by Dave Johnson | Aug 9, 2011 | Blog
Just ten years ago this country was running huge surpluses and paying off its debt. But then we elected Obama and all hell broke loose. Oh, wait... Something Happened Between the time ten years ago when we had big surpluses and were paying off the debt and now when we...
by Bill Scher | Aug 9, 2011 | Blog
The Huffington Post reported that Democratic leaders are "narrowing down the list" of who will be appointed to the so-called "Super Committee" designed to fast-track proposals to cut the deficit, including possible cuts to Social Security and Medicare. So time is...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 9, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Rebuild The Dream As I wrote earlier in Ten Years Ago We Were Paying Off The Nation's Debt. But Then We Elected Obama., the The American Dream Movement is rolling out their Contract for the American Dream. The Tea-Party-fascinated press is largely ignoring this, but...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 9, 2011 | Blog
Government is the great teacher of its people, by what it does and by what its leaders say. And no one has a larger pulpit than the President, as Barack Obama showed yesterday, when he summoned the media to broadcast comments as markets tanked across the world. The...
by Alan Jenkins | Aug 8, 2011 | Blog
The President has shown a talent for slowly but surely moving public opinion in the right direction on crucial policy points, then inexplicably giving those points away to his political opponents for little or nothing in return. According to last month’s Gallup poll,...
