We hold the office of the president with such high esteem that to question the honesty of the president is tantamount to treason. Several years ago when President Obama was giving a joint speech to Congress on his health care […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Political junkies, such this author, didn’t hear anything from President Obama in his second inaugural address that we couldn’t have scripted ourselves; but nonetheless there were some clues that the president has chosen to swing wildly left setting up at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Without the first shot being fired GOP members of the House are already waving the white flag of surrender. The House will vote this week to raise the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling for three months while denying pay for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Conservatives are not happy with Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH.) What appears to be a complete surrender on the issue of tax rate increases has lit a fire under numerous conservative groups and won’t help Mr. Boehner in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
President Obama has been traveling around the country telling the GOP to show their hand; and now they have. Monday the House Republicans released their own proposal to avoid sending the nation over the “fiscal cliff” including $4.6 trillion in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Negotiations to avert the “fiscal cliff” have not gone well. After meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, House Speaker John Boehner said Geithner offered no “specific” plan for averting the looming end-of-year fiscal crisis, adding: “This is not a game.” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With the government driving the country past the $15.6 trillion dollar debt mark, the obvious question is whether our leaders have the wherewithal to make the tough decisions necessary to cut spending to a level that returns sensibility to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Debt Ceiling Round 3 Just 5 short months from the debt ceiling debacle of 2011, the Obama administration is preparing to ask Congress to raise the debt ceiling by another $1.2 trillion later this week. Since the gamesmanship of last August […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Obama came into office promising to be a transformative president, and now he’s achieved his goal as credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded the United States’ credit rating for the first time in the history of the ratings. All the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With all the noise the last month over the debt ceiling most Americans aren’t even aware that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was headed for a shutdown, which took place July 22nd, forcing 4,000 workers on temporary furlough. Amidst the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…