We face big and difficult challenges. And what the American people hope – what they deserve – is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds and different stories and different beliefs, […]
Something we aren’t used to seeing; oversight of an administration, being conducted by the administration’s own party: A congressional oversight committee opened an investigation yesterday into whether the Obama administration is circumventing a law that limits lavish pay for executives at firms benefiting from the $700 billion federal bailout. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of […]
Now that Bob Taft has pleaded no-contest to the four counts of ethic violations, will he resign from office? Following the own standards that the Governor has enforced in Ohio, he should. In August of 2002, the executive director of the Ohio Turnpike Commission resigned hours after Governor Taft urged him to resign or be […]