Hmmm. More political gamesmanship? ============ Little in the polarized debate over the spending cuts that took effect Friday has engendered the level of rancor as did the U.S. Navy’s decision to delay deploying an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. Some Republicans questioned whether the Obama administration was playing politics with America’s national security. Others have asked if the Navy could have cut... Read more
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Call Obama’s Sequester Bluff
February 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Debt, ObamaIsn’t there anyone out there in politics that has a backbone? =============== The $85 billion in spending that will eventually be cut after the sequester kicks in amounts to around two cents on the dollar in the overall federal budget. That hasn’t kept Mr. Obama and his team from trying to scare the bejesus out of Americans about the spending reductions. On Friday,... Read more
The Sequester Revelation
February 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Debt, Liberal Press, ObamaIf you aren’t hearing this on your news source, don’t you think you should be thinking about your source????????? =============== And when the Republicans opened the seventh seal of the sequester, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black and the stars fell unto the Earth; and our nation’s ability to forecast severe weather, such as drought events, hurricanes and... Read more
Obama and the Sequester Scare
February 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Debt, Obama, The LeftYou gotta wonder about all the [left leaning] Ivy League Schools when their graduate newspeople cannot challenge a Democrat President on these issues…. I mean, why isn’t anyone presenting some numbers? Let’s talk about percentages, etc.? Where is this country heading? =============== By PHIL GRAMM President Obama’s message could not be clearer: Life as we know it in America will... Read more
Why else have them?
February 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US Constitution, US CourtsR.I.P. ========== By JOHN R. BOLTON From the American Enterprise Institute Bob Bork was my antitrust professor at Yale Law School in 1972-73, where he was one of a small band of conservative/libertarian students and teachers. Ralph Winter and Ward Bowman were the only other two like-minded professors, although they did have some fellow travelers among the professoriat who were merely New Deal liberals. All... Read more
The State of Obama
February 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama===== Here’s what has to be understood. It’s all about him. Watch some of the highlights from President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech. Photo: Getty Images. A State of the Union speech normally is about relating a president’s public policies to conditions in the country. An Obama State of the Union speech is about one thing: the Obama project. It would be... Read more
