the same for [...]
The GOP should follow the Dems into the sea
The Democrats’ and Barack Obama’s solutions to jump-start our economy and reduce the deficit have gotten so asinine, the GOP can do nothing better politically than let them do what they want. It’s absolutely time to raise tax rates on the rich. When that accomplishes nothing or in fact hurts the economy, the GOP can [...]