Analysis of Obamas Plan to Save the World From.
The Times explains. In his first term Mr. Obama tried to push a cap-and-trade bill through Congress, but it died in the Senate in 2010. Republicans, Tea Party groups and the coal industry attacked Democrats who supported it, criticizing the. Economists attraction to a carbon tax was on full display recently when economist Greg Mankiw wrote in the New York Times, calling a carbon tax a climate policy ���America could live with,��� compared to the grab bag of regulations��.
Barack Obama Didnt Propose A Tax Cut, But The Media.
If you only studied President Obamas corporate tax proposal by reading news stories about it, you might be under a misimpression: that Obama proposed a business tax cut, and Republicans are too spiteful to take him up on it.. The New York Times, for example, describes the presidents plan in the first paragraph of their story as a cut in corporate tax rates in return for a pledge from Republicans to invest in more programs to generate middle-class jobs. There is no��.
Barack Obamas Theory of Power - The American Prospect
Paul Ryans proposed 10-year budget.. He can play an effective outside game, motivating and shaping public sentiment, making clear the differences between his values and those of his opposition, and using popular support to box in his opponents and move them in his. In an interview with The New York Times Peter Baker on the eve of the 2010 elections, Obama expressed regrets for looking too much like the same old tax-and-spend liberal Democrat..
Bernie Sanders Brutal Letter On Obamas Trade Pact.
WASHINGTON -- Progressive unrest over free trade policies is shaping up to be a major issue in the contest for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, if a strongly worded letter from Sen. Bernie Sanders. The Clinton presidency signaled the Democratic Partys full embrace of the financial elite, reversing the tough-on-banks platform implemented by Franklin D. Roosevelt under the New Deal. To Clintons.. I really have to say, Im just not there. Im not in the��.
A Closer Look at Obamas Plan to Pay for Energy Research.
Dot Earth - New York Times blog. Below you can read an excerpt from an Energy Collective post in which Obamas funding plan is dissected by Jesse D. Jenkins, a writer at the blog and graduate student and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of. Several states, including New York, have already implemented similar charges often referred to as ���system benefits��� or ���public benefits charges.���.. But then again, I can already hear the cries of ���ENERGY TAX!
Obamas ���mess of pottage��� | MyFDL
In exchange for some token stimulus spending and tax hikes that could be easily reversed by the next Republican president, Obama is proposing to take the first, sacrificial stab at the goose that laid the Democrats golden egg. Put this. As New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argued last fall,. For it to stay in place means, as the Washington Posts Zachary Goldfarb accurately notes, that Obamas capacity to propose new policy directions for the country is spent.
Morning Plum: Anti-Defamation League weighs in on Steve Scalise-David Duke.
TRADE DEAL A TOUGH SELL FOR DEMS: The New York Times has a good overview of a battle that will soon be making a lot of noise: The fight over Obamas push for a trade deal with a dozen nations around the Pacific ocean. The primary. Michael Grimm of.
Gas tax fight shaping up in Congress | RedState
One of the first tests of the new Congress will be how it handles calls for an increase in the gas tax.. Devastating New Poll Shows Americans Believe Obama Can No Longer Lead the CountryThe Fiscal Times. Undo. More DOOM! from.. redballsoffire. They really want us all to stay home in 2016, dont they? There is no Republican or Democratic Party, just the Federal Govt. Party. I thought that the stimulus bill was to provide all of this shovel ready stuff? Vile, utterly��.
David Brooks Infrastructure Column Makes You Say ���Oh My.
David Brooks is the spokesman for ���center-right��� thinking in the U.S. Among other perches, Brooks has a column in the New York Times and is a regular Friday talking head on the PBS Newshour.. Theyve also blocked Obamas proposals for corporate tax reform, which is relevant, because the new GROW AMERICA Act [Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout��.
Spending bill: Government shutdown looms as congressional leaders court.
���Without a threat of a government shutdown, this sets up a direct challenge to the presidents unilateral actions on immigration when we have new majorities in both chambers of Congress,��� House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio told reporters after.
Obama, Incorporated - The New York Review of Books
Barack Obamas 2011 State of the Union address was an organized sprawl of good intentions���a mostly fact-free summons to a new era of striving and achievement, and a solemn cheer to raise our spirits as we try to get there... In earlier years, he was protected by the Chicago Democratic machine; after 2004, he was shepherded by leaders of the Democratic party who disliked the Clintons or feared that Hillary Clinton could never win a presidential election.
Obamas Economic Plan: Ten Times Less Than Adequate.
. tax cuts for the rich. Shortly thereafter, Dayen found that Obama appears to have abandoned the idea of a large payroll tax holiday, but will instead roll out a plan for a very modest infrastructure building program.. It makes it even more clear to me that my complaints about how the Democratic Party has been running away from the legacy of FDR and the New Deal are not the result of my fevered imagination but are based in something very real. There are a lot of��.
Text of Obamas Remarks on US-Cuba Relations
Through these changes, we intend to create more opportunities for the American and Cuban people, and begin a new chapter among the nations of the Americas. Theres a complicated history between the United States and Cuba. I was born in 1961 ��� just .
The Upshot|Obamas Health Law: Who Was Helped Most
The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, but the laws biggest insurance expansion provisions went into effect in January, when millions more people qualified for state Medicaid programs, and new subsidized insurance plans sold in state marketplaces .
