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What a Difference a Year Makes for President Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook December 30, 2011 Comment (24)A year that started poorly is ending well for President Barack Obama.
A year ago, the president had just shot himself in the foot when he caved to the Party of Tea on the extension of the Bush tax cuts. But what a difference a year can make. New national surveys have marked an increase in the president's job rating while the unemployment rate is going down.
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John Boehner, House GOP Doing Everything They Can to Re-Elect Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook December 22, 2011 Comment (12)Speaker of the House John Boehner flipped on the payroll tax cut deal and then flopped with the public because of his inability to control his own caucus. In other words, Congressman Boehner was for the payroll tax cut before he was against it. Americans want strong leadership but the speaker doesn't have any more backbone than Mitt Romney. And Mitt Romney doesn't even have a backbone. Does Boehner's flip mean that Mitt's failure to take a strong, consistent position on any important issue is infecting the GOP? Sounds about right to me.
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The Republican Clown Show Rolls On
Tweet Share on Facebook December 16, 2011 Comment (17)The payroll tax cut that Speaker of the House John Boehner called "chicken shit" in the GOP House caucus would save the average American $1,000 per year. A grand doesn't mean much to the speaker or his banker and billionaire buddies but to working families that's a lot of money. John Boehner's idea of soaking the rich is to jump in a hot tub with them after 18 holes.
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How the Senate Murdered the Bill of Rights
Tweet Share on Facebook December 9, 2011 Comment (15)I have a part time gig teaching government at Suffolk University in Boston. At Suffolk, I have taught many international students. I have had students from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Russia. Many of these kids come from countries that are virtually police states. There is no rule of law in these lands, only the strong and unresponsive will of a petty dictator.
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Why Americans Think Politics Is Corrupt
Tweet Share on Facebook December 2, 2011 Comment (16)After living in Massachusetts, I left the Northeast for the first time to go to grad school at the University of Minnesota. While I lived in the Twin Cities, the Democratic Farmer-Labor Gov. Wendell Anderson was re-elected to a second term. At the beginning of his new term, the governor created a crisis in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes by making one of his money guys a member of his cabinet.
