Posted by Moonage on 28 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Fed Policy
That’s the teaser on CNN. Here’s some of the meat:
A Democratic point man on the budget, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, blasted the administration for its “reckless fiscal policies,” blaming the president’s tax cuts for driving the government into deficit and saying Bush “will be remembered as the most fiscally irresponsible president in our [...]
Posted by Moonage on 22 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Oil Policy
Apparently smarting from polls that put his Senate leadership in the single digits, Harry Reid decided to fight back starting with this letter to The Hill Blog:
When our country is in crisis, Congress must be ready to take immediate action. Democrats in Congress have tried to take action again and again. We have proposed both [...]
Posted by Moonage on 10 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, National Security
Barack Obama’s having a rough week.
First, he did the very odd thing of stating very publicly he liked President Bush’s Faith Based Initiative so much he wanted to expand it. That drew the ire of the Reverend Jesse Jackson:
“See, Barack’s been talking down to black people on this faith-based—,” Jackson says during a break in [...]
Posted by Moonage on 10 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, National Politics, Oil Policy
Two headlines today I think sum up the Democrat financial agenda very adeptly:
Senate Considers Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil
And
Obama: Give economy $50 billion boost
Now, without necessarily going into the pros and cons, or the nuts and bolts, it’s just typical of teh Democrat bigger government policy. Rather than fixing the problem, just tax more [...]
Posted by Moonage on 03 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: 2006 US Senate Races, 2008 Presidential Race
A lot is being made of the momentum the Democrats are on. They’ve picked up quite a few seats in Congress over the last couple of years. They are starting to get their agenda, to some degree, passed. And, Nancy Pelosi has pretty much taken over as the queen of all things Congress. However, this [...]
Posted by Moonage on 03 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: National Security
Not too terribly long ago, we had a major todo over warrantless wiretaps. First there was a lot of rhetoric circling around this “abuse of the Constitution”. In March, 2006, Russ Feingold decided to make it political. He offered a bill to the Senate to censure the President over the use of [...]
Posted by Moonage on 11 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: 527's, Opinions
I read an excellent comment on Outside the Beltway. I’d like to just post the whole thing here, but that’s discouraged. So, I’ll just lift the best part:
Perhaps naively, I still believe genuine corruption among Congressmen and other major officials in American politics is an aberration rather than routine. The people who aspire [...]
Posted by Moonage on 10 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Shock and Awe
The Democrats haven’t even officially taken over the government yet, but they are already tossing out anything Republican as fast as they can. Along with that, I guess we can totally dismiss Bush’s "conservative compassionism":
Its not just committees our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously, Mr. Rangel said in an interview.
To [...]
Posted by Moonage on 09 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: National Politics
A lot of people are reading things into this week’s elections. Some people claimed these elections are nothing but a national referendum on Bush and/or the Republicans. As such, I posted my “anticipated results” from the elections a few days ago. I’m still sticking with those “predictions” post-election. Now, here’s what [...]
Posted by Moonage on 07 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Politics
I am basing this not on polls, because polls are just as often wrong as they are right. I am basing this on things that matter, that are really happening. The stock market has moved up strongly today. Wall Street LOVES a useless split House. When there’s no chance of significant legislation being produced for [...]
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