James O’Keefe, the undercover video hero of the right, is at it again. Today he has released a new video showing people giving out “Obama” phones to people who say they will sell them for drugs and other items: Undercover video shot in May by a conservative activist shows two corporate distributors of free cell […]
Let’s hope this keeps up: The news is all good for the jobs market so far in 2012: Separate reports Thursday showed a surge in private-sector job creation, a sharp drop in weekly unemployment claims and planned layoffs at their lowest level in six months. Though the December data flowing in is sensitive to seasonal […]
A new post from Tea Party Nation founder, Judson Phillips, was just posted. In it Phillips shows the kind of archaic thinking the Tea Party has and why it is the kind of thinking that will keep America behind in a 21st century economy: (subscription required). The remaining roughly $27 million was used to connect […]
In the latest shakeup at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Robert Gibbs has announced he will be leaving as White House Press Secretary next month: Gibbs will depart in February, and he plans to become an outside political adviser to President Obama. He will also give private sector speeches, according to the Associated Press. No replacement has […]
President Obama in July of 2009: The conference then is going to be the place where these differences get ironed out and that’s where, you know, my bottom line will remain: does this cover all Americans, does it drive down costs both in the public sector and the private sector over the long term so […]
Once this bill gets out of Congress and President Obama signs it, then I really hope he is ready for a sell job for the rest of his time in office. Let’s examine the facts. The current polling shows the public very turned off by this bill: That alone gives the Republicans an excellent platform […]
A cornerstone of the right has been to remove social programs from the government and have the private sector handle them – most notably the churches. Having churches run programs that should be a part of any government is a very serious threat to our form of government. It would be hard to have a […]
This from a new CBS/New York Times poll is stunning: The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector. [SNIP] The national telephone survey, which […]
According to director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, it is so the telecom companies can survive: “It’s true that some of the authorities would carry over to the period they were established for one year. That would put us into the August, September time frame. However, that’s not the real issue. The issue is liability […]
Why do they hate our seniors? The Senate blocked legislation on Wednesday that would let the government negotiate Medicare drug prices. Democrats couldn’t muster the 60 votes needed to bring the bill up for a vote. Under the Medicare drug benefit, private insurance plans negotiate with drug makers over the price of medicine for their […]