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President Obama today called for a $50-billion surge in spending on the nation’s roads, runways and railroads, his latest effort to respond to the stubbornly sluggish economy in a political climate turning against his party. Speaking at a union-organized rally in Milwaukee, the president said his proposal would put construction workers back to work and rebuild [...] The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming it is unconstitutional for the government to target and kill U.S. citizens overseas if they are suspected of terrorism, according to a report in the Washington Post. via A.M. Top News: Civil rights groups sue federal [...] “By focusing on getting big legislative accomplishments, which was understandable, they necessarily gave up a larger image of him as president,” Mr. [John] Podesta said, referring to White House advisers. “They cast him as the prime minister. They were kind of locked into the day-to-day workings on the Hill.” via Political Times – Obama Is Boxed [...] At the Federal level the Obama administration is looking for the government to take over more and more services and thus more and more of the workforce. Bad idea for any number of reasons, but here’s a good one. Despite all the talk about new efficiencies in, say, health insurance, government is intrinsically more expensive.
It’s a rare political strategy that takes on the party base in a midterm election year, but the White House apparently sees no problem in doing so. In an interview lighting up the blogosphere Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs blows up at criticism directed at President Obama from what he calls “the professional left.” “I [...] Here’s an interesting graph, based, I should hasten to add, on statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (as opposed to, say, pulled from Sean Hannity’s ass). The Obama administration has been braying for a year now about how, yes, it bumped up the deficit into the stratosphere, but unemployment would have been much worse [...] With the Obama administration pouring billions into its nationwide campaign to overhaul failing schools, dozens of companies with little or no experience are portraying themselves as school turnaround experts as they compete for the money. A husband-and-wife team that has specialized in teaching communication skills but never led a single school overhaul is seeking contracts in [...] President Obama convened a forum this week to celebrate the 50th anniversaries of 17 African nations, but he did not invite a single African leader to help him do so. Was this, as the African news media and independent commentators see it, an expression of distaste for abusive rulers? Was it an extension of Mr. [...] Missouri voters on Tuesday easily approved a measure aimed at nullifying the new federal health care law, becoming the first state in the nation where ordinary people made known their dismay over the issue at the ballot box. The measure was intended to invalidate a crucial element of President Obama’s health care law — namely, that [...] Brian Sandoval, the Republican candidate for governor in Nevada, came under political fire after a television news director in Las Vegas accused him of making a disparaging remark about Hispanics during an interview. via Nevada Candidate Accused of Making Disparaging Remarks – NYTimes.com. Hispanic accused by another Hispanic of being bigoted about Hispanics. Details at 11! |
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