"Words that make actions speak louder."
Earlier today at presidential town hall hosted by CNBC, President Barack Obama called on Tea Party leader to offer more than anger: The challenge I think for the Tea Party movement is to identify specifically what you would do. It’s not enough just to say, “get control of spending.” I think it’s important for you […]
As the President and congressional leaders propose letting the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year, conservatives in Congress are screaming “class warfare!” Of course, if establishing different tax rates for people with different incomes is always “class warfare,” then America has suffered a bloody class war since 1862. But […]
Don’t let 30,000 Delaware teabaggers fool you. America has not shifted to the right. The latest New York Times/CBS poll shows that whatever frustrations votes have with the President and Congress, it has not prompted a shift towards anti-government conservatism. The poll asked if “Barack Obama has expanded the role of government too much, not […]
The Republican leaders in both houses of Congress are getting clearer what their alternative economic strategy is: Giant tax cuts for multimillionaires minus slashed public services for the middle-class minus letting our infrastructure rot equals even bigger budget deficits than today. The Washington Post estimates that Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to permanently extend […]
A prediction: the next Senator from Delaware will know that global warming is real and will support a cap on carbon emissions. That description fits the Democratic nominee Chris Coons, who is running unopposed in tomorrow’s primary, and GOP Rep. Mike Castle. It does not fit Castle’s primary opponent, the Tea Party Express-funded Christine O’Donnell. […]
Pretty much any time the President proposes anything, conservatives cry “Uncertainty!” — that somehow the mere act of proposing reform causes businesses to be become paralyzed by uncertainty at what will happen next. Of course, the only way to end any uncertainty is to finish the legislative process and put reforms into place — note […]
The White House has agreed to meet with 350.org climate activist Bill McKibben about his quest to get the White House to bring back the solar panels that President Jimmy Carter installed and President Ronald Reagan ripped off. That’s nice and all. But I think McKibben is putting too much emphasis on the “symbolic” value. […]
We know the pathetic disaster response to Hurricane Katrina by the Bush administration was rooted in anti-government, pro-privatization conservative ideology. President Bush removed FEMA from the cabinet, repeatedly appointed FEMA chiefs with no disaster management experience, and privatized key functions. Have conservatives learned anything from that experience? Apparently not. The conservative movement’s intellectual leaders at […]
Most of the chatter around poll numbers you’ll hear over the next several weeks will be about whether either body of Congress changes hands. But some of these poll questions actually ask about what the country wants Congress to do. And it’s crystal clear Americans don’t want Congress to kill Social Security. The newest NBC/WSJ […]
Soon after Congress passed health care reform, Minnesota Gov. and likely ’12 presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty decried that “we now have the federal government reaching so far inside our society, dictating whether human behavior is good or not.” A few weeks earlier, as the health care debate was raging, he urged conservative activists to “take […]