As early as Monday, Senator Kennedy (D-MA) may unveil health care legislation, and President Obama says that he wants this issue to be dealt with this year. All this is according to a Washington Post story.
According to the Post:
In many respects it adopts the most liberal approaches to health reform being discussed in Washington. Kennedy, [...]
(So why do we gotta be so boring? . . .)
It’s never been more clear that politics is entertainment.
Take a look at this post on Gawker.com. It’s liberals being mad at conservatives for taking a jab at President Obama because he ordered spicy Dijon mustard for his burger. In other words, it’s about [...]
We’re big on making the numbers real around here – such as by giving you the cost per family and per person of the bills moving through Congress.
Well here’s a video that illustrates some very interesting things about President Obama’s pledge to cut $100 million dollars from the federal budget.
But there’s a problem with this [...]
The debate about torture – or “enhanced interrogation methods,” if you prefer – has swamped the Obama administration a bit, as this Politico article discusses. Many different pieces of the fallout are covered in a Washington Post blog post, including the release of a Senate Armed Services Committee report.
Congress has seen a few bills introduced [...]
By the looks of things, the meeting between President Obama and Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez was a friendly affair. Obama said as a campaigner that he would meet with Chavez, and now he has done so.
Hugo Chavez is a controversial figure, of course. He called President George W. Bush “the devil” and works with [...]
The Washington Post reports today that President Obama will lift some of the restrictions on travel and commerce with Cuba.
A decades long embargo on Cuba has been a fixture of U.S. policy toward the island nation, but it can’t be said that the embargo has done much to undermine the communist government there.
A couple of [...]
Last week, President Obama put in a request with Congress for $83.4 billion in extra military spending this fiscal year. That’s about $850 per U.S. family or $270 per person.
The Bush Administration was big on making supplemental spending requests for the military even though many military expenditures were entirely predictable and could have been planned [...]
Yesterday, in his announcement about the auto industry and the ouster of GM’s CEO, President Obama said, “The United States government has no interest in running GM. We have no intention of running GM.” Sounds good.
That same day, a bill was introduced in the Senate to require air carriers to provide training for flight [...]
President Obama signed the big omnibus spending bill into law this week – earmarks and all. But he says it won’t happen again.
Here’s the heart of his earmark reform pledge.
Earmarks must have a legitimate and worthy public purpose. Earmarks that members do seek must be aired on those members’ websites in advance, so the public [...]
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And with another couple days at it, the Senate has cleared the big omnibus spending bill and it goes to the President for his signature. He is sure to sign it as funding for most of the government runs out if he doesn’t.
Spending per U.S. family [...]