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Voter Views on State Of The Union Points (Rasmussen Reports)
During his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama touched on a number of topics that Rasmussen Reports has current polling data on measuring the attitudes of the American people.
In his speech, for example, the president called for taxing banks to repay bailouts. Most Americans like the general idea of a tax on large [...]
Senator John McCain Responds To The State of the Union (Video/The Atlantic Politics Channel)
If 2008 had turned out differently, Sen. John McCain would have been addressing Congress, confronting a sour Democratic majority whose initiatives he would have vetoed several times over. But it didn’t, and so McCain took to YouTube tonight to respond to President Obama’s State of the Union address.
McCain’s response was mostly about spending, and he [...]
State of Union: What Ronald Reagan Can Teach Barack Obama (Time)
Back in January 2008, while meeting with the editorial board of the Reno Gazette-Journal before the Democratic Nevada caucuses, Barack Obama offered some approving commentary on the legacy and influence of the 40th President. Ronald Reagan, he said, “changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in [...]
STATE OF THE UNION PREVIEW: Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss
When faced with a crisis of presidency or loss of public confidence, the experienced political warrior like a Truman or Johnson would stare into the abyss and summon the fortitude to continue unabated. A Kennedy would call upon his cabinet, and the “best and brightest” minds in our country to confer and analyze. These were [...]
9 Signs of America in Decline (U.S. News)
The sky isn’t falling, exactly. America isn’t on a fast track to irrelevance. Even in a state of total neglect, we could probably shamble along as a disheveled superpower for a few more decades.
But all empires end, and the warning signs of American decline seem to be blinking more consistently. In the latest annual “prosperity [...]
Fareed Zakaria/Opinion: Obama Should Act More Like A President Than A Prime Minister (Washington Post)
A great debate has begun as to how Barack Obama should respond to last week’s election results in Massachusetts, which was clearly a protest vote against him, congressional Democrats and their signature policy proposal: the health-care bill. My own advice would be simple: Barack Obama needs to act like a president, especially the president he [...]
BOB HERBERT/Opinion: The President, Congres, Dems & GOP Still Don’t Get It (New York Times)
How loud do the alarms have to get? There is an economic emergency in the country with millions upon millions of Americans riddled with fear and anxiety as they struggle with long-term joblessness, home foreclosures, personal bankruptcies and dwindling opportunities for themselves and their children.
The door is being slammed on the American dream and the [...]
MAN IN THE MIDDLE OPINION: The Voters of Massachusetts Got It Right
The election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown to the senate seat previously held by the late Senator Ted Kennedy, signals another seismic shift in the political agenda of our country. To paraphrase E. Everett, Scott Brown’s win “sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.” Brown’s victory united Republicans, Independents and disenfranchised Democrats [...]
Barack Obama: ‘We want our money back.’ And who gave it away to the banks, Mr President? (The Telegraph)
“We want our money back,” Barack Obama has told US banks, announcing a levy on large financial institutions to help repay the notorious bailout he imposed last year. Oh, do “we”? And who gave away the taxpayers’ money in the first place, Mr President?
This pretended identification with Joe on Main Street is a favourite ploy [...]
Henry Blodget/Opinion: AIG Revelations: Geithner Directly Responsible – He’s Got To Go (Tech Ticker)
The latest revelations about the New York Fed’s actions in the AIG bailout make one thing clear: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner must go.
Geithner must go not just because of the emails showing that his New York Fed ordered AIG to keep details of the bailout secret, but because of many other decisions and policies he [...]
