Public broadcasting is often a sacred cow in the media. Reporters don’t often dig skeptically to find self-dealing inside the walls of PBS or NPR stations. But kudos should go to Paul Farhi and The Washington Post for offering such a story on Tuesday. NPR listeners in the Washington metropolitan area get their news programs on WAMU-FM, based at American University. One of its regular features is called Capitol News Connection, which offers little newscasts within WAMU’s regular NPR news shows. Farhi found a conflict-of-interest case, and notice how the adjective “public” can fall away from public radio: As it happens, the founder and chief …
Here’s more bad news for the radical Obama-Pelosi democrats who rather than focus on the economy and jobs rammed through an unpopular nationalized health care bill their first year in office and tripled the national deficit… GOP votes for statewide offices outnumbered Dem votes for the first time since 1930. They didn’t care what Americans wanted. They knew best. The AP reported: Looking for yet another sign Democrats are in trouble? Take note of who is showing up to vote in the primaries. For the first time since 1930, Republican votes for statewide offices are outnumbering Democratic votes , according to an analysis…
Illegal guns, that is : In April Mexican President Felipe Calderón, speaking to a joint session of Congress, pleaded to US lawmakers for more help in limiting the flow of weapons to Mexico. “I understand that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to guarantee good American citizens the ability to defend themselves and their nation,” he said. “But believe me, many of these guns are not going to honest American hands.”
New wave of polls shows voters are souring, perhaps irreversibly, toward Democrats, doubting their ability to fix the economy and hoping to elect a GOP-controlled Congress that can counter President Obama. Obama Proposes Huge Biz Tax Breaks Obama Pitches $50B in Spending | VIDEO YOU DECIDE: Investment or Stimulus II? FULL COVERAGE: America’s Election HQ
September 7, 2010 | Posted in
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President Obama has proposed a new $50 billion infrastructure program that would expand and repair highways and transit systems, while refurbishing airport runways and implementing long-overdue air-traffic-control reforms to improve the reliability of air travel. Few details are available at this point. The funding for the program is not clear. The allocation of funding to the various …
In his first column for the New York Times , former White House OMB Director Peter Orszag recommends extending the Bush tax cuts for at least two years, even if it means extending those cuts for top-rate payers as well as the middle class: In the face of the dueling deficits, the best approach is a compromise: extend the tax cuts for two years and then end them altogether. Ideally only the middle-class tax cuts would be continued for
This really is the summer of media’s discontent. As Barack Obama’s poll numbers collapse along with the fate of Democrats in November, more of the President’s fans are calling for heads to roll at the White House. Just four days after Chris “Tingle Up The Leg” Matthews called for both Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to be given their walking papers, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen warned that if Obama doesn’t fire some key people, Americans are going to fire him. Readers are advised to strap themselves in tightly, for ” Obama’s Shrinking Presidency ” provides some dangerous changes in cabin pressure: One of…
O bama’s former Budget Director has landed a job at the NY Times as a columnist, and for his first column, essentially says that plans to end the Bush era tax cuts at this time are, well, stupid. Apparently, finally being able to breath the air outside the beltway has reinvigorated the “common sense” node in his brain .? In the face of the dueling deficits [jobs and budget –ed.], the best approach is a compromise: extend the tax cuts for two years and then end them altogether. …
Some would say that Obama could be convicted of murdering the Pope and embezzling a trillion dollars of tax payer money, and a Washington Post/ABC poll would likely find great support for President Obama. So, when a WaPo/ABC poll shows support for Obama and Democrats tanking, it’s big news. Ed Morrissey of Hot Air breaks down the surprising Washington Post/ABC poll : Three months ago, the WaPo/ABC sample had a nine-point Democratic advantage in the partisan split, with a D/R/I of 34/25/38. Today’s poll has a D/R/I among registered voters of 31/26/37, with…
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Did you wake up this morning from your summer slumber to discover that Democrats are about to get shellacked in the midterms, that unemployment is proving intractable, that the economy is verging on a double dip recession, and that all the political class can seem to stay focused on, at least rhetorically, is deficit reduction? Missing the beach yet? It gets better. The big agenda item for Congress between now and the election is whether to extend the Bush tax cuts, set to expire at year’s end. We can’t afford more government spending to rescue the economy and put the jobless back to work, but we can…
