This weekend on CNN’s State of the Union with John King, Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said she expects the economy to get better by the spring and that she thought this was a “realistic estimate.” I sure hope she’s right about that, but unfortunately with the unemployment rate […]
read moreThe New Year has brought with it a flurry of announcements from Democrats who say they’d rather retire than fight on in 2010. Hardly a surprise when you consider the public sentiment we’re measuring in the NBC/WSJ poll. Over the course of 2009 the image of the Democratic Party slipped steadily from an 18-point net […]
read morePresident Obama announced on Tuesday that the government is going to spend more money to create new jobs. No doubt, with unemployment still over the double-digit threshold we certainly need new jobs – but is more spending by the government really the answer? Not according to the public in a slew of recently released public polls: Six-in-ten […]
read moreAs the heath care debate has consumed much of the news coverage and political chit-chat over the last few weeks, focus on an important decision from President Obama’s Administration has been left hovering on the back burner. That’s the decision to try the suspected terrorists of the September 11 attacks in U.S. civilian court. It […]
read moreIf health care reform wasn’t such a serious issue with the lives and welfare of millions of Americans at stake, I might think President Obama and Democrats in Congress were playing one big national prank on us by suggesting the government should run health care. But, the fact is, health care reform IS a serious […]
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