Last Friday, President Obama announced that the remaining American troops in Iraq will leave the country by the end of 2011. Here’s a quick reminder of the war’s price tag.
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My name is Ryan, and I am not qualified to actually say any of this. Politics is all just opinion, and every opinion is equal. Right?
Your thoughts?
October 24, 2011
September 19, 2011
Congressman making "only" $400k a year says that's not a lot to get by on.
Poor guy. I remember when I had to get by only $400,000 a year. A decade later I was looking at myself and saying, “You only have $4,000,000. Shouldn’t you be at a better station than this?”
What a working class hero. God bless this job creator!
September 6, 2011
Why Hillary Clinton Must Run Against President Obama
What do you all think? Smart move or political suicide for the Democrats?
idiotic
I advise against splitting the party. Political fractions can break an election, as seen in history.
1. The last time I checked (in reference to the article), he’s the President of the United States, so the author of the article should address him by that title.
2. Secretary Clinton does not stand much of a chance in beating the sitting president in primary races. The last time someone did that, it was Senator Ted Kennedy. If someone as near and dear to our Democratic hearts as Ted Kennedy couldn’t beat a sitting president, do you really think someone like Hillary Clinton could? Secretary Clinton is undoubtedly qualified to be president (and if I could have Barack Obama as my president, I would pick her without hesitation), but she’s not in a position to run right now.
3. I don’t know what part of the base the president has disappointed. Liberals need to be realistic in recognizing that most of our ideal agenda is a hard sell to the rest of the country, so compromise is necessary. The Democratic Party is smarter than the Republican Party, knowing that if we accept no dissent, we’ll have a much narrower constituency and less of a chance of getting anything done. (Remember, the Tea Party thinks the Republicans caved too much, too.)
August 31, 2011
John Boehner Continues to Behave Like John Boehner
The President wants to give a speech to both chambers of Congress to layout his jobs proposal.
Technically, the President has to be invited to speak before Congress. When the President delivers his State of the Union address, the Speaker of the House invites him to come and deliver it. (Never mind that it’s a constitutionally mandated procedure, but that’s just part of how much the Founders were petrified of a strong executive.)
All technicalities aside, though, when the President comes to Congress and says he’s going to speak, he’s going to speak. That’s that. He is the President of the United States, and he outranks each and every member of the United States Congress, especially including the Speaker of the House.
Yes, President Obama’s speech is the same night as the Republican primary debate, and yes, nobody’s naive enough to believe it’s a “coincidental” schedule, whatever Jay Carney wants to say. (If this were The West Wing, CJ would ask Leo what she should say when the inevitable question comes up. “Tell them it’s coincidental,” he’d say. “But it’s not,” CJ would say. “We know that and they know that, but we’ll say it anyway.” And that would be that.)
Regardless of how baldly political a move it was on the Administration’s part, it’s the way it is. There are certain privileges afforded to the president, and speaking to a joint session of Congress is one of them. After Speaker Boehner refused to call the House into recess to prevent any recess appointments from being made, he continues to take an offensive and disrespectful stance to his station. Any time I speak about him I feel I must reiterate that he is the Congressman from Piqua, Ohio, and his victory was less than 1% the size of Barack Obama’s in 2008.
It’s one thing to govern with a strong opposition. That’s expected and, in fact, healthy for the country. It’s another thing entirely when the opposing party completely rejects the legitimacy of your presidency, and acts as though you’ve already lost your reelection bid when there’s not even a nominee to run against you.
August 28, 2011
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August 18, 2011
Here at the blog formerly known as Citizen Cohn, we bring you the bad news as well as the good. And so we must draw your attention to the latest state-by-state statistics on unemployment — and, specifically, the unemployment rate in Michigan. It’s up to 10.9 percent, the third consecutive month that it’s risen. The story seems to be the same across the Great Lakes region.
The precipitous drop in unemployment in this part of the country has been one of the better, if under-appreciated, economic stories of the last year — testimony to a rebound in the manufacturing sector bolstered, in part, by the government’s rescue of General Motors and Chrysler. And, for the record, the situation is still markedly better than a year ago, when unemployment in Michigan was 12.4 percent. But this is obviously sobering news — and a reminder that the economy needs a lot of help.
I see this and all I think of is the billion dollar (that is $1,000,000,000, or one followed by nine zeroes) tax cut our governor gave to businesses. Yeah! One tough nerd!
(The moderate Democrats I know who voted for him last fall are kicking themselves. It’s so funny. Never, never, never, never trust a Republican.)
August 14, 2011
"Alas, for the 50 years after World War II, to be a president, mayor, governor or university president meant, more often than not, giving things away to people. Today, it means taking things away from people."
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The sooner we wrap our heads around this concept, the sooner we can get work done in government.
August 13, 2011
Just what America does not need.
AMERICANS, WRITE IN RICK PARRY, THAT’S PARRY WITH AN A! A FOR AMERICA.
Though I don’t see what being Christian has to do with the fact that Governor Perry is a death penalty-loving, anti-poor, moronic governor, I agree with the sentiment.
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August 11, 2011
Chairman, President, and CEO of S&P is a Republican Donor
What it says on the tin. Though of course, this really shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Also, thanks to the Supreme Court, in the future Mr. McGraw can just set up a Super PAC and donate money anonymously. That’s our grand and glorious republic, a subsidy of Koch Industries.
August 4, 2011
“But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.”
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”
Happy 50th Birthday to the 44th President of the United States - Barack Hussein Obama II (August 4, 1961)
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