The Presidential race is boiling down to one dominant issue: which party’s policies will do more to help the financially stressed American middle class. President Obama’s campaign theme is that Mitt Romney and the Republicans cater to the rich, while Mr. Obama cares about struggling families. He may care, but he sure hasn’t done much for them. New income data from... Read more
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EPA Smack-Down Number Six
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, US Constitution, US CourtsIs anyone seeing a pattern? ======= The Environmental Protection Agency has been waging a regulatory war on Texas—and losing in the federal courts. On Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down another misguided EPA rule. Enacted in August 2011, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule was supposed to reduce air pollution emitted in one state and carried downwind to... Read more
The Postmodern President
August 16 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Party PoliticsHeavy sigh. ========== President Obama spent his formative years in academia, so he’s no doubt familiar with postmodernism, the literary theory that rejects objective reality and insists instead that everything is a matter of interpretation and relative “truth.” At any rate he’s running the first postmodern Presidential campaign, now organized almost exclusively around allegations about his opponent that bear no relation to... Read more
Mathematically Possible
August 15 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Tax IssuesThe inquisitive press… Always wanting to get at the truth. ========== It isn’t easy being the intellectual frontmen for President Obama’s re-election campaign, as the boys at the Brookings-Urban Institute Tax Policy Center are discovering. Their ballyhooed study of Mitt Romney’s tax plan looks worse with each new examination. Mr. Romney’s tax plan would cut income tax rates across the board by... Read more
$25 Trillion in Debt by 2022
August 6 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Obama“When Obama took office in 2009 he promised to slow the growth of the debt by cutting the annual deficit in half. At the time he said “We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom in Washington these past few years, we cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences... Read more
Obama and the Economic Blame Game
July 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaHmm. Yes, who really should ‘set up’? ========= By KARL ROVE This week brought bad news for President Barack Obama’s attempts to blame someone else—anyone else—for America’s economic problems. A poll released Monday by the Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress, found that 66% of voters believe the weak economy is Washington’s fault. And who is most to blame? A third—34%—said Mr. Obama. Congress... Read more
