My fellow Americans, we are faced with a time of moral crisis. Our misguided government is trying to help people who want to use contraception get their hands on it at little or no cost. Evil organizations like Planned Parenthood seek to use breast cancer screenings to trick us into thinking they care about women’s health, when really they just [...]
President Obama delivered his state of the union address this week, but I think he left some things out. His speech had lots of policies and ideas, but hardly any snarky reflections on the current state of political affairs. Yes, there was that one bit about Washington being disconnected from the rest of the country, but that wasn’t so much [...]
Today, we’re going to play a game I’m calling “Who’s That Candidate?” You might think the game is about Rick Santorum, because every time his name is mentioned that’s what people say. But actually, it’s a game where I describe a politician’s political positions and you guess who he is. Ready? Then let’s play WHO’S THAT CANDIDATE! (Imagine a studio [...]
Earlier this evening, Speaker John Boehner announced that House Republicans will support a two-month extension of the payroll tax cuts. With a call for a final vote Friday morning, Boehner and the GOP leadership have abandoned their current push for a one-year extension of the cuts in order to pass the stopgap provision and end the political battle in time [...]
Tonight, CNBC is hosting, along with the Michigan Republican Primary, a Republican presidential debate focused on the economy. The debate is hosted by Maria Bartiromo and John Harwood at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. The participants include the now-established GOP candidates: Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman. A series [...]
All the excitement of a national student campaign kickoff with none of the effort on your part! I’ll let you know everything live from Houston Hall, probably starting around 5:30. Refresh often, or check in periodically, so you don’t miss a moment. 5:12 PM My friend (and rising Penn Dems star) Matt Kalmans invited me to help set up, so [...]
On August 2, the day the nation’s debt ceiling deal was finally enacted, we were given yet another example of how true moderation has ceased to exist in America. The deal inexplicably ignores reality by withdrawing $1 trillion from the economy despite pallid growth rates and cutting federal benefits for the unemployed despite soaring unemployment rates. It insists that we [...]
As far back as November President Obama was aware that Congress was going to have to raise the debt ceiling. It’s anyone’s guess why he thought it better to wait until the 112th Congress was seated in January, but he did. He was rewarded with weeks of grueling negotiations resulting in a deal passed by Congress on the final day [...]
With less than two days to go, Congress and the White House have moved in an expected direction on the debt crisis talks, producing few surprises along the way. On Friday night, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)’s version of the debt limit bill finally passed in the House on a 218-210 party-line vote, with no Democrats voting “aye” and 22 [...]
Here we are — four days until the federal government hits the debt ceiling and Washington remains under lockdown as a debt limit increase bill has yet to be passed. The struggle, of course, is not over whether the debt ceiling will be increased — both parties are of the consensus that the limit must go up — but over [...]
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