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OPINION/SALON: Liberals And Sara Palin Agree, Obama Must ‘Fire White House Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel’ (Salon)
President Obama promised he’d find a way to unite often-warring political factions. Finally, some concrete proof arrived Tuesday that he’s managed to do just that: Sarah Palin has joined some prominent liberal bloggers in calling for Obama to fire his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
Both Palin and the blogs were upset by comments reported in [...]
OPINION/WALL STREET JOURNAL: The President’s Priorities – Spend While You Can
One rule of budget reporting is to watch what the politicians are spending this year, not the frugality they promise down the road. By that measure, the budget that President Obama released yesterday for fiscal 2011 is one of the greatest spend-while-you-can documents in American history.
We now know why the White House leaked word of [...]
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 [...]
Chris Matthews Proves Once and For All He Is A Moron: Approvingly Says Of Obama Speech “I forgot he was black”: (Video & Story – L.A. Times)
Well, at least he didn’t say President Obama doesn’t speak with a Negro dialect. That phrase, of course, got Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in hot water recently.
Reid was apparently trying to be complimentary about Obama’s fitness as a presidential candidate. Tonight MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews, while assessing the State of the Union address, said [...]
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 [...]
