Two months late and in violation of federal law the Obama administration released its long awaited budget. Not surprisingly the release drew strong rebuke from Republicans who described it as a “reheated” plan that simply reiterates past proposed tax hikes […] ↓ 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…
After what appeared, even to this author, to be the nail in the coffin of the speakership of John Boehner, an angel came to his defense offering the Speaker a much-needed lifeline. The power behind the well-known “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” […] ↓ 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…
Executive privilege is an undefined right of the Office of the President of the United States which allows a president to assert that the release of material or personal testimony would impact the operation of the presidency. The privilege has […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you want to judge how serious the Democrats are at reducing the debt, you look no further than their appointees to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. On the Senate side, Harry Reid made one moderate choice in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why would the Democrats argue that the government is being shut down due a rider on the budget resolution that both Harry Reid and then Senator Obama have both voted for before? Why would Louise Slaughter, U.S. Representative for New […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Liberals, and to my dismay, a number of so-called Conservatives, have been bending over backwards to argue for the use of “nice” words. You know the words or phrases I’m talking about. You don’t say “target,” you instead say “goal.” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…