July 2011

A Presidential Problem

I’ve made it clear here before that I think the primary responsibility for resolving the debt-ceiling limit issue resides with Congress.  They are supposed to establish how the government spends its (our) money–the President only has to sign off or veto their legislation.  If a President wants to give Congress some guidelines as to what he […]

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The Federal Debt and Finger Pointing

Our federal debt is over 14 trillion dollars, but apparently that isn’t enough.  Democrats have been pushing Republicans to raise the debt limit, so our credit as a nation isn’t hurt. Republicans have been pushing President Barack Obama to present Congress with budget proposals that have significant cuts, so we can reduce our debt. Since

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The Aggressive White House

I believe later generations will look back on our current presidential administration and note its aggressiveness, not necessarily in foreign policy (though maybe there, too, given that we are carrying on military operations in three different countries), but in regards to internal issues.  Ever since a White House official talked about putting their boots on

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