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Blog Entries for Tuesday, January 26
Obama Budget Freeze
About the last thing many voters would expect is for President Obama to unveil a budget freeze on most areas of domestic spending, especially after watching the Stimulus, Omnibus and more go through Congress. But that's where he's headed, and it won't be pretty. Back during the 2008 campaign, Candidate ...
Blog Entries for Monday, January 25
Budget Deficit Commission
The Senate votes today on a plan that would set up a special independent panel to come up with comprehensive plans to turn around the federal government's spiraling budget deficits, with a process modeled on past military base closure commissions. The idea won the weekend support of President Obama, who ...
How Many Jobs?
President Obama warmed up for his State of the Union Address on Monday, with an event at the White House on aid for the middle class. Reporters though were more interested later in details about the economic stimulus law, raising questions that won't go away. On the Sunday talk shows (as Republicans ...
Bad Democrat Vibes
The decision Monday of Delaware's Attorney General Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joseph Biden, not to run for his father's old Senate is another sign of tough political winds for Democrats. It's also a story of how Democrats caused their own problems. When Biden The Elder was elected Vice ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, January 24
Cutting the Budget
We are going to hear a lot of talk this week about cutting the federal budget. Lots of people in both parties talk about it. Very few lawmakers and Administrations ever follow through. Why not? Well, as the saying goes, there is a constituency for every single line in the ...
Health Care Reform
What a wacky last week this has been. The Democrats lose one seat in the Senate and they act like their entire plan for health care reform is falling apart at the seams, amid worries of an election blitz in November by the GOP. Now what? While some key lawmakers ...
Bernanke In Hot Water
It seemed almost crazy last week in the wake of the Massachusetts Senate win for Republicans, but suddenly, Democrats were looking for someone or something to blame, and the head of the Federal Reserve had a bullseye on his back. There had been rumbles about Bernanke for weeks, as his ...
State Of The Union
This week brings the State of the Union Address to Congress for President Obama, which is often used to set the agenda for the year. Right now, Mr. Obama seems to need to hit the re-set button on a number of fronts. With health care reform legislation maybe in the ...
Blog Entries for Friday, January 22
Obama in Ohio
Here is the text of the prepared remarks today from President Obama during a trip to Ohio, where he talks about jobs and the economy. Note the section where he defends his work on health reform, and at the end on his fight with Wall Street. The transcript was provided ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, January 21
Health Care Limbo
It was not a good week for Democrats or the White House when it comes to health care reform. On Tuesday, the talk was still about working out a final House-Senate deal; by Thursday, there were questions about getting anything through Congress. That was evident by the screaming headline on ...
Angry Voter Part 2
My blog yesterday about voter anger in the United States drew a lot of reaction, confirming my thought that incumbents at every level of elected government need to be on their toes this year, because you could be the next Martha Coakley. "Right now the country is looking for someone ...
War On Wall Street
It's obvious that President Obama and Democrats have decided that one of their best election year gambits is to get tough on Wall Street and big financial insitutions that they believe are to blame for the financial collapse of 2008. Last week, the President rolled out plans for a tax ...
Cornhusker Kickback Tally
As the future of a health care reform bill seemed to getting more and more cloudy yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office weighed in with a report on the controversial "Cornhusker Kickback" - one of the extras that won the support of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE). That controversial deal allowed Nebraska ...
Obama Financial Regulations
The White House has released details of the President's new plans being offered today to limit the size and scope of large financial institutions in the United States. This release was provided by the White House. = President Obama Calls for New Restrictions on Size and Scope of ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, January 20
Health Care Tango
What's next for health care reform in the Congress? Well, it looks like Democrats are going to try to re-group and see if they can come up with a slimmed down version of a bill that might be able to get bipartisan support. That brand new option wasn't even being ...
Liberals Get Antsy
One thing Democrats are especially good at is setting up circular firing squads after a political debacle, and some evidence of that quickly flared as the party tried to deal with the fallout from the loss of a Senate seat in Massachusetts. The crux of the argument was basically what ...
Mr. Brown Goes to DC
It wasn't that Democrats in Congress were in denial about the loss of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts, but listening to their various explanations of what it all meant was an interesting exercise on Wednesday. The bottom line from Democrats? Scott Brown's win had nothing to do ...
The Angry Voter
We have entered a unique time in American politics, where each party has been able to tap the anger of voters in a short period of time. For now, the advantage seems to be on the Republican side. Think about it. President Obama rode a wave of anger into office ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, January 19
A Major Loss
Do not underestimate the importance of the win for Republicans in the Massachusetts Senate race. This was a big time defeat for Democrats and a personal rebuke for President Obama and his policies. For the third time in just over two months, a candidate personally backed by President Obama was ...
Christmas Bomb Plot
Congress kicks off a series of public hearings today about the botched Christmas Day airline bomb plot, as top Obama Administration officials go before three different Senate commitees on the matter. Getting most of the flak will probably be Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who has become a dart board ...
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