President Obama’s newest (September 8, 2011) stimulus plan is getting mixed reviews. It calls for a $400 billion plus investment, which sounds cheaper than his last stimulus, but it kind of isn’t when you consider that it is all for one year, and the last stimulus was rolled out over two years. The President wants bold […]
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You’re probably familiar with the story by now. President Barack Obama wants to address Congress and give a big speech about jobs. He picked Wednesday night, September 7. House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, said that Thursday would work better. The President relented. Now. let the games begin. Or should that be, let
Business as Usual in the District…Unfortunately. Read More »
According to a recent Gallup poll of over 1,000 Republican voters, here are the preferences of the people regarding who their candidate should be in 2012: 29% Rick Perry 17% Mitt Romney 13% Ron Paul 10% Michele Bachmann Others received votes, but who cares? They all got 4% or less. Some observations: Perry has a commanding
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Here are three things I’ve been thinking about. One, it’s bad news for President Obama that a circuit court has ruled that part of his health care plan is unconstitutional. The provision that adults must purchase their own health insurance (if they aren’t working at a job that provides it) was the item in question.
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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