The lies that are central to Obamas agenda
Gruber, the MIT economist who (in the words of The New York Times) ���put together the basic principles of��� ObamaCare and helped Congress ���draft the specifics of the legislation��� is one of a long line of liberals driven by the belief that the stupidity.
Gruber Obamas Top Expert in 2008 Presidential Campaign.
Gruber visited Obamas office as the Democratic Partys most influential health-care expert Source: Kit Daniels | MIT professor Jonathan Gruber served as the key health care consultant to Obamas 2008 presidential campaign and. ���I think if you go back and look at the Washington Post or the New York Times or anything from that period, you will find Jonathan Grubers name all over it, as both someone whos the leading expert on health care quoted by everybody,��.
AFSCME Fight Continues - Politics - The New York Times
The unions International president said that ads criticizing Obamas health care plan did not amount to a negative campaign tactic.. To ���richard the third��� at post number 5: The basic problem with the. Your slam on a single payer model���describing it as play or go to prison for tax evasion. McEntee and the labor unions that went negative against Obama are grasping at the last straws of a failed campaign to insure their power and conntrol over the democratic party.
The Obama Energy Speech, Annotated - NYTimes.com
Dot Earth - New York Times blog. But Mr. Obamas prime focus was a broad and sustained push for new energy technologies that could keep the country moving while sharply cutting petroleum use and carbon dioxide emissions... Now, after years of inaction, and in the face of public frustration over rising gas prices, the only energy proposal hes really promoting is more offshore drilling ��� a position he recently adopted that has become the centerpiece of his plan,��.
Fact-Checking Paul Ryans Convention Speech - NYTimes.
Todd Heisler/The New York TimesRepresentative Paul D. Ryan attacked President Obamas policies in his speech to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday.. debate is shaping up as central to the election: Democrats say that the Romney-Ryan plan to reshape Medicare would force future beneficiaries to pay more for their health care, while Republicans fault Mr. Obama for the $716. From the Magazine: Day 3 of Illustrations From the R.N.C.; Next Post.
Democrats lash out at Nancy Pelosi
So while Pelosi was reelected unanimously by voice vote to the top House Democratic post on Tuesday during a closed-door party meeting ��� with no audible disagreement, according to a source in the room ��� the incoming minority leader is about to be in.
Spending bill puts off immigration battle
WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Congress cleared a $1.1 trillion spending bill for President Barack Obamas signature after a day of Senate intrigue capped by a failed, largely symbolic Republican challenge to the administrations new immigration policy.. The.
Obamas Tax Proposal Is Really About Shaping the Democratic Party After Obama
3) The Republican Party will control both houses of Congress for the remainder of Mr. Obamas presidency. Ergo, it takes no. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times. So one way to read President Obamas plan is that it is a first try at what a post.
Political News, Now.
After the Senate Dining Room stopped serving lunch, Senators Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, and Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, began ���the inner sanctum��� by offering wine and cheese there most nights that the Senate is in.. The.
Obamas immigration plan. Can he do that?
One problem with prosecutorial discretion is that theres no clear line between changing how a law is enforced and actually nullifying that law. Imagine that the City of Boston lowered the speed limit on city streets to 25 miles per hour (as New York.
Naomi Klein, Robert Kuttner and Michael Hudson Dissect.
On Monday, Obama named New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner to the post of the Treasury Secretary. Former. Obama also called for a stimulus plan that will give a jolt to the economy. We host a roundtable discussion about Obamas latest economic moves. [includes rush. And he, along with Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin, were really the key architects of the policies of deregulation that created the crisis that we are living now.
How Obama and Chuck Hagel reached the end of the line
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagels exit from the Obama administration came after weeks of discussion with President Obama over what role he would play in shaping defense policy over the last two years of his term. The pair ultimately came to the.
A government takeover of health care - PolitiFact
In the spring of 2009, a Republican strategist settled on a brilliant and powerful attack line for President Barack Obamas ambitious plan to overhaul Americas health insurance system.. In a New York Times economics blog, Princeton University professor Uwe Reinhardt, an expert in health care economics, said, Yes, there would be a substantial government-mandated reorganization of this relatively small.. Republican Party of Florida, Friday, March 19th, 2010.
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After the Senate Dining Room stopped serving lunch, Senators Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, and Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, began ���the inner sanctum��� by offering wine and cheese there most nights that the Senate is in.. The.
Midterms, for Clinton Team, Arent All Gloom
But over the past few days, a consensus formed among those close to Mrs. Clinton that it is time to accelerate her schedule: She faces pressure to resurrect the Democratic Party, and she is already being scrutinized as the partys presumptive nominee.
Clash of Civilizations: Genesis and Ramifications of East-West Struggle for.
And I dont need to reel out all the incidents of terrorism sponsored by Al-Qaeda and other groups, including ISIS, to put the lie to Obamas claim. For the first time in world history under his watch, a brand new Islamic caliphate has been establish.
House Republicans and White House Clash on Obama Immigration Plan
House Republicans on Tuesday assailed President Obamas unilateral actions on immigration, saying they were an unconstitutional overreach timed to circumvent the midterm elections that gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress.. Several.
House Democrats to propose massive transfer of wealth
Senior Democrats, dissatisfied with the partys tepid prescriptions for combating income inequality, are drafting an ���action plan��� that calls for a massive transfer of wealth from the super-rich and Wall Street traders to the heart of the middle class.