President Obama has raised eyes in Washington by putting on a charm offensive intended to woo Congressional Republicans, a group that up to this point he has tended to treat as if they had leprosy. Exhibit A in the new attitude of the Obama administration is the dinner he was scheduled to have at the [...]
$85B in Sequester Cuts go Into Effect
March 2, 2013 | Posted by
Now that Washington lawmakers have finally proven just how dysfunctional they are by allowing the brutal sequester cuts to be enacted at midnight, they will now sit back and wait to see how federal agencies will slash $85 billion from their budgets. President Obama yesterday signed the order authorizing the government to begin cutting. Though [...]
Obama Blames Boehner, McConnell for Congress’ Dysfunction
December 30, 2012 | Posted by
As Senate aides scurried back and forth in the halls of Congress over the weekend, trying to come to some sort of agreement that will avert fiscal disaster and epic embarrassment, President Obama made a television appearance where he clearly dumped all the blame for the budget impasse in the laps of Republicans. In an [...]
In 1st Meeting, Obama and GOP Leaders Talk ‘Compromise’ to Avoid Fiscal Cliff
November 16, 2012 | Posted by
While they weren’t willing to discuss specifics, clearly something had changed when President Obama and Republic and Democratic Congressional leaders emerged from their preliminary negotiations to avert the doomsday “fiscal cliff” of tax hikes and spending cuts that observers believe would devastate the economy. The two sides were sharing playful banter and everyone seemed equally [...]
Sen. McCain Blasts Supreme Court, Big Money Political Contributions
June 16, 2012 | Posted by
Sen. John McCain stood up against the Republican party line by stating that the U.S. Supreme Court made a mistake in allowing corporations to contribute unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns. McCain has long been an opponent of excessive campaign cash, even when he was running against President Obama in 2008. He co-sponsored the [...]
