Policy
Obama beats early retreat on promise to fight pork
So much for Hope and Change. In Washington, the Obama administration is business-as-usual.
The AP Wire reports that despite campaign promises to take a machete to lawmakers’ pet projects, President Barack Obama is quietly caving to funding nearly 8,000 of them this year.
“So much for the promise of change,” Arizona Sen. John McCain said in the [...]
Senator calls Obama ‘world’s best salesman of socialism’
Another prominent Republican told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that the president’s spending plans are pushing the country to the brink of socialism.
Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the only member of the senate to earn a perfect rating from the American Conservative Union, called President Obama “the world’s best salesman of [...]
Obama: $3.6 trillion federal budget
Recent news article spotted on Yahoo! News: Obama budget: Mammoth deficits but headed lower.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama charted a dramatic new course for the nation Thursday with a bold but contentious budget proposing higher taxes for the wealthy and the first steps toward guaranteed health care for all — accompanied by an astonishing $1.75 [...]