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*President Obama’s unilateral White House action on gun control is a good start. But Obama took the action precisely because he knows that gun control legislation is a virtual dead letter in Congress at least for the time being. To force the issue, Obama would have to spend precious time, energy, and resources jawboning anti-gun [...]
*Politics made for strange bedfellows in those taking swipes at President Obama’s white guy appointees. Staunch GOP conservative Mike Huckabee took the first hard whack. He screamed that Obama was a hypocrite on diversity in that he used the issue of the war on women during the presidential campaign to pound the GOP and then [...]
*The issue is not the dubious foreign policy competence, independence, loose lipness or views of Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel. The issue is President Obama. The GOP has used the same shopworn template to hammer Obama so often it can be drawn up while asleep. It goes like this. Pick an Obama nominee, be it [...]
*The last minute deal to avert the fiscal cliff brought fiscal relief, but that relief will be short lived. A year ago GOP congressional leaders made clear that if they have their way they will weld the meat ax on vital domestic programs. In March, they will get their chance. This time they have the [...]
*President Obama took much heat a year ago when he floated a series of proposed budget cuts that would have slashed programs for the poor. The cuts would have reduced funding or eliminated out right community service block grants that fund an array of community education, health and social service programs in poor, underserved, largely [...]
*This past September the NRA swung into high gear. It posted these blunt action alerts on its website to its tens of thousands of members and backers. “Senator Ben Nelson needs to go.” Outgoing Nebraska Senator Nelson’s alleged sin was that he helped put Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. It reminded its supporters that [...]
*President Obama has heard every argument from the GOP, the gaggle of conservative economists, and financial analysts on why it’s foolhardy to press for a tax hike on the wealthy. The hike won’t come close to raising the revenue needed to avert the fiscal cliff. It will stunt business growth and drive the economy into [...]
*The resignation of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint from the Senate followed close on the heels of the desertion from the Tea Party of Freedom Works head Dick Armey took some by surprise. DeMint and Armey were the two biggest and most identifiable fish in the Tea Party affiliated pond. DeMint could be relied on [...]
*If the heat on UN ambassador Susan Rice wasn’t intense enough from GOP senators that are using her as a surrogate to batter President Obama, now Rice faces more heat from a green group. They have filled the liberal blogosphere with articles and a petition demanding that Rice divest her investments in Trans Canada Corporation. [...]
*House Speaker John Boehner didn’t bother to go through the pretense of recommending more women and minorities to chair House committees. All nineteen of his chair picks were white men. The committee chairs determine what legislation gets heard or stonewalled in the House. So Boehner’s naked move to assure that white guys still rule in [...]
*The conventional political wisdom is that now that President Obama is safely back in the White House and does not have to worry about re-election he can do what a few other freshly minted second term presidents have done. And that’s take off the gloves and let fly with a series of bold, reform initiatives. [...]
*GOP house members are following a horrid precedent in trying to torpedo the possible nomination of Susan Rice for Secretary of State. The precedent was laid down by their Senate counterparts. That’s dithering, delaying, and flat out obstructing Obama’s nominees. The most glaring example of this is their record shattering stonewalling of Obama’s judicial picks. [...]
GOP leaders don’t even try to hide that their sudden pile on the immigration reform bandwagon is a blatant, cynical, politically panic driven attempt to bag a few more Latino votes in future elections. The ploy won’t work, and a few of the more thoughtful heads in the GOP know it. The reason has nothing [...]
*The GOP hit on UN Ambassador Susan Rice for the murderous Benghazi attack is not about her alleged bungling, untruthfulness, or lack of accomplishment. It’s yet another GOP ploy to weaken, besmirch, and taint President Obama. Change the name from Rice to Attorney General Eric Holder and it’s a virtual rerun of four years ago. [...]
*Despite tepid and cautious remarks from a handful of GOP congressional leaders and commentators that they are open to compromise on the Bush tax cuts and revenue raising measures, President Obama will still have a huge fight on his hands getting his tax proposals passed. The hard truth is that the pummeling the GOP got [...]
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