NOT PERFECT --- BUT SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE PREVIOUS 8 YEARS. I'M GRATEFUL: For the room-lighting smile: * For the mind that always thinks: * For preventing a second Great Depression: * For the humor: * For bringing the number of women in the Supreme Court to three: * For making the White House the peopl ...
Record profits are being posted by health insurance companies, while at the same time they are complaining mightily and trying to weaken the new regulations through their lobbyists. These unprecedented profits fly in the face of their claims that the new regulations will harm the industry! Despite a growing number of Americans forgoing the purchase of health insurance, these folks are still ra ...
UPDATE ON OBAMA TAX COMPROMISE: Many missed a key component of Obama’s tax cut compromise: It included the extension of very important energy tax credits for wind and solar projects that were expected to expire at the end of the year. AND tens of thousands of American jobs in the renewable energy sector were saved --- for another year anyway. Wind farms and solar projects will get the go-a ...
I know, I know --- the President’s gone all weak and wobbly following the mid-term elections, and his Presidency is doomed; the country’s doomed. It’s all over, and we’ve been beaten by Karl Rove once again, along with the help of the right-wing Supreme Court decision that handed corporate America anonymity in their political donations to the Republican Party. OR, it just might be possible tha ...
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS reports their analysis of the tax deal President Obama struck with Republicans. CHECK-IT-OUT here. "Our analysis of the framework tax agreement that President Barack Obama announced yesterday, including additional tax cuts and an extension of unemployment insurance, finds that 2.2 million jobs will be the end result. In this time of economic distress, millions of n ...
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF W.'S TAX CUTS!
Here's an idea for how Dems can win elections --- TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT WE STAND FOR! What does the Republican Party stand for? Easy: Smaller Government/Lower Taxes. What does the Democratic Party stand for? Not so easy: No bumper-sticker slogans. The Republican Party has a 40 year head start on the Democratic Party in the messaging department, and it's way past time to stop letti ...