EMBRACE: to take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly: to embrace an idea. That seems to be the word the GOP is using to describe President Obama’s decision to accept Super PAC funds. Here are some examples: Videos of Obama condemning Super PACs…which he now embraces (PJ Tatler) Obama Embraces Citizens United: “Special Interest” […]
Since Barack Obama took the oath of office there has been a rise of anti-government extremists. It seems like we hear about some new group being arrested every couple of weeks. Now the FBI is warning about this growing threat: Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement […]
Ever since President Obama announced plans to cut defense spending the right has been up in arms, accusing him of “gutting the military”. Sadly though the Republicans aren’t the only ones upset over it: Panetta said the U.S. Army would still have about 37,000 soldiers in Europe even after it withdraws two of its four […]
Some good news on the jobs front: The United States economy gained momentum in January, adding 243,000 jobs, the second straight month of better-than-expected gains. The unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent, giving a cause for optimism as the economy shapes up as the central issue in the presidential election. The Labor Department’s monthly snapshot […]
Here in Ohio, one of the key battleground states, Obama is looking pretty good right now: President Obama leads all 4 remaining Republican challengers in Ohio among general election voters. He leads Mitt Romney by 7 points (49-42), Newt Gingrich by 12 (51-39), Ron Paul by 10 (48-38), and Rick Santorum performs best, trailing Obama […]
The biggest problem facing the GOP this year is the increasing dissatisfaction their electorate has over the choices to take on President Obama. At a time when that dissatisfaction should be calming, the opposite is true: Republicans evaluating the field of potential GOP presidential nominees are increasingly negative about the current slate of candidates, according […]
PolitiFact is back at it again, showing that they don’t even know the meaning of fact. Tuesday night they gave President Obama a half true for this statement in the SOTU: in the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005 PolitiFact originally […]
Honestly this is one of those “common sense” bills that should already be in the books: Conservatives in the blogosphere found one small aspect of the president’s State of the Union address that they could praise: a bill banning insider trading by members of Congress. “Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members […]
There has been a lot of questions about Mitt Romney’s income taxes and we finally got one answer: Q: What’s the effective rate you’ve been paying? ROMNEY: What’s the effective rate I’ve been paying? It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything, because my last ten years, I’ve, my income comes overwhelmingly from […]
As I have been saying for months now, the GOP’s biggest problem this year is going to be energizing the base. It seems like that problem is now starting to show: A new national poll from CNN shows two conflicting points of data. First, President Barack Obama remains vulnerable in a match-up with former Massachusetts […]