Showing posts with label President Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President Obama. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Obama's State of the Union: American Failure
President Obama said on Saturday that his State of the Union speech will focus on economic fairness for the middle class. After listening to him Tuesday, that was entirely right. But there's always a catch when economic fairness is mentioned. From listening to his speech you'd think that America's economic problems are as simple as the afternoon your mom accidentally gave your brother a bigger brownie and you whined until she fixed it. Putting it in that frame of reference makes Mitt Romney's millions seem terribly unfair
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Breaking News! Most Americans Want GOP to listen to Tea Party
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
State of the Union: New Tone, Same Tune
According to President Obama, "...if we truly care about our deficit, we simply cannot afford a permanent extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans. Before we take money away from our schools, or scholarships away from our students, we should ask millionaires to give up their tax breaks."
Is the President seriously asking us to suspend our reasonable disbelief and buy his argument about whose responsibility the deficit is? That doesn't make sense; Every spending bill signed by President Obama directly added to the ever increasing federal deficit.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Time to Stand Up for Human Rights
Something about that answer just doesn't sit well with most Americans. Aren't these rights supposed to be for everyone? And isn't everyone supposed to benefit from a government that protects them? (read more...)
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Anger is a feeling, not a crime.
Although the president referred to his political opponents as enemies requiring punishment, it appears that he has turned a new leaf calling for us to remove anger from our political discourse. That begs the question, "Is there a case for political anger?"
First of all, anger is not violence. What Loughner did was horrific, but it was an action, and not a feeling. (And since when are we supposed to be legally judged on our feelings?) Anger is a feeling, which in this case means that people feel strongly about what is going on in government. Most people are fed up with the actions taken by the Obama Administration (e.g. the Food Safety Bill, Obamacare
, TARP, forced selling of Chrysler and GM, the offshore Oil drilling ban, EPA regulation of CO2 etc.)and their willing accomplices in Congress. Most people who feel like this (over half of the country) have spoken up, voted, and tried to stop the Federal government from doing similar things. Will getting rid of this "anger" help political discourse?
Probably not.
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