The White House today announced that President Obama will deliver his much anticipated jobs speech before a joint session of Congress next Thursday. That date also happens to be the next GOP debate and John Boehner doesn’t like that: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has asked President Obama to address a joint-session of Congress on […]
This could prove to be some real entertainment: As Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan comes to a final decision about running for president, several top national conservatives are encouraging him to join the race. Ryan, who has been seriously but quietly considering a presidential bid for several months, is expected to decide on a run in […]
The big buzz today has been the change in the GOP Presidential field. Essentially we are now looking at three candidates. Here they are in this screenshot from the HuffPo: So the three we have to watch out for are Romney, Perry and Bachmann. All three of them are scary and can pose a possible […]
There is no doubt that the Tea Party has become hell bent on destroying America. Proof of that can be seen in this video from Wisconsin, where members of the Tea Party Express cheered the downgrade of the United States credit rating: Yes, let’s cheer on something that can cost our nation an additional $100 […]
A new poll by the New York Times finds very bad news for Congress: A record 82 percent of Americans now disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job — the most since The Times first began asking the question in 1977, and even more than after another political stalemate led to a shutdown […]
With the deal announced to raise the debt ceiling and instill trillions in cuts during a recession, it is time to declare the that the right owns the economy. So just how bad is this deal? Here’s Paul Krugman’s take: For the deal itself, given the available information, is a disaster, and not just for […]
Over the weekend someone hacked a Fox News twitter feed and made some malicious posts: A series of alarming Twitter posts about President Obama appeared on Fox News’s Twitter account for political news early Monday morning, and the Web site for the cable television network said it was a victim of hacking. The Twitter account, […]
The Washington Times has this “end of transparency” headline up right now: White House to cut access to half of federal websites Which starts with: As part of the Obama administration’s campaign to promote transparency, the White House announced today it intends to eliminate the public’s access to half of the federal government’s websites within […]
Here’s Drudge’s latest outrage: And the article it links to:: A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White House’s Blue Room. The guests were asked for their thoughts on how to speed the economic recovery, then the president opened […]
With all the chest thumping over “runaway spending” and the growing deficit, you would think the party that claims to be the fiscal hawks would look at cutting spending in all areas of the budget. Well that’s not the case. It turns out the Republicans want to add an additional $17 billion to the defense […]