When you have one of the best known conservative writers on economics go after the standard GOP talking points that we need more tax cuts for the rich, you know that the right is in trouble. On Bill O’Reilly, Ben Stein did just that: Dave Edwards offers this awesome outtake from this confrontation: O’Reilly went […]
Peter Orszag will become the first member of President Obama’s cabinet to leave: White House budget director Peter Orszag plans to leave government in July, becoming the first member of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet to depart, administration officials said Monday. Orszag is likely to join a think tank, colleagues said. Presidential advisers say a possible successor as director […]
Actually the White House budget director gives a very sound and reasonable explanation: A big reason why the government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers having better computers at home than in the office. This startling admission came Thursday from Peter Orszag, who manages the federal bureaucracy for […]
That is the rumor with the announcement of Rob Portman leaving the Bush administration: Rob Portman’s announcement Tuesday that he will resign as White House budget director puts the popular former Cincinnati-area congressman back in play as a force in Ohio politics – and as a potential statewide candidate in coming elections. For a political […]
According to one of the GOP’s most prominent pollsters, this very well could be the case: The recent White House shake-up was an attempt to jump-start the administration and boost President Bush’s rock-bottom approval ratings, but have those efforts come too late to salvage the presidency? A prominent GOP pollster thinks that may be the […]