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The Fallacy Of Inherited Deficits
12 hours ago ago from The Underground Conservative
The Obama administration continues to whine and cry about all the so-called problems they inherited from the Bush White House. One such allegedly inherited problem is the bduget deficit. Of course, even the Washington Compost sings along out of the same hymnal . Obama is expected to address the burgeoning debt in a major economic speech Tuesday in Washington. He inherited a huge deficit, and there's nothing but red ink as far ...
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6 hours ago ago from Americans Against Obama
Obama has hit the lowest approval ratings of any President since Truman at this time in their Presidency. George W. Bush, 86 percent Bill Clinton, 52 percent George H.W. Bush, 71 percent Ronald Reagan, 49 percent Jimmy Carter, 57 percent Gerald Ford, 52 percent Richard Nixon, 59 percent Lyndon Johnson, 74 percent John Kennedy, 77 percent Dwight Eisenhower, 69 percent Harry Truman, 49 percent White House propaganda specialist Gibbs' says ...
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8 hours ago ago from Movie and TV News, Reviews & Interviews - Movieline
Every now and then on his pastoral sliver of Web pasture at Variety , editor emeritus Peter Bart fires off a dispatch worthy of of front-page publication in the paper he ran for 20 years. Monday was one of those days, when his attendance at the weekend's Kennedy Center Honors left him fuming at the effrontery of President and Mrs. Obama first-time event guests whose White House turned out a lot frostier and less hospitable than during the ...
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22 hours ago ago from The Stark Raving Viking
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14 hours ago ago from Brown Man Thinking Hard
I think a lot of us out here in the hinterlands, better known as the 99.99999% of America that does not have a press pass from a D.C. news organization, have felt for some time that the people who cover the news have their own agenda that has nothing to do with the idea that they are the Fourth Estate. The latest dustup over the White House Holiday Party invites really has me wondering if the White House correspondents need their own reality ...
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White House condemns bombings in Iraq
17 hours ago ago from Good News Now
WASHINGTON -The White House on Tuesday condemned the coordinated bombing attacks in Baghdad that killed more than 100 people. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Iraqi leaders who recently passed an elections law are moving the country in the right direction, and that "there are clearly those who are threatened by that." The coordinated attacks struck Baghdad Tuesday, including two suicide car bombers and another vehicle that blew ...
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9 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans to meet Monday with a group of top bankers to talk about the economy, lending, and financial regulation as tension between the White House and Wall Street continues to reverberate. The meeting will be at least the third this year between Obama and banking executives. He met with chief executives from the country's largest banks earlier in the year and credit-card executives several months ago. The ...
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8 hours ago ago from FanHouse
HARRISBURG, Pa. -A scheduled vote on a bill to legalize table games and authorize two more casinos in Pennsylvania is being delayed as House Democratic leaders try to piece together support. A preliminary vote that was scheduled Tuesday in the House did not happen. The expansion of gambling in Pennsylvania is a key piece of the state budget to raise more tax revenue for the five-month-old fiscal year. A top aide to House Speaker Keith McCall ...
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18 hours ago ago from CNN Money
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama will propose using some of the $200 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to support creating jobs, White House officials confirmed Monday. (See correction below.) The president, in an economic speech before the Brookings Institution on Tuesday, will argue that the money would be well spent by funding projects to build bridges and roads, weatherize homes, and provide other assistance for small ...
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17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
(Photo credit: Barackandme.com ) The President is rightly proposing using government money to help hire more Americans. Back at his house, Obama should set an example for Congress by rehiring consumer advocates at the White House Office of Consumer Affairs who have been deposed since the G.W. Bush era. Every other Democratic president since President Kennedy has hired a Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs. Eleven months into his first ...
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