Sourced from ourfuture.org By Robert Borosage February 15, 2012 President Obama’s budget, dismissed as “dead on arrival,” by Republicans in Washington, is widely described as a political document, designed to highlight the choices facing Americans this fall in dry budgetary numbers. The president presents Americans with a series of common sense propositions – all of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
22 Jan
Scrutinize President Obama’s record
When President Obama has a bad day, or more specifically, on days when the economic news has been bad, I get a slew of feedback from conservative readers that go like this: “See, you liberal media nincompoops, this is all your fault, you treated Obama like a saint when he was running in 2007 and [...]
9 Oct
Obama’s Budget
Sourced from Campaign for America’s Future Obama’s Budget: The Good, The Meager And The Ugly By Robert Borosage February 15, 2012 – 7:12am ET President Obama’s budget, dismissed as “dead on arrival,” by Republicans in Washington, is widely described as a political document, designed to highlight the choices facing Americans this fall in dry budgetary [...]
8 Feb
Obama At The Chamber: Strategic Retreat
Campaign for America’s Future. President Obama’s visit to the Chamber of Commerce always seemed bizarre. Reaching out to the U.S. Chamber isn’t like reaching out to business. Under the guidance of Tom Donohue, the Chamber has become less a business association than a right-wing lobby operation that makes its money selling its services to entrenched [...]
14 Jan
How Can We Honor The Fallen?”
Obama: “How Can We Honor The Fallen?” (Full Text Of President’s Remarks At Memorial For Victims Of Shooting) Editor’s note: Below are President Obama’s remarks honoring the victims of Saturday’s mass shooting, delivered at a Memorial ceremony at the University of Arizona in Tucson. In the speech, Obama also gave the news that Rep. Gabrielle [...]
11 Jun
Obama presses aid to small business
The Chicago Tribune The Swamp by Christi Parsons President Obama this morning will call on Congress to pass a series of his proposals to spur hiring in the private sector, following a meeting with owners and workers of small enterprises in the Oval Office to talk about how they are weathering the recession. Four months [...]
5 Jun
It would seem that she has out-Sarahd Sarah: God help us!
Michele Bachmann is cool to mainstream media, and an increasingly hot property By Michael Leahy Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 4, 2010 Her tone was bright. “Thank you for giving me this opportunity,” she said. Michele Bachmann was on the phone. That alone was unusual. The Minnesota congresswoman generally does not speak to journalists [...]
28 May
The curse of Bush
washingtonpost.com By Kate Sheppard The Obama administration has faced harsh criticism for its oversight of offshore oil and gas development in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The most absurd commentary, of course, comes from Republicans who have consistently pushed back against any attempts to regulate industry for years. The administration has been fighting [...]
24 May
House Kills Plan to Close Guantanamo
The Public Record 5/24/10 Posted by Andy Worthington A U.S. Army soldier with Echo Company, 629th Military Intelligence Battalion, keeps watch from a guard tower at the Joint Task Force Guantanamo detention center on Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nov. 13, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy President Obama’s hopes of closing [...]
24 May
South Korea Prepares Military For Future Aggressions
President Obama Orders U.S. Military to Work With South Korea By JOOHEE CHO SEOUL, May 24, 20 Days after North Korea threatened an all-out-war against South Korea, President Obama ordered the U.S. military to work with South Korea to “ensure readiness” and prepare for future aggressions. A man looks at a portrait of North Korean [...]
26 Feb
At summit, Republicans prove they aren’t putting America’s health first
Republicans say the country can’t afford President Obama’s health-care proposals. (Marvin Joseph/the Washington Post) By Steven Pearlstein Friday, February 26, 2010 I’m not sure what else was accomplished at Thursday’s Blair House summit, but surely one result is that we learned what Republican “leaders” really think about health care and health insurance. The most important [...]
