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People Are Angry at Obama for the Same Reasons They Were at Bush
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2010 Comment (8)Over the last two years the various Tea Party-type rallies have brought hundreds of thousands of outraged but quite ordinary Americans to the nation’s capital to protest of out of control spending, ruinous economic policies, rising unemployment and the one-sided approach to governing that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, and President Barack Obama have employed in pursuit of their legislative and political objectives.
The most recent weekend rally, organized and promoted by nearly four hundred liberal and labor groups in support of the Democrats and their agenda, by contrast, appeared to draw only a few people per group, if one chose to look at it that way. It did not come close to the crowd Obama drew for his inauguration.
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Square Personal Credit Card Reader Will Change Everything
Tweet Share on Facebook October 2, 2010 Comment (14)Have you heard about the new “Square”? As in, “Are we square?” It’s a new square-shaped gizmo that gives people a way to accept credit card payments on their iPhone, iPad, or Android. It was invented by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, a guy who knows something about new ideas that catch on with people carrying cell phones.
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Unable to Govern, Obama Tries Campaigning
Tweet Share on Facebook October 1, 2010 Comment (11)The scientific principle known as Occam’s Razor postulates that, all other hypotheses being equal, the solution set that requires the fewest assumptions is generally the correct one.
To put it lightly, things have not been good for President Barack Obama in recent months. His favorability ratings dipped below 50 percent for the first time in his presidency, a large majority of Americans now oppose his recently enacted massive healthcare and stimulus laws, and his party faces what are likely to be crushing defeats in the upcoming midterm elections.
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New York Politics Has Become an Embarrassment
Tweet Share on Facebook October 1, 2010 Comment (9)Is it too much to ask that political leaders in the state in which one grew up behave like actual grown-ups?
New York once had a proud political history. It has produced four presidents (including both Roosevelts), plus Grover Cleveland, who was born in New Jersey but went to the White House via Buffalo's City Hall. Past political figures include such bold-face names as Kennedy, Clinton, Moynihan, Javits, and LaGuardia.
And now? We have a gubernatorial candidate, GOP nominee Carl Paladino, who publically menaced a veteran statehouse reporter over the question of whether his opponent cheated on his wife, as Paladino himself has acknowledged doing.
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5 Others Who Should Follow Rahm Emanuel Out of the Administration
Tweet Share on Facebook October 1, 2010 Comment (19)In sharp contrast to the relative stability of the Bush White House, President Barack Obama has started to burn through his senior staff at a rate fast enough to be interesting.
It really doesn’t matter whether the departing members of his administration were pushed or if they jumped; the turnover is a clear indication that the people who count in the West Wing understand that things aren’t working.
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Melancon and Paladino Illustrate What's Wrong With Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook October 1, 2010 Comment (7)Democratic Louisiana Rep. Charlie Melancon and New York Republican Carl Paladino are both waging uphill battles in their races (for senator and governor, respectively). But both went too far this week in their efforts to win come November 2. They illustrate in real time what is wrong with American politics and why so many Americans are turned off by politics as usual.
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Obama’s Investment Tax Hike Will Harm the Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook October 1, 2010 Comment (6)We’re now entering the heart of the football season. The cupcake portion of the college schedule is over, the first few tune-up games of the NFL season are behind us. Frankly, it is put up or shut up time on the gridiron.
